Tuesday February 27th 2007, 7:17 am
A 15-year-old girl from Laos has become the country's first confirmed human case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the communist government and World Health Organisation said on Tuesday.
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Laos confirms first human case of bird flu (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Vietnam culls 10,000 chickens in northern bird flu outbreak (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Tuesday February 27th 2007, 6:52 am
Vietnam said Tuesday it has culled more than 10,000 chickens on a northern farm after several dozen of them died of bird flu earlier this month.
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Health experts to weigh bird-flu vaccine (AP via Yahoo! News)
Tuesday February 27th 2007, 3:33 am
The government is weighing approval of a bird flu vaccine that a new analysis found is even less effective than previously thought.
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Avian flu ‘is moving forward,’ says doctor (The Victoria Advocate)
Tuesday February 27th 2007, 2:08 am
The world is halfway to an avian flu pandemic, and North American authorities are talking about how to prepare for it, according to February's issue of Texas Medicine, a state health magazine.
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First bird-flu vaccine less effective than thought (CNN.com)
Monday February 26th 2007, 8:29 pm
WASHINGTON ( AP) -- The nation's first vaccine against bird flu is even less effective than previously thought, according to Food and Drug Administration documents released Monday.
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Egyptian health official denies new bird flu case (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Monday February 26th 2007, 5:45 pm
An Egyptian Health Ministry official denied on Monday a report by the state news agency that a woman from the Nile Delta had tested positive for the deadly bird flu virus.
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Sanofi Bird-Flu Shot’s Benefit Isn’t Clear, FDA Says (Update3) (Bloomberg.com)
Monday February 26th 2007, 5:39 pm
Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Sanofi-Aventis SA's bird-flu shot triggered an immune response in less than half of the patients tested, raising questions about whether the shot could help prevent a pandemic.
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Sanofi Bird-Flu Shot’s Benefit Isn’t Clear, FDA Says (Update2) (Bloomberg.com)
Monday February 26th 2007, 5:09 pm
Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Sanofi-Aventis SA's bird-flu shot triggered an immune response in less than half of the patients tested, U.S. regulators said.
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U.S. experts to weigh Sanofi bird flu vaccine (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Monday February 26th 2007, 2:48 pm
A panel of experts will meet on Tuesday to consider whether the Food and Drug Administration should approve Sanofi-Aventis' experimental bird flu vaccine, which could become the first such product cleared for the U.S. market.
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FDA tests bird-flu vaccine effectiveness (AP via Yahoo! News)
Monday February 26th 2007, 1:48 pm
The nation's first vaccine against bird flu is even less effective than previously thought, according to Food and Drug Administration documents released Monday.
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FDA staff questions Sanofi bird flu vaccine (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Monday February 26th 2007, 1:39 pm
Data on Sanofi-Aventis' experimental bird flu vaccine shows higher doses worked better, but it is unclear whether those results prove the product's effectiveness, U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff said in documents released on Monday.
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Kuwait finds new cases of deadly bird flu in fowl (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Monday February 26th 2007, 11:38 am
Kuwait has detected 12 new cases of the bird flu strain that is dangerous to humans in poultry at two farms in the Gulf emirate, the health ministry said Monday.
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