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The world has only two to three weeks from the time an outbreak is detected to arrest a pandemic.

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Sanofi-Aventis to produce vaccines

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines business of the Sanofi-Aventis Group, has entered into an agreement with the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to produce doses of a vaccine to help protect against avian flu (H5N1). 

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1918 killer was an avian-flu virus

The virus that killed tens of millions of people after World War I has been resurrected in a high-security US lab as part of an extraordinary bid to combat the growing shadow of avian influenza. 

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