Bird Flu Monitor: Togo reports H5N1 in poultry

Bird Flu Monitor > Togo reports H5N1 in poultry

[A Pandemic Chronicle] Normally I do not comment much on yet another outbreak of H5N1 in poultry occuring somewhere in the world. However, when AI happens in areas of dense population or where poverty is the rule rather than the exception I have an extra level of concern for an event that has become all too familiar to those who watch.

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[H5N1-links] September 7, 2008: As we learned a few months ago, OIE doesn't even expect regular reports of H5N1 outbreaks once it's become "endemic" in the country. So if we're lucky, we might in theory get a twice-yearly summary of B2B outbreaks in Indonesia.

[RSOE EDIS - EBHWM] BH : H5N1 (Susp. Animal) / Asia / Laos [0:0]: Name of Hazard: H5N1 (Susp. Animal) Area: Asia Country: Laos Description: Authorities in Laos detected a fresh outbreak of bird flu in the north of the country last week and slaughtered all poultry affected, a government spokesman says.

[H5N1-links] September 6, 2008: As one of the first of the 61 countries reporting an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus in poultry, Vietnam experienced four major outbreaks between Dec.

[SLA Biomedical & Life Sciences Division Blog] H5N1: Update on Avian-to-Avian & Avian-to-Human FluTransmission ...: Potency of an inactivated avian influenza vaccine prepared from a non-pathogenic H5N1 reassortant virus generated between isolates from migratory ducks in Asia. Archives of Virology epub ahead of print, no volume or pagination yet assigned.

[NewViews17] Avian Influenza Bird Flu Avian Influenza A H5N1 Virus Facts: Of the human cases associated with the ongoing H5N1 outbreaks in poultry and wild birds in Asia and parts of Europe, the Near East and Africa, more than half of those people reported infected with the virus have died. Most cases have occurred in previously healthy children and young adults and have resulted from direct or close contact with H5N1-infected poultry or H5N1-contaminated surfaces.

[Blog Doctor] Fresh bird flu outbreak in Nigerian poultry (Reuters): Reuters - An outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus has been found in two Nigerian poultry markets, the first discovery in almost 10 months in Africa's most populous nation, the agriculture ministry said on Monday.

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[RFF Library Blog] The Effects of Avian Influenza News on Consumer Purchasing ...: [Abstract] To better understand how information about potential health hazards influences food demand, this case study examines consumers’ responses to newspaper articles on avian influenza, informally referred to as bird flu. The focus here is on the response to bird flu information in Italy as news about highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza (HPAI H5N1) unfolded in the period October 2004 through October 2006, beginning after reports of the first outbreaks in Southeast Asia, and extending beyond the point at which outbreaks were reported in Western Europe.

[Weblog] Assessment of Current Situation: No evidence for genetic reassortment between human and avian influenza A virus genes has been heard discovered to date, and there is no evidence of any valuable unrest to escalating H5N1 virus strains to hint that greater transmissibility to or surrounded by humans. Genetic sequencing of avian influenza A (H5N1) viruses based on information from human tendencies in Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia indicates resistance to the antiviral medications amantadine and rimantadine, two of the medications commonly exhausted for service of influenza.

[Tommy D.'s blog] Entry for 15 August 2008 - Deliberately creating a Pandemic to ...: On April 28 of this year in an official Press Release from Sanofi Pasteur US headquarters in Swiftwater, Pennsylvania and Lyon, France, the company stated, "Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi-Aventis Group, announced today that the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has accepted H5N1 bulk vaccine antigen to produce approximately 38.5 million doses of vaccine to protect against a new strain of avian influenza. Sanofi Pasteur has a multi-year contract with HHS as part of its pandemic program, and will receive a payment of $192.5 million booked in the second quarter of 2008 for acceptance of the bulk vaccine lot."19

[BlogCatalog Blog Search: mainland china] Hong Kong bans mainland poultry after bird flu outbreak (AFP): Hong Kong on handgun announced an immediate ban on live poultry imports from mainland China after the deadly H5N1 virus was found in a city market. More: - Read the rest here. Read More »