Tweet Experts warn of danger that the new viral strains created by mixing bird-flu virus with human influenza could escape from the laboratory to cause a global pandemic killing millions of people. See full story
Tweet AFP – There is no evidence that the deadly H7N9 bird flu has yet spread between humans in China but health authorities must be ready for the virus to mutate at any time, a top US virologist has warned. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said [...]
Tweet Beijing – World Health Organization experts have arrived in China to study the spread of H7N9 avian influenza and possible human transmission of the virus, a WHO official said on Friday. Chinese and international experts suspected human transmission of H7N9 “in very rare caes,” Michael O’Leary, WHO’s China representative, told reporters. The WHO team [...]
Tweet BEIJING: Beijing has registered its first two H1N1-related deaths since 2010, following the death of two Chinese women, 10 days ago. A 65-year-old cancer patient died last Friday, while a 22-year-old migrant worker succumbed to the disease on Dec 27. Beijing Daily quoted Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention director Deng Ying as saying, [...]
Tweet Lizzie Bennett Medically Speaking September 28th, 2012 Avian Flu has started to show signs of resurgence and a new strain, a mutation has appeared in China and Vietnam at roughly the same time. Scientists are working around the clock to find out what the risk to humans may be. At this point the World [...]
Tweet A Dutch scientist performing U.S.-backed biodefense research was able to modify an avian flu strain into a more virulent version of the lethal virus, eliciting concerns that the findings could be misappropriated for acts of biological terrorism, Radio Netherlands Worldwide reported on Friday. The U.S. National Institutes of Health requested that Rotterdam-based molecular virology [...]
Tweet (NaturalNews) Chinese researchers recently warned the world in a study that the H1N1 virus is capable of combining with various other viruses to create “novel pandemic strains.” Published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the paper states that with the proper mixing host in place, viruses can swap genes and [...]
Tweet A 30-year-old southwestern Pennsylvania man died Saturday Feb 19th of complications from the H1N1 flu, according to his family. “He got H1N1 from direct contact, so it had to be from somebody in this area,” said his father, Rod Sechrist of Dawson. Flu cases are on the rise in Pennsylvania, according to the state health department’s most recent report. [...]
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