Blood of bird flu victims offers treatment: study
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Blood taken from four Vietnamese survivors of the H5N1 bird flu virus protected mice from several strains of the virus, researchers reported on Monday.
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Giving blood transfusions to patients  with acute heart problems nearly triples the risk they will die  or suffer a heart attack within a month, a study said on  Tuesday.
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The government plans to develop an experimental treatment for anthrax from the blood of people vaccinated against it. Such a medicine has never been tested on people, but scientists think it has a good chance of working based on animal tests. Federal ...
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Could some people have a little immunity to the H5N1 bird flu virus? One study in mice published on Monday suggests it is, in theory, possible.
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BEIJING, Aug.20(Xinhuanet) -- Scientists say the effectiveness of therapy for advanced breast cancer can be quickly predicted by an analysis of the level of cancer cells in the patient&#39;s blood.
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Ordinary seasonal flu vaccines may provide a small amount of protection against bird flu, Italian researchers reported on Wednesday.
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A deadly bird flu virus, which has killed 29 Asians this year, has reappeared in Cambodia and the government is deeply worried because villagers ate birds which had died from it, officials said on Wednesday.
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The H5N1 bird flu virus may sometimes stick to surfaces or get kicked up in fertilizer dust to infect people, according to a World Health Organization report published on Wednesday.
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Scientists in Hong Kong say they&#39;ve developed a test that&#39;s able to detect bird flu in people within one or two hours instead of the week or more required to get results from previous kinds of tests.
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An international team of scientists isolates antibodies that could protect against bird flu in humans.
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A fatally ill Thai girl probably spread deadly bird flu to her relatives last year in what would mark the first documented case of human-to-human transmission of the feared virus, medical investigators said on Monday.
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China has shared human bird flu samples for the first time in more than a year, giving a boost to international efforts to track the deadly H5N1 virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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BANGKOK : Thailand on Tuesday confirmed that a woman who died earlier this month was a victim of bird flu, becoming the 10th confirmed human victim of the disease this year.
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An experiment to reconstruct the deadly 1918 influenza virus has given a new insight into how the infection took hold of its victims.
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Leading scientists in Hong Kong have found that the H5N1 bird flu virus can infect cells in the upper airway of humans and need not penetrate deep in the lungs to cause infection.
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HANOI, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- A child from Vietnam&#39;s southern Hau Giang province, the home to most suspected cases of bird flu in the country, received treatment after showing symptoms of fever and breathing difficulties.
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¡¡ GENEVA, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- The World Health Organization (WHO)said Wednesday that two of the three fatal human cases of bird fluin Vietnam were identified as caused by strain of the H5N1 virus.