Bird Flu Monitor: April 2006 Archives

Bird Flu Monitor > April 30, 2006

Bird flu infects chicken farm worker.

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Bird flu spreads to two more farms

[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] The H7N3 strain of bird flu was found on another farm nearby in the eastern English county of Norfolk earlier this week where 35,000 birds are being culled. The strain is less dangerous to humans than the feared H5N1 bird flu virus.

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April 30, 2006

Bird flu infects chicken farm worker.

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Bird flu spreads to two more farms

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April 29, 2006

Preventing the Spread of Bird Flu

[ Sciencebase Science Blog] In the week that the H7 variant of avian influenza has led to the culling of 35000 chickens in England, scientists at Imperial College London have...

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Masks Not Top Flu Fighter

[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] Health experts fear the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu that has killed more than 100 people and millions of birds in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East will mutate into one more easily spread among humans.

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April 28, 2006

Mathematical modeling isn't perfect, but so what?

[MedBlog] Related to a new mathematical model of a flu pandemic, which I reported on today (read my story here), is this tutorial on Effect Measure about the strengths and weaknesses of such models.

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Community Groups Gather to Discuss Pandemic Flu

[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] Susan Jacozzi, Westport-Weston Health District director, said district officials have been working since the Sept. 11 attacks with local emergency officials on a bioterrorism plan, which was tested last week in a live drill.

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April 27, 2006

County Takes Flight With Bird Flu Plan (Lincoln County News)

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Bird Flu Blog: - www.paho.orgMore than 140...

[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] More than 140 million birds have died or been destroyed in the Asian bird flu epidemic. Estimates of potential deaths from an eventual human pandemic range from 2 million to nearly 100 million.

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April 26, 2006

Bird Flu Blog: - Thailand bracing for new bird...

[Bird Flu News Digest] Thailand bracing for new bird flu outbreak AFP via Yahoo! News - Apr 24 4:50 AM Thailand is bracing for a new outbreak of bird flu, boosting stockpiles of anti-viral drugs and sending aid to its poorer neighbors to help stop the disease, the public health ministry warned.Save to My Web bird flu, Avian flu, H5N1, pandemic

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April 25, 2006

A Discussion of Mesothelioma With NO Pertinent Information

[Rants and Slants] I surf the internet and Blogs ALOT and EVERYWHERE that I look I see discussions, advertisements, advice, advertisements, postings and advertisements discussing mesothelioma. In fact I wish I had kept track because I am almost certain that over half of the sites that I have been on in the last week mention it somewhere (and now I've done it to).

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Bird Flu Blog: - Avian flu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ”¦

[Bird Flu News Digest] It is also called bird flu, avian influenza and bird influenza … So “avian flu”, “bird flu”, “avian influenza”, and “bird influenza”

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April 24, 2006

EU to approve aid for bird flu-hit poultry...

[Pandemic Flu from Europe] The measures will be agreed at regular ministerial talks in Luxembourg based on proposals by the European Commission following a slump of poultry sales by up to 70 pct in some EU countries.

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April 23, 2006

Groups question US plan to detain sick travelers.

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Bird Flu Death Count Climbs to 113

[fluFactor] In other bird flu news this week, the Sudan became the latest African country to be affected by bird flu. The disease killed 62,000 bird on two separate poultry farms located there.

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April 22, 2006

Week in Review: It All Happened So Fast

[the fiveforty | the fiveforty] We survived the Sugar Creek wrap party. Lee Scott's taking off the entire month of May—and we're guessing he's not coming back.

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S Africa AIDS Activists Won’t Join Govt At UN Conference

[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] S Africa AIDS Activists Won't Join Govt At UN Conference Associated Press - April 20, 2006 http://www.aegis.org/news/ap/2006/AP060431.html CAPE TOWN - A leading South African anti-AIDS campaigner Thursday rejected an invitation to join an official delegation to .

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April 21, 2006

Skeptics warn bird flu fears are overblown

[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] Doomsday predictions about bird flu seem to be spreading faster than the virus itself. But a small group of skeptics say the bird flu hype is overblown and ultimately harmful to the public’s health.

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Woman Has Rare Case of Bubonic Plague - Yahoo! News

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April 20, 2006

WHO assesses Sudan’s avian flu, confirms 2 c...

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WHEN DISASTER STRIKES......

[flametree.blog-city.com] Still, its arrival has triggered fears that should bird flu make the jump to human transmission, widespread exclusion zones could be the result. Add in the widespread absenteeism as employees stay home, either sick themselves or looking after sick relatives, and it's not hard to see how businesses in today's just-in-time environment could be facing oblivion.

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April 19, 2006

Bird flu and human tragedy in South Asia

[SouthAsiaBiz] All of them are excellent blogs with round the clock updates from various sources around the world. However, most of the time, the media is only talking about the outbreaks of bird flu in different countries and if there is any human infection then it gets a lot of media coverage.

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Bird Flu Biosecurity: Catch the Fever!

[the fiveforty | the fiveforty] State officials have announced a series of community meetings to discuss the potential of an outbreak of bird flu in Arkansas. The first meeting is scheduled for April 21st in Jonesboro, with additional meetings scheduled for April 28th in Fayetteville, May 4th in Little Rock, May 5th in Texarkana, and May 19th in Monticello.

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April 18, 2006

Travel products claim to fight germs in flight

[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] With air travel at an all-time high, along with concerns over catching a contagious disease, more and more travelers are turning into germophobes. Assuming the fetal position won’t do much to ward off SARS or avian flu, but concerned travelers can stock up on germ-fighting products.

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South Asia not prepared for Bird Flu?

[SouthAsiaBiz] Most people live in rural areas in the South Asian countries and raising poultry is a common thing for almost every family. So, if bird flu attacks South Asian countries in a large scale then it will take a disastrous turn because most people in the rural areas do not have access to even basic health facilities.

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April 17, 2006

Possible Impact of bird flu in Pakistani Economy

[SouthAsiaBiz] Many people in Pakistan are related to the poultry industry and according to a report published last year in Dawn (Pakistan's influential English daily), "in 2004, egg production increased to 8,247 million and poultry meat to 4,02,000 tons." Poultry products are an important source of protein for the common people in the country and any outbreak of large scale bird flu will surely put severe pressure in the price of other types of meat (beef and mutton) and fish.

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A New Mode of Bird-Flu Fighting (RedNova)

[ Bird Cause Flu] By Linda Loyd, The Philadelphia Inquirer Apr. 16--Rick Bright and his former colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have seen many companies jump on the avian-flu bandwagon, with a slew of potential treatments if a pandemic breaks out.[News Source]

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April 16, 2006

Mammals Not Considered Bird Flu Carriers

[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] In February, German health officials confirmed the H5N1 strain of avian flu as the cause of a cat’s death on the Baltic Sea island of Ruegen. Authorities theorized that the cat had contracted the disease by eating an infected bird, thus suggesting that the virus might be introduced into the food chain, creating vulnerabilities for any variety of predatory animals, or humans in contact with them.

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Bird Flu Blog: - Community forum to discuss possible bird-flu pandemicStar-Press -

[Bird Flu News Digest] Star-Press - Those and other questions will be answered during a community forum on bird flu sponsored by the Delaware County Health Department at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the auditorium at Northside Middle School.

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April 15, 2006

Mikulski Seeks Firefighter Cancer Study

[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] Senator Barbara Mikulski is asking again for a federal study of the cancer risk faced by firefighters.

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April 14, 2006

Indonesia Confirms 31st Human Case Of Bird Flu Infection - Medical News Today

[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] Indonesian authorities have confirmed the country's 31st human case of H5N1 bird flu infection. The patient worked in a poultry .

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Key West Chickens Raise Bird Flu Fears

[Bird Flu Protection Tips and News Blog] More than 100 deaths have been blamed on the avian flu virus around the world, none of them in the Americas. The Bird Flu virus can infect people who have had close contact with sick birds.

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April 13, 2006

Mystery pneumonia in China

[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] Authorities in northwestern China's Shaanxi Province are investigating the death of a high school boy and illnesses of nearly 40 of his schoolmates linked to a highly contagious pneumonia.

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Suicide by Bird Flu

[fluFactor] An Indian poultry industry group, the National Egg Coordination Committee, has announced that nine poultry farmers in India have committed suicide because of slumping sale due to bird flu. The suicides have been spread all over the country.

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April 12, 2006

Good Bird Flu News. For A Change.

[Slobokan’s Site O’ Schtuff] At a Beijing news conference, Jia Youling said provincial authorities had used a total of 4.754 billion vaccines by last Friday, and 31 teams were fanned out throughout the country in a containment and eradication program.

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IMF says bird flu pandemic would have serious impact on global ”¦ - Forbes

[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] LONDON (AFX) - The IMF said a bird flu pandemic is unlikely, but it would have a big impact on the global economy if it did happen.

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April 11, 2006

To Die From Bird Flu or Starvation - A Problem...

[fluFactor] Those involved in digging up the birds, and involved in preparing them for consumption face a fairly significant risk of coming down with H5N1 bird flu. Coming in contact with dead birds has been one of the primary ways for the disease to spread from birds to people.

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Over 100 Bird Flu H5N1 Outbreaks In Burma

[Enflu] David Nabarro, United Nations Bird Flu Co-ordinator, said agencies will be focusing on Burma a lot in the next few days and weeks in an attempt to get authorities and the population there to better cope with the situation.

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April 10, 2006

Deadly bird flu reaches UK

[Enflu] Worry about the H5N1 strain of bird flu also swept Africa on Thursday with its discovery in the continent’s largest city amid widening concerns about the ability of Africa’s impoverished human and animal health services to take steps to contain it.

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April 09, 2006

Waitrose - Scotland doesn't need you

[Foostie!!] A representative of Waitrose, part of the John Lewis Partnership, appears to have opened a gaping mouth and allowed a belly to rumble some nonsense about not sourcing any chicken or eggs from Scotland at this time. Well that was a damn fine PR stunt.

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10 species of wildfowl that could import H5N1 to...

[Worldwide Disasters] 10 species of wildfowl that could import H5N1 to the UK April 8th, 2006 Print this article E-mail this article Experts have identified 10 species of wildfowl that could import the H5N1 bird flu virus into the UK: Bewick’s Swan Mallard Pintail Pochard Shoveller Teal Tufted Duck White-Fronted

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April 08, 2006

Virtual Pandemic: 90 Days to Infect Entire U.S.

[Building a Pyramid] Researchers assumed a starting point of 10 highly infectious influenza cases in Los Angeles, then let the model take it from there. The virus spread quickly, peaking in just 90 days with 100 or more infections per 1,000 residents of just about every corner of the country.

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Catch up, round up, whatever”¦

[chatiryworld blog] I’ve had to do some research about bird flu at work and as I don’t actually live with any infected birds who can wander and shit freely around my home I’m not worried. The latest fad amongst the crazy kids is filming each other having sex on their mobile phones.

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April 07, 2006

Avian influenza - situation in Cambodia

[Enflu] The Ministry of Health in Cambodia has confirmed the country’s sixth case of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. The case occurred in a 12-year-old boy from the south-eastern province of Prey Veng, which borders Viet Nam.

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Alicia Keys in Kenya for HIV Project

[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] Alicia Keys in Kenya for HIV Project Associated Press - April 6, 2006http://www.aegis.org/news/ap/2006/AP060414.html MOMBASA, Kenya - American Grammy award winning singer Alicia Keys fo .

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April 06, 2006

Make Like a Preacher”¦

[garyshort.org] We knew it would be when, not if, bird flu would arrive in this country, but I didn’t expect it to arrive so close to home. Tonight, it’s been announced that bird flu has been found, in a wild swan in a village in Fife, not too far from where we stay.

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April 05, 2006

Bird Flu by the Numbers - A Very Bleak Picture...

[fluFactor] In a study released yesterday by Los Alamos National Laboratories in New Mexico, a rather dismal picture was painted for the United States in the even that bird flu becomes communicable between people. The lab used supercomputers to model an outbreak in the US.Technorati Tags : H5N1, bird+flu, avian+flu, pandemic, Los+Alamos, United+States,

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Travel bans won’t stop bird flu: study

[Enflu] “In the event that a pandemic influenza virus does reach the U.S., according to our results, the U.S. population could begin to experience a nation-wide pandemic within 1 month of the earliest introductions,” the researchers wrote.

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April 04, 2006

Bird Flu Blog: - news @ nature.com - -Bird flu outbreaks in

[Bird Flu News Digest] Bird flu outbreaks in Asia have prompted the cull of tens of thousands of ducks and … Bird flu has highlighted serious deficiencies in epidemiology.

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California Expects Bird Flu To Hit West Coast By...

[fluFactor] Ryan Broddrick, Director of the California Department of Fish and Game has said that he expects bird flu to enter the United States through Alaska and that it will quickly move down the coast using the Pacific flyway. This is the path that migrating birds take down the Pacific Coast of the US.

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April 03, 2006

Sunday Times

[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] Families would have to wait for four months to bury their dead should the H5N1 virus mutate into a form that is easily transmissible between humans, the newspaper’s Web site cited the report, Managing Excess Deaths in an Influenza Pandemic, as saying. The report was dated March 22, the newspaper said.

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H5N1 In Antarctica?

[fluFactor] Moreover, certain species of Penguins migrate from Antarctica to islands just south of New Zealand annually. Such a discovery would mean that the bird flu is spreading even more rapidly that originally thought and provide a clear path for the disease to spread quickly into the regions mentioned here.

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April 02, 2006

Bird Flu Threatens Voodoo Magic

[Paranormal Magazine] One voodoo ceremony, for example, is supposed to summon up the spirit named Kokoo, which involves killing something precious to appease the gods. Each of the participants receives a blessing from the birds being sacrificed in a sort of baptism of feathers.

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Bird Flu Blog: - Renowned Bird Flu Expert Warns:...

[Bird Flu News Digest] Webster is one of the few bird flu experts confident enough to answer the key question: Will the avian flu switch from posing a terrible hazard to birds to becoming a real

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