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Future flu vaccine may provide wider protection: US expert

Researchers are trying to develop new flu vaccines that may provide wider protection to people by including more of the virus strains in the vaccine, a US expert told Xinhua in an exclusive interview. The United States...

29 January, 2013

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Hong Kong approves new bird flu vaccine

The Hong Kong Government (HKG) has announced that will recommend the Re-5 H5N1 Avian Influenza (AI) vaccine for use as an alternative for the already in use Intervet Nobilis H5N1 AI vaccine. Hong Kong maintains a...

18 July, 2012

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Analysis – Bird flu vaccine now? More than a shot in the dark

Culls of hundreds of thousands of chickens, turkeys and ducks to stem bird flu outbreaks rarely make international headlines these days, but they are a worryingly common event as the deadly virus continues its march...

12 July, 2012

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Facing up to flu

Amid the scientific controversy over lab-created strains of the H5N1 avian influenza virus that can skip between mammals, it is easy to lose sight of an important public-health question: what will help the wider world...

9 February, 2012

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Influenza Vaccination During Pregnancy Protects Newborns

Infants born to mothers who received the influenza vaccine while pregnant are nearly 50 percent less likely to be hospitalized for the flu

24 June, 2011

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Bird flu risk “under control”, say health experts

Health officials in Cambodia stress that they have not let down their guard against H5N1, despite four fatal cases of human avian flu this year,

20 April, 2011

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H5N1 cases reported in Indonesia, Bangladesh

Two people died of H5N1 avian influenza in Indonesia in the past few weeks,

16 March, 2011

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Future flu vaccine may provide wider protection: US expert

Hong Kong approves new bird flu vaccine

Analysis – Bird flu vaccine now? More than a shot in the dark

Facing up to flu

Influenza Vaccination During Pregnancy Protects Newborns

Bird flu risk “under control”, say health experts

H5N1 cases reported in Indonesia, Bangladesh