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PRC, Bearish News Continues to Dominate The Newswires in China
Mar 1, 2014PRC, Bearish news continues to dominate the newswires in China. Many pork producers continue to be constrained by negative margins as the industry grapples with oversupply. Meanwhile, the poultry industry remains rocked by the H79N virus ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
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Chinese Health Officials Say H7N9 Bird Flu Has Killed 19 People in The Country
Feb 7, 2014Chinese health officials say H7N9 bird flu has killed 19 people in the country so far this year with the number of human infections up to 96. Even as health officials in the affected regions have gone on higher alert to fight the spread ...
Tags: H7N9 Bird Flu, health, alert
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China Asked Its Municipalities and Provinces to Be on Higher Alert to Control The Disease
Jan 24, 2014China, facing rising human cases of the H7N9 avian flu, asked its municipalities and provinces to be on higher alert to control the disease. The National Health and Family Planning Commission, which summoned a meeting of health officials ...
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Chinese Health Authorities Reported The Deaths of Two Men From H7N9 Avian Flu in Shanghai
Jan 22, 2014SHANGHAI, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Chinese health authorities reported the deaths of two men, including a doctor, from H7N9 avian flu in Shanghai. The Shanghai municipal health commission Monday reported the 31-year-old doctor and a 77-year-old ...
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Vivaldi Biosciences Announced That It Has Signed a Cooperative Agreement with NIAID
Jan 21, 2014Vivaldi Biosciences Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing live attenuated influenza vaccines (LAIVs) against seasonal and pandemic influenza, today announced that it has signed a Cooperative Research and Development ...
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Avian H7N9 Influenza Virus Has Caused More Than 130 Human Infections with 43 Deaths
Jan 16, 2014The novel avian H7N9 influenza virus has caused more than 130 human infections with 43 deaths in China. New research, conducted under the supervision of Kansas State University's Juergen Richt, is showing promise in helping to fight this ...
Tags: Influenza Virus, H7N9, Health, Medicine
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Some Indigenous Groups Are More Susceptible to The Effects of The New Strain of Influenza
Jan 11, 2014Some indigenous groups are more susceptible to the effects of the new strain of influenza -- H7N9 -- currently found in China, researchers in Australia said. Senior author Katherine Kedzierska, an associate professor of the University of ...
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Meridian's TRU FLU Assay Received FDA Clearance for an Analytical Sensitivity Claim
Jan 10, 2014Meridian Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIVO) today announced that the company's TRU FLU® assay received FDA clearance for an analytical sensitivity claim for the novel avian Influenza H7N9 strain, A/Anhui/1/2013. TRU FLU® is a rapid ...
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The H7N9 Bird Flu Virus Does Not Yet Have The Ability to Easily Infect People
Dec 26, 2013The H7N9 bird flu virus does not yet have the ability to easily infect people, a new study indicates. The findings contradict some previous research suggesting that H7N9 poses an imminent threat of causing a global pandemic. The H7N9 ...
Tags: H7N9 viruses, bird flu virus, infect people
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Here Are Some of The Latest Health and Medical News Developments
Dec 19, 2013Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments: Chinese Woman Killed by cNew to Humans A Chinese woman has died from a bird flu strain that has never before affected humans, and the World Health Organization called the ...
Tags: Health News, Health Highlights, Bee Deaths
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A New Strain of Bird Flu Appears to Retain Its Ability to Cause Serious Disease
Dec 16, 2013A new strain of bird flu appears to retain its ability to cause serious disease even after it develops resistance to anti-viral drugs, U.S. researchers say. Dr. Nicole Bouvier, an assistant professor of medicine, infectious diseases at ...
Tags: strain of bird flu, avian influenza strains, influenza, H7N9
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Prices of Poultry Products in China Could Rise Sharply as H7N9 Wanes
May 14, 2013Prices of poultry products in China could rise sharply as early as next month as the waning H7N9 virus helps consumers regain confidence in poultry meat and eggs, experts said. Since late March, authorities have closed many poultry ...
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Price of Chinese Agricultural Products Declined
May 14, 2013According to National Bureau of Statistics of China, Chinese agricultural products' price in 36 major Chinese cities declined for the third consecutive week. The Ministry of Commerce said in a statement that the average wholesale price ...
Tags: vegetables, cucumbers
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The Bird Flu Erodes Demand of Soybea
May 8, 2013Chinese demand of soybean used in feeding poultry and livestock will continue to decline because of the breakout of bird flu. China takes 60% in global soybean trading. Influenced by concerns of food safety and large-stock, the amount of ...
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a New Strain of Bird Flu Spread to Taiwan
Apr 26, 2013A new strain of bird flu, which first originated in China and sickened more than 100, has spread to Taiwan, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). A 53-year-old Taiwanese businessman who returned from China's coastal Jiangsu ...
