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[teamrich.wordpress.com] Asian Bird Flu Virus | H5N1: The severity of the next flu pandemic cannot be predicted, but modeling studies suggest that the impact of a pandemic on the United States could be substantial. In the absence of any control measures (vaccination or drugs), it has been estimated that in the United States alone, a “medium-level” pandemic could cause 89,000 to 207,000 deaths, 314,000 to 734,000 hospitalizations, 18 to 42 million outpatient visits and another 20 to 47 million people to be sick.
[On Target] A Pandemic That Wasn’t but Might Be: McNeil Jr., The New York Times - Last year, for the first time since avian flu emerged as a global threat, the number of human cases was down from the year before. As the illness receded, the scary headlines ”” with their warnings of a pandemic that could kill 150 million people ”” all but vanished.
[Journal] Mixed risk communications from global bodies threaten pandemic preps: Since the end of 2003, mutation of the H5N1 virus so that it can be easily transmissible among humans has been a nightmare for the world health community, raising concerns of a global influenza pandemic that could claim tens of millions of lives.
[NewsWax] UN Expert Says World Unprepared for Avian Flu Pandemic: A top United Nations expert on Avian influenza says the world is not yet ready to protect itself from a potential avian influenza pandemic that could kill millions of people. He says it will take another few years before countries complete their pandemic preparedness plans.
[MediaGlobal] Africa prepares for global avian flu pandemic: David Nabarro, United Nations System Senior Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza, Africa is in danger of a major outbreak of avian influenza. Speaking at a press conference at the UN earlier today, Nabarro outlined eight countries .
[Best Syndication - All News] US Unlikely To Have Enough Vaccines To Stop Avian Flu: A group of medical experts who attended a national avian flu conference last fall believe there is little chance the United States will be able to manufacture and stockpile enough vaccine or antiviral medication to stop a bird flu pandemic should the virus mutate into a form that can be spread easily from human to human, according to a survey led by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. The results of the survey were published in the June 2006 issue of the journal Global Public Health.
[Biopeer] More avian flu deaths confirmed: The death reports in Azerbaijan have pushed the global total of confirmed human deaths by avian flu to103. In Egypt, the fourth case of suspected bird flu has been reported.
[Untitled] Poultry trade spreads bird flu: UN - Yahoo! News: Since late last year, outbreaks of avian flu have been confirmed in Indonesia, Vietnam, South Korea, Thailand, China, Japan, Egypt, Nigeria, Hungary and Britain as well as an unconfirmed report in Turkey. But there have been no confirmed outbreaks in North and South America.
[Bird Flu News Digest] Bird Flu Blog: - Chickening Out?Egypt Today - ON SEPTEMBER 29,: Egypt Today - ON SEPTEMBER 29, David Nabarro, the newly appointed Senior United Nations System Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza, warned the world that an outbreak of avian influenza, more commonly known as bird flu, .
[Global News Blog] Asia Pacific - President Bush’s injustices: NewsMax.com - Jim Adams, vice-president for East Asia and the Pacific and head of the Bank’s avian flu taskforce, said a severe pandemic could cost more than three percent of the global economy’s gross national product.
[Barbara's Space] On a wing and a prayer can H5N1 be stoped in its mid flight ...: Other countries, notably China, have used vaccines, but the United States and most European nations eschew that method, arguing that vaccinated birds can act as carriers and infect others. If H5N1 attacked U.S. poultry flocks, producers would use the slaughter, quarantine, and sanitation techniques that have worked in the past, says Richard Lobb, a spokesman for the National Chicken Council.
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