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[Lab Animal Science] Germany reports new H5N1 outbreak (Center for Infectious Disease ...: Oct 10, 2008 (CIDRAP News) - Animal health officials in Germany today reported an H5N1 avian influenza outbreak at a commercial farm in Saxony, signifying the country’s first outbreak since December 2007.

[Recombinomics Whats New] Fujian H5N1 in Germany?: Authorities say a duck at a farm in eastern Germany has tested positive for the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus.

 [Flu News Network] Fujian H5N1 in Germany?:  The isolates in Germany, including Saxony, were analyzed by FLI, who noted that the 2007 isolates were distinct from 2006 and presented a clade 2.2.3 sub-clade that had been reported previously in the Uvs Lake region in Mongolia and Russia.  This Uvs lake strain subsequently spread throughout Europe in the 2007/2008 season and was recently reported in Nigeria (and is likely also involved in the recent outbreaks in Benin and Togo).

 [Forex Factory] Germany confirms outbreak of H5N1 bird flu -EU: BRUSSELS, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Germany has informed European Union animal health experts of an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu, the EU's first case of the lethal strain of the contagious disease in poultry this year, the European Commission said on Friday.

[Bird Flu Breaking News] Germany reports new H5N1 outbreak: Germany reports new H5N1 outbreak.

[Project Disaster] H5N1 in German Farm: 1 Duck: CIDRAP News, 10/10/08 (http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/avianflu/news/oct1008birds-jw.html) "Animal health officials in Germany today reported an H5N1 avian influenza outbreak at a commercial farm in Saxony, ...

 [Observing Hermann...] Germans to do bird flu for a while instead: Officials at Germany’s national animal health laboratory were clearly pleased to announce that the H5N1 influenza virus has returned to a duck farm in Saxony again after having successfully combated a similar outbreak in the area last December.

[Weblog] Assessment of Current Situation: No evidence for genetic reassortment between human and avian influenza A virus genes has been heard discovered to date, and there is no evidence of any valuable unrest to escalating H5N1 virus strains to hint that greater transmissibility to or surrounded by humans. Genetic sequencing of avian influenza A (H5N1) viruses based on information from human tendencies in Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia indicates resistance to the antiviral medications amantadine and rimantadine, two of the medications commonly exhausted for service of influenza.

[Ryans Blog] United States Versus Bird Flu: The same reassurances were given by U.S. officials and although some people see this as a preview for possible bird flu outbreaks, health experts say mild and low pathogenic strains of avian influenza such as this one are common in the United States, as well as other countries. Since 1975, the low pathogenic strain of the H5N1 virus (the highly pathogenic form of which is causing high mortality in Asia) has been found on six other occasions on U.S. soil.

[Latest Expert Blog Articles at http://www.healthedia.com] Politics as medical malpractice: A case in point from today's Globe and Mail on the listeria outbreak: Inspectors failed to adopt more rigorous U.S. measures. Excerpt:Canadian meat inspectors failed to learn crucial lessons from a deadly listeria outbreak a decade ago, experts on the bacterium suggested yesterday as the food-safety crisis spread further with three more deaths, including that of a woman in Saskatchewan, under investigation.And the federal ag...

[Populist Party of America] The Bush Administration's Secret Biowarfare Agenda: -- during the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, the US supplies Iraq with toxic biological and chemical agents; Ronald Reagan signs a secret order to do "whatever (is) necessary and 'legal' " to prevent Iraq from losing the war;" a 1994 congressional inquiry later finds that dozens of biological agents were shipped, including various strains of anthrax and precursors of nerve gas (like sarin), gangrene, and West Nile virus;

 [from the desk of Tim Blair NEWS & blog: Seattle, King County, Washington US.] abc: Since the first outbreak in Hong Kong in 1997, more than 240 people in Asia, Europe and Africa have died from bird flu, which kills about two-thirds of people infected. Nearly all had close contact with poultry, but scientists worry bird flu could mutate to a form easily spread among people, who have no natural immunity.

 [butner blogspot] The Bush Administration’s Secret Biowarfare Agenda: DHS says USAMRIID”conduct(s) basic and applied research on biological threats (to provide) cutting-edge medical research for the warfighter against biological threats.” International law and bioweapons expert, Francis Boyle, disagrees.

 [temblors's Bulletins] Weaponized Avian Flu Intelligence Report: For example, in Vietnam, where thousands of gallons of Monsanto chemicals such as Agent Orange were dumped in huge amounts following the Vietnam war outbreaks of Avian Flu are not uncommon. These outbreaks occurred in highly toxic .

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