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[W. David Stephenson blogs on homeland security et al.] W. David Stephenson blogs on homeland security... : Grace period may be over: possible human-human flu transmissionThat new IBM-led pandemic collaborative may get a real-time test, with the news that the WHO has sent a team to Indonesia to analyze whether a cluster -- the largest to date -- of avian flu cases among an extended family there indicates the H5N1 virus has mutated to what we've feared: a form that could be spread human-to-human. 5, and possibly a 6th, member of the family have died in recent weeks. 

 [Not-A-Pundit: The Renaissance] UN Says Human Death Toll From Bird Flu Rises To... : health agency has raised the confirmed human death toll from the H5N1 bird flu strain to 122, adding six Indonesians who died of the virus earlier this month and an Egyptian who died Thursday.

[Avian Flu] The Jakarta Post - Indonesia asks for... : JAKARTA (AP): President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono begged Thursday the international community to help fight the bird flu virus that has killed 30 people in his sprawling nation — with five new deaths and one infection confirmed this week alone.

 [The Agonist | thoughtful, global, timely] The Two Ends of the Bird Flu Spectrum: The hypothesis that migratory birds are responsible for spreading avian flu over long distances has taken another knock. Last year, an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain in thousands of migratory birds at Qinghai Lake in western China provided what seemed the first firm evidence for the idea.

[Avianflu.typepad.com] Avian Flu - What we need to know: Even as the World Health Organization presses China and other countries to share bird-flu data for the public good, the WHO itself runs a database limited to a select group of scientists and containing a massive trove of data -- some 2,300 genetic sequences of the virus, around a third of the world's known sequences, according to two people familiar with the database's contents. Any one of those sequences could hold clues to an effective human vaccine or drugs that could kill the virus, or help scientists determine how great a threat it poses.

 [Nature.com] Avian flu special The flu pandemic: were we ready? : Nature: Here's the transcript: "At this hour, the World Health Organization has declared a full-scale pandemic influenza alert, with person-to-person spread lasting more than two weeks in Cambodia and Vietnam. During previous influenza pandemics in the United States, large numbers of people were ill, sought medical care, were hospitalized and died.

[Healthnewsblog.com] Health News Blog -- Bird Flu / Avian Flu H5N1: Another WHO expert, Dr Mike Ryan, director of epidemic and pandemic alert, said, "We truly feel that this present threat is likely to stretch our global systems to the point of collapse." H5N1 has continued to spread easily from country to country and scientists are sounding more alarmist with each new human case and with each discovery of the virus in a new country.

 [Guardian.co.uk] Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Special report: bird flu: April 6: Pathogenic avian flu landed on the borders of Europe in January this year. Having swept westward from south-east Asia, where it began in mid-2003, the current outbreak claimed its first Turkish victim in the town of Dogubayazit, close to the country's border with Iran, on January 1.

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