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 [America.gov: english] Egypt Meeting Increases Total Avian Flu Assistance: “Global health issues are intertwined,” said Ambassador John Lange, special representative for avian and pandemic influenza at the State Department. “Our multidisciplinary efforts against pandemic influenza must also enhance the global management of other potentially fatal diseases that will continue to take a high toll during a pandemic.”

[Vietnam RSS News Feed by Intellasia.Net] New, injected flu drug appears to protect: study -- Vietnam's ...: Tamiflu, known generically as oseltamivir, and Relenza, known generically as zanamivir, can both reduce the time people are sick and also prevent infection with flu if given in time. Tamiflu is the preferred treatment for H5N1 avian influenza, which has killed 245 people in Asia, Africa and Europe since late 2003.

 [Geology News] Genetic evidence for avian influenza movement from Asia to North ...: Genetic evidence for avian influenza movement from Asia to North America via wild birds. Wild migratory birds may be more important carriers of avian influenza viruses from continent to continent than previously thought, according to .

 [Science Current Events | Science News | Brightsurf.com] Avian flu threat: New approach needed: Ministers of health and agriculture will formulate a global plan to prepare for, and respond to, the threat of avian flu and other emerging infectious diseases at the International Ministerial Conference on Avian and Pandemic Influenza in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt (October 24-26). The plan - called the One World, One Health initiative - aims for an unprecedented integration of animal, human and ecosystem health issues to fight the threat of the avian flu virus, H5N1.

[Vietnam Info-Tech RSS News Feed by Intellasia.Net] Flu pandemic may cost world economy up to US$3tr -- Vietnam's ...: The spread of the H5N1 avian-influenza strain across Asia, Africa and Europe prompted the development of vaccines and the slaughter of poultry from Indonesia to the UK Measures to avoid infection would generate most of the costs, said the report, which used simulations to underline the importance of global preparations for a pandemic sparked by bird flu. Human cases of H5N1 infection have fallen by half this year as controls of outbreaks in poultry improve.

 [Biology News Net - Microbiology] Protein 'tubules' free avian flu virus from immune recognition: The two researchers had already recognized the importance of the protein NS1 in the virulence of influenza viruses and particularly, H5N1, a form of avian flu associated with more than half the deaths in a 2004 "bird flu" outbreak that resulted in 50 human cases and 36 deaths in Vietnam, China and Thailand. In all but one case, experts ruled out human-to-human spread of the virus.

 [Prepared Citizens] Free Flu Shot Clinic in Palmer MA by the BOH « Prepared Citizens: As of the July 25, 2008 FAO Avian Influenza Disease Emergency Situation Update, H5N1 pathogenicity is continuing to gradually rise in wild birds in endemic areas but the avian influenza disease situation in farmed birds is being held in check by vaccination.

 [Chicken Farm] Chicken Farm after Bird Flu - Chicken Farm: The avian influenza virus spread only in temperatures less than 15 degrees Celsius and would disappear when it turned warm in April and May and the market would revive just as it did after the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) last year, Fusaid.

 [Prepared Citizens] Pandemics Are Not Always Caused By Influenza Viruses « Prepared ...: From bubonic plague, hemorrhagic fever, HIV/AIDs, SARS, typhus, smallpox, cholera, yellow fever, influenza, scarlet fever, malaria, diphtheria, and poliomyelitis are some infectious diseases that have resulted in epidemic or pandemic outbreaks. today, there are the drug resistant diseases like tuberculosis and MRSA which threaten to outpace modern science as far as treatment and containment are concerned.

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