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Health: Bird flu

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Since originating in East Asia, the H5N1 bird flu virus has spread worldwide, and the influenza pandemic it could trigger will hit developing countries the hardest.

(Photo credit: FAO/H.D. Nam)

Opinions and Analysis

Developing countries could lose out in access to bird flu vaccines Asia-Pacific should have own vaccines stockpiles

Laurie Garrett and David P. Fidler argue that a stockpile of H5N1 vaccine for Asia-Pacific countries will counter virus-sharing problems.

27 November 2007 | EN | 中文
Source: PLoS Medicine

Chickens at a farm in Salemata, Senegal Africa 'cannot meet WHO bird flu priorities'

Avian influenza remains a grave danger to Africa, say Folorunso O. Fasina, Shahn P. Bisschop and Robert G. Webster.

2 November 2007 | EN | 中文
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases

WHO regulations tough for developing nations

29 May 2007 | EN
Source: The Lancet

Affordable pandemic influenza vaccines for all

19 February 2007 | EN
Source: The Lancet


News and Features

A slide of the H5N1 virus Scientists find 'likely' human-human H5N1 spread

Human-to-human transmission of H5N1 is likely to have occurred between a father and son in China, according to a new study.

10 April 2008 | EN | 中文

Chickens in a metal cage China approves its first human H5N1 vaccine

China has approved production of a H5N1 vaccine for humans, the first of its kind in the developing world.

8 April 2008 | EN | 中文