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[Gamalbathshebatze's Weblog] Flu Viruses May Be Preserved in Ice for Millennia: The finding may help explain the constant emergence of influenza A-type viruses that cause seasonal epidemics and occasionally set off pandemics capable of killing millions of people. Disease trackers are monitoring flu viruses amid an outbreak of the H5N1 strain, known to have infected 258 people in 10 countries in the past three years, killing 153 of them.
[Ekrgriseldastephanie's Weblog] Natural Solutions for Avian Bird Flu: With all that doom and gloom and an “inevitable” pandemic predicted by WHO officials in Geneva this week, perhaps itвЂâ™s just best to use common sense: avoid crowds, wash your hands as if you had a case of OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder), and go with the oil of oregano antiviral and other immune-boosting remedies like good nutrition, plenty of rest, and stress management.
[Bird Flu - Avian influenza] Array: Although a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Monday suggested that H5N1 may not mutate easily into a rapidly spreading strain, bird flu is making its way around the globe.
[Project Disaster] University of Kansas researcher has doubts about our nation’s ...: With funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, KU research teams of faculty, technical staff and graduate students have set out to create a broad-scale, real-world base of quantitative data on avian influenza, in coordination with other flu-monitoring efforts. The investigators recently have sampled birds for virus in China, the Philippines, Ghana and New Guinea, and will be working in Peru, Mongolia and Bangladesh in coming months.
[H5N1- Ultimate News on mutation - bird flu & avian flu alerts] USA : Sequence Analysis of H5N1 Bird Flu in Michigan: What is the sequence ofthe genes, and is that consistent with a North American strain or anAsian strain? The fact that this was compatible with our North Americanvirus and not compatible with the Asian high path avian influenza virusthat we are able to say that this is not the incursion of that Asianhigh path H5N1 virus.
[Grassroots Science (Alaska)] Scientists Criticize Bird Flu Search: Dierauf, Director of the USGS National Wildlife Health Center, an institutional partner in CCM, expressed the need for additional field and laboratory research into the biology and epidemiology of avian influenza viruses in wild migratory birds ”””Such research is integral to our preparedness for the anticipated arrival of HPAI in North America. It is critical to gather data to further inform predictive models necessary to track this emerging disease and stem its spread among wild birds and domestic poultry and its potential transmission to other wildlife, pets, and people.”
[Nouse.co.uk] Facing an uncertain future: Scientists in Vietnam, one of the key places infected with the avian virus believe that if the virus begins to spread throughout the population at a slow rate, then the death toll will not be as high as initially predicted. However if it infects large numbers of people who fail to display symptoms, then H5N1 is given a chance to mutate, thus becoming more harmful.
[dymaxionweb] H5N1 and Katrina: Thoughts from the Reality-Based Community: And so on this pleasantly warm mid-September day, we see looming on our screen, just as we saw the satellite photos of Katrina, an event that could truly alter history and we find it absolutely impossible to remain silent. It's our fate to belong to what Administration insiders like to refer to as the "reality based community"
[Global News Blog] Russia - Mammoth skeleton found in Siberia: May 22 (Interfax-Siberia) - Anti-bodies of the H5N1 bird flu virus have been found in 16 migratory ducks killed in the Tomsk region. The regional veterinary laboratory has examined 4681 birds, including 2080 from poultry farms and 1799 .
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[H5N1] Today's Feed: 今年恐怖的事件不断发生，首先是H5N1然后现在又变成了猪链球菌，看上去好像是普通的猪瘟，但却时刻威胁着人类的生命。其实什么瘟、什么瘟以前也不是没有发生过，但人类从来都没有像现在如此的恐慌。以前的都是把动物杀死了就没事了，动物大范围的死亡，人类只是财产上的损失，虽然心痛，但起码人类的生命还能报住自己的生命...！We can't flee, we can't flow, we have to learn how to face!!! 从候鸟到人们经常生活吃的三鸟，再到生活几乎必不可少的猪牛，三鸟有H5N1 ...
[Barbara's Space] On a wing and a prayer can H5N1 be stoped in its mid flight ...: Indeed, three months after the Qinghai Lake die-off, poultry in Western Siberia started dying of H5N1. The virus has spread like wildfire since then, first moving through Central Asia into Turkey and eastern Europe.
[Global News Blog] Russia - Madonna Overseas Adoption Follows Trend: Raw Story - He said the threat of migratory birds transmitting H5N1 would come during the northern winter when birds migrate north to south, from Siberia to the Black Sea and to the Middle East and Africa. “This migration does not .
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