Bird flu recurs in southern Ben Tre province (Vietnam Net)
The first significant step towards preventing influenza was the development in 1944 of a killed-virus vaccine for influenza by Thomas Francis, Jr.. This built on work by Frank Macfarlane Burnet, who showed that the virus lost virulence when it was cultured in fertilized hen's eggs. Application of this observation by Francis allowed his group of researchers at the University of Michigan to develop the first flu vaccine, with support from the U.S. Army. The Army was deeply involved in this research due to its experience of influenza in World War I, when thousands of troops were killed by the virus in a matter of months.
Bird flu recurs in southern Ben Tre province (Vietnam Net)
VietNamNet Bridge - Recent outbreaks of bird flu epidemic have been attributed to people’s poor awareness of the importance of vaccination and loose control of poultry breeding activities.
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Steps in Place to Check Bird Flu (Arab News)
JEDDAH, 18 November 2007 — Following a recent outbreak of bird flu in the Riyadh region, Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal has ordered the formation of a committee to tackle the problem and the Ministry of Agriculture has declared a state of emergency in the Makkah region.
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Bird flu detected in Saudi Arabia (Antara News)
Saudi Arabia's Agriculture Ministry announced yesterday that it had culled 50,000 birds after a deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was detected at a poultry farm in Al-Kharj, 150 km south of the capital city of Riyadh.
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Bird flu detected at farm in Saudi Arabia (Borneo Bulletin)
RIYADH (AFP) - The lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected at a poultry farm in Saudi Arabia and 50,000 birds have been culled, the agriculture ministry announced on Wednesday.
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Bird flu cull leads to 'festive crisis' fears (Belfast Telegraph)
It is the last thing the British food industry needed. Just weeks before Christmas, white-suited vets are being despatched to the countryside to begin the cull of thousands of turkeys infected with a highly lethal strain of bird flu.
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New case of deadly bird flu in UK (CNN.com)
An outbreak of bird flu detected on a poultry farm in eastern England is the highly virulent H5N1 strain of the virus, British officials said Tuesday.
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Bird flu tests continue as H5N1 confirmed (ITV.com)
Tests to try to establish the source of the latest outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in Suffolk are continuing. The fourth outbreak of H5N1 in the UK this year was found at a rearing unit in Redgrave, Suffolk, where around 6,500 birds, including ducks and geese, are being culled.
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Deadly strain of bird flu confirmed on Suffolk poultry farm (Belfast Telegraph)
Government scientists have launched an investigation into the source of the deadly strain of bird flu which was confirmed yesterday at a poultry farm in Suffolk.
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Deadly bird flu hits Xmas turkeys (Daily Mirror)
Britain's Christmas turkey market was under threat last night as the latest bird flu outbreak was diagnosed as the deadly H5N1 strain.
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Suffolk bird flu is H5N1 strain (BBC News)
The bird flu virus found at a turkey farm in Suffolk is the deadly H5N1 strain, government vets confirm.
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Bird flu recurs in southern Ben Tre province (Vietnam Net)
The term influenza has its origins in 15th-century Italy, where the cause of the disease was ascribed to unfavourable astrological influences. Evolution in medical thought led to its modification to influenza del freddo, meaning "influence of the cold." The word "influenza" was first attested in English in 1743 when it was borrowed during an outbreak of the disease in Europe. Archaic terms for influenza include epidemic catarrh, grippe (from the French grippe, meaning flu; sometimes spelled "grip" or "gripe"), sweating sickness, and Spanish fever (particularly for the 1918 pandemic strain).
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