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[Avian Flu] Unless we act now, bird flu may win -... : One of the best untapped resources in this epic battle against influenza is bird-watchers, who are among the most fanatic hobbyists in the world. The major bird-watching organizations and safari clubs ought to work with the World Health Organization and OIE, the World Organization for Animal Health, to set up Web-based notification sites, where birders could report sightings of groups of dead birds, and the movements of key migrating species.

 [Republican National Convention Blog NYC 2004] Vaccine provides 100 percent protection against... : Based on the published sequence of the Vietnam strain of the H5N1 avian influenza virus, members of the University of Pittsburgh Vector Core Facility, led by Wentao Gao, Ph.D., research instructor in the School of Medicine's department of surgery, constructed several adenovirus "vectors"--viruses that have been modified to serve as a vector, or delivery vehicle, for foreign genes or DNA--containing either the full genetic sequence of the HA protein or sequences for only parts, or subunits, of HA. They also constructed a vector containing sequences for a portion of the HA protein from the H5N1 Hong Kong strain.

 [tempest in a teacup] news // bird flu kills second person: From : Bird flu claims 2nd Turkish child A 15-year-old girl has died of bird flu in Turkey, becoming the country's second person to succumb to the virus, according to health officials. Fatma Kocyigit's brother, Mehmet Ali Kocyigit, 14, died of a strain of avian influenza Sunday, Health Minister Recep Akdag said Thursday.

 [Bill Totten's Weblog] Avian Flu: The Ecology of an Epidemic: (See article above wherein Pat Thomas discusses at length the likelihood of the virus mutating into a form that can be transmitted by the human population.) So if we don't yet have anything to cure, shouldn't much of the effort go towards preventing an outbreak in the first place? Towards finding ways of containing the virus before it mutates?

[Just a Bump in the Beltway] All Things Flu: JEFFERY TAUBENBERGER, VIRUS HUNTER, goes to work in a bland building overlooking I-270 in Rockville. It's the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, and it is scheduled to be "disestablished" as part of the broader plan to close military bases around the country.

 [Nuthatch.typepad.com] bootstrap analysis: sunday times: bird flu: There are growing economic ties between the U.S. and Asian countries, including Vietnam, where most deaths from bird flu have taken place and where the most frightening signs of mutation are occurring, and China, where bird flu has resurfaced, but which has has a record of being less that transparent regarding bird flu cases both in 2004 and as recently as last week. It was a little more than a year ago that SARS crippled China's tourism and economy, and one cannot discount the motivation to deny another outbreak of a highly contagious, often fatal, disease. 

[Riehlworldview.com] Riehl World View: Avian Flu H5N1: Bush met with top health and security advisers about ways the United States can deal with a influenza pandemic and scheduled a meeting with top vaccine manufacturers for Friday, and members of Congress introduced legislation that would help develop better flu vaccines and help spot outbreaks at the earliest moment.

[Reachm.com] The American Street » Blog Archive » Avian Influenza Read-Around: Here’s my advice: my colleagues at The Flu Wiki and I don’t agree on much other than that you should be paying attention to the news about avian influenza. Is a human virus likely to pop up out of this mess?

 [Cheblogs.com] Flu Information, Influenza, Avain, Bird Flu Information ! : Weblog: The run on stores selling the drug prompted the Ministry of Health (MoH) to tighten Tamiflu supply. Director of the MoH's Pharmaceutical Control Department (PCD), Cao Minh Quang, said that because of limited imported supplies, Tamiflu would be reserved, first for the National Drug Reserve, then for hospitals with bird flu victims and health officials working with bird flu.

 [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.

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