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[ThePoultrySite - Industry News] High Path Bird Flu Reported in China: It reports a new outbreak of HPAI at Genggahu Lake in Hainan prefecture, Qinghai province in central China. It started on 8 May, when 121 wild birds were founds dead, and a nearby flock of 600 farmed birds (of unspecified type) were destroyed.

[Daily Religious] Tibetan county on alert after avian flu confirmed in northwest ...: Syndication Source: Buddhist News latest RSS headlines - Big News Network.com. Click Source link above for the complete story on original source.

[Bird Cause Flu] Avian flu outbreak sends Tibetan county on alert (China Economic ...: A Tibetan county in northwest China's Qinghai Province is culling poultry, disinfecting farms and banning outsiders from entering Tuesday, two days after an outbreak of H5N1 avian flu was confirmed among migratory birds.

[NoisyRoom.net] » Swine Flu Update - 04/27/09 NoisyRoom.net: “Extremism in the ...: In searching signs of antiviral resistance, the team found four bird isolates from Egypt carrying a mutation linked with resistance to the older class of flu drugs, the adamantanes (amantadine and rimantadine). They also found viruses from two human cases in Egypt that had a mutation (known as N294S) that confers resistance to oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and slightly reduced sensitivity to zanamivir (Relenza).

[Equity-Research] Swine Flu: Economic Implications | Equity-Research: The most remarkable characteristics of this pandemic was its age distribution mortality: while general influenza claims the older and younger segments of the population, 45% of the victims of the Spanish Lady were people aged 15-35 (more than the usual 9%), and fully 50% of the mortality occurred between ages 15 and 44. What made this figure impressive is not the 2.5% of the so-called case fatality rate (deaths/infected people), but the morbidity of the disease (infected people/population) which varied between 25% and 50% across the regions, and the fact that a healthy young individual could die within 48 hours after contracting the disease.

[Truthout - All Articles] t r u t h o u t | How "The NAFTA Flu" Exploded:     False mental constructs of borders - the kind that cause US and Mexican citizens alike to imagine a flu strain like this one invading their nations from other lands - are taking a long overdue hit by the current "swine flu" media frenzy. In this case, US-Mexico trade policy created a time bomb in Veracruz that has already murdered more than 150 Mexican citizens, and at least one child in the US, by creating a gigantic Petri dish in the form pig farms to generate bacon and ham for international sale.

[Chen Qi |The World of Micro-organism | bacteria | fungi | archaea | H5N1 | H1N1 |Birdflu|] Chen Qi |The World of Micro-organism | bacteria | fungi | archaea ...: Pressure from China, Britain, Japan and other countries appears to have persuaded the World Health Organization to hold off on raising its pandemic alert to the highest level, despite the spread of H1N1 flu in Japan.

[Hawaii's Wild Rooster Blog] Bird Flu | Hawaii's Wild Rooster Blog: This January a WHO report entitled “Avian influenza: assessing the pandemic threat” concluded that “all prerequisites for the start of a pandemic had been met save one, namely the onset of efficient human-to-human transmission. Should the virus improve its transmissibility, everyone in the world would be vulnerable to infection by pathogen””passed along by a cough or a sneeze””entirely foreign to the human immune system.” According to WHO estimates, the virus is now endemic in bird populations in parts of Asia and is becoming more pathogenic in mammals.

[RealAge--Avian Flu Information] Avian Flu Risk, Prevention, and Care--RealAge: Looking past the hype and hysteria, the RealAge Flu Center is dedicated to keeping you in-the-know on avian flu (bird flu, avian influenza), and providing the real-deal on risks, outbreaks, medical break-throughs, and what you can do to .The E627K version of PB2 is found in human H1, H2, and H3 flu virus strains where it supports faster replication at low temperatures.

[Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)] Avian Influenza: A Story About Industrial Fowl Play? : Living the ...: It discusses the evidence, showing that the virus primarily spreads via shipments of domestic poultry -- their chicks, eggs, meat, feathers, manure and feed -- from one factory farm to another, along roads and other trade routes, and not along major flyways followed by wild birds, as I and others have noted. Yet, despite the fact that H5N1 outbreak locations are consistent with neither the seasonal timing of migration nor the routes followed by wild birds, many international and governmental agencies stubbornly continue to perpetuate the myth that wild birds are the primary vector for spreading the virus far and wide.

[Firefox News: Fandom] Avian Flu ”” The Basics: The H5N1 strain of Influenza-A, more commonly known as “bird flu” or “avian flu,” has been closely monitored by health experts for nearly eight years but has become a hot topic in the news due to fears of a pandemic.

[ScienceBlogs Select] Dr. Chan and WHO on bird flu : Effect Measure: (Ah, but that's not how it works, and the failure to believe that CFR would stay spectacular, that there are no ancillary low-virulence cases, that the virus would and now will continue to evolve by "duh I don't know" and will meet its obvious outcome (only obvious to those who choose to accept dialectic as reality) and the consequences will be ghastly and stunning, all those are grounds for retraining, or, as Revere states, "You try to do better and you hope others will help you to be better.")

[Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China] Searching for honesty among propaganda spinners: You do have a point that "propaganda" has different connotations in Chinese than it does in English, but in that particular piece, I think its clear from his attitude toward the work he had to do back then that he's taking a rather negative view of "propaganda," at least so far as it represents itself as genuine news.

[Flu Wiki | Main / All Recent Changes] Flu Wiki - Opinion - Forum Topics-Text File: BlogAboutAvianFluPersonalProtection|Blog About Avian Flu Personal Protection|January 29, 2006, at 11:38 AM|gs| Forum.BirdFluFoundInCyprus|Bird Flu Found in Cyprus|January 29, 2006, at 10:43 AM|tomarsus| Forum.WHOChiefNabarr|WHO Chief Nabarr |January 29, 2006, ...... ReBoxunQinghaiProvinceChinaBirdsAndBeastsFlu|Re Boxun Qinghai Province China Birds and Beasts Flu|November 17, 2005, at 08:47 PM|Joel Z| Forum.UpdatedNews|Updated News|November 17, 2005, at 08:25 PM|cmo| Forum. ...

[China Expat - China Expat City Guide blogs] Just in Case: Xining | China Expat - China Expat City Guide: Four hundred year old Gomar Gompa is a an invigorating walk across the valley from Wutong, and bears a decidedly medieval look. Tongren derives much distinction, however, as the ideal place to buy thangkas, traditional Tibetan paintings, and see them painted.

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