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[Modern Tribalist] Millions of pilgrims who gather in Mecca for the annual haj pilgrimage risk creating the conditions in which a pandemic strain: "If Saudi authorities discover a sporadic human case of bird flu in Mecca then extreme and immediate action will be needed. If a second and similar case is spotted in the same area then you have a clustering of cases, you suspect there are other forms of transmission," Pittet said.
[Living the Scientific Life (or Scientist, Interrupted)] Birds in the News #33: But even with a high infection rate, dog mortality is low, Cynda Crawford, the veterinary immunologist from the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine in Gainesville who first identified the virus, said at a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention briefing.
[Guardian.co.uk] Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Bird flu in Turkey is ...: "Confirmation that highly pathogenic avian influenza has been found in Turkey and that Avian influenza is now also in Romania is of concern," said the chief veterinary officer in Britain, Debby Reynolds. "It shows there is a risk to the UK and this is a developing situation, which we are monitoring closely."
[Biocrawler.com] Definition of Avian influenza - Biocrawler: 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.
[Connotea.org] Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag AvianFlu: "As fears spread about a potential flu pandemic, Roche's antiviral drug Tamiflu (oseltamivir phosphate) has found itself thrust under the spotlight. With the current supply thought to cover just 2% of the world population, health officials and researchers are asking how Roche can create enough supplies to be stockpiled and help control an outbreak until a vaccine can be made.
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