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Science and censorship
Albert Einstein once said the reason he was able to accomplish so much was because he had "stood on the shoulders of giants" like Newton and Galileo. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist's remark was a reminder how much scientists depend on discoveries...Tags: National Institutes of Health, Galileo Galilei, Human Body, Medical Research, Vaccines
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Ask Outdoors Girl
Nancy Colvin of Stoneleigh writes: Do you have any idea where the blue jays have gone? Since the avian flu came through here several years ago, it seems that there are few blue jays, though I did see a couple in Westchester County, N.Y., during a recent...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, West Nile Virus, Maryland
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Flu spread raises alarm
Officials advised Monday against most travel to Mexico, the center of an outbreak of swine flu suspected of killing almost 150 people there and sickening at least 50 through its spread to the United States.
The acting director of the Centers for...Tags: U.S. Department of State, Hospitals and Clinics, Epidemics and Plagues, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emergency Incidents
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U.S. set to rush order of avian flu vaccine
Associated PressWASHINGTON -- Mass production of a new vaccine that scientists believe can protect against an avian flu outbreak could begin as early as mid-September, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said yesterday. Dr....Tags: Vaccines, Pharmaceuticals, Death, Preventative Medicine, Influenza Pandemic (1918)
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Test of avian flu vaccine succeeds
From Staff And Wire ReportsWASHINGTON - Government scientists say they have successfully tested in humans a vaccine that they believe can protect against the strain of avian influenza that is spreading in birds through Asia and Russia. Health officials have been racing to...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Pharmaceuticals, Epidemics and Plagues, Memphis, Health Organizations
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Fears of flu pandemic spurring preparations
Sun StaffThey gathered around a hotel conference table in Howard County, planning for what might be Maryland's worst public health crisis. The public health and safety experts spun a shocking scenario arising from the threat of an avian flu pandemic from Asia:...Tags: Medical Services, Bioterrorism, Diseases and Illnesses, Viral Diseases and Infections, Employees
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A versatile virus
Sun StaffThe flu season that arrives each fall kills an average of 36,000 people in the United States alone. Far deadlier are worldwide outbreaks, called pandemics, that periodically sweep through human populations. Over the past 300 years, there have been 10...Tags: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Hospitals and Clinics, Epidemics and Plagues, Security, Medical Services
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UM scientists study role of wild birds in spread of avian flu
Sun StaffCOLLEGE PARK - In a low-slung building far from virus-plagued Southeast Asia, scientists are leading a sweeping inquiry into the role that migratory waterfowl and other wild birds might play in spreading avian flu. The research is one groundbreaking...Tags: The Ohio State University, Epidemics and Plagues, Wildlife, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Animals
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Chinese government still hedges on avian flu
Sun Foreign StaffBEIJING - The scene was reminiscent of early 2003, just before the world learned about SARS: A small room in central Beijing, filled with journalists skeptically asking World Health Organization experts this week about a potential new health threat in...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Journalism, Epidemics and Plagues, China, Beijing (China)
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Health reporters on the flu threat
Darlene Cook, Baltimore: If this flu is such a threat, shouldn't we avoid eating all birds and their products? How motivated are the producers to cull out their sick birds? Roylance: So far, the transmission of the avian flu virus from birds to humans...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Baltimore County, Pharmaceuticals, Epidemics and Plagues, Influenza Pandemic (1918)
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U.S. government purchases $100 million stockpile of avian flu vaccine
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - The federal government is buying $100 million of avian flu vaccine in the first step toward building a stockpile that would protect 20 million Americans from an outbreak of the deadly virus. Coming weeks after government scientists...Tags: Bill Hall, Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline PLC, Medical Procedures and Tests, Diseases and Illnesses
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Avian flu shows a more sinister side, scientists say
Sun StaffScientists have reported the first case of avian flu passing from person to person and causing severe disease, fulfilling what some say could be an intermediate step toward the deadly flu becoming a wider human epidemic. The case occurred last fall in...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Symptoms, Epidemics and Plagues, Medical Services, Family
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