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 [Body of Wealth] World on a bird flu threat and has no preparation to combat it: Humans have no natural immunity to the avian influenza virus and there hasn’t been any discovery of the vaccine that can protect humans against the virus. While the virus manifests itself mostly in birds, cases of the virus mutating to infect humans have been registered and are majorly fatal.

[Men's & Drug's] Scientists Create First Successful Libraries of Avian Flu Virus ...: An international group of American and Turkish research scientists, led by Sea Lane Biotechnologies, has created the first comprehensive monoclonal antibody libraries against avian influenza (H5N1) using samples from survivors of the 2005/2006 “bird flu” outbreak in Turkey.These antibody libraries hold the promise for developing a therapy that could stop a pandemic in its tracks and provide treatment to those infected, as well as potentially pointing the way towards the development of a universal flu vaccine.

 [Bird Flu WHO News] WHO To Update Guidelines for Possible Flu Pandemic: About 150 experts from governments, the World Health Organization, and other organizations are meeting to work on new guidelines to help nations confront and combat a potential influenza pandemic.

 [dept good time blog] Bird Flu : A Disease You Can’t Ignore: Symptoms of Avian Influenza in Humans The reported symptoms of avian influenza in humans have ranged from typical influenza-like symptoms (fever, cough, sore throat and muscle aches) to eye infections, pneumonia, acute respiratory distress, viral pneumonia and other severe and life-threatening complications. Present cases infer that lower bronchial tube symptoms and lung inflammation are also striking differences that set avian influenza apart from the common flu.

 [teamrich.wordpress.com] Asian Bird Flu Virus | H5N1: The new flu outbreak in Hong Kong raised memories of the deadly H3N2 virus also called the severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which surfaced in southern China in November 2002 and later killed 299 people in Hong Kong. That disease ground this bustling financial capital to a halt as locals avoided going out, while the government was criticized for not responding quickly enough.

 [my web about wow] WHO to Update Guidelines for Possible Flu Pandemic: The Coordinator of WHO’s Global Influenza Program, Keiji Fukuda, says the near term risk of an avian influenza pandemic breaking out among humans is anyone’s guess. Therefore, he says, it becomes all the more important that governments be prepared to help their people survive a disease that could potentially kill millions.

[Covering Violence & Global Health] Local Laboratory Looks To Solve Pandemic Flu: Katze Laboratory, a part of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington, is one such lab that is doing the research and partnering with local health organizations to try to solve the problem that is pandemic influenza.

 [itemchannel welcome] WHO to Update Guidelines for Possible Flu Pandemic: The Coordinator of WHO’s Global Influenza Program, Keiji Fukuda, says the near term risk of an avian influenza pandemic breaking out among humans is anyone’s guess. Therefore, he says, it becomes all the more important that governments be prepared to help their people survive a disease that could potentially kill millions.

 [Journal] Listen to the voices from the past; and who shall we save?: Not only is the planet overdue for another flu pandemic, scientists say, the United States is due for an influenza virus as bad or worse than the flu that killed more than 500,000 Americans in 1918 and 1919. Experts believe that if a similar pandemic struck again, with modern transportation moving unwittingly infected people quickly around the world, millions of Americans could die.

 [palashbiswas] Bird Flu Chaos Generated to Extend MNC Empire of Retail Chain ...: The virulence of the influenza virus depends on temperature and time. If young and fresh H5N1 contaminated water from low local wells, cisterns, tanks, rain barrels or rice fields is used for water supply the water temperature for infection may be higher (at 24°C the virulence of influenza viruses amount to 2 days) as in temperate climates (for “older” water from central water supplies cold water is decisive to virulence of viruses: at 7°C the virulence of influenza viruses amount to 14 days).

 [Suryadijepang's Weblog] Keterlibatan dalam Perjajian Internasional: Yasuhisa Shiozaki, Senior-Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, at the Pledging Session of the International Pledging Conference on Avian and Human Pandemic Influenza (January 18, 2006)

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