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 [Effect Measure] Bird flu and bird farms, part IV: During the current year [2003] either velogenic Newcastle disease or highly-pathogenic avian influenza has caused extensive losses in the USA, the Netherlands, Italy and Southeast China. Intensification of the poultry industry to achieve enhanced efficiency [!] has resulted in high concentrations of broiler and egg-producing flocks creating the emergence of variant pathogens and enhanced dissemination of viral and bacterial diseases.

[Annotatedtimes.blogrunner.com] blogrunner: Avian Flu Vaccine Called Effective in Human Testing: This topic was the topic of The Third Estate Sunday Review's editorial and due to that, we all read multiple accounts (including many AP articles -- or various versions of the same one) on this. We have to note that Stevenson doesn't have much to offer that the AP didn't cover.

[Travelhealth.civiblog.org] Travel Health Advisories :: Avian Influenza A - July 29, 2005: According to a June 28, 2005, World Health Organization (WHO) report, the Ministry of Health of Vietnam has reported an additional case of avian influenza A (H5N1) infection in a resident of the northern province of Ha Tay. The infection occurred in May 2005.

 [Cidrap.umn.edu] CIDRAP >> <i>Nature</i> urges world to take pandemic threat seriously: Major efforts include sequencing of flu virus genomes, research on new antiviral drugs, clinical testing of inactivated H5N1 and H9N2 vaccines, plans for testing live attenuated H5N1 and H9N2 vaccines, a plan to develop live attenuated vaccines for all of the known avian flu viruses, and an effort to develop a flu vaccine based on viral components that are the same in various influenza A strains.

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