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 [The Great Minnesota Progressive Newswire] Bird Flu Drug Rendered Useless: Amantadine is one of two types of medication for treating human influenza. But researchers determined last year that the H5N1 bird flu strain circulating in Vietnam and Thailand, the two countries hardest hit by the virus, had become resistant, leaving only an alternative drug that is difficult to produce in large amounts and much less affordable, especially for developing countries in Southeast Asia.

[Avian Flu - What we need to know] Indonesia: bird flu found in pigs: Bird flu has infected pigs in Indonesia, raising fears of a wider outbreak in the world's fourth-most populous country and South-East Asia's biggest economy, the Agriculture Ministry said today.

 [En.wikipedia.org] Avian influenza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: It is feared that if the avian influenza virus undergoes antigenic shift with a human influenza virus, the new subtype created could be both highly contagious andhighly lethal in humans. Such a subtype could cause a global influenza pandemic,similar to the Spanish Flu that killed over 20 million people in 1918 (thougha variety of sources quote average figures even higher, up to 100 million in some cases).

 [Nature.com] Avian flu special The flu pandemic: were we ready? : Nature: Here's the transcript: "At this hour, the World Health Organization has declared a full-scale pandemic influenza alert, with person-to-person spread lasting more than two weeks in Cambodia and Vietnam. During previous influenza pandemics in the United States, large numbers of people were ill, sought medical care, were hospitalized and died.

[Trishwilson.typepad.com] Trish Wilson's Blog: Scientists Believe That Bird Flu Will Mutate ...: Although few deaths have been reported so far, it is very likely that the numbers will increase." The symptoms of avian influenza in humans includes "typical influenza-like symptoms (e.g., fever, cough, sore throat, and muscle aches) to eye infections (conjunctivitis), pneumonia, acute respiratory distress, viral pneumonia, and other severe and life-threatening complications." Influenza drugs such as amantadine, rimantadine, oseltamivir, and zanamivir have worked, but influenza strains may become resistant to drug treatment so these drugs may not always be effective.

 [Technorati.com] Technorati: Tag: bird flu: [IMG bird flu cartoon] Korea has banned poultry imports from the U.S. state of New York. Seoul's Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry said that it has...

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