Bird Flu Monitor: July 2005 Archives

Bird Flu Monitor > July 14, 2005

Bird flu detected in Ibaraki, Japan

[Avian Flu - What we need to know] The local government said it has ordered Nakamura chicken farm, which is located near the bird-flu hit Arebamento Kanto farm in the city of Mitsukaido, to cull its 8,500 chickens and to suspend shipping eggs.

July 12 Flu Update

[The Coming Influenza Pandemic?] , where a fresh H5n2 case was found.

Posted at 09:29 AM

July 14, 2005

Bird flu detected in Ibaraki, Japan

Posted at 09:30 AM

July 12 Flu Update

[The Coming Influenza Pandemic?] , where a fresh H5n2 case was found.

Posted at 09:29 AM

Battle against bird flu

[Secular Blasphemy] We must now demand that this community, and the faith leaders who insist Islam is a religion of peace, expose and expel the radical elements among them. To win the war on terror, we must stop the recruitment of young jihadis.

Posted at 09:28 AM

Good Reading

[By the Bayou] In testimony before the House of Representatives, Tommy Thompson explained that while "private investment should drive the development of most medical products," only the government was in a position to develop those products that "everyone hopes...will never be needed" as a protection against "rare yet deadly threats." The government, in other words, was willing to spend lots of money on biological threats that were unlikely or farfetched but not on antivirals or new antibiotics for the diseases that were actually most menacing, like avian flu.

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Posted at 09:27 AM

July 11, 2005

Will bird flu soon spread to Europe and Australia?

[Avian Flu - What we need to know] In mid-August, the [avian flu] survivors will start returning to their winter ranges, which stretch from eastern Europe to Australia and Alaska, and overlap with the ranges of other migrants. Mundkur cautions that it is not known how many birds from Qinghai Lake migrate to the farthest reaches of their species’s known ranges.

Posted at 11:34 AM

The Avian Flu Pandemic: are we ready?

[The Johnsville News] Nature.com has a "what if" weblog that describes a scenario of a future Avianflu pandemic. Some of the entries: February 20, 2006 - America shuts down February 27, 2006 - Everyone for themselves links: Avianflu special: The flu pandemic: were we ready

Posted at 11:32 AM

Also the end of everything: More H5N1

[blinkit] Today's bLINKit: Crawford Killian has a bird flu blog. Pay attention, all.

Posted at 11:31 AM

July 09, 2005

H5N1 (Avian Flu) Pathogen in Wild Geese

[Cloudy Thinking by Ron K. Jeffries] From the BBC: “An outbreak of avian flu in wild geese in western China has raised fears that the virus responsible could soon spread beyond its Asian stronghold.”

Posted at 12:33 PM

Avian Flu On the Move

[surviving ourselves magazine :: Main Page] Pentagon officials are all flat- footed on a response to the airborne threat of birds infected with the avianflu ...

Posted at 12:32 PM

Bird flu in the unfriendly skies

[Effect Measure] A third mutation, a 20 codon deletion in the neuraminidase (NA) gene, was reported in the Beijing group's paper and similarly noted to be genotype V in the Hong Kong paper (if you are interested in the meaning of some of these terms, visit the Flu Wiki Influenza Primer II and Naming Influenza Viruses entries). Both groups agreed the Qinghai virus is distinct from others, including those circulating in Vietnam and other southeast asian countries.

Posted at 12:19 PM

Deadly Flu Strain Shows Up in Migratory Birds

[Democratic Peace] "Deadly Flu Strain Shows Up in Migratory Birds - Scientists' Discovery Gives Rise to Fears the Virus Could Spread Beyond East Asia (7/7/05) By David Brown

Posted at 12:17 PM

July 08, 2005

Marketplace Model Doesn't Always Work

[ABCEDmindedness] recently talked about Avianflu pandemic as another threat. Robb pointed to the excellent article written by Sally O’Reilly as future blog posts in the midst of Avianflu pandemic during

Posted at 02:37 PM

July 7 Flu Update

[The Coming Influenza Pandemic?] "God help me," Guan said, sounding exasperated, "they are trying to close everyone's lab." He said he believes the new rules are an excuse for authorities to exert tighter control over the dissemination of lab results, and are not aimed at protecting the wider population from bird flu outbreaks that have dotted the country in recent months.

Posted at 02:36 PM

links for 2005-07-08

[seanbonner] Center / Tropical Prediction Center RSS feeds for hurricanes (tags: weather RSS hurricanes) Avian influenza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia wikipedia entry on avianflu (tags: avianflu news... the avianflu (tags: avianflue joiito map)

Posted at 02:35 PM

July 07, 2005

Bird Flu Pandemic Looms

[Genetics and Public Health Blog: All about genetics and public health.] No public health blog is complete without mentioning bird flu aka avian influenza. According to some experts, a worldwide influenza pandemic is on the horizon and if anyone should be worried, it should be me.

Posted at 10:32 AM

storm, earwigs, garbage, etc.

[a tech monk speaks] the other day i ended up having conversations with two different people who don't know each other about the H5N1 flu virus and the potential for a pandemic. the first person was fred, from fragments who has some excellent links relating to this topic and the other was a man i met at a birthday party for a friend of ours in blacksburg.

Posted at 10:30 AM

All Together Now

[Pacific Views] This virus is in a position to threaten the lives of millions around the globe, and to wreak havoc on the security of our food supply. Even if it doesn't mutate into a human-compatible strain anytime soon, how well does anyone think our factory-farmed chickens, cramped into their own filth like so many boxes of frozen chicken nuggets in storage, will survive a bird disease pandemic?

Posted at 10:25 AM

UN: bird flu to take 10 years to eradicate

[EPIDEMIca // H5N1 // M-J Milloy] On the second day of the Malaysia H5N1 conference, UN agencies specify which countries would get which part of the over $100 million they say is needed (but not yet available) to fight the bird flu threat; countries include some that have been largely out of the bird flu picture so far, like Bhutan, Papua New Guinea and the Maldives;

Posted at 10:23 AM

July 05, 2005

Government to cancel rugby games

[beNZylpiperazine] Alarm calls over the prospect of the H5N1 bird flu virus mutating to a human-to-human transmissible form are sounding more loudly by the day. Global epidemics (pandemics) have occurred three times in the past century - the "Hong Kong" flu (H3N2) of 1968, the "Asian" flu (H2N2) of 1957 and the "Spanish flu" (H1N1) in 1918.

Posted at 04:02 PM

Time running out to stop bird flu -experts

[acronyms&Me.] Science News Article | Reuters.com: Global health officials fear it could mutate into a lethal strain that could rival the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that killed between 20 and 40 million..., of the University of Minnesota, Wednesday in a special section of the journal Nature devoted to avian flu

Posted at 04:00 PM

FAO: bird flu will take up to 10 years to clean up

[Avian Flu - What we need to know] We know that migratory birds carry the flu so it seems to me that as long as Indonesia, China and Vietnam will continue to have problems with the virus it is unlikely any country in the area will be "safe".

Posted at 03:59 PM

Bird Flu Pandemic: Not If, But When

[edstrong.blog-city.com] The WHO says that an H5N1 pandemic could kill up to 7.4 million people globally, because people lack immunity to it. And half a million Americans could die and more than 2 million could end up in the hospital with serious complications if an even moderately severe strain of a pandemic flu hit, a report by the Trust for America's Health says.

Posted at 03:56 PM

July 04, 2005

A deep impact

[the girl from a tiny island - blogging in finland] And then you said "no" and they asked again.. "so nobody has bird flu in Singapore?" (grrr..) jep, at first, you don't feel any harm done but after many many people start to ask constantly the same questions, you feel like telling them, "yes yes, we have ebola, bird flu, rat flu, bat flu, cow flu, goat flu, butterfly flu, all kinds of deadly rubbish flu you can ever think of.

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Posted at 11:54 AM

Have There Been 700 Bird Flu Deaths in China?

[Gays for Life] Although the nine people who leaked out the Qinghai influenza pandemic were arrested secretly, related investigations are still being carried on by others. There are some rumours regarding the compensation of the death personnel in the pandemic, which include the releasing of a 80,000 RMB compensation to the affected family via unofficial means.

Posted at 11:53 AM

Bird Flu Monitor > July 14, 2005

Bird flu detected in Ibaraki, Japan

July 12 Flu Update

July 14, 2005

Bird flu detected in Ibaraki, Japan

July 12 Flu Update

Battle against bird flu

Good Reading

July 11, 2005

Will bird flu soon spread to Europe and Australia?

The Avian Flu Pandemic: are we ready?

Also the end of everything: More H5N1

July 09, 2005

H5N1 (Avian Flu) Pathogen in Wild Geese

Avian Flu On the Move

Bird flu in the unfriendly skies

Deadly Flu Strain Shows Up in Migratory Birds

July 08, 2005

Marketplace Model Doesn't Always Work

July 7 Flu Update

links for 2005-07-08

July 07, 2005

Bird Flu Pandemic Looms

storm, earwigs, garbage, etc.

All Together Now

UN: bird flu to take 10 years to eradicate

July 05, 2005

Government to cancel rugby games

Time running out to stop bird flu -experts

FAO: bird flu will take up to 10 years to clean up

Bird Flu Pandemic: Not If, But When

July 04, 2005

A deep impact

Have There Been 700 Bird Flu Deaths in China?

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