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Bird Flu: New Avian Influenza Virus Kills Two In China

Two people have died in Shanghai from a strain of avian influenza virus not seen in humans before.

Bird Flu Death In China Sparks Fear Of Human-Transmitted H5N1 Strain

A woman has died of the H5N1 avian flu in China, but there's a worrying twist: She had not been in contact with birds.

Baby Seal Deaths Attributed To New Bird Flu Strain

A virus that jumped from birds to seals turns out to have adaptations that could make it transmissible to humans as well.

US Takes India To WTO Over Import Restrictions On US Poultry Products

The United States has approached the World Trade Organization (WTO) against India's import restrictions on US agricultural products.

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Health workers pack dead chicken at a wholesale poultry market in Hong Kong December 21, 2011.

Fears of a Mutant Virus Flying the Coop Halt Bird-Flu Study

Researchers studying a potentially more lethal, airborne version of the bird-flu virus have suspended their studies because of concerns the mutant virus they have created could be used as a devastating form of bioterrorism or accidentally escape the lab.

Chickens peer out of their cage at a poultry wholesale market outside Hanoi, Viet Nam.

Changing Attitudes in China over H5N1 Bird Flu

Two surveys released Wednesday concludes that poultry workers in China still need H5N1 avian flu education and that people in China have changed their eating habits in response to bird flu.

New Study Warnings On Annual Influenza Vaccine

Annual Flu Vaccines Could Leave People Vulnerable to Novel Pandemics: Study

According to a new research paper published in the November Journal of Virology, vaccinating children annually against influenza virus could interfere with their development of cross-reactive killer T cells to flu viruses.

New Bird Flu Outbreak in India has PM Concerned

An outbreak of avian influenza (bird flu) has been confirmed in West Bengal, India as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh races to coordinate preventative measures.

H5 Bird Flu Outbreak in India has Officials Scrambling

A new outbreak of the H5 strain of avian influenza (bird flu) has surfaced in West Bengal, India.

Bird Flu Returns with Deadlier Strain, Warns UN

The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has issued a warning, looking at the situation that it a mutant strain of deadly flu is already spreading in China and Vietnam, according to CBS News report. Fears of an outbreak of bird flu this winter have been raised by the United Nations. Bird flu was in decline, but FAO warns it appears to be on the rise again and the new bird flu strain is even deadlier.