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- 'U.S. awards bird flu vaccine contracts (AP via Yahoo! News)
The government awarded contracts Wednesday to three drug makers tasked with developing a vaccine for bird flu using technology that will help stretch the supply of the medicine.
'Bird flu mutations in Egypt suggest antiviral resistance (USA Today)
Mutations in the bird flu virus have been found in two people in Egypt, in a form that might be resistant to the medication most commonly used to treat the deadly disease, according to laboratory tests approved by WHO.
'Bird flu samples from Egyptians show resistance to Tamiflu: WHO (CBC)
Two Egyptians show mutations that may make the bird flu virus resistant to the medication most commonly used to treat the disease, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
'Bird flu spreads to 8 Vietnamese provinces (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A rash of bird flu outbreaks has spread to an eighth province in southern Vietnam's Mekong Delta region, the government has said, raising fears of a wider winter-time resurgence of the virus.
'Bird flu in Egypt moderately Tamiflu-resistant--WHO (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News)
GENEVA, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Two people who died of bird flu in Egypt last month had a strain of the H5N1 virus which has shown "moderate" resistance to the frontline antiviral Tamiflu, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday.
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