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China confirms bird flu outbreak

AussieIndoLanka-Blog[AussieIndoLanka-Blog] Laboratory tests of dead ducks at Yashan village recently detected the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, the agriculture ministry said in a brief statement, without saying when the outbreak took place.

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March 17, 2008

WHO: Hong Kong Flu `Seasonal'

Avian Flu Diaryhttp://afludiary.blogspot.com/2008/03/who-hong-kong-flu-seasonal.html [Avian Flu Diary] The World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday the current outbreak was 'seasonal influenza' and health experts saw no evidence so far to suggest that the cases were linked to bird flu or the deadly severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) outbreak in 2003.

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February 21, 2007

Laos reports fresh outbreak of bird flu among poultry near capital (Bird flu)

[Home (aboutflu.net)] MSN UK News - Laos has reported a fresh outbreak of virulent bird flu in poultry on two farms near the country’s capital Vientiane, a world animal health group said Monday.The outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in Vientiane’s Sisatannak district was detected on Feb.

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December 30, 2006

EGYPT: Women bear the brunt of bird flu (Bird flu)

[Home (aboutflu.net)] European and Pacific Stars and Stripes - According to an update posted on the USFK Web site, South Korean public health authorities have moved to contain an avian flu outbreak among ducks at a farm in Tangjungmyun, Asan, 9.3 miles south of Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek. The Asan outbreak

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Posted at 12:09 AM

December 25, 2006

Fresh outbreaks in Korea and Vietnam call for major intervention

http://www.flupatrol.com [Flu Patrol] With a fourth outbreak of H5N1-caused bird flu reported in South Chungchong Province, South Korea on December 21, the Korean government called for the culling of more than 23,000 poultry on top of already 1.13 million poultry slaughtered. The agriculture ministry also destroyed 50,000 eggs and quarantined more than 1.65 million chichens and ducks within a 10 kilometer radius of the outbreak.

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Posted at 12:09 AM

December 23, 2006

Fourth Bird Flu Outbreak Is Reported in South Korean Farm

Emma and Shaun’s as yet, useless blog[Emma and Shaun’s as yet, useless blog] Agriculture Ministry officials plan to begin destroying more than 20,000 poultry within a three-kilometer radius of the duck farm. They also will restrict the movement of poultry within a 10-kilometer radius to keep the disease from spreading.

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Posted at 12:09 AM

December 22, 2006

Vietnam confirms bird flu outbreak (AP) (Avian flu)

[Home (aboutflu.net)] Vietnam confirms bird flu outbreak (AP) AP - Thousands of poultry died of bird flu in the past two weeks in southern Vietnam, the government said Wednesday, in the country’s first reported outbreak in a year. Russian zoo closes after two geese found dead ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - One of Russia’s main zoos has closed down after the deaths of two geese sparked a bird flu scare, but the top sanitary official said on Tuesday that tests had not confirmed the outbreak of the disease...

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December 21, 2006

Bird flu in Vietnam: again or still?

http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure [Effect Measure] It was the existence of a poultry outbreak in the vicinity that often was the factor triggering additional testing. If poultry vaccination eliminates the signal without eliminating the virus, we might have the picture we've seen over the last year in Vietnam: no visible outbreak unless there are unvaccinated birds.

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November 28, 2006

SOUTH KOREAN BIRD FLU OUTBREAK SPREADS FAST MASSI...

http://birdflublog.blogspot.com [THE BIRD FLU BLOG] SOUTH KOREAN BIRD FLU OUTBREAK SPREADS FAST MASSIVE CULL OF PIGS, DOGS AND CATS CONSIDERED TO CONTAIN SPREAD OF VIRUS The current outbreak of the bird flu virus amongst poultry in South Korea provides a good example of just how fast panic over the virus can spread, how fast it can kill, how quickly a government can move to deal with the outbreak, after initially denying it, and how rapidly bizarre containment measures can become a disturbing reality. On Friday, November 24, the first stories began to appear detailing what an outbreak of what was deemed to be a "low-grade" version of the avian influenza virus.

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October 16, 2006

Australia to test response to bird flu - The...

[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] Australia will on Monday begin testing whether it is prepared to cope with a potentially deadly outbreak of bird flu. While the .

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July 31, 2006

Bird flu outbreak spreading - Bangkok Post

[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] chickens are underway in tambon Ban Klang in Nakhon Phanom's Muang district after a laboratory test confirmed the area had been hit by the bird flu outbreak.

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July 30, 2006

No fresh outbreak of bird flu: Pawar - Hindu

[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] NEW DELHI: "There has been no outbreak of avian influenza or bird flu in the country for more than three months. On August 10, India .

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June 03, 2006

Niger: New bird flu outbreak near Nigeria

http://europepanflu.blogspot.com [Pandemic Flu from Europe] Tests carried out in Europe confirmed the presence of H5N1 in samples taken from the village of Boko Mai Gao, around 10 km (6 miles) from the border with Nigeria's Kano state, said the official, who declined to be named.

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May 31, 2006

W.H.O's Bird Flu Outbreak Plan

http://firefighterblog.blogspot.com [Firefighter Blog] "The success of a strategy for containing an emerging pandemic virus is strictly time dependent," the WHO said in its latest containment report, based on recommendations by 70 international experts who held closed-door talks in March. "Mathematical models have indicated that a containment strategy, based on the mass administration of antiviral drugs, has a chance of success only when drugs are administered within 21 days following the timely detection of the first case representing improved human-to-human transmission of...

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May 21, 2006

Branswell: Bird flu cases in Indonesia raise...

http://europepanflu.blogspot.com [Pandemic Flu from Europe] But the outbreak in Indonesia, where disease investigators have been met with fear and suspicion, illuminates the enormous challenges the pandemic SWAT team would face in trying to snuff out a nascent pandemic strain before it could spread from its place of origin to sweep the globe.

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May 11, 2006

Health workers object to movie’s view of bird flu.

[ Bird Cause Flu] Public health workers fear Tuesday night's airing of a made-for-TV movie about mass panic during a bird-flu outbreak might ignite a real panic.[News Source]

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November 30, 2005

H5N1: Spreading Within A Family?

Slobokan’s Site O’ Schtuffhttp://www.slobokan.com [Slobokan’s Site O’ Schtuff] While they know there is no widespread outbreak, this very well could be a human to human transmission. Exactly what we don’t want at this stage of...

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October 25, 2005

Blast from the Past: SARS and Bird Flu

http://michaelturton.blogspot.com [The View from Taiwan] Hoping Hospital, at the center of the outbreak, had been run by the opposition KMT, the former ruling party, and was already famous for its obstructionist tactics even before its incompetence and procrastination helped spur the SARS outbreak. Most upsetting of all, the WHO, so courageous in confronting disease germs, showed an utter lack of moral courage in confronting China over SARS in Taiwan.

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October 19, 2005

If the bird flu has you a little worried (and it s...

http://mylnd.blogspot.com [My Likes and Dislikes] It's called Tamiflu, and it's only made by one company, Roche, because it's patented. There's literally no way that Roche can make enough of it in case of a global outbreak.

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October 11, 2005

The Bush Pandemic Plan

Tennessee Guerilla Womenhttp://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com [Tennessee Guerilla Women] Health officials from all over the world are scrambling to figure out how to ward off a global outbreak of deadly flu. President Bush, fresh from reading a 546-page tome on his vacation about the 1918 "Spanish flu" outbreak, has been consulting with the heads of vaccine companies, and he warns that the military might be used to enforce quarantines.

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Posted at 11:23 PM

October 09, 2005

Bush Bird Flu Plan Unpopular

Media Cynic -- Independent Political Bloghttp://www.mediacynic.com [Media Cynic -- Independent Political Blog] It's clearly a backdoor way to introduce federal martial law in the event of a flu outbreak. Bush said aggressive action would be needed to prevent a potentially disastrous U.S. outbreak of the disease that is sweeping through Asian poultry and which experts fear could mutate to pass between humans.

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October 06, 2005

Chicago Influenza Outbreak of 1918

http://chicago.metblogs.com [Metroblogging Chicago] Of those, 8,500 of the victims lived in Chicago.  Although people of all ages were susceptible to influenza, a majority of the people who died as a result of influenza were between twenty and forty years old. 

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