India bird flu free, says world body
babies and kids under age 5 people older than 50 adults and kids who have health problems, such as diabetes and asthma Anyone who's at risk of getting really sick needs to get a flu shot, or vaccine (say: vak-seen). People such as doctors and nurses also need the shot because they take care of sick people. It’s good for kids who are around older people and younger kids (like little brothers and sisters) to get the vaccine too.
India bird flu free, says world body
India is finally a bird flu free country. The France-based World Organisation of Animal Health (OIE) officially sent the communication to India's department of animal husbandry, dairy and fisheries under the agriculture ministry on ...
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Nepal tries to prepare
Cases in countries where bird flu was initially reported are diminishing because of observation of personal hygiene, he said. Presenting a paper, Dr. Baikuntha Parajuli, programme director at the Directorate of Animal Health under the ...
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Nepal prone to bird flu risks, precaution urged
Lalitpur, Nov. 18: Nepal is among the risk prone countries for Avian Influenza (AI), popularly known as bird flu although no cases have been found in the country so far.
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Bird flu eradication project in Tangerang
Via the Jakarta Post: Bird flu eradication project in Tangerang. Here's the whole story:. A project for avian influenza eradication will be piloted in both Tangerang municipality and regency as a cooperative effort between Indonesia and ...
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Bird-Flu follows the Super Cyclone in to Bangladesh
An estimated 10 million people live in Bangladesh’s coastal areas and there is simply not enough room for all of them in the country’s 500 or more shelters. If that was not enough, Avian flu has re-emerged in Bangladesh after four ...
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Flu Stories: The Latest on H5N1
Global pandemic a real threat: WHO. Well, it's not just chickens these days and it's not just third world countries that are affected. The most recent H5N1 outbreak in birds is in turkeys in the UK. Bird flu virus contained, says farm ...
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Bird Flu and Indonesian Thinking
Bird Flu, as most of the rest of the world ponders the possibility of a pandemic, they even have plans in place if it breaks out, a strategy to cope, well here in Indonesia the country with the greatest death toll to date, ...
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Countries Unite Against Bird Flu
... so scared right now of the threat of the H5N1 strain. The focus of the world seems to have transferred from terrorism to bird flu. If the H5N1 strain mutates and joins with a human virus, the situation will become worse. This is [...]
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Susan Blumenthal, MD: Health Diplomacy: A Prescription for Peace
In the last five years alone, WHO has documented more than 1100 epidemics including bird flu, polio and cholera. Today's three leading infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB, together are responsible for six million deaths each ...
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Scientists Say Bird Flu Spreading in Several Asian, African Countries
VOANews.com reports experts with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization say bird flu is still considered an animal disease, affecting only a small number of humans so far. They also say the H5N1 virus continues to spread in a number ...
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India bird flu free, says world body
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