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[io9] Avian Flu Is An STD? - Avian Flu - io9: Scientists have discovered an unexpected fact about bird flu: It might be a sexually-transmitted disease, at least in ducks. And, just as unexpectedly, the key to transmission may be all about penis size and vagina "complexity."

[Politics & Current Affairs Forum] Avian flu spread through duck sex - Politics & Current Affairs Forum: Bird flu specialist John McCauley at the National Institute for Medical Research in London says that the idea of sexual flu transmission and its dependence on reproductive anatomy and copulation habits is interesting. "It's quite feasible that they are right, but it will be important to make sure that the epidemiological evidence is robust and not biased by differences in sampling methods."

[pacificit timeline] pacificit: Emperor's ducks sick with bird flu | The Japan Times ...: Emperor's ducks sick with bird flu | The Japan Times Online http://bit.ly/8zC3P (RT @pacificIT)

[ThePoultrySite - Industry News] BIRD FLU: Imperial Ducks Sick with Bird Flu: GLOBAL - Summary of Bird Flu / Avian Influenza related news from across the world.

[MeriNews: News Articles from World, India, Entertainment, Technology, Sports, Lifestyle & Business] Bird flu in Assam: The culling is being carried out in about 48 villages within a five-kilometre radius of village Thakurchuba in Kamrup district, about 40 km west of Assam’s main city of Guwahati. The poultry targeted includes ducks and chickens. Some 22 Rapid Response Teams are engaged in the operation which is expected to be completed in the next two or three days.

[Bird Flu Monitor] Bird Flu Monitor: Referral: Concerned Health Officials, Skeptical ...: Covering Pandemic Influenza, H1N1 `Swine Flu', H5N1 `Bird Flu' and other Emerging Infectious Diseases with an emphasis on Individual and Community preparedness. Nothing new there, experts say that the original 1918 H1N1 virus was with us until the 50's until crowded out by the pandemic strain that emerged in the late fifties, which came from wild ducks in the form of a re-assorted H2N2 virus, which experts also say then re-arranged again a decade .

[Flu Wiki Forum - Recent Comments] Japan: Emperor's ducks sick with bird flu: The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry said the birds do not have to be culled and asked the agency to monitor them. All birds on the farm would have been culled if they had been infected with a highly pathogenic version of bird flu.

[Bird Flu Monitor] Bird Flu Monitor: A TIME'S MEMORY: Highly pathogenic avian ...: ducks This podcast discusses the risk assessment work the Agency has done on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). Bird Flu vs.

[Flu News Blog] Flu News Blog - NZ bird flu 'could mutate into more serious form ...: NZ bird flu 'could mutate into more serious form' Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - Sep 19, 2008. Biosecurity New Zealand team manager Andre van Halderen said the Southland ducks were the first time that low-pathogenicity avian influenza H5N1 .

[Bird Flu Monitor] Bird Flu Monitor: Avian Flu Is An STD? - Avian Flu - io9: Scientists have discovered an unexpected fact about bird flu: It might be a sexually-transmitted disease, at least in ducks. And, just as unexpectedly, the key to transmission may be all about penis size and vagina "complexity." .

[Noteshow] Noteshow » Blog Archive » How Many People Would a Bird Flu ...: This means that you could be infected by an A/H5N1 virus left on a doorknob by someone who opened that door several hours before you.

[FAO Media Partnership's Weblog] From our Radioman: Bird Flu Threatens Traditional Markets (Flu ...: (Q: can you please tell us when you receive live chickens, what are the treatment and welfare for the chickens to prevent bird flu?) “We are traders, so the circulation is regular, it means come and go. So they do not stay overnight in the cages and directly we feed and give drink then sold.

[Noteshow] Noteshow » Blog Archive » Avian Bird Flu: How Far The Virus Can ...: But these symptoms are not the final verdict on the confirmation of an infection by the virus. This is because all the symptoms that have been discussed above are the common symptoms for a typical flu and the various other viral infections.

[Flu News Network] WHO: Viral Pneumonia More Common With Swine Flu Than Common Flu ...: The World Health Organization urged doctors Friday to treat suspected swine flu cases as quickly as possible with antiviral drugs, warning that the virus can cause potentially life-threatening viral pneumonia much more commonly than the typical flu, sometimes in relatively young, otherwise healthy people.

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