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Hello, I am from Bangladesh. This is a Photo Blog. Make a little look on my country and my little town Kurigram. I love to shoot bird, nature, flower, sky, tree, river and everything.
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Bird flu - Overview
Date updated: January 16, 2007 Sabra L. Katz-Wise; Ralph Poore Content provided by Healthwise What is bird flu?Bird flu is an infection caused by a type of avian influenza virus. Although there are many types of bird flu...
Bird flu - Prevention
Bird flu vaccineIn April 2007, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first human vaccine to prevent infection with one strain of H5N1 bird flu virus. This new bird flu vaccine isn't available to the public, but the U.S. government is stockpil...
Bird flu - Treatment
For now, the primary treatment option remains the flu drug oseltamivir (Tamiflu), which works by preventing the virus from multiplying. It's not clear how effective Tamiflu will prove against H5N1. Another antiviral flu drug, zanamivir (Relenza), may...
Bird flu - Complications
Most people with bird flu have signs and symptoms of conventional influenza. Some also develop life-threatening complications such as viral pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome, which causes the air sacs in your lungs to fill with fluid,...
Bird flu - When to seek medical advice
See your doctor immediately if you develop flu symptoms, including a fever, cough and body aches, and have recently traveled to a part of the world where bird flu occurs. Be sure to let your doctor know when and where you traveled and whether you vis...
Bird flu - Causes
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 36,000 people die of influenza in the United States each winter. And three or four times every century, a flu pandemic sweeps the globe, claiming millions of lives. That the flu...
Bird flu - Signs and symptoms
Although the exact incubation period for bird flu in humans isn't clear, illness seems to develop within one to five days of exposure to the virus.Common signs and symptomsMost often, signs and symptoms of bird flu resemble those of conventional infl...
Large Study Links Folic Acid Supplementation With Reduced Risk Of Preeclampsia During Pregnancy
ScienceDaily (Jan. 24, 2008) — Folic acid supplementation during pregnancy has long been known to reduce the risk of birth defects in newborns, but a new study now suggests that the vitamin may also reduce the risk of preeclampsia, a l...
Anemia Treatment May Improve or Worsen Disease, Based on Timing
ScienceDaily (Feb. 2, 2008) — Erythropoietin has so far been known to doctors as a hormone that boosts red-blood-cell production. Now, a mouse study led by Lois Smith, MD, PhD, an ophthalmologist at Children's Hospital Boston, shows it...
'Telepathic' Genes Recognize Similarities In Each Other
ScienceDaily (Jan. 26, 2008) — Genes have the ability to recognise similarities in each other from a distance, without any proteins or other biological molecules aiding the process, according to new research. This discovery could expla...
Neanderthal
Their bodies were well equipped to cope with the Ice Age, so why did the Neanderthals die out when it ended? In 1848 a strange skull was discovered on the military outpost of Gibraltar. It was undoubtedl...
96-million-year-old Fossil Pollen Sheds Light On Early Pollinators
ScienceDaily (Jan. 22, 2008) — The collapse of honeybee colonies across North America is focusing attention on the honeybees’ vital role in the survival of agricultural crops, and a new study by University of Florida and Indiana University Southe...
How Allergic Reactions Are Triggered
ScienceDaily (Jan. 17, 2008) — In demonstrating that a group of calcium ion channels play a crucial role in triggering inflammatory responses, researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have not only solved a longstanding molecular...
