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 [Time.blogs.com] TIME.com: The TIME Global Health Blog - Secret Sequences: Because international cooperation is critical in the fight against bird flu, WHO officials are loathe to press member states to allow the sequences to be released. (China, for instance, keeps almost all of its H5N1 isolates to itself.) Poor countries like Indonesia are also worried that if a vaccine or drug is developed elsewhere from one of "their"

 [Sciencenewsblog.com] Science News Blog -- Bird Flu / Avian Flu: Mao Qunan said: "The Ministry of Health and the WHO have confirmed that none of the experts whom WHO commissioned to investigate avian influenza in Hunan was a Japanese virus expert. The report that says that this expert has claimed that hundreds of Chinese have died because of avian influenza infection is untrue." The Japanese scientist Masato Tashiro told New Scientist that he thought China's officially reported death toll of 3 was just the tip of the iceberg.

[Healthnewsblog.com] Health News Blog -- Bird Flu / Avian Flu H5N1: Another WHO expert, Dr Mike Ryan, director of epidemic and pandemic alert, said, "We truly feel that this present threat is likely to stretch our global systems to the point of collapse." H5N1 has continued to spread easily from country to country and scientists are sounding more alarmist with each new human case and with each discovery of the virus in a new country.

[QDIS Blog] Good Article on Mapping Bird Flu: I found it to be an informative article and one of the better ones on Avian flu. This isn’t a major media fluff piece but a well written article covering the science of the genomics and changes of the avian flu (H5N1).

[H5N1] Under-reporting H5N1 in poultry: A 17-year-old man who died of bird flu in Thailand last week, the country's first case this year, suggests the virus is being under-reported in poultry, the influenza team at the European Centre for Disease Surveillance and Control said.

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