Bird Flu Monitor: November 2005 Archives

Bird Flu Monitor > November 30, 2005

China: 77 Avian Flu Patients Dead in Liaoning Province...Victim's Name Published on Internet

[The Horse's Mouth] The name of 14 dead victims were published in a post at an Chinese domestic Internet site called 'Tienya Forum.' It said that most of the dead were farm workers from Sichuan, Hunan, Anhui Province, who were working at the area of Liaoning Province where Avian Flu is raging. The poster who published the list said that he did so in order to inform the victim's family of what happened.

Cutting Through the Bird Flu Hype

[ 8 Ways to Sunday] A pair of docs from Vanderbilt cut the crap and tell it like it is: you’re simply not in much danger from bird flu. At least, not yet.

Posted at 09:32 PM

November 30, 2005

China: 77 Avian Flu Patients Dead in Liaoning Province...Victim's Name Published on Internet

Posted at 09:34 PM

Cutting Through the Bird Flu Hype

[ 8 Ways to Sunday] A pair of docs from Vanderbilt cut the crap and tell it like it is: you’re simply not in much danger from bird flu. At least, not yet.

Posted at 09:32 PM

Health Notes

[The Tao of Biotechnology] It’s good to know that there are people in the world who are working hard on the bird flu problem. One study, for example, suggests that vaccinating chickens can actually stop the spread of the H5N1 virus.

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Posted at 09:28 PM

H5N1: Spreading Within A Family?

[Slobokan’s Site O’ Schtuff] While they know there is no widespread outbreak, this very well could be a human to human transmission. Exactly what we don’t want at this stage of...

Posted at 09:27 PM

November 26, 2005

Expert Claim Bird Flu has Killed 300 in China

[Consanesco - Health blog] Masato Tashiro, head of virology at Tokyo’s National Institute of Infectious Disease - a WHO-collaborating centre for bird flu, says he was given the information in confidence by Chinese colleagues who have been threatened with arrest if they disclosed the extent of the problem.

Posted at 10:47 PM

Turkey is Typing”¦..

[Global Voices Online] The Young Turks advertise themselves as a “liberal nationwide (US) talk-show”, and while a US newsradio program doesn’t overtly seem to be about the Turkish blogosphere, one of the members of the program, Cenk Uygur, is a Turk. He blogs on the Huffington Post mostly about issues that occur in the US, but should also be added to our list of Turkish bloggers.

Posted at 10:46 PM

Brid Flu

[AAA Studio] China Reports Three Human Bird-Flu Cases BEIJING - China reported its first three confirmed human cases of bird flu Wednesday as the government...

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Posted at 10:45 PM

Another Chinese cover-up?

[The Horse's Mouth] Currently, Chinese Cabinet and Supreme Military Command issued an instruction, "Anyone suspected to be infected by Avian Flu, or really infected ones should be all confined to designated medical facilities and its report be made to higher government immediately. It is strictly prohibited to reveal information on (Avian Flu) infection without approval of the Cabinet.

Posted at 10:43 PM

November 24, 2005

Trovato pappagallo infetto da H5N1

[CyberUrania] Tags: virus+H5N1

Posted at 07:52 PM

Pandemic Awarness

[Cloudy Thinking by Ron K. Jeffries] He jokingly said that if the pandemic strikes, the smart move is to take over a Costco store, declaring it your property, and ushering everybody else out the door with little if any ceremony.

Posted at 07:51 PM

Bird Flu in China

[ Trend Watch] Bird Flu in China According to IOL, China isn’t planning on closing its border over bird flu. Liu Jianchao, the foreign ministry spokesman...

Posted at 07:50 PM

Flu Shot is Killing People

[La Leva di Archimede (ENG)] The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating reports that the deaths of 12 Japanese children may be linked to the anti-viral drug Tamiflu. The possibility has caused alarm, since millions of doses of the drug are currently being stockpiled for use in a potential flu pandemic.

Posted at 07:49 PM

November 22, 2005

avian flu futures

[asiapundit] AsiaPundit welcomes this piece of news.: After the overwhelmingly positive response to the recent announcement that they would begin trading...

Posted at 02:53 PM

Two More Bird Flu Outbreaks

[I Called It - Predicting the future one post at a time.] The latest poultry outbreaks were hundreds of miles apart - in the northern province of Shanxi and the far northwestern region of Xinjiang, the official Xinhua News Agency said. All poultry on nearby farms were killed as a precaution.

Posted at 02:52 PM

Japan Deaths Not Traced To Tamiflu

[The Working Families Party Man] A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel said Friday that it saw no evidence Roche AG's Tamiflu caused the deaths of 12 children in Japan, but it urged regulators to continue monitoring the flu medicine's use.

Posted at 02:51 PM

Bird Flu: HHS Says US IS UnPrepared

[The News Blog@i66.com] HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt is pointing out the US isn’t ready for a pandemic of bird flu, citing the lack of vaccine production in this counrty:

Posted at 02:49 PM

November 19, 2005

Avian Flu Interactive

[Tablet PC Thoughts] This is a blog about my experiences with the Tablet PC hardware platforms, and the available applications.

Posted at 11:33 AM

Comfort Food!

[Metroblogging Chicago] the result Originally uploaded by aWee. Given the bitterly cold weather and the up coming flu pandemic*, it's only a matter of time before...

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Posted at 11:30 AM

Tamiflu Catch-22

[Cloudy Thinking by Ron K. Jeffries] In background documents posted Thursday to the FDA’s Web site the FDA said most of the adverse events linked to Tamiflu, including all of the deaths, occurred in Japan. The FDA said all of the children had been diagnosed with influenza, started therapy with Tamiflu “and died suddenly, several of them in their sleep.”

Posted at 11:30 AM

AIDS & H5N1: A Deadly Combination

[Slobokan’s Site O’ Schtuff] While I was reading the morning news, I happened across this report. Bird flu could readily mutate into a pandemic form if it infects people with...

Posted at 11:28 AM

November 18, 2005

Bird Flu Preparedness: FOOLS, Kimchi is NOT Sauerkraut!!!

Roman who has a blog that has recently been devoted to the bird flu and personal preparedness sent me an email pointing me to on of his post the differences between Kmchi and Sauerkraut from a health perspective. Its worth a read and funny too, so you might check it out.

Posted at 05:48 PM

Indonesia: More Bird Flu Deaths

[Cloudy Thinking by Ron K. Jeffries] However, WHO spokeswoman Maria Cheng in Geneva said the Chinese cases don’t increase the risk of a flu pandemic because no major virus mutations have occurred and there’s been no apparent spread between people.

Posted at 10:40 AM

china admits bird-flu death

[asiapundit] Hooray (kind of), China has finally started to admit the potential severity of the avian flu (sort of).:

Posted at 10:39 AM

Flu and world economic patterns

[RatcliffeBlog””Mitch's Open Notebook] Flu pandemic could KO airlines - Yahoo! News: A mild global flu pandemic could present a buying opportunity for stock investors, while a severe...

Posted at 10:37 AM

Bad News about Tamiflu

[The Working Families Party Man] In a separate summary posted on the FDA web site, Roche, the manufacturer of Tamiflu, said: "There is no increase in deaths and neuropsychiatric events in patients on Tamiflu versus influenza patients in general." Officials from the FDA and the Swiss drugs giant will present information about the cases to an FDA advisory panel today.

Posted at 10:36 AM

November 08, 2005

Lest readers think I am biased against US media

[Who is Vinny Oswego?] In a recent article entitled "Bird flu plan 'one of the best'" the Beeb quoted Professor Roy Anderson (cited as "the government's advisor on infectious diseases", though no title was given) as saying that the UK's plans to deal with bird flu are "as good as if not better" than the plans of other countries.

Posted at 09:44 AM

Sixteen things I want to do before I die

[Bent Corner] I knew that it was the bird flu not because my doctor told me it was (he never did), but because I was feeling so poorly that I could not even get on the computer for more then 15 minutes without having to go lay back down on the sofa because of exhaustion. And that Wolf Blitzer fellow over at CNN has been amping up the threat of bird flu and got me pretty freaked out about it.

Posted at 09:42 AM

Bird Flu: China Reports 3 Suspected Cases of Bird Flu in People

[The News Blog@i66.com] China said it asked the World Health Organization to help determine whether the bird flu virus caused the death of a 12-year-old girl and infected her 9-year-old brother and a 36-year-old middle school teacher in Wantang, a village in central Hunan province.

Posted at 09:41 AM

New Fear

[Bring It On] Bush says leaders should not use fear, or blame others for there problems, but yet he uses it himself, the liberals don't have plan for your safety fear, the GOP homeland security plan is in place, hurricane arrives, Bush homeland security plan does not come to aid of those in need. When the hurricane hit there was advance notice.

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Posted at 09:38 AM

November 05, 2005

CDC - Influenza (Flu) | CDC Health Update: Destruction of ...

[Cdc.gov] As reported in the HAN notices of April 13 and April 15, the influenza A (H2N2) samples were included in laboratory proficiency testing panels distributed to U.S. and international laboratories from October 2004 through March 2005. Following full characterization of the influenza A isolate submitted to Canadian public health authorities, investigators recognized the virus in the proficiency testing kits as an influenza A (H2N2) virus that closely resembled the viruses circulating in 1957 and 1958;

Posted at 10:07 AM

CDC - Influenza (Flu) | Questions and Answers: Influenza A (H2N2 ...

[Cdc.gov] Healthcare facilities and laboratories have been advised to treat as potentially infectious, in accordance with state medical waste regulations, all materials retained or derived from the influenza A (H2N2) proficiency testing panels created by Meridian Bioscience and sent out by the College of American Pathologists, the American Association of Bioanalysts, the American College of Physicians, and the American Academy of Family Physicians. These materials can be safely inactivated with either physical or chemical treatment methods, including sterilization using moist heat or dry heat, incineration, or treatment using disinfectant chemicals.

Posted at 12:03 AM

November 04, 2005

WHO | International response to the distribution of a H2N2 ...

[Who.int] On 8 April, after a request by the US government, CAP asked all laboratories which participated in the proficiency testing to immediately destroy samples containing the H2N2 virus. On 12 April, a second correspondence from CAP to these laboratories further requested that destruction of the H2N2 virus be confirmed and that any case of respiratory disease among laboratory workers be investigated and notified to national authorities.

Posted at 12:09 PM

INFLUENZA

[Uct.ac.za] Influenza A Evolution: 1874 --- (H3N8): 1890 --- (H2N2) . ... Variation detected: 1957 --- (H2N2).........................."Asian" Flu pandemic: 1968 ...

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Posted at 12:08 PM

CDC - Influenza (Flu) | Influenza A (H2N2) Situation

[Cdc.gov] CDC, HHS, and the World Health Organization are working with the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and other providers of proficiency testing panels to ensure that influenza A/H2N2 samples sent to U.S. laboratories and laboratories in 17 other countries are destroyed immediately. The A/H2N2 samples sent out are similar to the A/H2N2 viruses that circulated in humans in 1957 at the beginning of the Asian influenza pandemic.

Posted at 12:07 PM

November 03, 2005

bird flu - don't believe the hype

Steve McKinlay told me by email that he is a skeptic. He argues the current bird flu scare is just that. All hot air. Read his blog if you are interested. (Ontic.blogspot.com)

Posted at 10:16 PM

November 02, 2005

Bush to Outline Bird Flu Strategy

[Crist.tv - Political Blog] Bush will unveil a national strategy for bird flu on Tuesday, in a bid to reduce the chance that an outbreak among people could become widespread, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said.

Posted at 12:51 PM

Flu Plan: No Global Outreach

[RatcliffeBlog””Mitch's Open Notebook] The president, in a speech at the National Institutes of Health, said the U.S. must be prepared to detect outbreaks anywhere in the world, stockpile vaccines and antiviral drugs and be ready to respond at the federal, state and local levels in the event a pandemic reaches the U.S.

Posted at 12:50 PM

Oh my lord. Someone please tie him to a chair and make him stop spending.

[Alarming News] Yes, I realize that if he does nothing, and people start dropping like flies because of this mysterious bird flu, the outcry at Bush for doing nothing will be deafening. But sometimes you have to suck it up and explain to people that we can't be spending millions, hell billions, of dollars on a virus that hasn't even struck within our borders yet.

Posted at 12:46 PM

President Outlines Pandemic Influenza Preparations and Response

[Republican National Convention Blog NYC 2004] To protect the greatest possible number of Americans during a pandemic, the cornerstone of our strategy is to develop new technologies that will allow us to produce new vaccines rapidly. If a pandemic strikes our country -- if a pandemic strikes, our country must have a surge capacity in place that will allow us to bring a new vaccine online quickly and manufacture enough to immunize every American against the pandemic strain.

Posted at 12:44 PM

Bird Flu Monitor > November 30, 2005

China: 77 Avian Flu Patients Dead in Liaoning Province...Victim's Name Published on Internet

Cutting Through the Bird Flu Hype

November 30, 2005

China: 77 Avian Flu Patients Dead in Liaoning Province...Victim's Name Published on Internet

Cutting Through the Bird Flu Hype

Health Notes

H5N1: Spreading Within A Family?

November 26, 2005

Expert Claim Bird Flu has Killed 300 in China

Turkey is Typing”¦..

Brid Flu

Another Chinese cover-up?

November 24, 2005

Trovato pappagallo infetto da H5N1

Pandemic Awarness

Bird Flu in China

Flu Shot is Killing People

November 22, 2005

avian flu futures

Two More Bird Flu Outbreaks

Japan Deaths Not Traced To Tamiflu

Bird Flu: HHS Says US IS UnPrepared

November 19, 2005

Avian Flu Interactive

Comfort Food!

Tamiflu Catch-22

AIDS & H5N1: A Deadly Combination

November 18, 2005

Bird Flu Preparedness: FOOLS, Kimchi is NOT Sauerkraut!!!

Indonesia: More Bird Flu Deaths

china admits bird-flu death

Flu and world economic patterns

Bad News about Tamiflu

November 08, 2005

Lest readers think I am biased against US media

Sixteen things I want to do before I die

Bird Flu: China Reports 3 Suspected Cases of Bird Flu in People

New Fear

November 05, 2005

CDC - Influenza (Flu) | CDC Health Update: Destruction of ...

CDC - Influenza (Flu) | Questions and Answers: Influenza A (H2N2 ...

November 04, 2005

WHO | International response to the distribution of a H2N2 ...

INFLUENZA

CDC - Influenza (Flu) | Influenza A (H2N2) Situation

November 03, 2005

bird flu - don't believe the hype

November 02, 2005

Bush to Outline Bird Flu Strategy

Flu Plan: No Global Outreach

Oh my lord. Someone please tie him to a chair and make him stop spending.

President Outlines Pandemic Influenza Preparations and Response

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