Bird Flu Monitor > Bird Flu Update 10-16-05

Bloggers Blog -- Blogging the Blogospherehttp://www.bloggersblog.com [Bloggers Blog -- Blogging the Blogosphere] Even the Google Blog is covering the bird flu. This line downplays the situation a little too much: "For now, avian flu is just a 'virus of interest' to medical researchers." But the post had a nice short timeline of past killer flu outbreaks:

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Tom's Internet Biz Blog and Corporate Podcasting Productionhttp://www.4webresults.com/blog [ Tom's Internet Biz Blog and Corporate Podcasting Production] [IMG Candian Blogger Crawford Kilian Talks about H5N1 BirdFlu] Candian Blogger Crawford Kilian Talks about H5N1 BirdFlu: Have you heard of H5N1?  It sounds like the title of a science fiction book, but it’s actually the name of a virus with the potential of killing every second person who contracts it.

Sciencenewsblog.comhttp://www.sciencenewsblog.com [Sciencenewsblog.com] Science News Blog -- Bird Flu / Avian Flu: Infectious disease experts are very concerned that the bird flu could mutate into a more virulent form that could spread easily from human to human. So far the majority of the cases have involved humans catching the virus directly from poultry and there have only been a couple isolated unconfirmed cases where a human caught the virus from close contact with a sick human.

Bloggersblog.comhttp://www.bloggersblog.com [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.

[Birdflumonitor.com] Bird Flu Monitor: Bird Flu Blog:  [Drmartinwilliams.com] Info and links re bird flu, especially the nasty H5N1 variant in Asia: - However, at a meeting on bird flu organised by FAO at the beginning of February, "Experts present at the talks agreed that such targeted vaccination would help prevent animals falling ill and reduce the amount of virus present in the environment, the so-called “viral load”. Minimising viral load will reduce the potential of avian influenza spreading to humans, if accompanied by strict control measures such as surveillance, elimination of infected birds, animal movement control and observation of basic hygiene in animal production.

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