Bird Flu

The ministries of Agriculture and Rural Development and Health have warned of a possible large-scale outbreak of bird flu in the near future. Viet Nam News reporters Thu Hien and Thanh Hai talked to experts about the main causes of the disease's resurgence ...  

SHILLONG: Clinical tests on dead pigeons in this hill town have shown that the mysterious bird deaths were not due to avian flu. A veterinary department official said that the authorities have given the "all-clear signal" and there is no reason ...  

Keri Collins Lewis, MSU Ag Communications A Mississippi State University researcher has uncovered the first molecular evidence linking live poultry markets in China to human H5N1 avian influenza. read more  

Soc Trang Province's Health Department has reported that the new-born baby of the woman who died of bird flu last month tested negative for the Avian Influenza Virus H5N1. Meanwhile, Director of central Thanh Hoa Province's Department of Animal Health has ...  

An accidental or deliberate release of the virus would be detected in the same way. That’s how the swine flu, or H1N1 pandemic, was detected two years ago. Pandemics are hard to miss. Q. How did you feel when you heard about these results?  

Members of the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity explain its recommendations on the communication of experimental work on H5N1 influenza. Recently, several scientific research teams have achieved some success in modifying influenza A/H5N1 ...  

The World Health Organization said Friday it will meet next week to determine whether scientists can publish research on a bird flu virus that may be easily passed among humans. The two-day discussion will relate to research on a mutation of the H5N1 virus ...  

ITAHARI: Samples of dead chicken collected from a farm at the Itahari-based PK Poultry tested positive for bird flu in course of tests at the Kathmandu-based central laboratory. A government team under Dr Bolaraj Acharya had not bothered to ...  

Avian influenza was confirmed in a sample last week by the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi ... to date all remain well. The WHO reports this case is the 121st person in Viet Nam to become infected with the H5N1 virus. To date, 61 of these cases have died ...  

Asian bans on Australian poultry imports in the wake of a bird flu outbreak on two Victorian farms are an overreaction, the chicken meat industry says. The Australian Chicken Meat Federation says Vietnam, Singapore, and Hong Kong have placed ...  

Yoshihiro Kawaoka explains that research on transmissible avian flu viruses needs to continue if pandemics are to be prevented. Highly pathogenic avian H5N1 influenza viruses first proved lethal in humans in 1997 in Hong Kong. Since 2003, 578 confirmed ...  

Rosa Antonez packages pasteurized eggs at the National Pasteurized Eggs (NPE) processing facility in Lansing, Illinois. The pasteurization process destroys viruses including Avian Influenza, also known as bird flu, and harmful bacteria including ...  

The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) has published “Adaptations of Avian Flu Virus Are a Cause for Concern”, an explanation of their recommendations with respect to influenza H5N1 research (versions at Science and Nature). It starts with the statement that advances in technology now allow manipulation of microbial genomes in ways that could be misused, leading to global harm. They define dual-use research as “research...  

The US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) recently recommended that journals Nature and Science remove certain methodological details from controversial studies on the avian influenza virus (H5N1) to minimize the risk of ...  

In my classes, I often ask my students to wrestle with what I call damned-if-you-do-or-don’t dilemmas, which offer no easy solutions. Every choice would pose certain risks and violate one valued principle or another. We often must choose what ...