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	<title>About Bird Flu</title>
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	<description>Everything you need to know about bird flu</description>
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		<title>Avian Bird Flu &#8211; Influenza Treatment Medication</title>
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Many medicines are used to treat symptoms of influenza. Tamiflu medication proves to be the most effective influenza treatment available in the present times. Even the World Health Organisation has attested to its effectiveness and approved it for use in case of bird flu pandemic in any country of the world.About Tamiflu &#8211; Its manufacturerTamiflu [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aboutbirdflu.net/health-and-fitness/avian-bird-flu-influenza-treatment-medication/</link>
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		<title>Bird Flu: Human Infection</title>
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Bird flu is a disease caused by a specific type of avian (bird) influenza virus, the so-called H5N1 virus. This virus was first discovered in birds in China in 1997, and since then has infected 125 people in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Indonesia, killing 64 of them. It is spread by infected migratory birds (including [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aboutbirdflu.net/health-and-fitness/bird-flu-human-infection/</link>
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		<title>In the News : India steps up vigil as bird flu spreads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bappa Majumdar reported:
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) &#8211; Veterinary staff in eastern India are capturing chickens in night-time raids on the backyards of homes to surprise villagers unwilling to part with their poultry as an outbreak of bird flu spread.
Bird flu has spread to 13 of West Bengal&#8217;s 19 districts, with samples of dead chickens testing positive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aboutbirdflu.net/news-and-updates/in-the-news-india-steps-up-vigil-as-bird-flu-spreads/</link>
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		<title>Understanding The Avian Bird Flu Virus And A Look Into Its History</title>
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Avian bird flu, a viral disease, also termed as bird flu, avian influenza, type A flu or genus. This flu is a kind of influenza hosted by birds but can affect other animals and particularly humans also. The virus in general is the influenza virus &#8216;A&#8217; but is a bit different every time the flu [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Origin</title>
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Bird flu has caused chicken loving individuals to go foul celibate for a pretty significant period of time. The scare has taken over Asia since early last year. It started with birds in China being infected with the virus, then as the birds migrated; they ended up contaminating other birds in the process. Bird flu [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the News: No Agreement Reached on Bird Flu Virus Sharing &#8211; WHO</title>
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The recently concluded Intergovernmental Meeting on Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (IGM-PIP), which tackled the sharing of influenza viruses and access to vaccines, came to a deadlock-end. 
Health officials failed to reach agreement on a new system to ensure developing countries benefit more from sharing bird flu virus samples used to develop vaccines, the World Health Organization [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aboutbirdflu.net/news-and-updates/in-the-news-no-agreement-reached-on-bird-flu-virus-sharing-who/</link>
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		<title>Bird Flu and You: How Will The Flu Affect You?</title>
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Flu is a common disease nowadays, with most people having developed the antibodies to fight against the disease. So the mention of &#8220;flu&#8221; doesn&#8217;t really create any alarm. However, say &#8220;bird flu&#8221; and there&#8217;s likely to be a pandemonium.Bird flu, or avian influenza, is a highly pathogenic virus of 15 types. The virus spreads to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aboutbirdflu.net/health-and-fitness/bird-flu-and-you-how-will-the-flu-affect-you/</link>
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		<title>In the News: DEFRA contains avian flu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DEFRA?s first epidemiological report into the recent H5N1 avian flu outbreak in Suffolk indicates the outbreak has been confined to one index case, but fails to &#8220;categorically identify the source of the outbreak?.

The report cites ?poor biosecurity? and the location of the free range poultry unit  ? just meters away from an ornamental lake [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aboutbirdflu.net/news-and-updates/in-the-news-defra-contains-avian-flu/</link>
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		<title>Bird Flu &#8211; Europe to Slaughter Israel!</title>
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Deuteronomy 28:1515 However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you&#8230;Israel has been suffering from the &#8220;bird flu&#8221; for years, as a consequence of NATIONAL SIN (Daniel 9:11). Now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aboutbirdflu.net/news-and-society/bird-flu-europe-to-slaughter-israel/</link>
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		<title>The Virus That Causes Bird Flu</title>
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The virus that causes bird flu appears to be versatile and resilient. Scientists are working on a new vaccine that would be effective against the new strain of the virus that causes Bird flu. There are different subtypes and strains of the virus that causes bird flu, and some cause more severe disease than others. [...]]]></description>
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