Thursday 13 11 08
AFP - Tests on an Indonesian girl reported to have died of bird flu proved negative for the deadly strain of the virus, the health minister said Thursday.
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Wednesday 12 11 08 Reuters - A 15-year-old Indonesian girl has died of bird flu in central Java, a health official said on Wednesday, bringing the country's death toll from the disease to 113. |
Wednesday 12 11 08 AP - Indonesian health officials say a 15-year-old girl has died of bird flu. |
Tuesday 16 09 08 The body of an aristocrat who died nearly 90 years ago has been exhumed in the hope that it will help combat a future flu pandemic. |
Monday 01 09 08 Scientists funded by the Wellcome Trust are to examine what is preventing the H5N1 avian influenza virus from causing a human pandemic and what mutations are required to realise its deadly potential. The research could hold the key to early identification of a potential influenza pandemic, and to developing drugs and a vaccine. Since its reappearance in 1997, the H5N1 influenza virus has caused disease and death in millions of birds around the globe. |
Thursday 17 07 08
AP - An Indonesian cargo worker died of bird flu, relatives confirmed Thursday, raising the unofficial toll in the world's hardest hit nation to 111 in three years.
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Thursday 19 06 08 Reuters - The Indonesian health ministry has
reported two deaths from bird flu in recent weeks, easing
concerns about whether Jakarta would share information about
the disease, the World Health Organization said on Thursday. |
Thursday 19 06 08 The majority of deaths during the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 were not caused by the influenza virus acting alone, report researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. Instead, most victims succumbed to bacterial pneumonia following influenza virus infection. |
Friday 06 06 08
AFP - Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari refused Friday to say how many Indonesians had died of bird flu and insisted it was no longer necessary to announce the toll on a case-by-case basis.
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Thursday 05 06 08
AP - A teenager died of bird flu last month, becoming Indonesia's 109th victim, but the government decided not to announce the death right away. It is part of a new policy aimed at improving the image of the nation hardest hit by the disease.
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