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[Pathogen Alert] China installs bird flu warning system: China installs birdflu warning system Filed under: H5N1 by site admin @ 5:30 am on 06.01.2005 China plans to launch an early warning system to detect and prevent the spread of birdflu in cases similar to the recent outbreak of the virus in northwest China. The system will feature a nationwide

[Pathogen Alert] European Union health commish tries to alert the media: Let me do that math here, let’s see, the U.S. is proposing 120 million for their citizens, and the EU is proposing 1 BILLION for their citizens. So the EU wants to spend $2.19 per citizen (EU25 population is 456.4 million as of 2004), and the U.S. proposes to spend $0.40 for each of its’ 296 million citizens.

[Pathogen Alert] Hawaii officials want to screen travelers for bird flu: A study by Northwestern University researchers released yesterday ranked Hawaii 24th among 3,883 communities as the world’s most vital air travel hubs. More importantly, the study placed Honolulu in the top 1 percent of the world’s major places to watch during a contagious disease outbreak.

[Pathogen Alert] China urges citizens not to panic: “People do not need to panic and should be confident that the new cases will be brought under control as effective measures have been taken by the government,” Cui Shangjin, a bird flu specialist, told the China Daily paper on Monday.

[Pathogen Alert] China takes emergency measures against bird flu: China takes emergency measures against birdflu Filed under: H5N1 by site admin @ 6:35 am on 05.22.2005 China has ordered emergency measures to prevent an outbreak of avian flu after investigators said migratory birds found dead in the country’s west this month were killed by the virus. Nature

[Pathogen Alert] Chickens standing guard. Wasn’t this a Mel Gibson movie?: Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to enjoy a bowl of genetically-modified corn cereal with milk from genetically-modified cows. It’s my secret recipe for protecting myself against bird flu and West Nile infection, you see. Thanks to the brilliance of Monsanto’s genetic scientists, if bird flu or West Nile enters my bloodstream, deadly pathogens will encounter a whole new battalion of genes that will destory the bastard viruses.

[Pathogen Alert] Mad Viet bird flu scientist charged with foolhardiness: Furthermore, WHO believes the material used in Van’s experimental vaccine for humans is contaminated. Van plans to test the vaccine on herself, which would make her the Queen of the B-Movie Mad Scientists. WHO is upset about this. WHO, of course, would like the award for saving the planet.

[Pathogen Alert] Bird flu and blundering about by the WHO: “This is the first time that the FAO, World Organization for Animal Health, and WHO have had to work together on an international crisis of this scale. There was a lot of blundering around at first, and we are still feeling our way but the situation is a lot better now than it was in the early days,” Cordingley told Jane Parry in Hong Kong. That report is published today in the British Medical Journal, 2005;330:1169.

[Pathogen Alert] Bird flu virus found in 45 eggs from Vietnam: 45 eggs brought in by air from Vietnam by two passengers were inspected at the Guangdong Entry-Exit Inspection point and found to be infected with H5N1, or bird flu virus. Most of the duck-embryo shells were cracked and the embryos dead. Hong Kong’s The Standard has details.

 [Effectmeasure.blogspot.com] Effect Measure: Bird flu and bullshit: High level political support requires making a serious concern visible and public so that adequate resources can be allocated by cash-strapped state health departments who need urgent reasons to shift around the paltry contents of their shrinking pots of money. This didn't (and wasn't going to) happen during the election campaign when the Bush Administration didn't want to remind people about the flu vaccine fiasco, how dependent we were on the rest of the world or how we face threats not related to the "axis of evil."

 [Effectmeasure.blogspot.com] Effect Measure: <i>US News</i> on bird flu: All this casts harsh light on long-standing weaknesses in the nation's medical defense system, which include an unreliable vaccine supply and insufficient hospital surge capacity. Many hospital emergency rooms are already hard pressed to treat the influx of patients from a normal flu season, let alone a contagion that could send as many as 10 million people to the hospital. And the country's vaccine production capability is woefully inadequate, with only two manufacturers in the market and little financial incentive for other companies to enter. When contamination shut down one company's plant last year, obliterating half the nation's flu vaccine supply, the United States' entire influenza immunization program was thrown into chaos.

[Urgentebooks.com] Pathogen Alert: According to Greenpeace, there are ninety B61 nuclear missiles - each capable of many times the force of the Hiroshima bomb that killed over 120,000 people, stored at the Incirlik NATO Air Base in South-Eastern Turkey near the borders of Syria and Iraq. Apparently the citizens of Turkey and Incirlik have been kept in the dark.

[Radio.weblogs.com] Kevin Schofield's Weblog: H5N1 is the new SARS. It's more commonly known as Bird Flu and it's spreading in Asia -- starting in Vietnam, but recently spotted in China, Thailand and Indonesia. Currnently can spread from bird to bird and bird to human through excretions. There have been a couple of isolated cases where it is possible that it spread human-to-human, but there is no definitive proof of that.

 [Availablelightonline.com] Totem To Temple » Blog Archive » Pigs Spreading Bird Flu: This morning during breakfast, I was watching Fox and Friends weekend edition (hosted by TtoT’s poll winner for hottest babe at FoxNews Juliet Huddy). I saw on the scrolling feeder at the bottom of the television screen the words ‘Pigs spreading bird flu’. After breakfast, I ‘googled’ the words ‘bird flu in pigs’ and came across numerous links to articles detailing where health experts in Vietnam stated that pigs could be possible carriers for the illness.

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Vaccine, Bird Flu Monitor