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Stories about: bird flu

Bird Flu Spawns Vaccines Scientists managed to turn the deadly bird flu virus on itself, by creating a new vaccine, which can be used to prevent a flu pandemic from spreading in humans, pets and even wild birds. A means of delivering the new drug to birds inside their eggs has also been devised, which means that they can now be controlled an... 20 October 2008 09:42 GMT STMicro Unveils Bird Flu Lab-On-A-Chip Semiconductor manufacturer STMicroelectronics announced that it has successfully achieved a completely mobile processor able to detect a plethora of influenza viruses, such as the feared Bird Flu in humans and other animals.According to its manufacturers, the chip offers identical performance to a fully-fledged labor... 25 March 2008 03:56 GMT