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[Bird-flu-blog.blogspot.com] Bird-Flu-Blog: 03/01/2006 - 03/31/2006: While we are glad to see that the International Monetary Fund has bird flu on its radar, we disagree with its conclusion that in a bird flu pandemic "GDP might drop very sharply in one quarter and then rebound the next," he said. "The sharp decline would be due to the fact that rates of absenteeism and illness between them would reduce the labor force and labor time substantially." To the contrary, experts predict that bird flu will come in "waves" and last approximately 18 months.
[Flickr.com] Avian Influenza Incidence Tracking Map, February 27th, 2006: 45 ...: We should not be astonished to learn of H5N1 outbreaks in birds or people in the next few weeks in nations located along the East Africa flyway, which overlaps with the already contaminated Black Sea/Mediterranean one: Cameroon, Chad, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Gabon, Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Madagascar, Mozambique, Malawi and the rest of the eastern African countries.
[Newsdissector.org] News Dissector Blog » 2005 » November » 04: Birdflu: you may have noticed that birdflu "arrived" in Turkey several weeks ago. Suffice to say that no one here is worried, except for bureaucrats who mandated the mass-slaughter of everything with wings in several rural areas;
[Drmartinwilliams.com] DocMartin - Henry Niman wild goose chase for flu in russia - Forum: It is of course possible that some species might have been involved as vectors in one or more of these outbreaks (in the case of Qinghai, timing of outbreak for example could coincide with arrivals of wild ducks coming from SE China, where also many domestic ducks are kept in natural wetlands; if infected in SE China but still capable of migration and shedding the virus -- itself possible?- they would then mix with Bar-headed Geese and Great Black-headed Gull arriving from the southwest.
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