The Next Plague - Avian Flu (History Channel) DVD Review - Buy The ...
[blood] With the current threat of Avian Flu spreading worldwide, President Bush talked openly about the possibility of an epidemic in the coming years. The Center for Disease Control and the World Health Organization say that we are long overdue for a deadly epidemic, and it isn’t a question of if but when.
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World Bank Approves $6.0 Million To Fight Avian Flu In Cambodia
[Health, Fitness, Wellness News at vitabeat] In addition to the IDA grant, the government of Japan has provided a US$3 million grant from its Policy and Human Resources Development (PHRD) Fund, and a grant in the amount of $2 million was approved by the Avian and Human Influenza (AHI) Facility, a multi-donor grant-making mechanism supported by the European Commission and eight other donors.
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March 31, 2008
The Next Plague - Avian Flu (History Channel) DVD Review - Buy The ...
[blood] With the current threat of Avian Flu spreading worldwide, President Bush talked openly about the possibility of an epidemic in the coming years. The Center for Disease Control and the World Health Organization say that we are long overdue for a deadly epidemic, and it isn’t a question of if but when.
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World Bank Approves $6.0 Million To Fight Avian Flu In Cambodia
[Health, Fitness, Wellness News at vitabeat] In addition to the IDA grant, the government of Japan has provided a US$3 million grant from its Policy and Human Resources Development (PHRD) Fund, and a grant in the amount of $2 million was approved by the Avian and Human Influenza (AHI) Facility, a multi-donor grant-making mechanism supported by the European Commission and eight other donors.
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March 28, 2008
Switzerland: Duck Tests Positive For H5N1
[Avian Flu Diary] Experts fear the H5N1 strain could mutate into a form easily transmitted from person to person, leading to a pandemic that could kill millions worldwide. (Reporting by Sam Cage;
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New Rapid Test For H5N1 Bird Flu Presented To ICEID - Flu and Cold
[Medical,Health News and Articles] The researchers concluded that the “PDZ based assay produced by AVC shows promise as a useful diagnostic in our vigilance against avian influenza. The sensitivity of the assay towards avian strains is robust and the format of the test favors easy deployment.” NHRC and NAMRU3 will continue to collaborate to evaluate this assay against other grown strains (H7, H9 etc.) as well as in actual outbreak situations.
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March 26, 2008
Indonesia: Sharing Virus Samples On A `Case By Case Basis'
[Avian Flu Diary] Indonesia sent bird flu virus samples last month to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a WHO-collaborating laboratory, after a nearly 6-month hiatus when it won assurance that it would get access to affordable vaccines.
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Mallard Ducks Found To Be Asymptomatic To Bird Flu Virus
[Avian Flu Diary] By experimentally infecting wild ducks, we found that tufted ducks, Eurasian pochards, and mallards excreted significantly more virus than common teals, Eurasian wigeons, and gadwalls; yet only tufted ducks and, to a lesser degree, pochards became ill or died.
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March 24, 2008
Avian influenza and the poultry trade
[Docuticker] Because of high mortality rates, high rates of contagion, and the possibility of cross-species infection to mammals including humans, high pathogenic avian influenza is a major concern both to consumers and producers of poultry. The implications of the avian influenza for international poultry markets are large and include the loss of consumer confidence, loss of competitiveness, loss of market shares, supply shortages, and disruptions of trade flows.
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Reservoir Ducks
[Avian Flu Diary] Oct 26, 2007 (CIDRAP News) - Apparently healthy domestic geese and ducks in Europe may be harboring the H5N1 avian influenza virus, posing a risk to other poultry and to humans who have contact with them, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned in a statement yesterday.
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March 21, 2008
Iomai and Pandemic Avian Flu Vaccine (IOMI)
[24/7 Wall St.] (Nasdaq: IOMI) is one of the interesting microcap stocks in the biotech sector with a government twist to its avian flu program. The company has announced positive interim results from a 500-subject Phase 1/2 trial of its patch used with an injected vaccine for H5N1 influenza (bird flu).
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Indonesia Dismisses Fears over Reassortment of Human/Avian Flu Viruses
[A1A South] JAKARTA, March 20 (Xinhua) — Indonesia dismissed fears of a virus re-assortment between avian and human seasonal influenza strains in a 2007 human death involving bird flu infection, the country’s health ministry senior official said here. Director General of Communicable Diseases I Nyoman Kandun said the possibility of re-assortment between the avian influenza virus and other flu viruses was always possible, but had not yet happened.
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March 19, 2008
WHO: Vietnam Update 5
[Avian Flu Diary] The Ministry of Health in Viet Nam has confirmed a new case of human infection of H5N1 avian influenza. The case has been confirmed by the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE).
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Indonesia Is Country Worst Hit By Bird Flu - High Load Of ...
[Medical,Health News and Articles] “We have also observed that new H5N1 avian influenza virus strains have recently emerged creating the possibility that vaccines currently in use may not be fully protecting poultry against the disease. This issue is being addressed by the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture with technical assistance from OFFLU (OIE/FAO Influenza Network of Laboratories) and funding provided by USAID and AusAID.
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March 17, 2008
WHO: Hong Kong Flu `Seasonal'
[Avian Flu Diary] The World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday the current outbreak was 'seasonal influenza' and health experts saw no evidence so far to suggest that the cases were linked to bird flu or the deadly severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) outbreak in 2003.
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Away For A Couple Of Days
[Avian Flu Diary] I'm leaving early tomorrow morning, flying to Washington D.C., to attend a pandemic planning exercise being held by the HHS on Monday.
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March 14, 2008
Bird Flu Kills Four Endangered Vietnamese Civets
[A1A South] HANOI, March 11 (Reuters) - Bird flu killed four civets in a Vietnamese national park, the second time the rare type of mammal was reported to have died there of the H5N1 virus since 2005, a park official said on Tuesday.
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H5N1 in India
[Disease Ecology] A Google news search on H5N1 will throw up almost daily reports of new outbreaks. In the 24 hours there have been reports of outbreaks in India, Vietnam and Iraq and a human case in Egypt.
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March 12, 2008
Chinese Expert Warns Of Bird Flu Mutation
[Avian Flu Diary] "When avian flu is around and human flu appears, this will raise the chances of avian flu turning into a human flu. We have to be very alert and careful in March," Dr Zhong was quoted by the Ming Pao newspaper as saying.
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Child Deaths In Hong Kong Spark Concern
[Avian Flu Diary] It is always a tragedy when a child dies, and over the past week or so, Hong Kong has seen three children succumb to a flu-like illness.
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March 10, 2008
One Month Later, Laos Still Dealing With Bird Flu
[Avian Flu Diary] The Luang Namtha provincial governor has announced a total ban on the sale of poultry in the province, as well as prohibiting the purchase of poultry from neighbouring countries for the next 30-45 days, following four separate outbreaks of bird flu.
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Bangladesh: Bird Flu Spreads To 47th District
[Avian Flu Diary] DHAKA, March 9 (Reuters) - Bird flu has spread to another district in Bangladesh despite massive culling by authorities to control the outbreak, officials said on Sunday, bringing the number of affected districts to 47 out of 64.
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March 07, 2008
Vietnam : B2B Bird Flu Reported In Hanoi
[Avian Flu Diary] Vietnam's Capital city isn't immune from the spread of the H5N1 virus, as is evidenced by this report from Xinhua News.
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How I caught Avian Flu
[Eye on the horizon] This is my first stand-up video piece. I can only hope that you will appreciate how frustrated I was with these birds.
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March 05, 2008
Bird-flu watchers call for efforts to save poultry industry
[News - Independent Bangladesh] According to government data, some 191 poultry farms were infected with the bird flu virus until Feb 27. The poultry industry has incurred a loss of Tk 4,100 crore so far and almost 50 percent farms have already been closed.
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Another Suspected Infected Bird In Hong Kong
[Avian Flu Diary] Ha Noi (VNA) - Preliminary testing of a dead oriental magpie robin found earlier in Hong Kong had indicated a suspected case of H5 bird flu, authorities in the southern Chinese special administrative region said.
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