Friday July 28th 2006, 11:19 am
AMES (AP) -- The government’s elaborate network for diagnosing bird flu will eventually come down to a sprawling 640-acre campus in the Iowa countryside where strict security is the only hint of the crucial role scientists there could play.
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Ames lab prepares for avian flu testing (Iowa Farmer)
India to claim ‘bird flu free’ status (Outlook India)
Friday July 28th 2006, 10:06 am
India will lay claim to the 'bird flu free nation' status next month, as no case of avian influenza has been reported in the country for the last three months, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said today.
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Asia vows to combine efforts to fight bird flu (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Friday July 28th 2006, 9:08 am
Bird flu-hit Asian countries vowed on Friday to unite to fight the deadly virus and said they recognized the need to better coordinate efforts between health and farm agencies at national level.
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Thai authorities on alert against bird flu (MCOT)
Friday July 28th 2006, 8:08 am
BANGKOK, July 28 (TNA) - Thai authorities in provinces formerly infected with bird flu virus are on high alert for a possible re-emergence of the disease after the nation confirmed the first death from avian flu in one and a half years earlier this week.
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H5N1 bird flu found on poultry farm in Laos (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Friday July 28th 2006, 5:32 am
An outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed more than 2,000 chicken on a poultry farm in Laos, the government and UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said.
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H5N1 bird flu found on Laos farm (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Friday July 28th 2006, 5:28 am
An outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed more than 2,000 chickens on a poultry farm in Laos earlier this month, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said.
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British company develops new avian influenza vaccine (People’s Daily)
Friday July 28th 2006, 5:17 am
On July 26th, GlaxoSmithKline Inc. (GSK) headquartered in Britain announced that it has developed a highly effective and low-dose H5N1 avian influenza vaccine applicable to human beings. This vaccine, with wonderful performance displayed in early clinical trials, is likely to go into mass production in 2007.
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