Bird Flu Monitor > Hard Rain Journal 6-30-06: Bird Flu Update -- Four Important News Items

http://words-of-power.blogspot.com [Words of Power] Here are excerpts from four important stories from recent days, with links to the full texts, as well as links to related posts: The risk of bird flu mutating into a form more easily spread between people is still high and there could be an increase in human infections at the end of the year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Friday. In a report analysing more than 200 known bird flu cases, the United Nations agency identified three peaks in human infections since 2003, all concentrated during the winter and spring seasons in the northern hemisphere.

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Nature.comhttp://www.nature.com [Nature.com] news @ nature.com - Bird flu 2005: the ongoing story - News@nature ...: The regional framework doles out responsibilities for key tasks to different countries: it calls for Thailand to lead surveillance and diagnosis, Malaysia to take charge of containment and emergency measures, Indonesia to lead strategic vaccination initiatives, the Philippines to encourage public awareness, and Singapore to ensure proper information sharing.

[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.

Fluhelp.org[Fluhelp.org] Useful flu news from all over the world. | The Flu News Blog: Centre For Infectious Disease Research and Policy - Mar 29, 2006 (CIDRAP News) The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved the use of the antiviral drug zanamivir (Relenza) to prevent not just treat influenza in adults and children aged 5 and older. Zanamvir, one of the two flu drugs

http://bird-flu-blog.blogspot.com [Bird-flu-blog.blogspot.com] Bird-Flu-Blog: Since February, the virus has cut a wide swath across the globe, felling tens of thousands of birds in Nigeria, Israel, India, Sweden and elsewhere. Health officials in the United States say bird flu is likely to arrive in North America this year, carried by wild birds migrating thousands of miles to their summer breeding grounds.'...more

http://kerriough.spaces.msn.com [Oh Kerri] A story I wish would go away: I'm tired of being warned that I'll be the first to go when the bird flu comes. I am suspicious of these stories and am convinced that they exist only to boost the economy by striking fear in young (wealthy) people everywhere. I'm renting an incredibly expensive car this weekend because, well, this could be it for me.  Please see below for the ominous article about how you, me and every other hale youngun is going to die when the plague hits us.

A DC Birding Bloghttp://dendroica.blogspot.com [A DC Birding Blog] Zoo Moving Birds: In what was described as a precautionary measure, 18 ducks and 27 chickens were moved to the zoo's Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Va., last week to guard against infections caused by influenza viruses that can occur naturally in birds.

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