Wealthy nations promised Wednesday almost $2 billion to combat the spread of bird flu, with the urgency of the threat underlined by new reports of human deaths in China and Turkey and panic spreading to Iraq.
The World Health Organization said it suspected bird flu had passed from human to human in northern Thailand, marking what could be the first such transmission of the lethal virus, AFP reported Sept 25.
Cash set aside to improve farming in Southeast Asia may be redirected to help the region’s poorer countries battle bird flu, the general secretary of ASEAN said Thursday.
Britain’s privately owned PowderMed said on Monday it had developed a DNA-based vaccine against bird flu which could be produced quickly and in large quantities in the event of a pandemic.
An Egyptian man has apparently recovered from a suspected case of bird flu, Egypt’s health ministry said on Sunday, a day after announcing the virus had killed a woman in the same part of the country.
Travel restrictions and school closures will do little to stop a pandemic of bird flu from marching across the US, but they may slow it enough to distribute drugs and vaccines, according to a new study published Monday.
Two more people in China have died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu, bringing the death toll to five, as the country announced another outbreak in poultry.
Bac Lieu province reassured authorities that they have an infected zone under control as bird flu once again surfaced, prompting experts to call for drastic measures.
A popular US web site that tracks the geographical circulation of money could offer new insights into predicting the spread of infectious diseases like bird flu.
Shares in Roche Holding AG fell on Thursday after doctors in Vietnam said they had found more evidence that the H5N1 strain of bird flu can mutate into a form that resists the effects of Tamiflu.
