Bird Flu Monitor: August 2005 Archives

Bird Flu Monitor > August 31, 2005

H5N1 Poised to Go Global

[Ablogalypse Now] "The detection of bird flu in a dead seagull in northern Finland provides additional evidence for a worldwide spread of H5N1, setting the stage for a major pandmeic. Although H5N1 wild bird flu has yet to be confirmed, the official statement that the bird flu is not H5N1 has been the common initial official comment on H5N1 when it is reported for the first time.

UN agency sees bird flu virus spreading to Europe, Africa, Middle East

[Pets.com.sg] UN agency sees bird flu virus spreading to Europe, Africa, Middle East ROME (AP) - The bird flu virus that has hit several countries in Asia is likely to spread to Europe, the Middle East, south Asia and Africa, a U.N. food agency said Wednesday.

Posted at 07:02 PM

August 31, 2005

H5N1 Poised to Go Global

Posted at 07:11 PM

UN agency sees bird flu virus spreading to Europe, Africa, Middle East

Posted at 07:02 PM

NEWS ROUNDUP Grazing cutbacks proposed for Crazie...

[The Westerner] Experts see Alaska as U.S. front against bird flu Bird experts working in some of the most remote areas of Alaska have begun checking migrating birds for avian influenza to see if they are spreading the feared virus out of Asia. A team heads off later this week for the Alaskan Peninsula to test Steller's eiders, a type of duck, for the virus, U.S. Geological Survey experts said.

Posted at 07:01 PM

man o man

[mrs. henry (domystic)] protected’ against virus, Agriculture Ministry says Ireland well-prepared for birdflu, says Govt official Poultry to stay indoors as Dutch fend off birdfluBirdflu could hit one Canadian in 3 Expect New Zealand doctors, nurses to die from birdflu - researcher Brussels questions Dutch birdflu

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Posted at 06:57 PM

August 30, 2005

Avian Flu and Conservative Bloggers

[Unpaid Punditry Corps] the issues of avianinfluenza, but not of the “conservative side”. Can those of you with better knowledge... to avianinfluenza? Thanks. Posted in Miscellaneous | 3 Comments | Trackbacks August 27, 2005 ... Avian Flu and Conservative Bloggers By PSOTD I need some help from the conservative contingent

Posted at 08:42 AM

Suspected bird flu virus detected in sea gulls in Finland

[Pets.com.sg] New Hope Rescue saves puppy mill rejects , Six South Florida residents charged with illegally selling birds, ABC7’s Roz Varon tours the dog-friendliest spots in the city , Suspected bird flu virus detected in sea gulls in Finland">30

Posted at 08:41 AM

H5N1

[StoneFinger(R).] Great Britains 'Elite', are to be given 'parental treatment' and priority OVER the old, sick and infirm, if the bird-flu, H5N1, should create a pandemic!

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Posted at 08:39 AM

Bird Flu Blog

[LinkMachineGo: 'Can't you see that all this stuff's a sideshow?' | weblog] birdflu H5N1 ... 'News and Resources about Avian Flu' email

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Posted at 08:38 AM

August 26, 2005

Watch The Birdie.

[NewsHog] My Unpaid Punditry colleague PSoTD (Political Story of The Day) is rapidly becoming one of the go-to guys for aggregating coverage of the probable upcoming avian flu worldwide epidemic. He has been scathing about the media's and the current administration's lack of response to the danger and has called, quite nicely all things considered, for the US media to get of its collective ass and play catch-up with the European media.

Posted at 10:17 PM

Leave It To The Docs

[Just a Bump in the Beltway] The Atlanta-based agency has worked closely with the World Health Organization to monitor the spread of the bird flu strain, which thus far has infected 112 people and killed 57 in four southeast Asian countries. Moreover, it already has the expertise and framework needed to gather and analyze the most accurate and up-to-date information from public health officials in the 50 states.

Posted at 10:12 PM

Manchester prepares for overdue flu pandemic

[Watcher Magazine] goes before commission, Remains may be missing PA, pregnant woman, Nevada: Intruder Demands Food at Gunpoint, COLOGNE, Germany - Pilgrimage Marks End to “World Youth Day”, Virus Shuts Down Customs Computer System - Strands Passengers, Findings support Bible’s account of Gath’s destruction, Scientists Mess with the Speed of Light, Carbon nanotube sheets developed, stronger than steel, Russian Fears Bird Flu Cases in Major Farm, Pig’s Head Thrown into Tel Aviv Mosque, 1,800 Infected; Water Park Blamed , Cheney committed to plan to nuke Iran, New Madrid Fault rumbles">20

Posted at 10:10 PM

Experts Say Bird Flu Will Spread Into U.K.

[Health News Blog * Health News and Information *] The BBC reports that the British Veterinary Association has warned that Bird Flu will spread into the U.K. Health experts are concerned about bird flu not only for the economic damage caused from sick livestock but from the human loss if bird flu were to acquire the ability to spread human to human.

Posted at 10:08 PM

August 25, 2005

The Threatened Pandemic Approaches?

[The Kew Continuum] But Leslie Garrett continues, "Or nothing at all could happen." She writes, "Scientists cannot predict with certainty what this H5N1 influenza willd do. Evolution does not function on a knowable timetable, and influenza is one of the sloppiest, most mutation-prone pathogens in nature's storehouse."

Posted at 01:26 PM

Anti-Aging News - Anti-Aging Medicine & Science Blog Anti-Aging Medicine And

[Anti-Aging News Resources] Anti-Aging Medicine And Science Blog Launches H5N1 Watch They recently published a slew of articles of interest to anti-aging enthusiasts and they're

Posted at 01:25 PM

The Economics of a Flu Pandemic: II

[Tilting at Windmills] Apparently Coxe thought the same thing and his conclusion is that because our society and economy is so much more integrated and so much more connected (for example the flu had to spread by ship back then), and so much more "just on time" that it isn't really a model you can use. We'll likely get hit harder, faster and because many locations have such limited inventories, relying on getting it as they need it, the supply disruptions are likely to be much worse.

Posted at 01:23 PM

Bird flu spreads to Mongolia

[Biopeer] , a city in the Ural Mountains, which separates Asia from Europe, Russia has cordoned off roads and is culling fowl to curb the spread of the infection towards Western Europe. Experts are worried that flocks of migratory birds moving towards warmer climes in autumn may spread the virus to Russia’s south and then on to the Middle East and Mediterranean countries.

Posted at 01:22 PM

August 22, 2005

The American News Media Needs Destroyed and Rebuilt

[PSoTD -] Most people in America are ignorant of the risk currently being watched by scientists. Bloggers are posting about it, considerably posting in some places...

Posted at 10:00 AM

P.I.D. Radio #23: Death of Private Property in America

[P.I.D. Radio] We’re surprised that the mainstream media has avoided discussing the news that STRATCOM has drawn up plans, at the direction of Vice President Cheney, to nuke Iran if the U.S. suffers another terror attack–whether Iran is responsible or not. Disregarding the loss of innocent life sure to result, there is at least one other Islamic nation with nuclear weapons, Pakistan.

Posted at 09:59 AM

H5N1 Lands in Russia

[Smiffy’s Place] According to a BBC report, the H5N1 strain of Avian Influenza Virus (”bird flu”) has now appeared in the Urals - the sixth region in Russia so far to be affected.

Posted at 09:58 AM

links for 2005-08-20

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Posted at 09:56 AM

August 19, 2005

August 18 Flu Update

[The Coming Influenza Pandemic?] Recombinomics notes that China is offering to share its isolate data. He goes on to point out that the rapid spread of this disease is a rare opportunity to study the virus in action.

Posted at 06:40 PM

Public health, religion, war, blog: Part I

[Effect Measure] Many issues have been discussed in that context, but three in particular have attracted critical comment from readers These are guns, religion and war. For some readers, religion and war seem far afield from public health, and they have made it clear they don't want to read about them here.

Posted at 06:39 PM

Getting Closer...

[Geoff Coupe's Blog] And while it's by no means certain that the avian flu virus H5N1 will mutate into something that causes a flu pandemic in humans, those working in the field are increasingly furrowing their collective brows.

Posted at 06:35 PM

PRAVDA: Al-Qaeda’s bombers in fuel trucks to target London and New York

[Watcher Magazine] H5N1 AvianFlu Cases Past 3 Months - This is NOT a Drill!" H5N1 AvianFlu Cases Past 3 Months - This is NOT a Drill! Take special note of the green circles - there’s been an extraordinarily rapid....

Posted at 06:29 PM

August 18, 2005

BMO Nesbitt Burns: An Investor' s Guide to Avian Flu

[as I live a few more questions] WASHINGTON ”” Multinational corporations are being advised to stockpile the crucial influenza drug Tamiflu at a time when governments and international health agencies are frantically trying to buy the drug in preparation for a feared pandemic of avian flu.

Posted at 07:15 PM

Bird Flu Cases Increase

[Republican National Convention Blog NYC 2004] Described in the magazine Science, this model applied similar treatment and response strategies to those of the first study, but also called for the pre-pandemic inoculation of the population with a flu vaccine, even though the vaccine would be considered low-efficacy. That is, it would be a vaccine of limited value because it would not have been specifically developed to target a rapidly emerging, previously unknown viral strain.

Posted at 07:13 PM

Bird flu vaccine - not time to celebrate yet

[Biopeer] Last weekend, the US National Institutes of Health announced the first round of results of tests in people of a vaccine against the H5N1 avian flu virus. Preliminary data indicates that the vaccine, produced by Sanofi Pasteur, has elicited

Posted at 07:10 PM

H5N1 On The Move

[Slobokans Site O Schtuff] Russia, which is scrambling to contain a bird flu outbreak in Siberia, warned the world on Monday that migrating birds may export the deadly virus to Europe and the Middle East in coming months. The outbreak, previously confined to five remote areas of Siberia, appeared to be moving westward on Monday after the virus hit a major industrial region ”” Chelyabinsk in the Ural mountains which sever Asia from Europe.

Posted at 07:09 PM

August 08, 2005

Avian Flu, Dejavu: The vaccine against the bird fl...

[Medpundit] And, it should be pointed out, that since so very few people have contracted Avian flu from birds, there's no way to test its actual effectiveness in preventing the disease. What the researchers have noticed is that there is a measurable increase in antibodies to the virus after administration of the vaccine.

Posted at 02:42 PM

Watcher's Council best posts week ending August 4

[New World Man - a cell of awareness] The Watcher's Council selected these best posts from among those nominated last week. The Coming Catastrophe?

Posted at 02:39 PM

staying informed

[superciliousness.com | blog] I like The Reader. Without having to trawl through website after website I can get a bit of an update on what is happening around the world.

Posted at 02:38 PM

Simulating a super-pandemic

[Biopeer] This fantastic article on WorldChanging describes, in depth and with great links, the efforts being made to simulate what a easily human transmittable strain of H5N1 (Avian Flu) could do. It's pretty scary stuff.

Posted at 02:29 PM

August 07, 2005

[IMG Jelajah Jiwa]

[Friik.] Jika kita tiba di tepian segala cahaya yang kita ketahui, dan akan melangkah masuk ke dalam kegelapan dari yang tidak diketahui, Iman adalah mengetahui kepastian satu dari dua hal; akan ada suatu yang dapat dijadikan pijakan atau bahkan kamu akan diajari cara terbang.

Posted at 11:36 AM

This is huge

[Dr. Andy] Government scientists say they have successfully tested in people a vaccine that they believe can protect against the strain of avianinfluenza that is spreading in birds through Asia and Russia. . . . although the vaccine that had undergone preliminary tests could be used on an emergency basis

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Posted at 11:34 AM

Bird Flu and Not Trusting The USG

[Just a Bump in the Beltway] and whether adding another ingredient called an adjuvant to the vaccine could raise the potency of lower doses, stretching the number of people that could be protected. Even when these tests are completed, more time will be needed before the Food and Drug Administration can license the human vaccine and before policy makers determine when and how it should be administered.

Posted at 11:33 AM

We Have A Vaccine!

[Slobokans Site O Schtuff] protect against the strain of avianinfluenza that is spreading in birds through Asia and Russia... and combined with a human influenza virus to create a new virus, it could spread rapidly through...

Posted at 11:30 AM

August 04, 2005

National Geographic News: "Bird Flu" Could Be Slowed at the Source, Study Says

[snowdeal.org > {bio,medical}informatics] "Experts from U.S. universities and Thailand's Ministry of Health used a computer model to simulate an outbreak in rural Southeast Asia—the most likely place for a new, more deadly avian influenza strain to emerge."

Posted at 10:53 AM

Following up on the avian flu

[danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: Blog] Second, preventative capsules of the antiviral drug Tamiflu would have to be given to thousands of people who might have come into contact with those infected. This would require the World Health Organisation to build an emergency stockpile of 3m courses of Tamiflu to be deployed anywhere at short notice, said Neil Ferguson, head of the Imperial College team.

Posted at 10:52 AM

Ebola Outbreak in China? More Questions Than Answers

[The Word Unheard] At first, after being set out on the trail by a vacationing Pundita, there was significant cause for alarm. After reading for hours and muscling through some complex scientific data that certainly stretched my slightly better than basic understanding of biology, it was plainly recognized that there are simply more questions than answers, thanks in no small part to China's veil of secrecy not unlike that which surrounded the SARS oubreak.

Posted at 10:51 AM

I am worried!

[RED STAR NEWS» Thoughts, news and small talk mainly concerning China, from a berlin perspective (sorry for my poor English)] The nightmare of a new global flu epidemic makes good headlines and the media is often criticized when speculating about it. While there is a temptation to sex-up reports to attract readers and it is true that a lot of journalists take the bait it is nevertheless also true that all experts agree, that it is not a question if but when it will happen.

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Posted at 10:50 AM

August 02, 2005

Vietnam, Indoesia, Russia, China

[Effect Measure] have been widely reported to be with H5N2 and therefore no risk to humans. Aside from the fact that it doesn't necessarily follow that H5N2 infections of birds are no risk to humans, the point is now

Posted at 11:08 AM

baby costumes - baby chickens

[Toddler Issues] ’ Vietnam to Vaccinate Chickens, Ducks Against BirdFlu Title: Vietnam to Vaccinate Chickens, Ducks Against Bird FluCategory: Health NewsCreated: 7/19/2005Last Editorial Review: 7/19/2005... Flu Title: Vietnam to Vaccinate Chickens, Ducks Against Bird FluCategory: Health NewsCreated

Posted at 11:07 AM

Avian Flu ”” Recombinant Flu/Ebola ”” The End of the World is Nigh?

[OKIE on the LAM™ - In LA] Atos has pulled a lot of tedious technical information from various sources and distilled it down to a chilling scenario that out Stephen Kings Stephen King. If you like your avian influenza served up with a side order of Ebola then the whole mess covered up by state secrets, go and read on.

Posted at 11:05 AM

Tuesdays Conference Call News Blog (2nd August 2005)

[Conference Call Central] â€“ Gina Kolata, The New York Times science and medicine journalist, will deliver the keynote address at the Second Annual Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases: Pandemic Flu and Avian Influenza sponsored by the Nursing Center for Bioterrorism and Emerging Infectious Diseases Preparedness at the College of Nursing at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Posted at 11:03 AM

August 01, 2005

Bird Flu H5N1 Pandemic: Cause For Alarum?

[The Wide Awakes] First and foremost: though I am a card-carrying scientist, and mad, I am neither an epidemiologist, a specialist in infectious disease, nor an expert in viruses. I’m not even a physician.

Posted at 11:20 AM

Coverage from outside the US mainstream media

[The Common Ills] Investigators have determined that a strain of bird flu virus infecting fowl in Siberia is the type that can infect humans, the Agriculture Ministry said Friday.

Posted at 11:19 AM

Bird Flu Monitor > August 31, 2005

H5N1 Poised to Go Global

UN agency sees bird flu virus spreading to Europe, Africa, Middle East

August 31, 2005

H5N1 Poised to Go Global

UN agency sees bird flu virus spreading to Europe, Africa, Middle East

NEWS ROUNDUP Grazing cutbacks proposed for Crazie...

man o man

August 30, 2005

Avian Flu and Conservative Bloggers

Suspected bird flu virus detected in sea gulls in Finland

H5N1

Bird Flu Blog

August 26, 2005

Watch The Birdie.

Leave It To The Docs

Manchester prepares for overdue flu pandemic

Experts Say Bird Flu Will Spread Into U.K.

August 25, 2005

The Threatened Pandemic Approaches?

Anti-Aging News - Anti-Aging Medicine & Science Blog Anti-Aging Medicine And

The Economics of a Flu Pandemic: II

Bird flu spreads to Mongolia

August 22, 2005

The American News Media Needs Destroyed and Rebuilt

P.I.D. Radio #23: Death of Private Property in America

H5N1 Lands in Russia

links for 2005-08-20

August 19, 2005

August 18 Flu Update

Public health, religion, war, blog: Part I

Getting Closer...

PRAVDA: Al-Qaeda’s bombers in fuel trucks to target London and New York

August 18, 2005

BMO Nesbitt Burns: An Investor' s Guide to Avian Flu

Bird Flu Cases Increase

Bird flu vaccine - not time to celebrate yet

H5N1 On The Move

August 08, 2005

Avian Flu, Dejavu: The vaccine against the bird fl...

Watcher's Council best posts week ending August 4

staying informed

Simulating a super-pandemic

August 07, 2005

[IMG Jelajah Jiwa]

This is huge

Bird Flu and Not Trusting The USG

We Have A Vaccine!

August 04, 2005

National Geographic News: "Bird Flu" Could Be Slowed at the Source, Study Says

Following up on the avian flu

Ebola Outbreak in China? More Questions Than Answers

I am worried!

August 02, 2005

Vietnam, Indoesia, Russia, China

baby costumes - baby chickens

Avian Flu ”” Recombinant Flu/Ebola ”” The End of the World is Nigh?

Tuesdays Conference Call News Blog (2nd August 2005)

August 01, 2005

Bird Flu H5N1 Pandemic: Cause For Alarum?

Coverage from outside the US mainstream media

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