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[The 'Weird Blog] A Coming Pandemic? Here's a Timeline:: - A British laboratory detected the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain in new samples taken from Romania last week, Agriculture Minister Gheorghe Flutur said on Wednesday.
[The Coming Influenza Pandemic?] October 18 Flu Update: In Thailand, the birdflu is ruled out in the case of a man with a respiratory disease...." The EU nations had a meeting today, and they declared birdflu to be a global threat..., WHO is warning Europeans not to hoard Tamiflu, noting that it is not a vaccine.
[Frat Pack College Fraternity, Sorority, Frat Party Community Message Board Frat Pack Forum] EU ministers hold emergency bird flu talks: Roche Holding AG said it would be willing to discuss giving a production license for Tamiflu to rival firms including Indian generic drug maker Cipla. Executive David Reddy said however the firm had not yet been approached by Cipla, which says it could make a copy-cat version to help governments build stockpiles.
[Bird-flu-updates.com] Bird Flu Updates: In Europe, most poultry farms are large affairs with a high bird to human ratio - making it easier to contain outbreaks and monitor potential infected people. In much of the rest of the world, many people have a few number of birds each - greatly increasing the difficulty of monitoring and control and giving the virus more exposure to humans.
[Effectmeasure.blogspot.com] Effect Measure: In meetings earlier this month in a secret room in the Capitol, representatives of the Health and Human Services Department and the intelligence community gave a "bird flu" presentation to congressional leaders and staffers that included at least one slide classified "top secret." But three officials familiar with the briefings, who asked for anonymity because the material is still classified, say the sessions contained little, if any, information those in attendance had not already heard from the media. The "top secret" element of the presentation, the officials say, was intelligence information raising questions about whether more than one foreign country was thoroughly monitoring, and disclosing the extent of, the spread of bird flu.
[En.wikipedia.org] H5N1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: On August 3, 2005, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said it was following closely reports from China that at least 38 people have died and more than 200 others have been made ill by a swine-borne disease (possible "pig flu" outbreak) in Sichuan province. Sichuan Province, where infections with Streptococcus suis have been detected in pigs in a concurrent outbreak, has one of the largest pig populations in China.
[Cbs2.com] KCBS: Bird Flu Found In Greece: Preliminary tests have identified bird flu and narrowed down the virus to the H5 type, but more rigorous testing is being conducted to determine whether it is the deadly H5N1 strain that scientists are tracking for fear it could mutate and spawn a lethal human flu pandemic capable of killing millions.
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