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Insight: Pork industry hunts for deadly pig virus

The sudden and widespread appearance of a swine virus deadly to young pigs – one never before seen in North America – is raising questions about the bio-security shield designed to protect the U.S. food...

29 May, 2013

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Cold viruses become active in colder temperatures, scientists confirm

Finally, there is scientific confirmation of what the world has always known. Researchers have confirmed that cold temperatures do trigger off the cold, that is, the most common global infection marked by runny noses...

23 May, 2013

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Mutation could cause ‘severe flu pandemic’

The head of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention says the current strain of bird flu that is causing illness and deaths in China cannot spark a pandemic in its current form – but he added that there...

9 May, 2013

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CDC preps vaccine for new bird flu strain

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday it was monitoring a new strain of bird flu and has started work on a vaccine just in case it is needed. So far, the strain known as avian influenza A...

7 April, 2013

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World experts debate case for new bird flu vaccine

Any decision to mass-produce vaccines against H7N9 flu will not be taken lightly, since it will mean sacrificing production of seasonal shots. And scientists warn it will take months to get any finished bird flu vaccine...

5 April, 2013

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Flu kills 105 children; most not vaccinated, CDC says

Influenza has killed 105 children this year, federal officials reported on Friday, and almost none of them had been vaccinated against the virus. That’s triple the number who died during last year’s flu season. But flu...

2 April, 2013

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UCLA researchers predict hotspots for future outbreaks of influenza virus

This year’s unusually long and rocky flu season would be nothing compared to the pandemic that could occur if bird flu became highly contagious among humans, which is why UCLA researchers and their colleagues are...

18 March, 2013

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New clues to how flu virus spreads

People are generally surprised to learn that scientists don’t know for sure how flu spreads,” says Donald Milton, M.D., Dr.P.H., who directs the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health and led...

14 March, 2013

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Influenza virus: Being the most beneficial mutation is no guarantee of long-term genetic success, research finds

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute scientists have used computer modelling to understand why some mutations in a virus gene rise to dominance and become ‘fixed’ in the genome of the virus, while others die out...

10 March, 2013

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‘Defective’ virus surprisingly plays major role in spread of disease

Defective viruses, thought for decades to be essentially garbage unrelated to the transmission of normal viruses, now appear able to play an important role in the spread of disease, new research by UCLA life scientists...

1 March, 2013

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