[Previous] The Flu Birds are Coming...

 [Next] WHO: Expect More Bird Flu in Other Nations...

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

 [IAG Blog] Avian Flu - the next SARS: Reuters -- Romanian authorities slaughtered poultry and sent in doctors on Sunday after the deadly strain of bird flu was confirmed in the Danube delta, and officials elsewhere in Europe prepared for a possible pandemic.

[Tim Worstall] Kurzweil and Joy in the NYT.: The annual flu tide originates in China where a varient of avian flu mutates and enters the human population. By all accounts this is such a predictable phenomenon that doctors set their calendars by it.

 [A Daily Briefing on Iran] High wild bird mortality in Iran, health body says: in the country's wetlands and lakes. Experts fear that if the birdflu virus mutates in the future...

[Tahilla.typepad.com] Bird Flu Watch: "The government has made the decision to supply our embassies and consulates outside the European Union (EU) with anti-viral drugs of Tamiflu and protection masks so that 30 percent of the French abroad can be taken care of," said Foreign Ministry Spokesman Jean-Baptiste Mattei, adding that the ratio of protection was the same as that aimed for within France itself.

 [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.

[Avianflu.futurehs.com] Avian Flu: The victims to date were infected through contact with poultry and other species, but the fear is that the HN51 virus, the most deadly strain of avian flu, could mutate to become transmissible between humans, unleashing a global pandemic. Compounding the threat is the fact that most countries lack the information systems needed to quickly spot local outbreaks and analyze and share critical data with world health authorities–steps that are vital to stopping the spread of an emerging epidemic.

 [En.wikipedia.org] Avian influenza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: It is feared that if the avian influenza virus undergoes antigenic shift to the point where it can cross the species barrier (e.g., from birds to humans), the new subtype created could be both highly contagious and highly lethal in humans. Such a subtype could cause a global pandemic similar to the Spanish Flu that killed up to 50 million people in 1918.

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Bird_flu, Bird Flu Monitor