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...Fighters The mass culling of chickens in Thailand and other parts of Asia [NOTEBOOK, Feb. 2] did not mark the first time that officials have taken radical measures to control the outbreak of poultry disease. We reported on an eerily similar situation two years ago when a strain of avian-flu virus threatened to jump from birds to humans...
What is it? Avian flu is a form of influenza that often kills domesticated poultry such as chickens and turkeys. Some strains of bird flu can make humans sick, too. The most dangerous is H5N1, which has caused at least 10 human deaths during the current outbreak. H5N1 first jumped the species barrier from birds to humans in Hong Kong in 1997, when six out of 18 infected people died. The fear is that H5N1 could combine with a human-flu strain to create a deadly virus that's so contagious it could cause a human pandemic...
...Reward offered by Microsoft for clues leading to the conviction of the authors of the MyDoom.B strain targeting the software giant's website...
...unanswered question about this winter's flu epidemic was whether the vaccine that Americans were clamoring to get would protect against the predominant Fujian strain. We may have the answer. A preliminary CDC study of 1,818 Colorado hospital workers suggests the vaccine had "no or very low effectiveness"--from 3% to 14%--against the Fujian...
...that indicate the presence of various avian influenzas," says Osterhaus. The prevalence of viruses in migratory birds may have been responsible for an avian-flu outbreak in the Netherlands last year that infected 80 people, killing one. The virus responsible, an H7, which was less deadly than the H5 strain, did achieve human-to-human transmission...