BANGKOK - Thailand’s Public Health ministry warned that 14 of its 76 provinces are at risk of bird flu this year, as an official said a cold snap boosted chances of the deadly virus spreading.
Somchai Chakrabhand, head of the government’s disease control department said there were no current suspected cases of the deadly H5N1 virus, [...]
IT ISN’T just flu that we have birds to thank for over the millennia. It seems they also gave us one kind of common cold - and it made the jump relatively recently.
In 2001 Ron Fouchier and colleagues at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, discovered human metapneumovirus, one of many viruses that cause common colds. Although the resulting illness is usually mild, and most
The bird flu viruses are mostly subtypes of Influenza Virus A. There are several H5 and H7 subtypes of the 'influenza A' virus that cause bird flu among the birds. The wild fowls are considered to be the reservoir of the bird flu virus since ages. The migratory birds carry the pathogens from place to place and in turn infect the local population of the birds causing wide spread deaths.
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BIRD flu has joined HIV/Aids as the second health scourge to be targeted during this year's Water Festival, NGO and government officials said this week as millions of people converged in Phnom Penh for the annual celebration.
Safe-sex drives have long been a feature of the Water Festival, which sees
The drug will end up in waterways Bird viruses have been quite a cause of consternation in the medical fraternity and the governments across the world lost their sleep over the pandemic-like situations. Reported the New Scientist “in flu pandemic, millions of people are expected to take the antiviral drug Tamiflu, but new research shows that ultimately much of the drug will pass through the peop
Why the health authorities are too scary about this virus H5N1? It reminds some of the health researchers and scientists about the Black Death (Bubonic Plague) that broke out in China in 1300 and quickly spread to Europe. The death toll soon was in millions. The scientists fear that this virus H5N1 has similar potentialities. However, the beginning of the devastation created by this virus is humbl
Since its outbreak, every poultry owner had become aware of the consequences that can happen if this deadly disease is not prevented.
Bird flu or what is also known avian (meaning bird) influenza (flu), is the number one killer of poultry chickens in Asia and some parts of the world.
Bird flu started in [...]
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Since its outbreak, every poultry owner had become aware of the consequences that can happen if this deadly disease is not prevented. Bird flu or what is also known avian (meaning bird) influenza (flu), is the number one killer of poultry chickens in Asia and some parts of the world.Bird flu started in China and became a widespread disease for their chickens thus wiping out over millions of poultr
Bird flu chiefs from across Southeast Asia have agreed to assess the ability of their governments to respond to a deadly human pandemic of the virus, an Indonesian official said Wednesday.
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Foreign travel could spark a bird flu outbreak that devastates the world’s population, a report warned last night. A House of Lords team said more deadly animal diseases were spreading to humans.- and the extent of world trade and travel mean there are few barriers to a global pandemic.
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The government of the United Kingdom is warning of an "inevitable" flu pandemic that will kill 75,000 Britons and 50 million people worldwide.Meanwhile, a newly discovered respiratory illness is killing people in areas of Oregon, Washington, Texas and South Carolina.Many people that we talk to these days do not take the threat of a flu pandemic seriously. But when you start putting all of the piec
Please watch this important video before you subject yourself or your loved ones to FluMist or any other flu vaccine. FluMist contains two of the three specific packets of DNA that the H5N1 virus needs to become a pandemic virus.
FluMist is not only ineffective, but potentially dangerous. Even if it does not set of a pandemic, it is a cause of what it is supposed to protect against: the flu. Acco
Three Polish doctors and six nurses face criminal prosecution after a number of homeless people died following medical trials for a vaccine to the H5N1 bird-flu virus.
The medical staff are being investigated over medical trials conducted on as many as 350 homeless and poor people last year. Authorities claim that the alleged victims received money to be tested with what they thought was a convent
ALTHOUGH bird flu remains entrenched in Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Indonesia and Vietnam, the situation is improving in the rest of the world due to measures taken by governments, the UN coordinator for the disease said on Tuesday. 'If we look at the rest of the world, I can continue to report that the situation is really improving,' Mr David Nabarro told reporters here. 'Countries generally have
Since the virus was first detected in Guangdong Province, China in 1996, H5N1 (Bird Flu) has received much attention as the fear of a global spread of the disease mounted. Initially, H5N1 was considered merely interesting; however, alarm bells began to ring when it spread through live-poultry markets in Hong Kong, and eventually to humans, [...]
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong health workers slaughtered 2,700 poultry in a market Saturday after chickens were found to be carrying the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus, officials said.
The slaughter may be extended to all live poultry in the territory if the virus is detected in any other locations, Secretary for Food and Health [...]
The Department of Food Safety in Finland has now examined more than 2,500 wild birds over the past five years, in order to keep track of the current avian flu...
Doctor's offices are flooded with visitors all over the world these days from people wondering if they have a bird flu symptom. We are all so terrified of any kind of bird flu symptom that some people have even stopped going out where there might be other people. This is a little extreme since the [...]
Bird flu hits North America once again.CBS News is reporting that Tyson Foods is slaughtering 15,000 hens that have tested positive for exposure to the bird flu.Of course the authorities are trying to assure us that we have nothing to worry about and that this strain of the bird flu is no threat to humans at all.But why can't they stop it? Why is bird flu spreading like wildfire among the birds of
Bird flu today (May 16) spread to another new block in Darjeeling hills of West Bengal.Quoting report of the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL) at Bhopal, district magistrate Rajesh Pandey confirmed the presence of avian influenza at Bijanbari block in Darjeeling hills.Pandey told news agencies that 17,000 birds would …
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Threatened with rampant bird flu, Seoul, South Korea just became the latest Asian city to eradicate 100% of its chicken population. Meanwhile, on this side of the Pacific, Los Angeles is expanding its chicken population. Under a Tsunami wave of Mexican immigration that has made The City of Angeles look like a third-world metropolis, the city fathers were recently forced to change the law regardin
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's worst outbreak of bird flu has spread to the capital with agriculture ministry officials saying on Tuesday four dead birds raised at a Seoul district government office had tested positive.South Korea has confirmed 24 cases of the deadly H5N1 strain in poultry in about a month. It has killed more than 5 million chickens and ducks but that has not stopped the virus from spreading at its fastest rate since the country reported its first case in 2003.The four birds were among 57 chickens, ducks and turkeys raised in pens at the district office in the eastern part of Seoul. The ministry said it would take about a day to confirm if the dead birds had contracted the H5N1 strain.The city had culled all the birds at the site and was limiting access to a nearby zoo an
INDONESIA opened a major bird flu simulation on Friday that will test its preparedness for a potentially catastrophic pandemic. About 1,000 government, health and law enforcement officials were at the three-day event on the resort island of Bali to consider how to contain a possible widespread outbreak of the often-lethal disease. It would begin with the isolation of a village where a field hospital would be set up to treat people with flu-like symptoms. At the closing on Sunday, officials will try to prevent 'infected' travelers from leaving the international airport and spreading the virus to other countries. 'This is the only exercise in the world (of its kind) that is ever taking place,' said Mr Subhash Salunke, the World Health Organisation's top official in Indonesia. 'This will
Indonesia does not want money for its samples of a deadly bird flu virus, a health official said Wednesday after the U.S. criticized his country for refusing to share the samples with the international community.Instead, Indonesia wants governments and pharmaceutical companies to come up with a mechanism that will ensure future pandemic vaccines are accessible to developing nations, said Widjaja Lukito, an adviser to Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari.That could include creating a multilateral trust that would enable price tiering or bulk purchasing of lifesaving vaccines, Lukito said.The adviser was responding to comments made by Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, who accused Indonesia of withholding virus samples from the World Health Organization since early 2007 because
South Korea on Wednesday issued a nationwide bird flu alert, deployed troops and put firefighters on standby to try to contain the spread of the disease, officials said. The agriculture ministry said in a statement the "orange" vigilance level was extended to the whole country after previously covering only the badly hit southwest. The ministry said it had confirmed 20 outbreaks involving the H5 virus, of which at least six were the deadly H5N1 subtype, since the first case was reported in Gimje, 260 kilometres (162 miles) south of Seoul, in early April. It is investigating 14 more suspected cases, including one on a farm in Pyeongtaek, 70 kilometres south of Seoul. ~ read on... ~
During a visit to Jakarta this week, Leavitt told reporters he opposed any linkage between the sharing and new arrangements to prevent commercial exploitation of the samples."We have the same concerns about a global pandemic. If (flu) is present everywhere then there is danger everywhere, and we must work together," he said, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corp.In February, Indonesia resumed sending the samples on what some officials have characterized as a "case by case" basis. "We are still not receiving virus samples on a regular enough basis to ensure proper functions of the … Global Influenza Surveillance Network," said Hartl, referring to the WHO's pandemic early warning system.He said there had been a series of intergovernmental meetings within the organization about the
Well, what are the real chances of it affecting you or your pet birds? The answer is practically none. There are many facts involved in this answer: 1. It is chiefly a waterfowl and poultry disease.2. There is no cases in the USA in poultry or otherwise3. Strict quarantine laws greatly hinder the possibility of an outbreak occurring (30 day quarantine)4. There is not a case of human to human transfer yet .5. The H5N1 strain is the only strain to affect humans.6. Influenza viruses do not persist in environments outside the hosts for long period of time (ideal condition about a week) Now, I'm not going to tell you that it will never happen. In medicine and viruses there is no absolute. But, there are so many factors against it that the possibility is a thousand times less than being
It is announced today that 30 years old Wala Ahmed Abd El-Galil has died of H5N1 to raise Egypt's death toll from the Bird Flu since its out break to 22 Wala got infected from the domestic poultry she was raising at her home in Mataria at Cairo , this is the first death in Cairo in this year. Mataria is populated area by the ay Technorati Tags: Egypt,Bird Flu,Avian Flu,H5N1,Cairo,Mataria,Deaths,Health,National,Citizen Journalism
LONDON - Chinese health officials have confirmed that a father caught bird flu from his son last December, according to a report released Tuesday.
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The trade of live chickens will be banned in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta beginning in 2010 to fight bird flu in the world's hardest-hit nation, a livestock official said Monday. Poultry will have to be killed at government-licensed slaughterhouses outside Jakarta before being transported to market, said Edy Setiarto, adding that authorities need two years to prepare regulations and business owners for the change. Currently, many customers prefer to buy live chickens, which are then slaughtered to ensure the meat is fresh. Setiarto said 70 per cent of Indonesia's bird flu cases occur in Jakarta and surrounding districts. Last year, city residents were told they could no longer keep backyard chickens, but the order appears to have been ignored. "The government will improve efforts
Despite major efforts to control the outbreak of avian influenza in Indonesia - the country worst hit by the virus - the situation there remains "grave," the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today. Bird flu has become "deeply entrenched" in Indonesia with 31 out of 33 provinces being infected, according to FAO. The virus is endemic in Java, Sumatra, Bali and southern Sulawesi with sporadic outbreaks reported from other areas.Just last month, five people living in the west of Java, Indonesia's most populous island, died after contracting the H5N1 virus, responsible for outbreaks of bird flu around the world in recent years. "The human mortality rate from bird flu in Indonesia is the highest in the world and there will be more human cases if we do not focus more
The United States has flatly denied allegations it was producing biological weapons from bird flu samples sent by Indonesia to the World Health Organization, the English daily The Jakarta Post reported Monday. Michael H. Anderson, counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Indonesia, has explained the U.S. has undertaken "not to develop, produce, stockpile, or otherwise acquire or retain microbial or other biological agents or toxins of types and in quantities that have no justification for prophylactic, protective, and other peaceful purposes, as well as weapons and means of delivery." The U.S. is a party to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, which entered in
The times of india report,A fresh outbreak of bird-flu has occurred in West Bengal. Bhopal's High Security Animal Disease Laboratory confirmed on Friday night that samples sent from Raghunathganj and Jiaganj from Murshidabad district are positive with the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza virus. This is not suprising to me given that it cannot be contained in an area where poultry
(NaturalNews) - The avian flu has undergone a critical mutation making it easier for the virus to infect humans, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and published in the journal PLoS Pathogens.
“We have identified a specific change that could make bird flu grow in the upper respiratory [...]
Avian influenza (AI) or Bird Flu is a viral disease that primarily effects fowl such as chickens, turkeys, guinea fowls, ducks, and other avian species. Fowl plague has been described as early as 1878 as a disease of chickens in Italy. In 1955 it was determined that it was one of the influenza viruses.There are three types of influenza, A, B and C. Only type A infects animals and only type A can cause a panepidemic. To date, all outbreaks of the highly pathogenic form have been from the H5N1 subtype. The flu is transmitted from bird to bird by direct contact with the discharge from infected birds, contaminated feed, water, cages, equipment, vehicles and clothing. Eggs from infected hens can break and contaminate incubators. Humans become infected after direct or indirect contact with infec
"U.S. officials believe that wild geese in Michigan may have been infected with a strain of the bird flu virus, but it is not thought to be a highly pathogenic strain and is one that has been seen previously in North America, the White House said on Monday."read more | digg story
The World Health Organisation (WHO), laboratory will be designed as per the stringent Biosafety level 3 norms of the international body. The laboratory will be equipped to fight even the deadliest of viral attacks, like that of Hantavirus (infectious respiratory disease), Ebola virus and most importantly the human transmission of avian influenza.“The expertise of this laboratory will also help tackle bio-terrorism or an anthrax attack,” said Dr Ranjana Deshmukh, Director, Haffkine Research Institute. The laboratory will function in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical research (ICMR) and National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), Delhi. Earlier, samples of a virus had to be sent to the National Institute of Virology, Pune or Bhopal.The laboratory costing Rs2.85 cro
World health experts are also concerned about another two suspected bird flu outbreaks, in the West African state of Benin.Outbreaks in Africa are always a worry because the continent's widespread poverty, lack of proper veterinary and medical facilities and huge informal farming sector could allow outbreaks to go unnoticed for longer, increasing the risk of the virus mutating.
World health experts are also concerned about another two suspected bird flu outbreaks, in the West African state of Benin.Outbreaks in Africa are always a worry because the continent's widespread poverty, lack of proper veterinary and medical facilities and huge informal farming sector could allow outbreaks to go unnoticed for longer, increasing the risk of the virus mutating.
There is much to be discovered about the lethal H5N1 strain, this is clear to the international scientific community. In January 06′, there was an outbreak in Turkey in which all but two of the 21 confirmed human cases, it said, have involved children and teens aged 4 to 18. The general thinking is that children are more likely to touch or play with diseased birds. I am not a doctor or scientist but I do know when it comes to flu season in general the first warnings tend to be directed at the very old and the very young because of the susceptibility of their immune system.
One of the more disturbing discoveries is that since the virus not only affects the lungs, but passes throughout the body into the gastrointestinal tract, the brain, liver and blood cells it has been revealed it can pass from mother to fetus. This fact was confirmed in Beijing this past September when a 24 year old pregnant woman died from the bird flu and it was discovered that her four month old fetus was al
Here is the map of the Bird flu in 2006/07 in Egypt ,it is very interestingAs you see Delta suffered a lot along with Cairo , Alexandria was away from the problem ,Upper Egypt did not suffer like the Delta but still had its share from the Flu that destroyed our Poultry industry totally turnig us from exporters to importers :(View Larger MapJust for your information Egypt is the only country in Africa and the middle east that suffered a lot from the disease economically and humanly Technorati tags: Citizen journalism, health, Bird Flu, H5N1, Egypt, Delta, Cairo, Upper Egypt, world, Middle east, North Africa
Indonesia will not share bird flu virus samples unless richer countries agree to give developing nations control over their use and access to cheap vaccines, a spokeswoman from the nation's health ministry said on Monday. Health officials from around the world failed to reach an agreement on a new virus sharing system at talks hosted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva last week.Intellectual propertyIndonesia wants a material transfer agreement for each virus sample sent to foreign labs, specifying that the sample will only be used for diagnostic purposes and not for commercial gain. Under this proposal, any commercial use of the virus would require prior consent of the country providing it. By retaining the i
Today we begin a series of reports about the disease bird flu. The series will examine how quickly the disease has spread. It will also tell what is being done to stop the spread and how people can protect themselves and their families from bird flu.The disease bird flu has killed people in at least ten countries since two thousand three. The United Nations World Health Organization confirmed one hundred sixty-five human deaths by the end of January.Earlier this month, health officials in Britain reported that more than two thousand turkeys had died of bird flu. The officials immediately ordered people to keep at least three kilometers away from the turkey farm. Workers destroyed more than one hundred thousand healthy birds as a safety measure. There is no evidence that any people became sick with the disease.The new head of the World Health Organization says it will be years until farm birds are safe from bird flu. W.H.O. Director-General Margaret Chan says that, until then, the world
Researchers in Singapore have created a handheld device that can detect the H5N1 bird flu virus from throat swab samples in under 30 minutes, raising hopes it will lead to rapid detection and containment of the virus. Conventional laboratory tests take around 4 hours, and require machines to first isolate and amplify the virus before it is tested. Writing in the latest issue of Nature Medicine, the scientists said the new device would allow decentralized testing of the H5N1 virus, especially in countries that lack basic public health resources. H5N1, a disease found mostly in birds, is endemic in many parts of Asia and experts have warned for years that it could spark a pandemic, killing millions of people, if it learns to jump from person to person. "The World Health Organisation containment plan aims to stop an epidemic locally in order to prevent a global disaster," the scientists said. "In the event of a flu epidemic, its rapid containment would depend on the promp
As more and more cases of bird flu are reported, the world faces an immediate threat of a deadly pandemic. Pandemics (Global Disease Outbreaks) are known to be like flash floods. They start abruptly, spread fast and cause a lot of damage all over the world.A few facts that everyone should know:What is Avian Influenza? As the name suggests, avian influenza refers to the infection caused by avian (bird) influenza (flu) viruses. These viruses are commonly found in intestines of wild birds and these birds can carry the viruses without getting sick. However the viruses can be pathogenic to domesticated birds like chickens, ducks and turkeys. Domesticated birds become infected through exposure to other birds or through surfaces contaminated by secretions and faeces of the infected birds.These viruses are classified as Low Pathogenicity and High Pathogenicity. Most strains of Avian Influenza come under Low Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (LPAI) Group and produce mild symptoms in the infected bi
H5N1 is a kind bird flu virus (bird flu virus) changed [1] by antigen drive into dozens that to a high degree pathogenen multiplicity has, but all, which belong at present to Genotypus Z of the bird flu virus H5N1. Genotypus Z dipped through reassortment 2002 of the earlier to a high degree pathogenen Genotypen of H5N1 on [2] first into China the 1996 in the birds and into Hong Kong 1997 into humans [3] appeared. „The viruses H5N1 of the human infection and the bird viruses referred near, which are located 2004 and 2005, belong to an individual Genotypus, frequently characterized as Genotypus Z. “[1]The bird flu formation members, which were confirmed in humans, ordered by the number admitted to human deaths, are: H1N1 caused Spanish flu, H2N2 caused asiatic flu, H3N2 caused Hong Kong flu, H5N1, H7N7, H9N2, H7N2, H7N3, H10N7.All bird viruses of the flu (AI) are kind A flu virus in the virus family of Orthomyxoviridae and all well-known loads of the virus of the flu A stick on birds
An Indonesian woman became the second person to die of bird flu on the resort island of Bali, bringing the death toll in the nation hardest hit by the disease to 84, the Health Ministry said Wednesday. The 28-year-old woman - who worked for a chicken trader - died Tuesday after being hospitalized for four days, said spokesman Joko Suyono. "Tests in two local laboratories came back positive" for the H5N1 strain of the disease, he said. However, he could not say whether samples will be sent to a WHO-collaborating laboratory for confirmation. Another woman died of bird flu on Bali one week ago, causing fears that it would hurt tourism on the island, which has been struggling to recover since terrorist attacks in 2002 and 2005 killed more than 220 people.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
Indonesian authorities in Bali have culled more than 5,400 chickens in an effort to prevent the spread of the H5N1 virus that claimed one life on the resort island last week, a local official said Saturday.A 29-year-old woman died last Sunday after coming in contact with infected chickens. Authorities started culling chickens Monday in the woman's village of Banyar Dangin Tukar Aya in Jembrana district, said I Gusti Sanjaya, head of the local agricultural, forestry and fishery office.Sanjaya said nearly 5,300 chickens were slaughtered as of Friday and another 100 were killed Saturday. All of the bird's were within a one-kilometer-radius of the village.Authorities also stopped the transportation of poultry into or out of Jembrana district, Sanjaya said.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
Copyright 2005 Andrew CavanaghBird flu protection could be as simple as bowing instead of shaking hands.Japan never suffered an outbreak of SARS despite being surrounded by countries where outbreaks occurred.The most likely reason is that viruses like SARS and the bird flu are most commonly passed through hand to hand contact and in Japan it's more common to bow than shake hands.Hand hygiene is also promoted heavily in kindergarten and schools across Japan.This combination of excellent hygiene and a lack of formal hand to hand contact could be huge factors in Japan's avoiding the SARS outbreak and may hold one key secret to slowing a bird flu pandemic.What most people don't realize is that over 90% of respiratory viruses like the bird flu, the common cold and influenza get into your body through contact between your fingernails and the mucous membranes of your eyes and nose.They literally hitchhike into your body and you're giving them an easy ride.If the bird flu mutates into a hu
Indonesia will not resume full cooperation with the World Health Organisation on sharing of bird flu virus samples until a fair mechanism is in place, a health official said on Tuesday, but denied sending unusable specimens. David Heymann, WHO assistant director general for communicable diseases, said on Monday that Indonesia was now the only country that had not shared samples of the H5N1 virus that drug makers can use to develop vaccines. He said three specimens Jakarta sent in May to a WHO collaborating laboratory in Japan contained fragments, but no live virus. Triono Soendoro, head of the Indonesian health ministry's research and development centre, dismissed Heymann's remarks. "He doesn't understand about viruses. Just tell him to ask the virologists in Japan and let them explain to him," Soendoro said by telephone. Jakarta argues these companies use the specimens to develop vaccines poor countries like Indonesia cannot afford.Related: WHO: In
Indonesia has yet to resume sharing samples from human bird flu victims with the World Health Organization, jeopardizing not only the Asian nation but the entire planet, the U.N. health agency said Monday. David Heymann, assistant director-general for communicable diseases at WHO, said the agency had received three specimens from Jakarta in May, but none contained any live virus. "What's important is that all countries share viruses that they isolate from humans," Heymann said. "By not sharing the viruses, Indonesia is ... putting in danger its own populations, because if those viruses are not freely shared with industry, vaccines will not contain the elements of the Indonesia infections. The second thing that Indonesia is doing is therefore putting the whole world at risk."Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
Vietnam plans to start its first human trial of a locally-made H5N1 bird flu vaccine as early as next month, using 20 to 30 volunteers, said health officials in the communist country.The drug trial, to be carried out with US government technical assistance, will be the latest of several global efforts to develop a vaccine for mass production, with research also going on in the United States, Europe and Asia.The news comes as a new wave of bird flu sweeping Vietnam has killed a 20-year-old man, infected four other people and triggered more than 100 poultry outbreaks nationwide since last month."Preparations for the clinical test of a human vaccine have been basically completed," said Nguyen Tran Hien, director of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) in Hanoi."Twenty to 30 volunteers will be chosen to test an H5N1 vaccine produced in Vietnam."Hien said he expected testing to start as early as next month, pending health ministry approval, with the trial expected to wr
Indonesian authorities say a vaccine to combat human bird flu could be ready as early as next month.The country's Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari says the World Health Organisation's advice to stockpile vaccine is not realistic in the case of Indonesia.She says her nation is prepared to use it immediately.Ms Supari says stockpiling bird flu vaccine may work for developed countries, where human cases are yet to appear.But she says Indonesia already has human cases and should not be stockpiling anymore.The Health minister says clinical trials should wrap up soon.
The European Union and the Japanese government have given grants amounting to US$10 million and US$5 million respectively for handling the bird flu virus in Indonesia.The grants were announced during a meeting between the Indonesian government and the donor countries at the “ HPAI in Indonesia: Latest Situation and Future Steps to Control H5N1 Virus” as the theme, at the Gran Melia Hotel, Jakarta, today (13/6).
Asia-Pacific health ministers said on Friday that a "climate of fear" that accompanies the outbreak of infectious diseases such as bird flu could have a devastating impact on Asia's economies."The climate of fear that disease outbreaks such as avian influenza bring can rapidly sap the confidence and enterprise that underpins the economic dynamism of our region," Australian Health Minister Tony Abbott told the conference.Indonesia said on Wednesday the H5N1 virus might have undergone a mutation that allows it to jump more easily from poultry to humans, but stressed the findings were preliminary.Indonesia is struggling to contain the disease because millions of backyard chickens live in close proximity to humans across the archipelago. Contact with sick fowl is the most common way humans become infected with bird flu."The possibility of a pandemic arising from avian influenza presents a significant threat to human health security," said the health ministers.
A couple of days ago the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) suggested we may have turned a corner in the bird flu fight.Whenever I see something like that it sends a chill down my spine, because invariably within a few days things happen to put the lie to this eternally springing hope, and this was no exception.We've got bird flu appearing in Vietnam (including the first confirmed human case since November 2005), China, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Ghana, etc.Thirty countries so far this year (out of a total of 59 that have ever reported outbreaks). Yet another human case in Indonesia (hardly news anymore).
The World Health Assembly (WHA) is holding a meeting in Geneva where deliberations on Indonesia`s draft resolution on the mechanism of the dispatch and sharing of bird flu virus samples have proceeded very toughly."It is a very tough meeting. But with that we have opened the eyes of the world that developing countries have felt an unfair mechanism with regard to the sharing and dispatch of bird flu virus samples," Communicable Disease Director General I Nyoman Kandu said Thursday.But members of the World Health Organization (WHO) who are attending the WHA sessions actually have the desire to produce a fairer mechanism or system for the sake of the international communities` health, regardless of whether they are poor or rich, the director general said.
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And the Cubs owe them big time after letting the Cards come in and take two out of three last weekend (and lose me money in the process). As Carl mentioned earlier today, St. Louis aka "Dirtiest City in America" is about as bad at Beer Stadium as the Cubs are at Gum Field.
Tonight Jason Marquis gets another chance to stick it to his old team, as he did about a week ago when he blanked the Cards for seven shutout innings. If he can repeat the feat, maybe some of the IALOHO faithful will turn their hatred to the team's really bad players (Ronny Cedeno, Cesar Izturis) instead of one of the team's few pitchers with a winning record and who has done little wrong so far this season. It's OK, Jason, I got your back. No need to thank me.
Why do they keep yelling my name? I don't understand. What more must I do? St. Louis will send Anthony Reyes to the mound, and the Cubs' bats should be able to get to him, as they did last Saturday, touching him for four ear
A teenage girl in Indonesia is infected with the deadly bird flu virus, becoming the 93rd confirmed case in the country worst hit by the disease, a health official said Thursday.The 15-year-old lives in the country's sprawling capital, Jakarta, and is in intensive care in one of the city's hospitals, a spokesperson from Indonesia's bird flu information centre said.Related: Indonesia's Latest Bird-Flu Fatality Linked With Pet Hawk
A 20-year-old Indonesian woman died of bird flu on Monday, bringing the country's death toll from the disease to 66 out of 86 confirmed cases, a doctor said. Siti Nuraini has been hospitalized for two weeks in a hospital in East Java province before she died Monday, Dr. Tegus Sylvaranto was quoted as saying by a leading website detik.com. The number of bird flu cases in Indonesia has increased recently after months of absence of new cases. Indonesian health authorities have imposed a firm policy separating fowls from human beings and intensified surveillance on the virus. In addition, the authorities have banned raising fowls in residential areas.
Indonesia's health minister says the country wants a legal guarantee that bird flu samples it sends to the World Health Organization will not be used for commercial gain. Siti Fadilah Supari says the guarantee is necessary because Indonesia's samples could be used by drug firms to make vaccines that would be too expensive for developing nations. She says Indonesia wants a "Material Transfer Agreement" such as will be discussed at an international bird flu meeting later this month. Jakarta announced last month that it would only share samples of the bird flu virus with parties who agree not to use them for profit.
Indonesia's refusal to share bird flu virus samples with foreign laboratories risks undermining the WHO's global influenza protection system, a WHO official and Australia's leading laboratory said on Thursday.Indonesia argues that developing countries are disadvantaged by the prevailing system, which allows drugmakers to use these samples to make vaccines that citizens of third world countries often cannot afford to buy.
The U.S. Embassy in Indonesia is advising Americans to avoid contact with stray cats in the country, citing confirmed reports of the animals carrying the deadly bird flu virus.In a posting on its Web site Wednesday, the embassy addressed the risk from the H5N1 virus in Indonesia, where that strain of bird flu is endemic in chickens and has killed more humans than in other nation. "There have been confirmed reports that wild and stray cats have been shown to carry H5N1," the embassy said. "While there have been no documented cases of feline-to-human transmission of H5N1, it is important to avoid contact with wild and stray cats."
Indonesia, which has had more human cases of avian flu than any other country, has stopped sending samples of the virus to the World Health Organization, apparently because it is negotiating a contract to sell the samples to an American vaccine company, a W.H.O. official said yesterday. The strains of the H5N1 virus circulating in Indonesia are considered crucial to developing up-to-date vaccines and following mutations in the virus. The official, Dr. David L. Heymann, said the agency was "clearly concerned†about the development and was in talks with Indonesia.
Fresh bird flu outbreaks in Indonesia could cause a loss of around Rp1 trillion to the poultry business sector, a government official said."The spread of bird flu has reduced economic activities worth around Rp1 trilion affecting the income of around two million people directly involved in poultry farming," Bayu Krisnamurti, deputy for agriculture and fishery sectors to the coordinating minister for the economy, said here on Monday.
The Egyptian health ministry said on Wednesday that it had detected a new case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the first since May, the official news agency reported.
A 39 year old woman, from the northern delta province of Gharbiya was tested positive for bird flu after suffering from high fever and shortness of breath.
Her case brings to 15 the total number of human bird flu cases since the virus was first detected in February in Egypt. Six cases turned out to be fatal and eight people recovered after being treated with Tamiflu.
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A dead wild bird recently found in Hong Kong has tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. The dead "scaly-breasted munia" was discovered in the busy shopping area of Causeway Bay on New Year's Eve. Hong Kong's Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said the bird was the only one of six dead birds found that tested positives for the deadly virus. Local authorities stepped up inspections, and workers have cleaned the area where the infected bird was found. Officials have reminded people to observe good personal hygiene and to avoid contact with wild birds and live poultry.
Hanoi, Vietnam (AHN) - Another Vietnamese province have been attacked by avian flu virus, as the deadly H5N1 virus is slowly creeping into several Asian countries, including Indonesia and most recently, Japan. Vietnam's Department of Animal Health, under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, issued a report on the spread of the virus. It said that local officials in the southern province of Vinh Long have reported that the virus has killed poultry there, bringing to five the number of localities stricken by the disease. Ministry officials confirmed that specimens from dead chickens taken in the provinces' Binh Minh district, have tested positive for the avian fly virus. Authorities have ordered the culling of 10 chickens from the affected farm to prevent the spread of the disease. A total of 43 communities in 18 districts located in five southern provinces in Vietnam, have been stricken with bird flu since December 2006. These provinces include Ca Mau, Bac Lieu, Hau Gian
Indonesia has been hit badly with four deaths this year so far Thailand has suffered an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, its first for six months. The virus was confirmed following the deaths of around 100 ducks in the northern Phitsanulok province. Meanwhile, neighbouring Vietnam says bird flu has reached a seventh province in the Mekong Delta region. Health officials across Asia are on alert as a growing number of countries have reported cases in both birds and humans in recent weeks. Four people have died from the virus in Indonesia this year, while China has confirmed a human infection. Japan is culling 12,000 birds after an outbreak at a farm south-west of Tokyo at the weekend. It is not clear if the virus is the deadly H5N1 strain. As a result of the outbreak, Hong Kong says it is banning all imports of poultry from Japan with immediate effect. Hong Kong itself is carrying out further tests after initial tests on a dead Creste
Looks like we got the flu; as usual they'll say its all under control. Look back at the previous animal diseases, I doubt this is the last we've heard of a UK outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu!Keep up to date with the latest reports by using googles news search function : http://news.google.co.uk/nwshp?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1113283547&hl=en
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Bird Flu hits Norfolk Turkey farmer, Bernard Matthews. Government say that there's no reason to panic. TV reports that if it spreads, then the Government would discourage travel between major Cites. Looks like British Rail may be revived in the event of a national crisis.
I have bird flu, not the feathered type but rather the female equivalent to "man flu", which, as anyone who knows a man will also know, is a really bad cold, actually I don't think this is a cold, this really is flu. Honest, I just looked up the symptoms, and I am not a hypercondriackt (you know what I mean) at all, well I wasn't until a few days ago. I ache all over and feel as if my bones have been replaced with lead. Luckily the French are generous when it comes to drugs. In England when you attempt to purchase more that about six aspirin's the girl on the checkout usually asks after your mental health. Check out person " have you been depressed lately?Me, with banging headache "pardon?"COP "Are you over 18?"Mwbh "Well...yes actually, although people often think.."COP "Are you thinking of suicide?" (add the sing song up at the end voice)Mwbh " Why, don't you recommend the own brand chicken soup then?"COP "Its company policy madam not to sell drugs in large quantities"Mwbh "
{mosgoogle right}KOSAKA, Akita -- The avian flu virus was found in three dead swans that were recently found here near Lake Towada, it has been learned.Officials have not yet determined whether the virus is the highly virulent H5N1 strain, which was found in a hawk eagle in Kumamoto Prefecture in 2007 and in crows in Kyoto and Osaka prefectures in 2004.Prefectural officials said that two adult swans and one young swan, all dead, were found floating near the southern tip [...]
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Avian influenza or “bird flu” has now caused more than 60 deaths worldwide, with the most recent epidemic in Indonesia, where four people have died. On a global basis, 60 deaths are not very many. So why are health experts becoming alarmed about the H5N1 (“bird flu”) virus? People are ...
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The threat of a Bird Flu Pandemic.
The threat to the world from Bird Flu is more serious now, than it was when I wrote my first article on the subject in May, 2005. entitled "Will Avian Flu Become Pandemic" since then it has spread to ...
