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?Who let the birds out?? Though th song not yet popular among people, if not careful, in due course, everyone will be singing it in unon. In other words, the bird flu spreading fast, and not enough
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Recently, Utah's epidemiologist, Dr. Robert Rolfs, jected his entire state with a heavy dose of complacency and told them not to worry about bird flu. He said, "Avian fluenza means bird fluenza. It's a problem for birds right now
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To combat a possible avian bird flu epidemic, the following should be considered and done: 1. The single most important thing than can be done for an epidemic, such as avian bird flu, is to have well-prepared local health care systems.
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The results of a government-funded study show that very high doses of an avian influenza vaccine, supplied by Sanofi-Aventis, are needed to produce an immune response that should guard against the virus. 54% of the volunteers received two shots of 90
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Not long ago, I read an article about alternative health where someone with a serious disease was counseled to look upon it as a "blessing." Your first reaction is probably the same as mine was -- what a stupid idea! How can cancer or
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The bird flu virus can be compared to a monkey with a typewriter. And that's why it's getting more and more dangerous. You may have heard the old observation that if you give enough monkeys a keyboard, eventually one will -- just by
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How can you know whether your or a loved one ha bird flu or jut a cae of ordinary flu? That' not a imple quetion to anwer. Frankly, the only 100% way i to have body ecretion teted by a World Health Organization (WHO) laboratory
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If nothing else, the bird flu scare should remind us not to take our immune systems for granted. According to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Michael Leavitt, it'll take 6 months after a contagious strain of bird flu is
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Somewhere in Southeast Asia (or Africa, the MidEast, Europe etc) . . . A hen clucks and shifts around in her perch. She sniffs and sneezes. Inside the lining of her respiratory tract and lungs, millions of influenza viruses
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Bird Flu or more correctly, avian flu, is much in the news and causing a lot of anxiety. Many people are worried that they may get it, and the papers are full of horror scenarios. There are over 100 strains of avian flu, but most of them
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