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[Expedition Portal Forum] H5N1 Virus Adapting to Pigs - Expedition Portal Forum: Alaska is full of biologists swabbing birds for flu, has been for years now. I live in the Rio Grande Corridor, a large migratory bird north-south pathway, and for several years now there has been ongoing sampling of wild bird populations for signs of the virus.

[Smart Economy] Smart Economy: Avian Flu pandemic spread modeled on supercomputer: The large-scale, stochastic simulation model examines the nationwide spread of a pandemic influenza virus strain, such as an evolved avian H5N1 virus, should it become transmissible human-to-human. The simulation rolls out a city- and census-tract-level picture of the spread of infection through a synthetic population of 281 million people over the course of 180 days, and examines the impact of interventions, from antiviral therapy to school closures and travel restrictions, as the vaccine industry struggles to catch up with the evolving virus.

[Bird Flu Pandemic Alert] Bird Flu Pandemic Alert | Pandemic Bird Flu Warnings Not In The ...: As the illness receded, the scary headlines with their warnings of a pandemic that could kill 150 million people all but vanished. Hospitals have wards for suspect patients, and epidemiologists trace contacts and treat all with Tamiflu ”” a tactic meant to encircle and snuff outbreaks before the virus can adapt itself to humans.

[911truth-sherbrooke.org] The Pentagon’s alarming project: Avian Flu Biowar Vaccine ...: On April 28 of this year in an official Press Release from Sanofi Pasteur US headquarters in Swiftwater, Pennsylvania and Lyon, France, the company stated, “Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi-Aventis Group, announced today that the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has accepted H5N1 bulk vaccine antigen to produce approximately 38.5 million doses of vaccine to protect against a new strain of avian influenza. Sanofi Pasteur has a multi-year contract with HHS as part of its pandemic program, and will receive a payment of $192.5 million booked in the second quarter of 2008 for acceptance of the bulk vaccine lot.”(19)

[America.gov-] Changing Climate Could Alter Biology of Infectious Diseases: For avian flu, a warming climate could change the traditional flyways of migratory birds that are suspected of infecting domestic fowl around the world with highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu. Such changes also could affect interactions between wild waterfowl and domestic poultry, farmers’ interactions with poultry and the export and import of poultry worldwide.

[FluPandemic.ca] Avian Flu Virus Becoming More Resistant To Drugs - FluPandemic.ca: Despite the recent fatal case of avian flu in Beijing, overall avian flu cases in humans worldwide have decreased 55%, from 88 to 40, from 2007 to 2008, according to GIDEON Online, the largest online database of infectious disease information for medical professionals. Human deaths from avian flu worldwide declined from 59 to 30 (49%), from 2007 to 2008.Despite the drop in human cases, it is important to remember that H5N1 is continuing to evolve in dangerous ways and a global pandemic remains a growing concern.

[Mystery Rays from Outer Space] Where did avian flu come from, and where is it going? | Mystery ...: If the virus can adapt to the new host at all, there’s a smorgasbord of victims for it to infect. SARS virus jumped from palm civets into humans a few times, and then it rattled around in humans for a bit, gradually adapting and accommodating itself to humans instead of civets, until it was —

[Medclinician Avian Flu News] Medclinician Avian Flu News » Blog Archive » H7 is dangerous ...: This process is the “cooling chain of the public water supply”, from the water source to the consumers with a drinking-water temperature of, for instance, 3-5°C in the months of February/March. Cold, young, fresh drinking water taken from surface water, insufficiently protected groundwater near the surface, as well as the groundwater from rocks contaminated by influenza viruses, could be the abiotic vehicle that transports the virulent influenza viruses in winter at temperatures of 3-5°C, becoming effectively conserved in the cold and transported to humans via the “cooling chain of the public water supply”.

[PharmTech Talk] PharmTech Talk » Researchers Neutralize Avian Flu Virus with mAbs: A couple of years ago, the news media were inundated with stories of the most recent spread of the deadly avian flu infection. The certainty of facing a worldwide epidemic was looming, and I recall attending a conference session in which the presenter ran a computer simulation showing how the entire population of a small country could be infected in less than 6 weeks.

[blogs.telegraph.co.uk blog listings.] Marc Morano and Joe Romm debate the politics of climate change ...: As for Al Gore, the "Inconvenient Truth" was so much Baloney. Perhaps you should Google to see how Al Gore has benefitted financially from the Global Warming scare.

[Flu Wiki | Main / All Recent Changes] Flu Wiki - Main - Flu Wiki: No one, in any health department or government agency, knows all the things needed to cope with an influenza pandemic. But it is likely someone knows something about some aspect of each of them and if we can pool and share our knowledge we can advance preparation for and the ability to cope with events.

[The American Spectator and AmSpecBlog] The American Spectator : The Real Climate Deniers: Vaclav Klaus, keynote speaker at the New York conference and current president of the European Union, lamented that, "the minds of world leaders are firmly shut to anything but the fantasies of the scaremongers." Yet it's those same leaders who are about to consider diverting vast economic and energy resources at the current G20 and at December's "Kyoto II." Frightening, when you consider they will do so based on an agenda propagated by a highly anti-intellectual, exclusively prophetic, anti-science 'faith' movement -- the real climate deniers.

[ScienceBlogs Select] Effect Measure : Something to fear from fear of fear [updated]: In Alcabes's response to comments at Crof's blog, he seemed to echo this blog's mantra of "strengthen public health infrastructure instead of preparing specifically for one disease." His position is still that he finds a future pandemic of something other than H5N1 more likely than H5N1 (the Reveres would disagree with his reasoning I'm sure), but ultimately, he feels there is a good chance for a catastrophic pandemic of something in the future that we should prepare for. So he does stand on some solid common ground here.

[Journal] Signs and portents - Journal - Scott McPherson's Web Presence: In 2005 Dr Robert Webster, a influenza expert at St Jude's Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, suggested that China may have been using substandard vaccines that stopped symptoms of bird flu in poultry but allowed the virus to continue to spread. Recently, Guangzhou-based expert Zhong Nanshan has also said there is a danger that China's widespread vaccinations could conceal the virus.

[Extreme Biology] » Blog Archive » Everything Tastes Like Chicken: Well balanced diets and nutrition have been replaced by drive-thru McDonalds serving $1.00 “meals” of chicken nuggets. Your post, Curtis, revealed the life threatening diseases in each one of these chicken nuggets, and of chicken products similar.

[Wired: Wired Science] HIV Evolution Outpaces Vaccines | Wired Science from Wired.com: By Yuka Kawashima, Katja Pfafferott, John Frater, Philippa Matthews, Rebecca Payne, Marylyn Addo, Hiroyuki Gatanaga, Mamoru Fujiwara, Atsuko Hachiya, Hirokazu Koizumi, Nozomi Kuse, Shinichi Oka, Anna Duda, Andrew Prendergast, Hayley Crawford, Alasdair Leslie, Zabrina Brumme, Chanson Brumme, Todd Allen, Christian Brander, Richard Kaslow, James Tang, Eric Hunter, Susan Allen, Joseph Mulenga, Songee Branch, Tim Roach, Mina John, Simon Mallal, Anthony Ogwu, Roger Shapiro, Julia G.

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