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  1. 4-Yr-Old Whose Father Has Bird Flu Also Infected

    Mon, 29 Apr 2013

    Chinese health officials say the 4-year-old son of a man infected with a new strain of bird flu has also caught the virus. Shandong province's health department says there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission

  2. Study: New Bird Flu Jumped Directly From Chickens

    Thu, 25 Apr 2013

    Chinese scientists have for the first time found strong evidence of how humans got infected with a new strain of bird flu : from chickens at a live market. In a small study of four patients who caught the new H7N9 virus, Chinese scientists compared

  3. Bird Flu Crosses Strait to Taiwan

    Wed, 24 Apr 2013

    man has contracted a deadly strain of bird flu once confined to mainland China, health to China's Jiangsu Province, where bird flu has sickened at least 24 people and killed be in "severe condition." RELATED: Bird Flu a 'Truly Nasty Virus' The latest case

  4. WHO: New Flu Passes More Easily From Bird to Human

    Wed, 24 Apr 2013

    A new strain of bird flu that emerged in China over the past that are going undetected. The H7N9 bird flu virus has infected more than 100 people Jiangsu. In comparison, the earlier bird flu strain, H5N1, is known to kill up

  5. Yum Beats Expectations, Warns of Bird Flu Impact

    Tue, 23 Apr 2013

    company of KFC warned that a new strain of bird flu in China is hurting the chicken chain's Yum's China sales when a new strain of bird flu was reported toward the end of the quarter overcome troubles in the past, such as a bird flu scare in 2005 that dragged down sales

  6. Richard Besser's Book Brings a Healthy Dose of Truth

    Mon, 22 Apr 2013

    would be great to be able to continue working with my wife." In the meantime, he'll be tracking the deadly outbreak of bird flu in China and translating the latest medical research into news you can use. "Every day I get to look at the most important

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  1. Deadly Bird Flu Spreading in China, Unclear How

    Thu, 18 Apr 2013

    Beijing became infected with a new strain of bird flu . The H7N9 virus, which has killed 17 shooting in the dark," he said. RELATED: Bird Flu a 'Truly Nasty Virus' To complicate transmission." RELATED: Inside Hong Kong's Bird Flu Screening ABC News' chief health and

  2. Hong Kong Screening Chinese Poultry for Bird Flu

    Tue, 16 Apr 2013

    is countered by a healthy respect for bird flu . They've been through this before they're pioneers. The first strain of bird flu to ever infect people appeared in Hong cracked down in an effort to thwart future bird flu outbreaks. The number of live chicken

  3. Bird Flu a 'Truly Nasty Virus'

    Tue, 16 Apr 2013

    HONG KONG -- A new strain of bird flu has been reported in China, and it has concern is that unlike previous strains of bird flu , this strain doesn't seem to harm birds a different flu virus -- a strain of bird flu called H5N1. Normally, influenza viruses

  4. H7N9 Avian Influenza : Virus Widens Geographic Reach in China

    Sat, 13 Apr 2013

    girl is infected with H7N9 avian influenza , widening the geographic said the total number of new bird flu infections across the country dead birds. Unlike the H5N1 bird flu that raised concerns starting sick flocks. This case of bird flu in Beijing illustrates that

  5. H7N9 Bird Flu Death Toll Rises to 8

    Tue, 9 Apr 2013

    Treating a patient in China. (Credit Image: Liu Junxi/Xinhua/AP Photo) Another person has died in China of the new bird flu , H7N9, bringing the death toll to eight, according to China's Xinhua News Agency . Twenty others have been infected

  6. 5 Things to Know This Morning

    Mon, 8 Apr 2013

    injury or damage. 2. WHO Says No Proof of Bird Flu in China The World Health Organization said Monday that there is no proof that a bird flu virus is being transmitted between people number of confirmed cases of the H7N9 bird flu virus has risen to at least 21, with

  7. H7N9 Bird Flu Update: 21 Infected, 6 Dead

    Mon, 8 Apr 2013

    ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images) Three new cases of the new bird flu strain, H7N9, have been reported in China, bringing the easily transmittable from birds to humans than the original bird flu strain, H1N1, Cox said she expects to see limited human-to-human

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  1. Bird Flu Death Toll Rises as Disease Spreads

    Sun, 14 Apr 2013

    where the deadly bird flu is on the move. The virus has arrived in yet another province. What's of the crisis in north korea, but because the deadly new strain of bird flu is extending its reach. Beginning in shanghai, it has been inching

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    where the deadly bird flu is on the move. The virus has arrived in yet another province. What's making it so hard to track, there's no clue
    the crisis in north korea, but because the deadly new strain of bird flu is extending its reach. Beginning in shanghai, it has been inching its way across the map. Slowly connecting the dots between the
  2. New Strain of Avian Flu Puts CDC on High Alert

    Sun, 7 Apr 2013

    vandals are striking at a school first the worlds news and here is david with a preview. The nude and worrisome strain of bird flu . Remember an american designer stuck habits of using toothpasteto clean a denture. But dentures are very different to real

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    here is david with a preview. The nude and worrisome strain of bird flu . Remember an american designer stuck habits of using toothpasteto clean a denture. But dentures are very different to real teeth. They're about
  3. Bird Flu Found Outside Shanghai: Could It Come to US?

    Mon, 15 Apr 2013

    Now to the fears of the deadly outbreak of bird flu that it may spread outside china. The death toll is 13 beijing, 749 miles away from shanghai was diagnosed with bird flu pneumonia. The virus is spreading silently. C you can't

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    Now to the fears of the deadly outbreak of bird flu that it may spread outside china. The death toll is 13. More than 60 are ill. Dr. Richard besser is on the
    7-year-old girl in beijing, 749 miles away from shanghai was diagnosed with bird flu pneumonia. The virus is spreading silently. C you can't tell where it is going. Last night, the chinese government invited a team
  4. Bird Flu Virus Spreads Across China, Outbreak Ignites Fear

    Sat, 13 Apr 2013

    Now to the worrisome headline out of china tonight. That bird flu is spreading hundredsmiles from where the outbreak began and another. It's an absolute nightmare. Ironically the bird flu that has killed 11 people causes no illness in birds and they

    Bird Flu found at 0:02, 1:22

    Now to the worrisome headline out of china tonight. That bird flu is spreading hundredsmiles from where the outbreak began. American scientists are on the ground in china worried about the mutations they have
    and another and another and another. It's an absolute nightmare. Ironically the bird flu that has killed 11 people causes no illness in birds and they can't tell which ones are infected. Reporter: China may seem
  5. World Health Organization Head Not Surprised by Spread of Bird Flu

    Sun, 14 Apr 2013

    going to start with the fresh cases of the bird flu virus. Look at this map. The bug spreading what I hear from experts is this type of bird flu virus, is notoriously hard to make a seeing panic. Hong kong has dealt with bird flu before. I'm seeing a call in the newspapers

    Bird Flu found at 0:01, 1:05, 1:37

    We're going to start with the fresh cases of the bird flu virus. Look at this map. The bug spreading into new parts of china, hundreds of miles from the original hot zone. The
    at it. But what I hear from experts is this type of bird flu virus, is notoriously hard to make a vaccine to. Cdc has a virus from china. They're working on it. It's not going
    panic set in? I'm not seeing panic. Hong kong has dealt with bird flu before. I'm seeing a call in the newspapers for closure of the live bird markets. That was something they wanted to have
  6. Bird Flu in China Spreads Hundreds of Miles From Outbreak Point

    Sat, 13 Apr 2013

    Lama hasan, thank you. Bad news this morning involving that new strain of bird flu that killed 11 people in eastern china but overnight the virus made a big and dangerous leap infecting a 7-year-old girl hundreds

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    hasan, thank you. Bad news this morning involving that new strain of bird flu that killed 11 people in eastern china but overnight the virus made a big and dangerous leap infecting a 7-year-old girl hundreds
  7. Preventing Bird Flu From Entering the United States

    Fri, 12 Apr 2013

    And now, we want to take you inside the all-out american effort to stop a new kind of bird flu from coming to the united states. Our chief medical editor dr. Richard besser, a veteran of the cdc, has made his way to china

    Bird Flu found at 0:04

    you inside the all-out american effort to stop a new kind of bird flu from coming to the united states. Our chief medical editor dr. Richard besser, a veteran of the cdc, has made his way
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