Bird Flu

Via Xinhua: Thailand's North alerted of bird flu outbreak. It's suspected, not confirmed. Excerpt:Thailand's North has alerted of the bird flu outbreak after almost 100 poultries died recently in a northern province of Nan. As Thailand's North is now experiencing...  

Thanks to Mike Coston at Avian Flu Diary for picking up this article by Alan Sipress at the Washington Post: If swine flu joins bird flu, the flu pandemic may be much worse. Consider this today's must-read. Excerpt:Influenza is a...  

Via Thanh Nien Daily: US funds bird-flu prevention media campaign. Excerpt:Vietnam’s Department of Animal Health has launched a US-funded mass media campaign on avian influenza prevention. The two-month “Three Good Things” campaign, funded by the US Agency for International Development,...  

JAKARTA, 13 mars -- Eight people from the same village in the Indonesian province of Lampung, including two babies and two teenagers, were hospitalized for having developed symptoms of avian flu, reported Thursday the Indonesian agency Antara. After ...  

Via Bird Flu Information Corner, a report from Padang Today: West, North Sumatera ::: Bird flu outbreak. Excerpt:Agriculture, Livestock and Horticulture Service (Dispernaktura) of Kabupaten Pasaman Barat identified hundreds of chicken infected by bird flu H5N1 virus in Kecamatan Pasaman,...  

Nigeria: Bird Flu Not Over in NigeriaAllAfrica.comFor instance, in 1997, there was pandemic threat of avian flu in Hong Kong. Few hundred people were infected with the highly pathogenic A/H5N1. ...Zambia - Preventing Bird fluMeattradenewsdaily (blog)Vietnam: Avian influenza outbreakVetsweb (press release)India - All clear on Bird fluMeattradenewsdaily (blog)all 5 news articles »  

RUSSIA - The veterinary authorities have sent a report to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) about a sick dove in Moscow region, which was found to be infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).  

Lexington High School team rising to bird flu challengeLexington Minuteman... “Investigating the Spread of Bird Flu: Phylogenetic Analysis of Influenza Subtype H5N1.” It aids in understanding the spread of the avian influenza ...  

Via the Times of India: Gujarat can't afford to ignore avian flu threat. Excerpt:It was in February 2006 when a little town Uchhal in Surat district recorded two cases of avian flu, more popularly called the H5N1 virus, along with...  

Via the Chosun Ilbo: Fresh Bird Flu Outbreak Worries Health Officials. Excerpt:The resurgence of bird flu in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province is causing concerns to health authorities as the H1N1 flu scare continues. A low pathogenic bird-flu virus was found in...  

Avian influenza (H5N1) sometimes known as bird flu is a highly contagious animal disease caused by viruses that infect birds and less commonly pigs. On rare occasions it has crossed over to humans. There have been 442 human cases and 262 deaths since 1997 in 15 countries (although dozens more have had exclusively poultry outbreaks) according to the WHO; most came into direct contact with infected poultry. As with swine flu which didn't come...  

Background: Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus is entrenched in poultry in Asia and Africa and continues to infect humans zoonotically causing acute respiratory disease syndrome and death. There is evidence that the virus may sometimes spread beyond respiratory tract to cause disseminated infection. The primary target cell for HPAI H5N1 virus in human lung is the alveolar epithelial cell. Alveolar epithelium and its adjacent...  

The last time I wrote about the politics of the flu, Bush was trying to get everyone hopped up over the impending bird flu (Avian flu) pandemic that would require that government have all power in order to save us. Since then, I've largely stopped paying attention to the waves of pandemic hysteria that sweep around popular culture. I've vaguely noted that the swine flu seems to be the thing of the moment, but, actually, there are so many...  

Next bird flu monitoring to start in Azerbaijan from November 16APAThe next bird flu monitoring will start in Azerbaijan from November 16, chief of State Veterinary Service under Agriculture Ministry Ismayil Hasanov said at ...and more »  

Movie Review: Beast WithinBlogcritics.org (blog)It opens with a car crash, followed by some voiceover about a doctor and a controversial vaccine for H5N1, aka bird flu. We see the old man attacked by ...