Bird Flu Monitor > A sigh of relief from Vietnam: No bird flu!

http://www.flupatrol.com [Flu Patrol] A family of four that fell sick with flu-like symptoms has been declared negative for H5N1. They were brought to the hospital last week with fever, cough and damaged lungs and doctors initially feared it might be bird flu when it was found that they had eaten chicken that fell sick and died.

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[Drbobgleeson.typepad.com] Bird flu: The news reports indicate that medical science is hard at work trying to identify vaccines or adjuvants to vaccines or viral blockers to prevent the spread of H5N1. All of these reports are good news, with two cautions: first, medical science is early in the process””success in a mouse model is different than success in a whole human population””and second, success in human trials is still far from large scale manufacturing and distribution.

Nature.comhttp://www.nature.com [Nature.com] Avian flu special The flu pandemic: were we ready? : Nature: Here's the transcript: "At this hour, the World Health Organization has declared a full-scale pandemic influenza alert, with person-to-person spread lasting more than two weeks in Cambodia and Vietnam. During previous influenza pandemics in the United States, large numbers of people were ill, sought medical care, were hospitalized and died.

[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.

http://getreadyforflu.blogspot.com [Getreadyforflu.blogspot.com] APHA's Get Ready for Flu Blog: (Whether or not we're going to need mass vaccinations against H5N1 is another story.) If we decide to start vaccinations here in the United States, there a few things that would need to be done first: The Food and Drug Administration would need to confirm that the vaccine works and is safe. And health insurers will need to agree to cover the cost of the vaccination, which sometimes will not happen unless the government recommends the vaccine in its immunization guidelines.

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