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U.S. Could Vaccinate a Fifth of Americans in a Bird Flu Emergency
The completed vaccines could theoretically use components ... The Astrakhan strain is classified as an H5N8 virus, not an H5N1, but one of its surface proteins is almost a match to the virus ...
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Bird flu highly contagious H5N8 strain in England, Netherlands and Germany
The H5N8 strain has never been detected in humans, but it led to the destruction of millions of farm birds in Asia, mainly South Korea, after an outbreak earlier this year. Other bird populations ...