Pandemic Flu or H5N1 influenza

Risk assessment for contracting highly pathogenic avian influenza from eating poultry products, shell eggs and egg products Send a link to a friend [ December 05, 2008 ] T he U.S. Department of Agriculture ...  

Migrating waterfowl may be carrying avian influenza viruses from Asia to the Americas, U.S. government researchers report.  

LAOS - The authorities have sent a follow-up report to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) with details of a further four outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).  

Seattle-based nonprofit health organization PATH said it will partner with biotech Lentigen Corp. to try and develop a vaccine for pandemic influenza.  

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

Dec 4, 2008 (CIDRAP News) – Animal health officials in India yesterday reported that the H5N1 avian influenza virus has spread to poultry in new areas of Assam state, as medical officials in Vietnam acknowledged fresh outbreaks in two provinces.  

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

BHUTAN - The government has warned the public of possibility of an outbreak og highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) following its spread across Assam, the adjacent border area with India.  

After laboratory examinations found strains of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza, the Indian health ministry confirmed outbreak of bird flu last week. ...  

will discuss sensitive questions about virus sample sharing and access to vaccines in case of a flu pandemic. Indonesia, the country most affected by H5N1 bird flu, has resisted providing viral samples to the international community because it argues  

Bird flu is an infection caused by the viruses that come from birds. This type of influenza is also known as the avian flu. This virus is deadly because it can infect not only birds, but it can infect human beings too. And if this spread of disease is on a  

US - The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has released a draft of its risk assessment for contracting highly pathogenic avian influenza from eating poultry products, shell eggs, and egg products, a tool that could be used to reduce human illness from the virus and help target messages to...  

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say influenza and pneumonia is leading cause of vaccine-preventable death in the United States.  

Antiviral drugs play a central role in current plans for managing an influenza pandemic. However, their ability to reduce symptoms and infectivity in cases, and to reduce susceptibility of individuals given antivirals prophylactically must be confirmed for the pandemic virus strain.  

So far there has been no compelling evidence that links eating cooked poultry, eggs, or egg products to avian influenza infections in humans, ...