[Previous] AFC Reports Financial Performance for Second......

 [Next] HEALTH: Gov’ts Harshly Berated at Close of AIDS Meet...

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

 [Nature.com] Avian flu special The flu pandemic: were we ready? : Nature: I'm Sally O'Reilly, a freelance journalist based in Washington DC. I've been researching a book on pandemic preparedness.

[Avianflu.typepad.com] Avian Flu - What we need to know: Jia -- a professorial-looking 58-year-old who had risen steadily through the ministry's ranks since he joined it in 1979 -- began to talk about a recent research paper he had noticed on avian flu. According to Julie Hall, the WHO's top communicable-disease expert in Beijing and a participant at the meeting, he had a complaint: Months earlier, a team led by American scientists published a paper in an academic journal using China's samples, but without crediting or consulting their Chinese counterparts.

[Healthnewsblog.com] Health News Blog -- Bird Flu / Avian Flu H5N1: Another WHO expert, Dr Mike Ryan, director of epidemic and pandemic alert, said, "We truly feel that this present threat is likely to stretch our global systems to the point of collapse." H5N1 has continued to spread easily from country to country and scientists are sounding more alarmist with each new human case and with each discovery of the virus in a new country.

 [Googleblog.blogspot.com] Official Google Blog: Bird flu basics: The avian flu's jump to humans was first detected in 1997, although all the human deaths reported so far (about 60 since 2003) have been due to transmission from animals to humans. There has been more concern recently because the virus has been detected in migratory birds which can't be caught and killed - and which may carry the virus to Europe and Africa within the next two migratory seasons.

[Home (aboutflu.net)] AFC Reports Financial Performance for Second... : eMaxHealth.com - Lessons learnt from SARS epidemics in China may help us prepare for new epidemics, such as human avian flu, say experts in this week’s BMJ. Mainland China experienced three outbreaks of SARS between November 2002 and May 2004.

 [Medical and health information from Armenian Medical Network] Lessons from SARS May Help Prepare for Bird Flu: Mainland China experienced three outbreaks of SARS between November 2002 and May 2004. The first outbreak resulted in a pandemic and caused huge financial loss and social panic, but rigorous control policies prevented further pandemics.

[Avian Flu watch Blog] Avian H5N1 Influenza (Bird Flu) - Minnesota... : of Health ”¦ U.S. government Web site for information on pandemic flu and avian influenza. ”¦ Avian (”bird”) flu and pandemic flu are not the same thing but there is ”¦ Bird flu (avian flu) symptoms and treatment information on MedicineNet.com ”¦ is avian influenza (bird flu)?

[H5N1 Antiviral Updates] buy tamiflu Links: Buy tamiflu. Tamiflu... : From floods to terror, they give clients a heads-up Sometime during the early hours of Aug. 10, just after British authorities had arrested a group of people suspected of plotting to blow up several commercial airliners over the Atlantic Ocean, cell phones and laptops around the globe got an urgent message: Save to My Web

 [SuperBlogger] Flu Outbreak Steps- White Paper: NMHC/NAA’s white paper, Pandemic Flu: Apartment Owner Preparations, provides an update on the status of the avian flu, information on developing an emergency preparedness program, flu-specific elements of continuity plans and site controls, apartment-specific concerns and legal issues.

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, "avian Flu", Bird Flu Monitor