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[Home (aboutflu.net)] launches global bird flu squad ROME (Reuters) - The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization on Thursday launched a global crisis center to monitor the spread of bird flu and despatch experts to help countries crack down on the killer virus. Swiss place first order for Glaxo bird flu vaccine LONDON (Reuters) - Switzerland on Wednesday became the first country to order a stockpile of GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s experimental bird flu vaccine for humans...

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Uk.news.yahoo.comhttp://uk.news.yahoo.com [Uk.news.yahoo.com] U.N. launches bird flu rapid reaction squad - Yahoo! News UK: FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf said that although many countries had succeeded in eradicating bird flu in poultry flocks, there were still major problems in Africa and Indonesia and risks the virus could return even after eradication.

http://birdfluguard.blogspot.com [Birdfluguard.blogspot.com] Bird Flu Guard: Under the project funded by the French Development Agency, Pasteur institutes in Vietnam's Ha Noi capital, central Nha Trang city and southern Ho Chi Minh City, China's Shanghai, France's Paris, and Cambodia, and a laboratory in Laos will reinforce their standard labs and national disease response networks, exchange data and specimens relating to bird flu, and put forth measures to contain outbreaks.

[Iqte.st] Psychology news blog @ http://www.iqte.st/ » Avian Bird Flu: the leading source for personalized health and lifestyle information and management tools announced today that it would launch its Bird Flu Health Center at www.RealAge.com on Wednesday, March 8, 2006.The RealAge Bird Flu Health Center will provide access to the facts and new findings on the bird flu and help consumers evaluate true data. The site will include validated information on risks, reports, outbreaks, medical break-throughs, and information on what consumers can do to help protect themselves and their family against a potential avian flu pandemic.

http://ykalaska.uniblogs.org [Yukon Kuskokwim Nushagak grassroots science] SciDev Bird Flu Dossier: …the presence of high levels of H5N1 virus triggered a release of proteins called cytokines which should control a body’s response to infection…. In these cases there was also an associated loss of lymphocytes (types of white blood cell) in the peripheral blood.

http://flufactor.blogspot.com [fluFactor] Bahamas Launches Bird Flu Investigation as a... : Over the past two days ten flamingos, five spoonbills and one cormorant have been discovered dead in Inagua National Park. The park is located in the far south of the island chain and covers more than 183,000 acres.

LoopyLibrarianhttp://loopylibrarian.blogspot.com [LoopyLibrarian] One for the Morning Glory: Because more and more bacteria are becoming resistant to the pre-eminent remedy - antibiotics - the search for new remedies against bacterial infections is in high gear. Research by scientists from the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) connected to Ghent University shows that certain mice, by nature, can withstand particular bacterial infections.

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