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[THE BIRD FLU BLOG] SOUTH KOREAN BIRD FLU OUTBREAK SPREADS FAST MASSIVE CULL OF PIGS, DOGS AND CATS CONSIDERED TO CONTAIN SPREAD OF VIRUS The current outbreak of the bird flu virus amongst poultry in South Korea provides a good example of just how fast panic over the virus can spread, how fast it can kill, how quickly a government can move to deal with the outbreak, after initially denying it, and how rapidly bizarre containment measures can become a disturbing reality. On Friday, November 24, the first stories began to appear detailing what an outbreak of what was deemed to be a "low-grade" version of the avian influenza virus.
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[Birdflublog.blogspot.com] THE BIRD FLU BLOG: The Bird Flu Blog will bring together news and official announcements of the spread of avian flu throughout the world, the plans to combat its spread, notes from history on previous pandemics and how they were fought, and a look at the conspiracy theories that are already taking root. This is not academia, this is one person's reportage of a world on the brink of disaster.
[Guardian.co.uk] Report criticises preparations for bird flu outbreak | Special ...: The report - called Pandemic influenza: science to policy - says two patients being treated with Tamiflu in Vietnam died after the H5N1 bird flu virus in their bloodstream rapidly developed resistance to the drug.
[Googleblog.blogspot.com] Official Google Blog: Bird flu basics: The avian flu's jump to humans was first detected in 1997, although all the human deaths reported so far (about 60 since 2003) have been due to transmission from animals to humans. There has been more concern recently because the virus has been detected in migratory birds which can't be caught and killed - and which may carry the virus to Europe and Africa within the next two migratory seasons.
[Donklephant.com] Donklephant » Blog Archive » A Post About the H5N1 Bird Flu Virus: The World Health Organization said today that between 2 million and 7.4 million people could die from a global flu pandemic. WHO spokesman Dick Thompson told reporters in Geneva that countries have been warned to be ready to deal with up to 7.4 million deaths, but conceded there was no way to determine the deadliness of the avian flu “until the pandemic begins.”
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