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[dbtechno] China Confirms Human-To-Human H5N1 Bird Flu Transmission: Boston (dbTechno) - Doctors have reported that a 24-year old Chinese man managed to pass the H5N1 bird flu virus in a rare human-to-human transmission case. The 24-year old man, who died of bird flu back in December, passed it directly to his father.

 [Journal] Bird flu very much on Chinese minds in run-up to Olympics: Last week's press release from the Chinese government regarding the so-far-succesful creation of a human vaccine against H5N1 avian influenza was picked up by China Daily and Reuters and broadcast to the world. The Chinese were ready to manufacture some 20 million doses of a trivalent bird flu prepandemic vaccine. 

[Men's & Drug's] Human To Human Transmission Of Bird Flu: As of April 2, 2008,there have been 376 cases of infection with the highly pathogenic avianinfluenza A (H5N1) virus with 238 deaths reported in 14 differentcountries since November 2003. While most cases have been scattered,about one quarter of all cases have been in clusters of two or morepeople.

[Target Rich Environment] H5N1 Human-to-Human Transmission in China: In the case in China, a 52-year-old man and his 24-year-old son in Jiangsu province were diagnosed with H5N1 bird flu within a week of each other last December. At the time, officials from the World Health Organization said they could not rule out the possibility of human-to-human transmission.

[the Galactic Federation] Climate Change Warnings - 2008 April 09: Continuing outbreaks in the region raise the risk of the H5N1 virus mutating into a form that could be transmitted among humans. 19-year-old Egyptian dies of avian flu.

 [On Beyond Zero] New Olympic Event: The Plague Pass: One of the biggest questions surrounding the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games is whether China’s fast-growing but seriously stretched commercial aviation system will be up to the task of handling the 2 million visitors expected to pack the Chinese capital for the Games this summer.

 [AOL News: Health News] China Confirms Human H5N1 Transmission: LONDON (AP) - Chinese health officials have confirmed that a father caught bird flu from his son last December, according to a report released Tuesday.

 [sinolinx.com Aggregated China News] China confirms human H5N1 transmission (AP): A 24-year old man in China probably infected his father with the H5N1 strain of bird flu before dying, renewing concerns that the disease could one day spread easily among humans, according to a study released .

 [Axelpaa's Weblog] Global Spread Of Bord Flu: The next variant of the h5n1 bird flu virus is a large worldwide pandemic that scientists expect some slaps. What surprises and they are more affected by the fatal human it is a small percentage of victims affected by it so far.

 [Journal] Follow the Money (and the PPEs): Apparently that message is not lost on the US, which is acting to try and stamp out H5N1 in Tangerang before it is too late.  The United States has announced it is spending some $15 billion Rupiah, or roughly $1.7 million dollars US, to increase awareness of H5N1 in Tangerang Province alone. 

[Allen blog--路爽のblog] Chinese doctors report human-to-human bird flu transmission; 1 ...: In an article published electronically by the British journal The Lancet on Tuesday, Chinese doctors reported that molecular analysis showed that viruses from the two men were virtually identical. They were fully avian viruses, meaning they hadn't swapped genes with any human flu viruses or viruses from another mammal.

 [H5N1 Avian bird flu forecast blog] Is Bird Flu causing a food shortage?: I was recently in Hong Kong and was amazed at how much they take the threat of bird flu seriously. Even at the airport there are special areas to clean oneself, not to mention at public parks where wash-hand basins were installed.

 [Vjtsantosthea's Weblog] Agustin Blazquez On NBC TODAY in Havana: The same can be said about Vietnam, which was recently accused of giving the Cuban tyranny the highly contagious virus of aviary flu H5N1 that could be distributed to the U.S. via migratory birds (so donвЂâ™t be surprised by a future outbreak in the U.S.). The same can be said about Russia, which in spite of everything appears to be slinking back to the dark ages of dictatorship.

[Allen blog--路爽のblog] Effect Measure : Flu in dogs again, but not H5N1: The H3N2 case is probably not a likely pandemic source (despite what the Korean scientists say in their Discussion) because there is widespread immunity to H3N2 in the global population, even though changes in the strain mean the protection varies as the virus mutates. On the other hand, H3N2 keeps infecting humans because it changes enough from year to year to make that immunity less effective and H3N2 is sufficiently virulent on its own that it and H1N1 kill an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 Americans yearly.

[southasianews.com] Son-to-father avian flu transmission worries health experts: London, April 8 (ANI): Two cases of avian flu in a Chinese family have given rise to speculations that the H5N1 virus may have acquired mutations that let it pass from one person to another.

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