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Bird Flu Monitor > May 31, 2010

New research findings can improve avian flu surveillance programs ...

[ugg classic tall fancy boots gray] The researchers discovered that some avian influenza viruses recovered from the North American pintails contain genes that are more closely related to influenza viruses in Eurasia, and that the greatest number of these genes occurred in pintail viruses from Alaska. In contrast, northern pintails sampled on their main wintering areas in California had few Eurasian virus genes.

News Cnn | Part 2 ”” Avian Flu Fright: Politically Timed for Global ...

[News Cnn] 2) Roche (Hoffman-LaRoche) was found guilty of price fixing the world’s supply of vitamins in 1999 as part of the global petrochemical/pharmaceutical cartel evolved from Nazi-Germany’s I.G. Farben organization;(2)(6) and 3) Sanofi-Aventis’s corporate colleagues include Merck, a company that received a lion’s share of the Nazi war chest at the end of WWII, whose earnings plunged after the withdrawal last year of its deadly Vioxx arthritis drug.

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May 31, 2010

New research findings can improve avian flu surveillance programs ...

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May 28, 2010

News Cnn | Part 2 ”” Avian Flu Fright: Politically Timed for Global ...

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[Avian Flu Diary] Australian Doc: ICU's Were On `Verge of Collapse ...

[Influenza Virus Mashup] “ICUs were on the point of collapse which was unprecedented. The ICU system in every region in Australia came close to collapse and we’ve learnt a great deal from that and will be better prepared to manage ICU surge capacity this year,”

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May 26, 2010

No Pandemic but Endemic - Managing Avian Influenza Outbreaks in ...

[End Poverty in South Asia - A blog to promote dialog on development in South Asia] The project is helping the Government of Nepal to prepare, prevent and control avian influenza outbreaks together with our partner organizations, including USAID, FAO, OiE, WHO and UNICEF. Implemented jointly by the Departments of Livestock Services and Health Services, the project is strengthening surveillance, diagnostic capacity, and prevention and containment activities, improving bio-security in poultry production and trade, and raising awareness through communication activities.

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May 24, 2010

[Avian Flu Diary] Global Vaccine Production: A Long Way To Go ...

[Influenza Virus Mashup] The report, based on a survey of all flu vaccine manufacturers, says further, “The forecasted production of pandemic vaccine 12 months after the availability of the vaccine virus (i.e., June 2010) is approximately 1.37 billion doses, which is only 28% of the annual global production capacity of 4.9 billion doses estimated from the WHO survey conducted n May 2009.” It was authored by Jeffrey Partridge and Marie Paule Kieny of the WHO H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Task Force.

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News on Avian FluNews on Avian Flu You Get News

[You Get News] Whether we are dealing with the aftermath of the horrible conditions and weakened immune systems of millions who survived World War I or the horrible conditions of Asian and European poultry farms and their millions of animals with weakened immune systems, the key to this potential pandemic is "weakened immune systems and avian flu".

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May 21, 2010

H5N1 Avian Influenza - Discovering how people survive to aid long ...

[The Bird Flu Report] This approach led to the mapping of two broadly neutralizing human monoclonal antibodies with conformation-dependent epitopes. In H5N1 convalescent sera, we have identified several potentially protective H5N1-specific human antibody epitopes in H5 HA[(-10)-223], neuraminidase catalytic site, and M2 ectodomain.

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Avian Influenza In UK Duck Farm? - The Bird Flu Report

[The Bird Flu Report] The British Embassy in Japan informed MAFF, on the evening of 18 May 2010, about a suspected seropositive test result (H5 subtype) in a duck farm in Nottinghamshire, England. Japan announced discontinuing imports of domestic fowl from Nottinghamshire, UK.

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May 19, 2010

H5N1 Avian flu prompts West Bank chicken cull « LABVIRUS.COM

[LABVIRUS.COM] The United States still has 71 million doses of [mercury-laden] H1N1 swine flu vaccine that have not been used, but it is not yet time to throw them out, the federal government said on Monday. Health experts consider swine flu likely to join the mix of seasonal flu viruses and it will be included in the seasonal flu vaccine for 2010-2011, which will also con […]

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Avian flu prompts West Bank chicken cull | Chen Qi-The World of ...

[Chen Qi-The World of Micro-Organism] NETANYA - Animal cases of avian flu in Bala village in the Tul Karem area of the West Bank, northeast of Tel Aviv, have been confirmed, and some 250,000 chickens culled, according to officials.

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May 17, 2010

Avian Flu Reported In Palestinian Authority

[Avian Flu Diary] An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) of the type H5N1 was found in poultry (broiler farm) in Tul Karm (Bal'a). Several people were also hospitalized.

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[Avian Flu Diary] China: A Recombinant EV-71 | Influenza Virus Mashup

[Influenza Virus Mashup] Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD), a common contagious disease that usually affects children, is normally mild but can have life-threatening manifestations. It can be caused by enteroviruses, particularly Coxsackieviruses and human enterovirus 71 (HEV71) with highly variable clinical manifestations.

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May 14, 2010

[Avian Flu Diary] A Conversation With Maryn McKenna | Influenza ...

[Influenza Virus Mashup] Nowhere is this more clear today than in the story of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, the deadly drug-resistant strain of bacteria that causes infections such as blood poisoning and pneumonia.

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[Avian Flu Diary] The Prime Of Our Lives | Influenza Virus Mashup

[Influenza Virus Mashup] And if fact, this tried in Japan back in 2008, when their limited stockpile of H5N1 bird flu vaccine was about to expire. They decided to `store it’ in the arms of healthcare and public safety workers, rather than pour it down the drain.

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May 12, 2010

Jurong Bird Park Conducts Annual Avian Flu (H5N2) Vaccinations for ...

[BeakersBirdToys.com] Jurong Bird Park Organizes Annual Bird Flu Drills By Raja Segran Singapore – The Jurong Bird Park remains vigilant in their approach towards H5N1, by conducting annual avian flu (H5N2) vaccinations for the 600 species of birds in their collection.

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[Avian Flu Diary] WHO To Review Pandemic Status | Influenza Virus ...

[Influenza Virus Mashup] GENEVA (Reuters) - An expert panel advising the World Health Organization on pandemics will review the status of the H1N1 virus later this month or in early June to decide whether the swine flu pandemic is over.

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May 10, 2010

viviangalbraith | Was the 1918 Spanish Flu Caused by a Mutated ...

[viviangalbraith] The paper revealed how this HA molecule could still resemble the avian binding site, but infect humans as the researchers found that two sides of the hemagglutinin receptor-binding site were in slightly different positions in the 1918 hemagglutinin, in comparison with the Hong Kong protein, allowing the human receptor to bind in an antigenically favourable way. This means that during the 1918 pandemic, the HA protein of an avian flu appears to have mutated, allowing the virus to bind with deadly efficiency to human cells, while retaining the basic properties of the avian virus from which it evolved.

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Information on Avian Flu | Surviving Flu

[Surviving Flu] Stomach flu has nausea, diarrhea and vomiting as common symptoms. Since flu symptoms and treatment varies depending on what type of flu you may have, you need to be more familiar with the symptoms of the different kinds of flu.

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May 07, 2010

Avian Influenza: World Bank funds Belize's fight vs Avian flu Archives

[Avian Influenza] World Bank funds Belize's fight vs Avian flu. Reporter.bz - Belize's detection and response to Avian and Human Influenza has received help from the World Bank, in the form of a grant valued at US $501744 awarded to the Ministry of .

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[Avian Flu Diary] WHO Panel: Clinical Profile Of Pandemic H1N1 ...

[Influenza Virus Mashup] As of March 2010, almost all countries had reported cases, and more than 17,700 deaths among laboratory-confirmed cases had been reported to the World Health Organization (WHO).5 The number of laboratory-confirmed cases significantly underestimates the pandemic’s impact. In the United States, an estimated 59 million illnesses, 265,000 hospitalizations, and 12,000 deaths had been caused by the 2009 H1N1 virus as of mid-February 2010.6 This article reviews virologic, epidemiologic, and clinical data on 2009 H1N1 virus infections and summarizes key issues for clinicians worldwide.

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May 05, 2010

World Bank funds Belize's fight vs Avian flu - New World Forum ...

[New World Forum, News, Blog - Environment, Government, War, Animal Rights, Economy, & More] Reporter.bz - Belize's detection and response to Avian and Human Influenza has received help from the World Bank, in the form of a grant valued at US $

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Study Shows Wild Birds Could Spread Avian Flu - Smokey's blog

[Smokey's blog] Research states that wild ducks that are already immune to the deadly H5N1 virus causing the fatal avian influenza could be instrumental in spreading the disease to other parts of the earth during migration. The northern pintail ducks .

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Bird Flu Monitor > May 31, 2010

New research findings can improve avian flu surveillance programs ...

News Cnn | Part 2 ”” Avian Flu Fright: Politically Timed for Global ...

May 31, 2010

New research findings can improve avian flu surveillance programs ...

May 28, 2010

News Cnn | Part 2 ”” Avian Flu Fright: Politically Timed for Global ...

[Avian Flu Diary] Australian Doc: ICU's Were On `Verge of Collapse ...

May 26, 2010

No Pandemic but Endemic - Managing Avian Influenza Outbreaks in ...

May 24, 2010

[Avian Flu Diary] Global Vaccine Production: A Long Way To Go ...

News on Avian FluNews on Avian Flu You Get News

May 21, 2010

H5N1 Avian Influenza - Discovering how people survive to aid long ...

Avian Influenza In UK Duck Farm? - The Bird Flu Report

May 19, 2010

H5N1 Avian flu prompts West Bank chicken cull « LABVIRUS.COM

Avian flu prompts West Bank chicken cull | Chen Qi-The World of ...

May 17, 2010

Avian Flu Reported In Palestinian Authority

[Avian Flu Diary] China: A Recombinant EV-71 | Influenza Virus Mashup

May 14, 2010

[Avian Flu Diary] A Conversation With Maryn McKenna | Influenza ...

[Avian Flu Diary] The Prime Of Our Lives | Influenza Virus Mashup

May 12, 2010

Jurong Bird Park Conducts Annual Avian Flu (H5N2) Vaccinations for ...

[Avian Flu Diary] WHO To Review Pandemic Status | Influenza Virus ...

May 10, 2010

viviangalbraith | Was the 1918 Spanish Flu Caused by a Mutated ...

Information on Avian Flu | Surviving Flu

May 07, 2010

Avian Influenza: World Bank funds Belize's fight vs Avian flu Archives

[Avian Flu Diary] WHO Panel: Clinical Profile Of Pandemic H1N1 ...

May 05, 2010

World Bank funds Belize's fight vs Avian flu - New World Forum ...

Study Shows Wild Birds Could Spread Avian Flu - Smokey's blog

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