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Researchers Begin Efforts to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine for Humans.
Jan. 28--As another Asian country reported its first cases of bird flu Tuesday, researchers in the U.S. and around the world were beginning the difficult work of developing a vaccine against the virus.
For now, the flu strain spreading quickly among millions of birds in Asia is less a threat to people than to the chickens it first infected.
Yet experts said the fact that the virus can kill birds as well as humans is making it harder to devise a vaccine for people--a process that requires growing the virus in chicken eggs.
Officials said Tuesday the virus had been found among ducks in China, the 10th Asian nation where the flu has infected birds. Eight people have died from the disease after contracting it from birds.
Recognizing the difficulty…
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...from across the border and it is no wonder that the rate of goat meat and fish and prawn has gone up as soon as the news of Bird Flu spread. While the price of fish has gone up from Rs 35 to Rs 60 per kg, that of mutton has increased by Rs 20 per kg. Almost...
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire February 21, 2006 700+ words
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- Myanmar culls thousands of chickens, bans sale of chicken, eggs in bird...
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire March 15, 2006 700+ words
...country's first case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus was detected, an official said...News about the country's first case of bird flu has not yet been reported in official...foreign media outlets. The H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed or forced the slaughter of...
- Distt (Sialkot): Sale of chicken, eggs drops due to bird flu scare.
- News wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International February 11, 2008 700+ words
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- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire February 2, 2004 700+ words
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...of vaccine to combat bird flu. Nearly $400 million...traditional approach using chicken eggs, government authorities...Marquiss. Also, making a bird-flu vaccine from chicken eggs is tricky because the bird-flu virus could prove toxic...
- Bird flu poses risk to vaccine egg supply.
- News wire article from: UPI Health Business July 26, 2005 700+ words
...fear an outbreak of bird flu could destroy the supply of chicken eggs needed to produce...deadly strain of bird flu currently in southern...Tens of millions of chicken eggs are required to...from contracting bird flu or the regular annual...
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- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) January 18, 2007 700+ words
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- News wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International March 15, 2006 700+ words
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Source: HighBeam Research, Researchers Begin Efforts to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine for Humans.
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