Bird Flu Monitor: April 2009 Archives

Bird Flu Monitor > April 29, 2009

High protection against avian flu or swine flu with this face mask ...

[Tokyo Kawaii, etc.] Anyhow, we are in the culture that we wear medical masks or face masks with no hesitation at any time. So it’s quite common for Japanese people to buy wear face masks whether bird flu or swine flue are threatening us or not.

Live Avian Flu Virus Placed in Baxter Vaccine Material Sent To 18 ...

[Centurean2's Weblog] “But what remains unanswered are the circumstances surrounding the incident in the Baxter facility in Orth-Donau.” The contaminated product, a mix of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses and unlabelled H5N1 viruses, was supplied to an Austrian research company. The Austrian firm, Avir Green Hills Biotechnology, then sent portions of it to sub-contractors in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany.

Posted at 09:04 AM

April 29, 2009

High protection against avian flu or swine flu with this face mask ...

Posted at 09:05 AM

Live Avian Flu Virus Placed in Baxter Vaccine Material Sent To 18 ...

Posted at 09:04 AM

April 27, 2009

EMERGENCY - SPREAD THIS VIDEO! AVIAN FLU - FEMA TR

[lemalona's Media] UPDATE April 26 2009 -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHG8Qt...Important!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhLfoH...What to do now its here!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dK5An...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vXl-N..

Posted at 09:05 AM

<center>Walled-In Pond</center>: Fierce Swine/Human/Avian Flu ...

[Walled-In Pond] I’ll be in touch with contacts in Mexico as this story develops —and I’ll be curious to see whether the U.S. media explores the link with Smithfield’s Mexico operation.I'll be bl;oody surprised if there is even passing mention made to any corpoRat branding of this new menace. Luckily, I'm probably old enough that my immune system is too compromised to kill me trying to fend off this virus.

Posted at 09:02 AM

April 24, 2009

Pandemic Information News: China: SARS and avian flu drugs toå¤‡è¶³

[Pandemic Information News] Seeing as I produce and have informed more people about avian influenza than you have... I figure I should be gettin a CUT OF YOUR CHECK.

Posted at 09:04 AM

A TIME'S MEMORY: Avian Flu Cases in Egypt Raise Alarms - NYTimes.com

[A TIME'S MEMORY] The government has loudly warned its citizens to avoid sick poultry and has trained doctors in remote clinics to give Tamiflu quickly and move cases to state hospitals, where treatment is free. In a country where chickens are both kept as pets and eaten, toddlers still touch dying birds but poultry workers would not.Egypt’s outbreak response contrasts sharply to Indonesia’s, where the sick often take herbal medicine first and where rural clinics lack Tamiflu, she said.

Posted at 09:03 AM

April 22, 2009

Instapundit » Blog Archive » AVIAN FLU CASES IN EGYPT raise alarms”¦.

[Instapundit] AVIAN FLU CASES IN EGYPT raise alarms. Posted at by Glenn Reynolds at 8:06 pm. RSS Feed · Podcast RSS Feed · Email Instapundit. Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc! Making even the dumbest sh** interesting! -- Oxblog ...

Posted at 09:04 AM

FDA Researchers Contribute Insights into Avian Flu Virus

[Food and Drug Administration Press Releases] “Analysis of blood from patients recovering from the H5N1 avian influenza virus can lead to new tools for testing the potential protective activity of vaccines under development,” said Karen Midthun, M.D., acting director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER).

Posted at 09:03 AM

April 20, 2009

PRO/AH/EDR> Avian influenza, human (70): Egypt

[HealthMap Global Disease Alerts] Since 2003 the H5N1 avian influenza virus has infected at least 410 people in 15 countries and killed 254 of them. It has killed or forced the culling of more than 300 million birds in 61 countries in Asia, the Middle East, .

Posted at 09:03 AM

Avian Influenza in Our Backyards | Britannica Blog

[Britannica Blog] The incident in Kentucky serves as a model for the rapid detection and precautionary action needed to prevent viral spread, but it also serves as a reminder of how much is at stake. Preventing viral transmission to humans begins with preventing viral spread among birds. The loss of millions of poultry due to viral infection would severely damage the poultry industry in the U.S., which is the largest poultry producer in the world.

Posted at 09:02 AM

April 17, 2009

Better Flu Vaccine Protects Against Spanish and Bird Flu

[Scientific Blogging] Thanks to the collaborative efforts of the CDC and Novavax Inc., a vaccine building biotech company, researchers may have the key to protect against these high-risk and potently infectious strains of the flu virus. Vaccines can be made from virus-like particles (VPL) to prevent further infection and scientists have utilized this idea to use VPLs from the infamous 1918 Spanish influenza virus to protect against both the Spanish flu and a highly infectious strain of the avian flu strain H5N1.

Posted at 09:07 AM

Why Reputation Management is Like Bird Flu

[Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim] @Andrew - don’t worry, I have a face for audio podcasts anyway. Thanks again for inviting me on.

Posted at 09:06 AM

April 15, 2009

Altered Effect of Avian Flu? | Homeland Security Watch

[Homeland Security Watch] According to a report in the Independent (London) the pattern of recent Avian Flu cases in Egypt may suggest the disease is adapting in a way that could be.

Posted at 09:03 AM

You Decide”¦Homeland Security, BofA, and Avian Flu

[Logistics Monster] It may even have been something more dastardly than Bird Flu virus. I don’t think we can afford to discount stories like this flippantly, however.

Posted at 09:02 AM

April 13, 2009

PRO/AH/EDR> Avian influenza, human (69): Egypt

[HealthMap Global Disease Alerts] The case brings to 62 the number of confirmed cases of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in Egypt, which has been hit harder by bird flu than any other country outside of Asia and has reported 7 human infections since 1 Mar 2009.

Posted at 09:03 AM

Pandemic Information News: AVIAN INFLUENZA - MBDS REGION (19 ...

[Pandemic Information News] Lieu and Soc Trang) free of avian influenza. The last article from the department of animal health in Viet Nam reports H5N1 in 1 province (Dien Bien) within the past 21 days. Posted by Commonground at 6:23 PM ...

Posted at 09:02 AM

April 10, 2009

Mad Cows and Martyred Horses: AVIAN INFLUENZA (LPAI), POULTRY ...

[Mad Cows and Martyred Horses] Causal agent Low pathogenic avian influenza virus Serotype H7N9 Nature of diagnosis Laboratory (advanced) This event pertains to a defined zone within the country. New outbreaks.

Posted at 09:03 AM

FDA Clears Rapid Test for Avian Influenza A Virus in Humans

[Food and Drug Administration Press Releases] There is a possibility that the influenza A/H5N1 virus subtype could mutate further and spread quickly to humans, causing an influenza pandemic. According to the World Health Organization, there are 412 confirmed human cases of infection from this virus, almost all in Asia and northern Africa.

Posted at 09:02 AM

April 08, 2009

FDA clears rapid test for the detection of influenza A/H5N1

[Medical News] H5N1 is a subtype that is found mostly in birds, although infections have also occurred in humans, mostly in people who have come into contact with the virus through infected poultry. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, of the few avian influenza viruses that have infected humans, the H5N1 subtype has caused the largest number of detected cases of serious disease and death.

Posted at 09:02 AM

Toddler to Toddler H5N1 Transmission in Beheira Egypt

[Recombinomics Whats New] The Beheira cluster has the classical gap and there has been no indication that the two toddlers were related. Although it is likely that mild H5N1 has was transmitted human to human, based on the sequence identity between isolates from unrelated cases, the current cluster has the time and space signature associated with human to human transmission.

Posted at 09:01 AM

April 06, 2009

Egypt Reports 62nd Human Bird Flu Case

[Avian Flu Diary] The case brings to 62 the number of confirmed cases of the H5N1 avian flu virus in Egypt, which has been hit harder by bird flu than any other country outside of Asia and has reported seven human infections since March 1.

Posted at 09:04 AM

More Media Reports Of Suspect Cases From Indonesia

[Avian Flu Diary] Covering Pandemic Influenza and other Emerging Infectious Diseases with an emphasis on personal and community preparedness.

Posted at 09:03 AM

April 03, 2009

Ninth H5N1 Toddler in Egypt Increases Concerns

[Recombinomics Whats New] To date over 6000 suspect patients have been hospitalized, but less than 1% are H5N1 confirmed. If the low level of confirmation is linked to a low sensitivity, then the number of actual H5N1 could be concentrated in an at risk population and could offer protection.

Posted at 09:04 AM

H5N1 Toddler Demographic in Egypt Increases Concerns

[Recombinomics Whats New] The most recent confirmed H5N1 case in Egypt was the ninth toddler this year, once again highlighting the changing demographic. H5N1 cases have been reported in Egypt since 2006 and early cases were largely females that were teenagers .

Posted at 09:03 AM

Bird Flu Monitor > April 29, 2009

High protection against avian flu or swine flu with this face mask ...

Live Avian Flu Virus Placed in Baxter Vaccine Material Sent To 18 ...

April 29, 2009

High protection against avian flu or swine flu with this face mask ...

Live Avian Flu Virus Placed in Baxter Vaccine Material Sent To 18 ...

April 27, 2009

EMERGENCY - SPREAD THIS VIDEO! AVIAN FLU - FEMA TR

<center>Walled-In Pond</center>: Fierce Swine/Human/Avian Flu ...

April 24, 2009

Pandemic Information News: China: SARS and avian flu drugs toå¤‡è¶³

A TIME'S MEMORY: Avian Flu Cases in Egypt Raise Alarms - NYTimes.com

April 22, 2009

Instapundit » Blog Archive » AVIAN FLU CASES IN EGYPT raise alarms”¦.

FDA Researchers Contribute Insights into Avian Flu Virus

April 20, 2009

PRO/AH/EDR> Avian influenza, human (70): Egypt

Avian Influenza in Our Backyards | Britannica Blog

April 17, 2009

Better Flu Vaccine Protects Against Spanish and Bird Flu

Why Reputation Management is Like Bird Flu

April 15, 2009

Altered Effect of Avian Flu? | Homeland Security Watch

You Decide”¦Homeland Security, BofA, and Avian Flu

April 13, 2009

PRO/AH/EDR> Avian influenza, human (69): Egypt

Pandemic Information News: AVIAN INFLUENZA - MBDS REGION (19 ...

April 10, 2009

Mad Cows and Martyred Horses: AVIAN INFLUENZA (LPAI), POULTRY ...

FDA Clears Rapid Test for Avian Influenza A Virus in Humans

April 08, 2009

FDA clears rapid test for the detection of influenza A/H5N1

Toddler to Toddler H5N1 Transmission in Beheira Egypt

April 06, 2009

Egypt Reports 62nd Human Bird Flu Case

More Media Reports Of Suspect Cases From Indonesia

April 03, 2009

Ninth H5N1 Toddler in Egypt Increases Concerns

H5N1 Toddler Demographic in Egypt Increases Concerns

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