Pandemic

Scientists funded by the Wellcome Trust are to examine what is preventing the H5N1 avian influenza virus from causing a human pandemic and what mutations are required to realise its deadly potential. The research could hold the key to early identification of a potential influenza pandemic, and to developing drugs and a vaccine. Since its reappearance in 1997, the H5N1 influenza virus has caused

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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. Go to Source ANTARA - National News, Indonesia News Other Posts : Kuwaiti firm to buy Indonesia Aceh bank Dendeng Pedas (’hot’ Fried Beef) How to Optimize Your Blog ? [...]

The viruses spread once again in this sequel to the simulation game from Dark Realm Studios for Crazy Monkey Games that leaves no human safe from extinction. The Pandemic 2 game is all about you being a virus that aims to kill all human on earth. And because you’re against such formidable foes, you have [...]

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

The article I posted a few weeks ago in regards to the H5N1 vaccine caused me to consider a potential pandemic and the health care workers’ obligation to work should the event come to pass. The World Health Organization estimates that today a pandemic is likely to result in 2 to 7.4 million deaths globally. In high [...]

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World of Warcraft: 5 with PandemicGotFrag?, NY - 36 minutes agoGotFrag asks 5 questions of David "Sck" Quick and Chris 'Douja' Cossey of Pandemic's World of Warcraft team during their appearance at the MLG PC Circuit … Written by Google Inc. and Powered by WordPress

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The idea is to try to make sure that scarce resources — including ventilators, medicine and doctors and nurses — are used in a uniform, objective way, task force members said. Their recommendations appear in a report appearing Monday in the May edition of Chest, the medical journal of the American College of Chest Physicians. "If a mass casualty critical care event were to occur tomorrow,

Most of the public is ignoring the bird flu warnings, but those who are informed are following these developments closely.As if H5N1 was not bad enough, now scientists are telling us of newer strains of the bird flu that could also cause a tremendous pandemic among humans.The H7 strain of the bird flu is spreading rapidly worldwide, and it exhibits many of the characteristics which could cause it

Make sure you and your family are protected in case there is a flu pandemic! What is in your home survival kit?  I recommend the Wein VIRAMASK self adhesive mask.. — Evolution of flu strains points to higher risk of pandemic: study Mon May 26 Some strains of bird flu are coming ever closer to developing the traits they [...]

Which color gets stuck on your paperwork? Doctors know some patients needing lifesaving care won’t get it in a flu pandemic or other disaster. The gut-wrenching dilemma will be deciding who to let die. Now, an influential group of physicians has drafted a grimly specific list of recommendations for which patients wouldn’t be treated. They include the very elderly, seriously hurt trauma victims, severely burned patients and those with severe dementia… Public health law expert Lawrence Gostin of Georgetown University called the report an important initiative but also “a political minefield and a legal minefield.” The recommendations would probably violate federal laws against age discrimination and disability discrimination

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

CHICAGO (Reuters Life!) - Closing schools during an influenza pandemic could prevent one in seven cases of flu, British researchers said on Wednesday in a study that suggests such action would have less impact than some other estimates.Tech Tags: children's newswatch children's news kids news children kids youth flu

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Electronic Arts has agreed to acquire VG Holding Corp., which owns both BioWare and Pandemic Studios, from Elevation Partners in a deal valued at $860 million. This will give EA a "strong competitive position in key genres in interactive entertainment: action, adventure and role-playing games." These are some of the most popular genres in gaming today, which should really help the bottom line. BioWare and Pandemic Studios already has 10 franchises under development, including six wholly owned games, one of which will be published by Mi

Widespread quarantines. Bodies by the hundreds lying dead in the streets. A mass hysteria that converted once-bustling cities into ghost towns. Such was the scenario in the fall of 2005, when a plague known as Corrupted Blood swept across the land. Don't remember it? You might not have been logged on. The calamity did not occur in the real world, of course. But the pandemiclike event that occurred in September 2005 in the online multiplayer realm of World of Warcraft has some researchers interested in whether such online environs could be used to predict the spread of infectious diseases in the real world. ABC News August 21, 2007

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Military and civilian health facilities will be overwhelmed if a nationwide flu pandemic hits the United States, and the National Guard may have to be called out to provide medical help and even enforce a quarantine, the Defense Department warned in a report released Wednesday.As the Pentagon fights criticism from congressional Democrats that the war in Iraq is depleting the National Guard's ability to help out in domestic crises, the 86-page report says a possible pandemic could require National Guard assistance in supplying medical aid or isolating groups of people to minimize further spread of the disease.About 3 million people could die as a result of a possible pandemic, with up to 35 percent of the population falling ill, reads the report dated August 2006 and titled "The Department of Defense Implementation Plan for Pandemic Influenza."According to the report, in the event of a pandemic or a bioterror attack, the Defense Department may be called by the president to assist civil

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John E. Lange, Special Representative, Avian and Pandemic Influenza, Sean McCormack, Department Spokesman. Launch in external Player. FULL STREAMING VIDEO, PODCAST OF THIS ARTICLE, MR. MCCORMACK: Welcome, Ambassador John Lange, Special Representative for Avian Influenza and Human Pandemic here at the State Department.Thanks for joining us for Coffee Break at the State Department. I'd first like to talk to you a little bit about where we stand with respect to Avian Influenza. When we last left this issue, it was blaring across the headlines. People were concerned about the transmission from animals to humans and then the possibility of human-to-human transmission. Can you fill us in on where we stand, how has the virus evolved or mutated and what's the specific threat now to humans from the Avian Influenza?AMBASSADOR LANGE: Thanks. I'll be happy to talk about that, because the threat is the same now as it was before. The majority of experts, really, the mainstream scientists will tel

So you haven’t heard much about the Bird Flu lately. Well just because the media is to busy reporting on Anna Nicole or the Rosie and Donald fued doesn’t mean the threat is gone. Just read for yourself. The U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration urged employers to develop plans to cope with a possible flu pandemic on Tuesday, suggesting letting employees work from home and encouraging sick workers to stay home without reprisals. Jay Schwartz, vice president of information systems at North Carolina-based Alex Lee Inc., is worried about what will happen when food supplies begin to get scarce as people become ill, stay home to care for children when schools close or tend to ill relatives. “Security is a huge issue,” Schwartz, whose company owns a chain of grocery stores and an institutional food supplier, told a conference in Orlando. Big food trucks may be targeted by bandits. “Maybe we’ll have someone riding shotg

U.S. International Avian and Pandemic Influenza Assistance Tops $434 Million The United States announced today an increase of $100 million in international assistance to address the threat of avian and pandemic influenza since January 2006.The announcement came at an international conference in Bamako co-sponsored by the Government of the Republic of Mali, the European Commission and the African Union.Special Representative on Avian and Pandemic Influenza John E. Lange announced that the United States is increasing its original pledge of $334 million, which was first announced in Beijing in January and raised to $362 million in June, to a total of $434 million. The increase includes $36 million in assistance from the U.S. Agency for International Development and another $36 million from the Department of Health and Human Services. The United States has already entered into binding agreements for $324 million of our pledge with implementing partners in the global fight against the highl

Next flu pandemic: What to do until the vaccine arrives? Scientists call for more study of routine preventive measures during annual flu season.November 10, 2006 -- Experts believe the world is overdue for influenza pandemic. However, unless effective action against pandemic flu is taken now, we are in "dire straits," according to a paper published in the November 10 issue of Science. The articled titled, "Next Flu Pandemic: What to Do Until the Vaccine Arrives?," calls for research during the regular season flu season to better understand the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions such as social distancing, hand washing, face masks, and the like."These are ironically similar to the measures used in 1918 to combat the greatest of all known influenza pandemics, but there's a lot we don't know about what may very well be our best defenses," says lead author Stephen Morse, PhD, associate professor of Clinical Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia Universi

Technorati Tags: President Bush and White House or Scott McClellan and Fran Townsend, or 1918 Pandemic and Influenza Virus or CDC and Pandemic and Avian influenza or Bird Flu and H5N1 or adenovirus and recombinant or vaccines and Journal of Virology or Pandemic Influenza Press Briefing by Scott McClellan and Homeland Security Advisor Fran Townsend, FULL STREAMING VIDEO, James S. Brady Briefing Room, 12:35 P.M. EDT. Fact Sheet: Advancing the Nation's Preparedness for Pandemic Influenza and In Focus: Pandemic FluMR. McCLELLAN: All right, good afternoon, everyone. You should have our copies of the implementation plan for the pandemic influenza, and I've got our Homeland Security Advisor with me today, Fran Townsend, to give you an overview of that and then take your questions on it.And with that, I'll just turn it over to Fran. MS. TOWNSEND: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you. As you know, we -- the President has had us release today our implementation plan that relies on the national str

Huffington Post: In a week or so, the New York Review of Books is going to publish an article by James Lovelock, the originator of the Gaia hypothesis (in which the Earth is viewed as more than an ecosystem, closer to a living being, that can be healthy or diseased, and can change, through evolution, from one state to the other). Lovelock will declare that the Earth's temperature is about to rise five to eight degrees centigrade (depending on where you are -- more at the poles, less in the tropics), and that ...Link via (EcologicalInternet.org (Dr. Glen Barry)

Observer: The Stern Report will tomorrow reveal that if governments do nothing, climate change will cost more than both world wars and render swathes of the planet uninhabitable. Can the world find the will to act? Gaby Hinsliff reports It is almost Halloween, and Rachel from San Francisco is worrying about pumpkins. She saved last year's decorations to use again, and recycled rather than bought new cards to send: there will be no waste once the pumpkins are carved, with the family eating ... Link (via: EcologicalInternet.org (Dr. Glen Barry)

Today, EA announced a blockbuster deal in which it will pay $860 million to acquire two game studios from Elevation Partners. The studios, BioWare Corp. and Pandemic Studios, have ten games current...

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One of the greatest mysteries to me is why exactly is the 1918 Flu Pandemic which killed between 20-100 million people worldwide, 2.5 to 5% of the worlds population at the time and 500,000 -675,000 people in the United States, basically forgotten about like it never happened. I mean doesn't ...