Bird Flu

GLOBAL - Summary of Bird Flu / Avian Influenza related news from across the world.  

Oct 10, 2008 (CIDRAP News) – Animal health officials in Germany today reported an H5N1 avian influenza outbreak at a commercial farm in Saxony, ...  

Calling it the a oenuttiest thinga hea d ever heard, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed off claims by Indonesiaa s health minister that shipments of bird flu virus to a U.S. research laboratory had been ...  

Vaccinating people against bird flu now could save thousands of lives in a pandemic, research suggests. People given a jab against one strain of avian flu were 'primed' against a wide range of different strains.  

Hanoi - Authorities have detected the H5N1 avian flu virus in ducks in the central Vietnamese province of Nghe An, the third outbreak of bird flu in Vietnam since September 1, a government official said Tuesday. Bui Quang Anh, director of Vietnam's A...  

Pigeon fanciers in Cornwall are having to curtail their racing activities as a precaution over the spread of bird flu.  

GLOBAL - Summary of Bird Flu / Avian Influenza related news from across the world.  

By Frances Robinson Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Germany has confirmed its first case of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza since December 2007, Bild reported, ...  

German authorities were culling poultry at a farm in Germany after the discovery of a case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, the European Commission announced Friday.  

CAMBODIA - The veterinary authorities have informed the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) that the outbreak of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) that took place in April 2008 has been resolved.  

US Commerce Assistant Secretary Christopher Wall declined to elaborate on the precise threat posed by vaccines for chickens infected with avian influenza, ...  

Sunday, October 12, 2008 Yet deep inside an 86-page supplement to United States export regulations is a single sentence that bars U.S. exports of vaccines for avian bird flu and dozens of other viruses to five countries designated "state sponsors of ...  

HAMBURG: German authorities said yesterday that the lethal strain of bird flu has been confirmed on a farm in the east of the country. Germany’s eastern state government of Saxony said the H5N1 bird flu strain had been confirmed in a duck at a poultry farm near Dresden.  

Chances of surviving a deadly avian flu pandemic would likely increase with hands-on therapy, even without antiviral drugs, a U.S. health newsletter says.  

"The measures are temporary and implemented as a precaution, but it will be upgraded to an outright ban if it is confirmed to be avian influenza," Yonhap ...