Bird flu
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Over the past two years the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu has spread from South East Asia to Europe the Middle East and west Africa, sparking fears of a global pandemic.
GSK vaccine for flu pandemic wins approval
European regulators have approved recommendations from specialists to authorise the pharmaceutical group’s Prepandrix, assuring governments seeking to build up stockpiles
Novartis steps up case for new flu vaccine
Focus on protection against pandemic strains
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Search for a cure
Feeling the strain
The World Health Organisation estimates that a ‘bird flu’ pandemic could affect one in four people around the globe. Governments are stockpiling the antiviral drug Tamiflu, the best hope of a cure. But can be enough made in time - and will it work?
Incubating a crisis
Why fight against bird flu centres on Indonesia
As Mt Merapi, Indonesia’s most active volcano, spews out smoke and lava, a disaster is incubating in the farms and villages of Central Java with potentially far greater consequences for human health.
Global threat
Bird flu’s link with the crazy trade in poultry
We still do not know how the H5N1 virus struck the Bernard Matthews farm or where it might strike again, writes Caroline Lucas, a Green party Euro MP for south-east England.
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