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 [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.

[Thecatsdream.com] The Cat's Blog: Bird Flu: Two million Britons could die in the bird flu pandemic that experts warn is both imminent and inevitable, one of the country's leading authorities has told The Independent on Sunday. Professor Hugh Pennington, the president of the Society for General Microbiology and professor emeritus of bacteriology at Aberdeen University, also criticised the the Government's "optimistic" attitude to a potentially devastating pandemic, likening it to official complacency over BSE a decade ago.

[Crofsblogs.typepad.com] H5N1: In 1997, when H5N1 killed its first human victim (a 3-year-old boy in Hong Kong), it took several months to identify the virus””but that was because labs in the US and Europe had no reason to think the virus was anything unusual. When it was finally identified as H5N1, thoroughly scared experts poured into Hong Kong and got solid cooperation from the authorities.

[Weblog.physorg.com] PhysOrg.com: Science, Technology Blog:    Only registered PhysOrg.com users can submit new stories to PhysOrg WebLog, but everyone can comment

[Blog.lib.umn.edu] Schwitzer health news blog: Bird flu pandemic?: The director of the CDC said yesterday that the bird flu virus may mutate to human form and said her agency is preparing for a possible pandemic next year.

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Bird Flu, Flu, China, Indonesia, Indonesia, Bird Flu Monitor