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[Untitled] 19-year-old woman in Beijing dies of avian flu: The Beijing Health Bureau said 116 people, including Huang’s 14 family members and neighbors and 102 medical workers, had been in close contact with the patient. Among them, one nurse suffered a fever but has recovered.

[Honolulu Advertiser - Breaking news] Beijing reports suspected bird-flu fatality | HonoluluAdvertiser ...: China's government was criticized by the WHO for its slow response to the 2003 SARS outbreak, which infected 8,098 people globally, killing 774, almost a third of the cases in the Chinese capital. President Hu Jintao fired health minister Zhang Wenkang and Beijing mayor Meng Xuenong in 2003, after admitting that the city had covered up the number of SARS cases in the city.

[Untitled] Difficult times for Guangdong: 19-year-old woman in Beijing dies of avian flu · Chinese epic to be recut for Western audiences ». Difficult times for Guangdong. URL: http://health.126xiaoshuo.com/2009/01/difficult-times-for-guangdong/. DESPITE a 10.1-percent growth ...

[Untitled] Avian influenza (125): China (JS) « Medical Operations ...: Avian influenza (122): Cambodia, China, India, Taiwan (susp) 20081218.3992 Avian influenza (117): China (HK), H5N1, India (Assam) 20081212.3909 Avian influenza (115): China (JS, HB, HE) susp, RFI 20081204.3813] ……………………………………….arn/msp/lm

[Silobreaker Feed] Silobreaker: China confirms woman died of bird flu in Beijing: 9:46 am TWN, By Karl Malakunas, AFP BEIJING -- Bird flu re-emerged as a threat in Asia on Tuesday when China reported the disease killed a woman in Beijing and neighboring .- [

[Untitled] S. China province tightens poultry market inspection after bird ...: Experts from Shenzhen city's health bureau and disease control center went to the village to investigate. They collected blood samples from the baby's grandmother and eight staff members in a local hospital who had contact with the baby.

[Untitled] Avian and Pandemic Influenza: The Global Response: Working through the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza and other bilateral and multilateral activities, the U.S. government and others in the international community have developed national and international programs to prevent, detect and limit the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza and other flu viruses that have pandemic potential. Central to that effort is building infrastructure, including laboratory capacity and international rapid response mechanisms, to protect animal and human health.

[Untitled] Officials Say Bird Deaths in NE China Not Bird Flu: The recent tide of poultry death in two cites in east China's Jiangsu Province was not from the infection of bird flu, said an agricultural official in Beijing on 19 December, according to official sources.

[ICG Spaces - community weblog] ICG's Supply Chain-Outsourcing Abstracts, April 2004 - December 2008: China is again failing to provide requested urgently information and samples, this time about three outbreaks among migrating wild birds in the remote western provinces of Qinghai and Xinjiang where avian flu outbreaks now threaten all of previously unaffected countries of Central Asia and Russia... Based upon prior Chinese performance over SARS reporting, one is left unsatisfied with the Chinese response that "the infection in Xinjiang has been contained." Independent Chinese scientists that report on avian flu outbreaks are again under attack by the Agriculture Ministry while foreign researchers are quiet lest China bar them from entry.

[Flu News Blog] Bird flu found in chickens in eastern China - The Associated Press: BEIJING (AP) ”” Authorities in eastern China have killed more than 300000 fowl after bird flu was discovered in chickens, the Agriculture Ministry said …

[Untitled] Bird Flu Monitor: Idaho Bird Farm Quarantined With Avian Flu Strain: According to a statement from the Agriculture Department, the type of virus found in the Idaho game bird is commonly found in wild birds and normally causes only minor illness in the animals.

[The Swamp] President Bush: 'Economic turmoil': We've worked to prevent the spread of potential pandemic diseases like avian flu and SARS. We've worked to confront climate change and usher in a new age of clean energy.

[Untitled] China Digital Times » Caijing articles on Avian Flu: China Has Had ...: In 2004, the Ministry of Health proposed to the Ministry of Agriculture close cooperation and rapid information exchange on avian flu and avian flu to human transmission. The Ministry of Agriculture was slow to respond, a framework for cooperation was finally signed in mid October 2005 but a Ministry of Health told Caijing on October 10 that the procedures for exchanging data had still not been agreed upon.

[Untitled] Bird Flu in Hong Kong 80000 birds culled « Medical Operations ...: In fact, recent studies have shown that the cooking methods that are already recommended by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for poultry and eggs to prevent other infections will destroy influenza viruses as well.

[Untitled] China Culls 377000 poultry in East China After Finding Bird Flu ...: Contact with migratory birds carrying the virus is one possible cause of infection in the poultry, the statement said. The announcement comes after dead chickens in Hong Kong last week tested positive for the H5N1 strain, and India culled more than 250,000 birds in its northeast to contain an outbreak.

[Untitled] Effect Measure : Public health: how to join the conversation: I have found it quite remarkable that political blogs that are intensely critical of almost all of President Bush's administration have been largely silent on Dr. Gerberding's performance.

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