Outbreak of lethal bird flu confirmed in Britain (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The most famous and lethal outbreak was the so-called Spanish flu pandemic (type A influenza, H1N1 subtype), which lasted from 1918 to 1919. Older estimates say it killed 40–50 million people while current estimates say 50 million to 100 million people worldwide were killed. This pandemic has been described as "the greatest medical holocaust in history" and may have killed as many people as the Black Death. This huge death toll was caused by an extremely high infection rate of up to 50% and the extreme severity of the symptoms, suspected to be caused by cytokine storms. Indeed, symptoms in 1918 were so unusual that initially influenza was misdiagnosed as dengue, cholera, or typhoid. One observer wrote, "One of the most striking of the complications was hemorrhage from mucous membranes, especially from the nose, stomach, and intestine. Bleeding from the ears and petechial hemorrhages in the skin also occurred." The majority of deaths were from bacterial pneumonia, a secondary infection caused by influenza, but the virus also killed people directly, causing massive hemorrhages and edema in the lung.
Outbreak of lethal bird flu confirmed in Britain (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Veterinary authorities confirmed an outbreak of the potentially lethal Asian strain of bird flu in eastern England on Tuesday, in a new blow to the British farming industry.
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Deadly Bird Flu Virus Found in UK Birds (Orlando Sentinel)
An outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm in eastern England was confirmed Tuesday as H5N1 -- the same virulent strain that has killed scores of people around the world.
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Bird flu in England is 'lethal strain' (Pretoria News)
London - Veterinary authorities confirmed on Tuesday an outbreak of the potentially lethal Asian strain of bird flu in eastern England, in a new blow to the British farming industry.
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English bird flu outbreak is deadly H5N1 virus (USA Today)
An outbreak of bird flu in eastern England is the deadly H5N1 strain of the disease, the government said Tuesday. Acting chief veterinarian Chief Veterinary Officer Fred Landeg said the source of the outbreak had not yet been identified.
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English bird flu outbreak is H5N1 virus (AP via Yahoo! News)
An outbreak of bird flu in eastern England is the deadly H5N1 strain of the disease, the government said Tuesday.
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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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English Bird Flu Outbreak Is H5N1 Virus (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
An outbreak of bird flu in eastern England is the deadly H5N1 strain of the disease, the government said Tuesday. The return of the disease in Britain, which had its first mass outbreak of the strain earlier this year, is yet another blow to farmers already struggling after herds were hit this year by foot-and-mouth disease and bluetongue.
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British bird flu outbreak confirmed (Adelaide Now)
VETERINARY authorities confirmed overnight an outbreak of the potentially lethal Asian strain of bird flu in eastern England, in a new blow to the British farming industry.
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Bird flu outbreak in Britain (Herald Sun)
AUTHORITIES confirmed today an outbreak of the potentially lethal Asian strain of bird flu in England, in a new blow to the British farming industry.
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Bird flu case is of a lethal strain: govt (Gulf Times)
LONDON: The farm ministry yesterday said that a bird flu outbreak on a turkey farm in eastern England was the deadly H5N1 strain.
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Outbreak of lethal bird flu confirmed in Britain (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The etiological cause of influenza, the Orthomyxoviridae family of viruses, was first discovered in pigs by Richard Schope in 1931. This discovery was shortly followed by the isolation of the virus from humans by a group headed by Patrick Laidlaw at the Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom in 1933. However, it was not until Wendell Stanley first crystallized tobacco mosaic virus in 1935 that the non-cellular nature of viruses was appreciated.
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