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[The Coming Influenza Pandemic?] August 27-28 Flu Update: The article criticizes what it sees as the government's repeating of the "false reassurance" policy from BSE. In the second, an on-the-scene reporter says there isn't enough petrol to burn the birds in Siberia.
[Ablogalypse Now] H5N1 Poised to Go Global: "The detection of bird flu in a dead seagull in northern Finland provides additional evidence for a worldwide spread of H5N1, setting the stage for a major pandmeic. Although H5N1 wild bird flu has yet to be confirmed, the official statement that the bird flu is not H5N1 has been the common initial official comment on H5N1 when it is reported for the first time.
[c h a n d r a s u t r a] Finland gulls may be first European cases of bird flu: According to UK's Times Online, Europe may have its first cases of bird flu with the discovery of fifty dead sea gulls in Finland:
[Crofsblogs.typepad.com] H5N1: Reuters has stopped calling it "swine flu" and reported on the possibility that the outbreak of Streptococcus suis is the result of overuse of antibiotics. It raises an unpleasant idea: Using antivirals could make H5N1 more resistant just as using antibiotics is creating tougher bacteria...creating the possibility of opportunist bacterial infections attacking people weakened by flu.
[News.yahoo.com] China experts say bird flu bigger threat than SARS - Yahoo! News: Suspected bird flu hits Finnish gulls AFP via Yahoo! News, Aug 26; Brussels questions Dutch ... Celebrities blog for cancer prevention and early detection. ...
[Kolkatabirds.com] Birds of Kolkata: Avian Influenza or Bird Flu and India: . Until recently, HPAI viruses had been isolated rarely from wild birds. Epidemiological studies suggest that, in some cases, wild birds are likely to have played a role in the transmission of H5N1 viruses to domestic poultry. Samples collected from clinically normal birds in the wild have not yet yielded any H5N1viruses. Infection with H5N1 HPAI does not necessarily cause clinical disease. Science and Nature journals report that the H5N1 viral strain is now being transmitted between migratory wild birds makes avian flu even more of a global threat than before.
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