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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.

 [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.

 [Nature.com] news @ nature.com - Bird flu 2005: the ongoing story - News@nature ...: newRows += getNewSubRow('DarksideoftheUniverse', '/news/infocus/DarksideoftheUniverse.html', 'Dark side of the Universe'); newRows += getNewSubRow('dinosaurs', '/news/infocus/dinosaurs.html', 'Dinosaurs'); newRows += getNewSubRow('climatechange', '/news/infocus/climatechange.html', 'Climate change'); newRows += getNewSubRow('futurecomputing', '/news/infocus/futurecomputing.html', 'Future computing'); newRows += getNewSubRow('antibiotics', '/news/infocus/antibiotics.html', 'Antibiotics'); newRows += getNewSubRow('stemcells', '/news/infocus/stemcells.html', 'Stem cells'); newRows += getNewSubRow('birdflu', '/news/infocus/birdflu.html', 'Bird flu');

[Healthnewsblog.com] Health News Blog -- Bird Flu / Avian Flu H5N1: Another WHO expert, Dr Mike Ryan, director of epidemic and pandemic alert, said, "We truly feel that this present threat is likely to stretch our global systems to the point of collapse." H5N1 has continued to spread easily from country to country and scientists are sounding more alarmist with each new human case and with each discovery of the virus in a new country.

[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] Researchers Develop New Way to Assess Pandemic... : Washington PostResearchers Develop New Way to Assess Pandemic Potential of .Infection Control Today, AZ - 53 minutes ago .

[ » FavBuzz.com] Laos holds emergency meeting on bird flu -... : Bangkok (dpa) - Communist Laos called an emergency cabinet meeting Monday to discuss combatting an outbreak of avian influenza in the landlocked country, state-run radio said.

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