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Just a Bump in the Beltway[Just a Bump in the Beltway] The Atlanta-based agency has worked closely with the World Health Organization to monitor the spread of the bird flu strain, which thus far has infected 112 people and killed 57 in four southeast Asian countries. Moreover, it already has the expertise and framework needed to gather and analyze the most accurate and up-to-date information from public health officials in the 50 states.

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http://loopylibrarian.blogspot.com [LoopyLibrarian - Librarianship with a Jangle Angle] Weekend News Dump: The bird flu outbreak that has recently killed 50 people in Asia and cost the region billions of dollars could spread to other parts of the world, the global animal health body OIE said Thursday.

[Biopeer.com] Biopeer: Avian Flu (H5N1): This coupled with reports that Tamiflu, the only known antiviral drug capable of preventing the virus from replicating, not only has limited efficacy but that this too has been marred by the emergence of resistant strains in poultry, has led to fresh initiatives in finding a vaccine to fight the disease. Even as French drug maker Sanofi-Aventis, by far the leader in the endeavor to supply a credible antidote, plans to double its current production capacity of 50 to 60 million doses of Fluzone-brand flu shots, the British firm PowerMed is launching clinical trials of an avian flu vaccine.

Msnbc.msn.comhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com [Msnbc.msn.com] Bird flu pandemic is possible, CDC warns - Bird Flu - MSNBC.com: The government has ordered 2 million doses of vaccine that would protect against the known strains of avian flu. Gerberding said this would give manufacturers a head start on making the shots that would be needed to combat a full-blown epidemic of an H1-type of flu in this country.

[Tasmaniantimes.com] Tasmanian Times: And finally to Bird Flu, the so-called H5N1 strain of the influenza virus. This virus was first picked up as a serious cause of poultry deaths again in South China and Hong Kong in 1996-7 but due to cover ups the seriousness of this disease outbreak kept the world’s animal health reporting bodies out of the picture until after it had spread and taken hold in many parts of south Asia.

[Crofsblogs.typepad.com] H5N1: June 2005: In 1997, when H5N1 killed its first human victim (a 3-year-old boy in Hong Kong), it took several months to identify the virus””but that was because labs in the US and Europe had no reason to think the virus was anything unusual. When it was finally identified as H5N1, thoroughly scared experts poured into Hong Kong and got solid cooperation from the authorities.

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