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[Flu Symptoms, Treatment, Cold, Stomach, Swine Flu] Small populations of waterfowl in California’s Central Valley wetlands in the summer and warm conditions do not prevent circulation of low-pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) in migratory birds, according to a study yesterday in PLoS One. US researchers collected water and fecal samples at 10 wetlands in the Yolo Bypass and Sacramento Valley regions every 2 weeks from late July to late August 2010.

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[RP40] After migratory birds, can avian flu be far behind? | RP40: The Philippines is the only country in Southeast Asia that is free from the avian flu virus. To protect the country from the virus, the Department of Agriculture has banned the import of wild birds, their by-products and derivatives from bird flu-infected countries.

[Davao Today] DENR-11 starts bird counting activity | Davao Today: DENR-XI regional executive director Jim O Sampulna said that the bird .Residents of this region are however warned not to enter into this venture as this bird maybe carrying the dangerous avian flu virus.

[Avian Flu Talk] Avian Flu Talk: Little Egret in HK positive for H5N1: A spokesman for the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) said today (January 17) that a dead little egret found in Yuen Long on January 12 was confirmed to be H5N1-positive after a series of laboratory tests.

[1 Pakistan News] No threats of bird flu in Pakistan | 1 Pakistan News: in that it refers to an illness caused by any of many different strains of influenza viruses that have adapted to a specific host.All known viruses that cause influenza in birds belong to the species influenza A virus.All subtypes (but not all strains of all subtypes) of influenza A virus are adapted to birds, which is why for many purposes avian flu virus is the influenza A virus.When contacted National Institute of Health (NIH), officials told that they have not received any reports regarding threats of bird flu in Pakistan.Talking to APP, Secretary General Pakistan Poultry Association, Dr.Bashir Ahmad Bhatti said virus of bird flu was not detected anywhere in the country and these are just rumours.He was of the view that these rumours are spread with some specific agenda and the main aim is to shamble the business of poultry.There are black sheep in every sector and there may be some non state actors which might be planting such news which are baseless and have no grounds, he went on to add.Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2011

[Avian Flu Talk] Avian Flu Talk: H5N1 in Phillipines: A report on the Asian Waterfowl Census held early this year indicated that a total of 51 waterbird species was observed in the regionâ€â™s wetlands. Among these were egrets (little, intermediate, great and cattle egret), herons (purple, grey, great-billed rufous night and little green heron), bittern, redshrank, greenshrank, wood sand piper, Philippine duck, wandering whistling duck, tufled duck, black-winged stilt, Pacific golden plover, shirebirds, kingfishers, brahminy kite, wagtail and grey-tailed tattler.

[54 Music News] Avian Flu – EU Reports Of Italy, Greece, Slovenia, Bulgaria | 54 ...: In the protection zone, poultry ought to be kept indoors, movement of poultry is banned except directly towards the slaughterhouse as well as the dispatch of meat outside the zone is forbidden except where goods have undergone the controls supplied for in EU food controls legislation (i.e meat sourced from wholesome animals in registered farms, subject to ante and post mortem checks by vets within the slaughterhouse). In both the protection zone and also the surveillance zone, on-farm biosecurity measures need to be strengthened, hunting of wild birds is banned and illness awareness of poultry owners and their families should be carried out.

[Red Automundo: Rene6575's blog] Red Automundo: Rene6575's blog: 'The First Great Pandemic in ...: In Britain, alarm in the press and on television has focused on long-distance migratory wildfowl arriving to winter here in salt marshes, estuaries, and wetlands. Commentators have emphasized the possibility that these migrants from the East might infect domestic chickens and turkeys in intensive farms with the virulent H5N1 strain of avian flu, and so set off a lethal pandemic.

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[News World Plus] No threats of bird flu in Pakistan | News World Plus: to APP, Biologist at Pakistan Wetlands Programme, Dr. Jamshed Chaudhary said “We along with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recently tested the migratory birds but no detection of any viral disease including avian flu was revealed”.

[The PCIJ Blog] Wild-bird smugglers pose avian-flu threat « The PCIJ Blog: They hid their prized birds or moved these to other farms, exacerbating the country’s bird-flu problem. In fact, the illegal movement of game fowl has since been cited as one of the main factors in the spread of bird flu in several Thai provinces.

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[The Extinction Protocol: 2012 and beyond] Chinese man dies of highly virulent strain of H5N1 flu | The ...: Chen is the first fatal case of the H5N1 virus in China in 18 months. But his death has put the world’s most populous country and the rest of the region on high alert. The H5N1 virus, which kills 60 per cent of those infected when it jumps species, has killed 332 people worldwide since 2003, according to WHO figures.

[CIT Blog] Google Earth advice from student Dax Kelso | Center for ...: With the Spreadsheet Mapper and Google Earth’s own polygon drawing tools, students themselves are also completely capable of transcribing medical data into Google Earth, so teachers could assign projects that utilize Google Earth to display data. In this way, teachers can give students practical experience with epidemiological tools and hopefully pique the interest of the next great epidemiologist.

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