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[Avianflu.typepad.com] Avian Flu - What we need to know: Even as the World Health Organization presses China and other countries to share bird-flu data for the public good, the WHO itself runs a database limited to a select group of scientists and containing a massive trove of data -- some 2,300 genetic sequences of the virus, around a third of the world's known sequences, according to two people familiar with the database's contents. Any one of those sequences could hold clues to an effective human vaccine or drugs that could kill the virus, or help scientists determine how great a threat it poses.

 [Nature.com] Avian flu special The flu pandemic: were we ready? : Nature: I'm Sally O'Reilly, a freelance journalist based in Washington DC. I've been researching a book on pandemic preparedness.

 [Googleblog.blogspot.com] Official Google Blog: Bird flu basics: The avian flu's jump to humans was first detected in 1997, although all the human deaths reported so far (about 60 since 2003) have been due to transmission from animals to humans. There has been more concern recently because the virus has been detected in migratory birds which can't be caught and killed - and which may carry the virus to Europe and Africa within the next two migratory seasons.

 [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.

[Biopeer] Africa and China continue avian flu fight: The Ministry of Agriculture has declared that the most recent bird flu epidemic that had occurred in Hotan County of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was under control. The Severe Animal Epidemic Prevention office in Xinjiang informed the ministry that no new cases had been detected in the last three weeks.

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