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Bird Flu, or H5N1 Virus - What is It?
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Numerous viruses, which cause flu in humans, are combined into 3 types: A, B, and C. Viruses of type A are characteristic not only for humans, but for other mammals and also birds. Apart from humans, these viruses have been discovered in horses, pigs, cattle, chickens, ducks, turkeys, wild resident
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The bird's flu has forked. Or it was doubled?
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The virus of the bird's flu has genetically forked. And both varieties H5N1 have already infected birds in Europe. Now experts should develop one more vaccine, and epidemiologists - to be ready for a pandemic.
On Monday at the international conference on infectious diseases which is taking place
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Chikungunia or avian flu?
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Recently there are messages that, probably, strain H5N1 can be transferred to cats and what is the most terrible thing to mosquitoes. Experts are afraid, that at a mutation of a virus "under mosquitoes " much more serious epidemic can burst. So, "Izvestia" informs, that now mosqu
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