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 [Bloggersblog.com] Bloggers Blog -- Bird Flu / Avian Flu: However, as the disease has spread and there have been more warnings from scientists and government leaders about the possibility of an unstoppable pandemic the number of bird flu bloggers has increased. Even more alarming was a recent study that found that the flu virus that caused the deadly 1918 flu pandemic also originated in birds just like the H5N1 strain that looms as a human threat today.

 [Sciencenewsblog.com] Science News Blog -- Bird Flu / Avian Flu: Mao Qunan said: "The Ministry of Health and the WHO have confirmed that none of the experts whom WHO commissioned to investigate avian influenza in Hunan was a Japanese virus expert. The report that says that this expert has claimed that hundreds of Chinese have died because of avian influenza infection is untrue." The Japanese scientist Masato Tashiro told New Scientist that he thought China's officially reported death toll of 3 was just the tip of the iceberg.

[Healthnewsblog.com] Health News Blog -- Bird Flu / Avian Flu H5N1: At the first major international co-ordination meeting on bird flu, a senior World Bank economist said that if the financial fallout of the SARS outbreak two years ago is any indication, a flu pandemic could cause world gross domestic product to drop by 2 per cent or more. That would amount to about $800-billion (U.S.) in losses over the course of a year, said Milan Brahmbhatt.

 [Flu Patrol] Philippines and the bird flu: Indonesia is only several kilometers below the Philippines, while Thailand and Vietnam sit on its west. With it’s many scattered islands facing these countries, it would not be easy for infected wild birds to fly unnoticed into the Philippine shores.

 [Inolesco: growth of the avian flu] Lengthy, but good article on bird flu: Rapid antigen detection by immunofluorescence assay and enzyme immunoassay, virus isolation by culture in HeP-2, RD cells or MDCK cell lines and identification by immunofluorescence assay using specific monoclonal antibody and haemagglutination inhibition assay have been used for diagnosis. Detection of influenza- specific RNA by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction, by using primer sets specific for HA sequence of influenza A/H5 and of N1 are some of the other tests that have been developed.

[Health Tips] Bird flu preparation: Recently, a lot of money has been put into the research of the drug ‘Tamiflu’, manufactured by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche. Tamiflu has been shown to work effectively against the symptoms of the H5N1 strain of influenza.

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