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[Eureka! Science News - Popular science news] Shades of 1918? New study compares avian flu with a notorious ...: In a new study, Carole Baskin, formerly assistant research professor at Arizona's Biodesign Institute, currently with Science Foundation Arizona, and an interdisciplinary team of collaborators, compared the recent avian strain known in the scientific community as H5N1, with genetic ressortants of the 1918 virus””source of the most severe influenza pandemic in recorded history. The results, which appear in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, are sobering.

[Science Current Events | Science News | Brightsurf.com] Shades of 1918? New study compares avian flu with a notorious ...: In a new study, Carole Baskin, formerly assistant research professor at Arizona's Biodesign Institute, currently with Science Foundation Arizona, and an interdisciplinary team of collaborators, compared the recent avian strain known in the scientific community as H5N1, with genetic ressortants of the 1918 virus-source of the most severe influenza pandemic in recorded history. The results, which appear in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, are sobering.

[Avian Influenza] Avian Influenza: Seven birds across Hong Kong test positive for ...: Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus (H5N1) in Frozen Duck Carcasses, Germany, 2007. CDC.gov - A retrospective analysis shows that the H5N1 outbreak in backyard duck flocks in Germany in Dec. 2007 that had previously been attributed to wild bird contact was ... Bloomberg - A drought in northern China may be making birds more susceptible to the deadly H5N1 avian-flu strain. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=a9Wn03ZEMFSo&refer=asia ...

[Latest Biology News from Bio-Medicine.Org] Shades of 1918? New study compares avian flu with a notorious ...: In a new study, Carole Baskin, formerly assistant research professor at Arizona's Biodesign Institute, currently with Science Foundation Arizona, and an interdisciplinary team of collaborators, compared the recent avian strain known in the scientific community as H5N1, with genetic ressortants of the 1918 virussource of the most severe influenza pandemic in recorded history. The results, which appear in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, are sobering.

[The Post Online (Cameroon)] The Post Online (Cameroon): Gov't, Partners Mobilise Against Avian ...: An influenza pandemic could be devastating if sustained virus transmission occurs because there is little or no immune protection in the human population.Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, HPAI, A-H5NI virus, is influenza "A" virus subtype, popularly known as "bird flu"

[Bird Flu Monitor] Bird Flu Monitor: Pandemic Information News: A pneumonia and the ...: The recent emergence, host expansion, and spread of a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 subtype in Asia have heightened concerns globally, both in regards to mortality from HPAI H5N1 infection in humans and the potential of .

[Avian Influenza] Avian Influenza: Tabletop exercise for testing the veterinary ...: Tabletop exercise for testing the veterinary response for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza carried out in Phuentsholing. Bhutan Ministry of Agriculture, Bhutan - Avian influenza has been spreading rapidly worldwide and in many Asian countries affecting both poultry and humans. http://www.moa.gov.bt/moa/news/news_detail.php?id=617. Posted by sball at 07:42 AM | Comments (0)

[A Pandemic Chronicle] Update on the Canadian avian influenza ”” A Pandemic Chronicle: Low pathogenic avian influenza is taken seriously because it can, without warning, undergo a genetic change that turns it into a highly pathogenic variety. No one quite knows what makes a low pathogenic virus suddenly change into a highly pathogenic strain so the actions taken will be the same as if it were a highly pathogenic strain.

[Medical Operations Collaboration and Communications (C2) blog] AVIAN INFLUENZA (120): INDIA (WEST BENGAL) « Medical Operations ...: 20081128.3749 Avian influenza (112): India (AS), susp., alert, RFI 20081127.3740 Avian influenza, human (60): India (West Bengal), susp. 20080803.2379 Avian influenza (69): S Korea, India (W Bengal) 20080515.1626 Avian influenza (68): Japan, S.Korea, Viet Nam, India 20080511.1605 Avian influenza (64): India (Tripura) 20080423.1434 Avian influenza (59): India (Tripura), South Korea (N Jeolla) 20080408.1295 Avian influenza (48): China, Bangladesh, India, Viet Nam 20080317.1042 Avian influenza (46): India, Viet Nam, Bangladesh 20080314.1013 Avian influenza (42): India (West Bengal) 20080309.0967 Avian influenza (35): UK (England), Indonesia, India, Bangladesh 20080215.0600 Avian influenza, poultry vs migratory birds (02): Turkey, India 20080205.0462 Avian influenza (17): Iran (Mazandaran), India (West Bengal) - OIE

[MedicalNavigator.net - Blog about medicine] Genetic Evidence For Avian Influenza Movement From Asia To North ...: Scientists with the USGS, in collaboration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, state agencies, and Alaska native communities, obtained samples from more than 1,400 northern pintails from locations throughout Alaska.  Samples containing viruses were then analyzed and compared to virus samples taken from other birds in North America and Eastern Asia where northern pintails are known to winter.  Researchers chose northern pintails as the focus of the study because they are fairly common in North America and Asia, they are frequently infected by low pathogenic avian influenza, and they are known to migrate between North America and Asia.  None of the samples were found to contain completely Asian-origin viruses and none were highly pathogenic.

[H5N1 Avian bird flu forecast blog] December bird flu Alerts 2008: Alerts are the top, daily news headlines with the keywords of H5N1, Avian (bird) influenza (or combination thereof). Since our goal is to forecast or calculate, we view these headlines as interesting indicators.

[virology blog] New influenza antiviral drugs: Unlike coryza, influenza expresses symptoms more severely, and usually lasts two weeks until one recovers who has the flu. Influenza, however, poses a danger to some with compromised immune systems, such as the chronically ill, so the recommendation is greater in such populations, along with women who may be pregnant during the flu season, residents of nursing homes or chronic care facilities.

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