Tue Apr 01, 6:22 AM ET A chicken to be transported to a local market is seen in
Jakarta March 24, 2008. Major efforts have done little to
control H5N1 avian influenza in Indonesia and the country
needs more help in controlling the virus, the United
Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said.
REUTERS/Crack Palinggi (INDONESIA) Tue Apr 01, 7:00 AM ET Stray cats rest in a temple in Ayutthaya province, 80 km
(50 miles) north of Bangkok, March 26, 2008. Buddhist
temples in central Thailand have been flooded with abandoned
cats and dogs after an outbreak of feline and canine
distemper killed hundreds of pets in the past month,
newspapers reported on Wednesday. (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters)
(THAILAND) Tue Apr 01, 7:30 AM ET Ducks are displayed for sale at Ha Vy wholesale poultry
market, 25 km south of Hanoi February 17, 2008. Ducks,
people and rice paddies are the primary forces driving
outbreaks of avian influenza in Thailand and Vietnam, and
the number of chickens is less pivotal, scientists said.
REUTERS/Kham/Files (VIETNAM)) (THAILAND) (FAO) (BIRD
FLU) Wed, 02 Apr 2008 5:58 AM PDT Doctors believe a new superbug could be even more drug
resistant than MRSA. (Medical News) Wed, 02 Apr 2008 9:16 AM PDT Agartala, April 2: About 3,000 birds, including poultry
fowl, have died due to some mysterious disease during the
past one week in Tripura, officials said here Wednesday. Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:06 AM PDT LONDON - The World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed on
Wednesday that two Indonesians, an 11 year-old female and a
15-year-old male, have died from the H5N1 strain of bird
flu. (BIRD FLU) (WHO) The virus has killed 238 people since 2003, according to
the WHO. Countries with confirmed human deaths are:
Azerbaijan, Cambodia, China, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Laos,
Nigeria, Pakistan, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam. Djibouti
and Myanmar have had human cases but no deaths. Thu Apr 3, 1:56 AM ET A researcher displays a bottle of vaccine fluvax at a
human vaccine trial for bird flu H5N1 virus in Hanoi April
3, 2008. REUTERS/Kham (VACCINES) (BIRD FLU) (CHINA) Thu Apr 3, 2:03 AM ET Dr. Nguyen Tuyet Nga (L), head of the high tech division
of the Vietnam's Vaccine and Biological Production No. 1
company vaccinates a volunteer at a human vaccine trial for
bird flu H5N1 virus in Hanoi April 3, 2008. Vietnam has
started clinical trials for developing a human vaccine for
the H5N1 virus, researchers said on Thursday in the
Southeast Asian country that has recorded 52 deaths from
bird flu. REUTERS/Kham (VIETNAM) (VACCINES) (BIRD FLU) Thu Apr 3, 8:53 PM ET Health officials in protection outfits work at a farm
with bird flu in Gimje, about 215 km (135 miles) south of
Seoul, April 3, 2008. South Korea has started culling
308,000 chickens and other poultry after confirming an
outbreak its first case in 13 months, the farm ministry
said. (Choi Young-soo/Yonhap/Reuters) (BIRD FLU) (SOUTH
KOREA) Fri, 04 Apr 2008 8:59 AM PDT Islamabad, April 4 : A man in northern Pakistan passed
the deadly bird flu virus to two of his brothers, and the
virus killed one of them, in the first known human-to-human
transmission in Pakistan, a health official said Friday.
(PAKISTAN) (BIRD FLU) "It was definitely person-to-person. That is confirmed,"
said Maqbool Jan Abbasi, joint secretary of the ministry of
health Sat, 05 Apr 2008 0:05 AM PDT Ducks are seen wading on a stream in Sungnam, south of
Seoul, in this February 24, 2006 file photo. South Korea on
Saturday reported a suspected outbreak of the H5 strain of
bird flu at a farm in the southwest of the country, near
another farm that authorities said earlier this week had an
outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
(BIRD FLU) (SOUTH KOREA) Sat Apr 5, 4:31 PM ET An Egyptian woman sells pigeons, a favourite national
staple, in a street market of the populous district of
Imbaba in Cairo in 2007. An Egyptian teenager died from the
H5N1 strain of bird flu on Saturday, the health ministry
said, the 21st person to succumb to the virus since it was
discovered here in 2006. (AFP/File/Cris Bouroncle) (EGYPT)
(BIRD FLU) Sunday, April 6, 2008 12:31 PM PDT Roosters are displayed at a wholesale market in Kolkata
in this January 17, 2008 file photo. A fresh outbreak of
bird flu has been reported in poultry in Tripura, a top
veterinary official said on Sunday.(INDIA) (BIRD FLU) Mon Apr 7, 2:16 AM PDT An Indian poultry vendor at a local market in Agartala,
capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura, on April
6, 2008. Authorities were bracing to contain a suspected
bird flu outbreak in another Indian state bordering
Bangladesh, a senior official said. (AFP/Parthajit Datta)
(INDIA) (BIRD FLU) Tue Apr 08, 8:32 AM PDT Two women look at wild wigeons and mandarin ducks
swimming at a lake in Beijing in January 2008. Chinese
health officials have confirmed that a father caught bird
flu from his son last December, according to a report
released Tuesday.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon) (CHINA) (BIRD
FLU) Tue Apr 08, 9:20 AM PDT A health official wearing protective gear works at a farm
with bird flu in Gimje, south of Seoul, April 4, 2008. (Park
Dae-sung/Newsis/Reuters) (SOUTH KOREA) (BIRD FLU) Mon Apr 7, 10:12 PM Chinese doctors have reported that human-to-human
transmission likely occurred in a small family cluster of
H5N1 avian flu cases in China late last year. (VACCINES) In an article published electronically by the British
journal The Lancet on Tuesday, Chinese doctors reported that
molecular analysis showed that viruses from the two men were
virtually identical. They were fully avian viruses, meaning
they hadn't swapped genes with any human flu viruses or
viruses from another mammal. The similarity of the viruses and the investigation into
the possible sources of infection for the two men point to
limited person-to-person spread, the authors said. Tue Apr 08, 11:35 AM PDT This summer, Huyvaert plans to go to northern Vietnam
where the clams are common in markets, and where there have
been outbreaks of bird flu.To test how well clams work as
sentinels for bird flu, she'll wait for reports of an
outbreak. (RESEARCH) (BIRD FLU) Tue Apr 08, 11:41 AM PDT Dr Gail Chanpong, director, Department of Public Health
at NHA, speaking at the workshop on avian flu yesterday.
More cases are being detected in birds while animals like
cats and tigers, which were believed to be safe from the
virus are being affected. (BIRD FLU PANDEMIC) Tue Apr 08, 1:20 PM PDT South Korean President Lee Myung-bak (L) greets health
officials near a farm where bird flu broke out in Jeongeup,
about 280 km (174 miles) south of Seoul, April 8, 2008.
South Korea on Monday confirmed a new outbreak of bird flu
at a duck farm in the southwest and said it was
investigating two other possible cases days after reporting
an outbreak at a nearby chicken farm. REUTERS/Bae
Jae-man/Yonhap (SOUTH KOREA).(BIRD FLU) Wed Apr 09, 10:20 PM PDT VietNamNet Bridge- Bird flu has been recorded in the
southern province of Tien Giang and the central province of
Quang Nam, announced Bui Quang Anh, Head of the Veterinary
Agency. (VIETNAM) (BIRD FLU) Wed Apr 09, 11:24 PM PDT The journal Respirology has launched a special
supplementary issue on the avian influenza. Published by
Wiley-Blackwell, the collection of papers present an
inclusive insight into the threat of the avian influenza
pandemic by addressing a wide range of topics including the
basic biology of the virus, updates on laboratory diagnosis
and influenza anti-viral, treatment options, and pandemic
planning. (BIRD FLU PANDEMIC) (VACCINES) Thu Apr 10, 12:44 AM PDT An influenza virus vaccine vial sits on the counter of
medical center in Great Neck, New York, October 22, 2004.
(Shannon Stapleton SS/Reuters) (PANDEMIC FLU) Fri Apr 11, 1:24 AM PDT South Korean health officials in protective suits
transport a sack containing chickens to be buried at a
chicken farm where the bird flu virus was found in Yeongam,
South Korea, Thursday, April 10, 2008. South Korean
quarantine authorities said Thursday that they have
confirmed additional bird flu outbreaks in six farms in the
southwestern part of the country. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Hyung
Min-woo) (BIRD FLU) (SOUTH KOREA) Fri Apr 11, 2:56 PM ET An Egyptian woman carries a variety of poultry in a cage
over her head to a street market in Cairo in 2006. Egypt's
health ministry announced the death on Friday of a woman
from the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the 22nd human death from
the disease since it was discovered here in 2006.
(AFP/File/Cris Bouroncle) (EGYPT) (BIRD FLU) Fri Apr 11, 5:53 PM PDT As the chicken industry is finding hard to take off due
to avian flu and its implications, people in Kerala are
seeing future prospects in Emu farming. (INDIA) Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae), the largest bird native
to Australia and also the second-largest in the world by
height after its distant cousin, the ostrich, is now finding
space in Kerala. Emu cannot fly and it can grow up to 6 feet (2m) in
height and 30-45 kilograms (66 -100 pounds) in weight. Many entrepreneurs in Kerala are preparing to take it as
a new opportunity due to its high returns from its oil,
meat, skin, feathers, nails and even its huge colorful eggs,
used for ornamental purpose. Sat Apr 12, 12:41 AM PDT There is no clear evidence in China indicating the H5N1
human bird flu virus has mutated into a pandemic strain,
according to the Ministry of Health on Friday. "We noticed
that media at home and abroad paid great attention to the
human bird flu case in Nanjing last December when a father
and son caught the H5N1 virus," said Mao Qun'an, the health
ministry spokesman, at a monthly press conference. (CHINA)
(BIRD FLU) "So far no evidence has been found in China to support
the idea that the H5N1 virus can easily pass from one person
to another." The December case took place in Nanjing, capital of
eastern Jiangsu. The son, 24, the first to be infected, died
on Dec. 2. His father was later confirmed to be infected
with the H5N1 virus, but recovered. Sat Apr 12, 1:41 AM PDT A market in Guangzhou. China has rejected a study which
found a probable case of human-to-human bird flu
transmission in the country. (AFP CHINA XTRA/File/Str)
(CHINA) (BIRD FLU) Sat Apr 12, 2:55 PM EDT University of Hong Kong chief professor Prof Dr Joseph
Sriyal Malik said thus far findings had shown no major
changes in the virus to the level that could cause
human-to-human transmission although the virus had mutated.
"The virus is always mutating. Another speaker, Prof Dr C.T.
Tan, from the Medical Faculty of Universiti Malaya, said
ideally pig farms should be built far away from any bats'
habitat as the "Nipah Encephalitis" virus had found its
reservoir in the bats' habitat. (BIRD FLU) KUALA LUMPUR, April 12 (Bernama) - The 2007 Mahathir
Science Award winner said the best practice to contain bird
flu outbreak was to separate poultry at the market as
findings showed the risk for the virus to spread was higher
at poultry markets than in poultry farms. "This is because in a market setting, viruses of
different animals can spread easily, thus increasing the
risks of the virus spreading to wider areas. Sat Apr 12, 4:12 PM EDT Doctors evaluate Catherine Galliford for "dehydration."
Photograph by Walter Kidd. By: Alice Tessier (PANDEMIC
FLU) Bethel hosted a major pandemic flu triage exercise last
weekend that is considered "the first" in several respects,"
in terms of its approach and scope, according to local and
state public health directors. It was an excellent exercise-the first of its kind in the
state," he said of the regional effort, in which many
agencies and the general public participated. Sun Apr 13, 1:12 AM EDT BEIJING, CHINA: China's state food and drug agency has
approved a vaccine for humans against the H5N1 influenza
virus, commonly known as bird flu. The production time for a
vaccine against a new strain would take about four months,
said Yin Weidong, CEO of Beijing-based Sinovac Biotech and
the vaccine maker. (CHINA) (VACCINES) Sun Apr 13, 1:45 AM EDT South Korean President Lee Myung-bak (L) greets health
officials near a farm where bird flu broke out in Jeongeup,
about 280 km (174 miles) south of Seoul, April 8, 2008.
South Korea's Agriculture Ministry says a recent outbreak of
bird flu has been confirmed as the deadly H5N1 strain of the
virus (BIRD FLU) (SOUTH KOREA). Sun Apr 13, 3:00 PM EDT Chickens are displayed for sale at a chicken store in
Seoul in this January 20, 2007 file photo. South Korea: Bird
flu quarantines increase. Quarantines and restrictions have
increased in the transport of birds, humans and vehicles in
Yeongam, Naju, Gimje, Jeoneup and Muan, officials said.
South Jeolla authorities issued a province-wide alert to
prevent furthering the outbreak. (BIRD FLU) (SOUTH
KOREA) Mon Apr 14, 6:56 AM ET U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt
gestures during an interview with the Associated Press in
Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, April 14, 2008. Leavitt has
criticized Indonesia's refusal to share samples of its bird
flu virus with the World Health Organization.(AP Photo/Tatan
Syuflana) (BIRD FLU PANDEMIC) (INDONESIA) (HHS) Mon Apr 14, 2:14 PM ET Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (R) shakes
hands with US Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael
Leavitt (L) before their meeting at Presidential Palace in
Jakarta. Indonesia and the United States must work together
to prevent a global bird flu pandemic, the top US health
official said Monday. (AFP/ PRESIDENSBY.COM/Abror Rizki)
(BIRD FLU PANDEMIC) (INDONESIA) (HHS) Tue Apr 15, 2:16 AM EDT Wearing a protective suit, South Korean officials collect
blood serum from ducks at a duck farm in Naju, south of
Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 8, 2007. South Korea has
confirmed 11 cases of bird flu in less than two weeks, but
all have been contained to the southwest of the country -
North and South Jeolla provinces, some 320km south of Seoul.
"We have received four fresh reports of suspected bird flu
cases on "Monday and one is from a poultry farm in Pyongtaek
city in Kyonggi province," the Farm Ministry said in a
statement. Pyongtaek is just 60km south of Seoul. (SOUTH
KOREA) (BIRD FLU) Tue Apr 15, 5:39 AM ET TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan plans to vaccinate 6,000 medical
workers and quarantine officers with stockpiled bird flu
vaccines to check their effectiveness and possible
side-effects, the health ministry said on Tuesday. (JAPAN)
(VACCINES) (BIRD FLU) Tue Apr 15, 10:10 PM EDT WASHINGTON - A small biotechnology company trying to
develop needle-free vaccines won a boost to its efforts on
Tuesday with U.S. government approval to test a bird flu
skin patch on more people. "The Iomai immunostimulant patch
has the potential to change how we react to an influenza
pandemic, and we will move ahead quickly with the
development of this technology," Stanley Erck, president and
chief executive officer of Iomai, said in a statement.
(VACCINES) (BIRD FLU) Iomai's patch is not a vaccine, but rather delivers what
is called an adjuvant, an immune boosting agent that will be
delivered along with a vaccine to try to make it work
better. Wed Apr 16, 2:16 AM EDT File photo shows Siberian Huskies waiting for the start
of a sled dog competition in Domonyvolgy, 35km (19 miles)
east of Budapest March 29, 2008. Dogs can catch influenza
directly from birds, Korean researchers said on Wednesday,
saying their finding shows pets could play a role in future
pandemics. It has also occasionally infected cats, clouded
leopards, civets. (BIRD FLU) Wed Apr 16, 9:14 AM ET South Korean health officials at an infected farm in
Iksan, south of Seoul, in 2006. South Korea has issued a
nationwide bird flu alert, deployed troops and put
firefighters on standby to try to contain the spread of the
disease, officials have said. (AFP/File/Jeon Young-Han)
(BIRD FLU) (SOUTH KOREA) Wed Apr 16, 1:54 PM EDT CAIRO, April 16 (Reuters) - A 2-year-old Egyptian boy has
been infected with the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, bringing
the number of cases in the most populous Arab country to 50,
state news agency MENA said on Wednesday. (EGYPT) (BIRD
FLU) Wed Apr 16, 6:10 PM ET Health officials put ducks into sacks at a farm in Muan,
south of Seoul in this picture released April 8, 2008. (BIRD
FLU) (SOUTH KOREA) Thu Apr 17, 5:54 AM ET Soldiers wearing protective gear prepare to cull chickens
at a farm infected with bird flu in Gimje, 215 km (134
miles) south of Seoul, April 17, 2008. South Korea said on
Thursday it had culled three million farmed birds and was
probing seven fresh cases of suspected bird flu, as the
country grapples with its worst avian influenza outbreak in
four years. REUTERS/Choi Young-soo/Yonhap (SOUTH KOREA)
(BIRD FLU) Thu, Apr 17 04:52 PM Roosters are displayed at a wholesale market in Kolkata
in this January 17, 2008. Chicken is a staple meat product
in India, where the majority of the Hindus avoid beef for
religious reasons. Wholesale egg price has risen 81 percent,
while chicken prices have shot up 112 percent since January.
(INDIA) Thu Apr 17, 9:32 PM ET An experimental bird flu vaccine being developed by US
researchers could provide broader protection, last longer
and be easier to mass produce than existing vaccines. Study
author Suresh Mittal (seen in this file photo) and his
colleagues used a mutated version of a common cold virus to
deliver genes from two types of the deadly H5N1 avian
influenza. (AFP/File/Jeff Haynes) (BIRD FLU) (RESEARCH)
(VACCINES) Fri Apr 18, 1:27 PM ET A woman stands next to a poultry cage at a market in
Denpasar on Bali island. More than 60 million Indonesians
could be infected with deadly bird flu if the virus mutates
into a form transmissible between humans, an official said
Friday. (AFP/SONNY TUMBELAKA) (INDONESIA) (BIRD FLU) (BIRD
FLU PANDEMIC) Fri Apr 18, 4:50 PM ET Health workers dump chickens and eggs into a sack for
disposal in Imphal, in the northeastern Indian state of
Manipur, Thursday, July 26, 2007. After getting reports that
culling of chickens was not done properly in some bird flu
affected areas, the state government today ordered fresh
culling of chickens and mopping up operation in some
districts. (INDIA) (BIRD FLU) Sat Apr 19, 12:53 AM ET BANGKOK - A team of Thai researchers is developing a new
universal vaccine to prevent the cross strain of H5N1 virus,
also known as bird flu. (VACCINES) (BIRD FLU) "This new vaccine would be a key medicine to prevent the
infection in human from the outbreak which would come from
the cross strain virus," says a researcher Kanyarat
Teunginn. Sat Apr 19, 3:15 PM ET About 168 people could die each day for eight straight
weeks if a flu pandemic, similar to that of the infamous
Spanish Flu in 1918, struck Alabama, according to the
Alabama Department of Public Health. (PANDEMIC FLU) Sat Apr 19, 9:45 PM ET Chickens for Korean traditional wedding ceremony are
displayed for sale at a chicken store in Seoul April 17,
2008. South Korea's Farm Ministry reported on Saturday a new
outbreak of bird flu at a chicken farm in the southwest,
taking the total confirmed cases to 16 in poultry just over
two weeks. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak (SOUTH KOREA) (BIRD FLU) Sun Apr 20, 6:25 AM ET Myanmar villagers feed pigeons along a street in Yangon
in 2007. Myanmar's military government has declared the
country bird-flu free after three months without an outbreak
of the deadly virus. (AFP/File/Khin Maung Win) (BIRD FLU)
(MYANMAR) Sun Apr 20, 6:30 PM ET WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - Researchers at the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention are teaming with Purdue
University scientists to tame bird flu. Student scientists
and CDC researchers have been working for seven years on a
vaccine that protects humans. (RESEARCH) (BIRD FLU) They've tested it in mice and found that it can
neutralize two strains of the disease. Next, they plan to
test it on mutated forms of the virus, said Suresh Mittal, a
Purdue University professor and one of the project's
researchers. Sun Apr 20, 8:23 PM ET Wearing a protective suit, South Korean officials collect
blood serum from ducks at a duck farm in Naju, south of
Seoul, South Korea, March 8, 2007. Almost five million
poultry have been slaughtered in South Korea to contain the
spread of bird flu since it hit the country earlier this
month, the agriculture ministry said on Sunday. (SOUTH
KOREA) (BIRD FLU) Mon Apr 21, 12:00 AM ET South Korean pedestrians receive free chicken during a
campaign to eat chicken in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April
9, 2007. South Korea on Monday said it planned to cull a
record 5.3 million birds as it announced its 17th case of
bird flu in three weeks, in what has become the country's
fastest and biggest outbreak of avian influenza. (SOUTH
KOREA) (BIRD FLU) Mon, 21 Apr 2008 4:02 AM PDT Ha Noi - The first large-scale trial of a locally
produced H5N1 vaccine kicked off on Saturday. (VIETNAM)
(VACCINES) Mon, 21 Apr 2008 6:58 AM PDT South Korean Army soldiers wear protective suits before
culling chickens at a poultry farm in Gimje, South Korea,
Thursday, April 17, 2008. A soldier who helped slaughter
poultry infected with avian influenza might have the first
human case of the disease in Korea, the Health Ministry said
yesterday. (SOUTH KOREA) (BIRD FLU) Tue, 22 Apr 2008 9:00 AM PDT A veterinary vaccinates a rooster at a private farm in
the village of Sharapovo, some 40 km (24.8 miles) south of
Moscow February 21, 2007. Poultry death cases were reported
from Vozdvizhenka on April 7. Forty birds died in private
yards. Samples were taken to laboratories in the territory
and quarantine was imposed in the village after bird flu had
been confirmed. (RUSSIA) (BIRD FLU) Tue Apr 22, 4:56 AM ET A health worker culls a chicken in Akhira village, India,
January 21, 2008. Authorities in a remote northeastern state
of India prepared to cull thousands of chickens after a
fresh outbreak of bird flu in poultry was detected on
Tuesday, officials said. REUTERS/Stringer (INDIA) (BIRD
FLU) Tue Apr 22, 2:07 PM ET A worker guides a herd of ducks at a North Korea market
in 2005. North Korea will ban South Korean poultry and eggs
from a joint-Korean industrial zone in a precaution against
bird flu outbreaks that have struck the South. (NORTH KOREA)
(BIRD FLU) Wed Apr 23, 1:35 AM ET Health workers in a poultry farm in eastern India. An
Indian state reported new bird flu cases Tuesday, little
more than a week after it finished culling thousands of
chickens to contain an outbreak of the disease.
(AFP/File/Diptendu Dutta) (INDIA) (BIRD FLU) Wed Apr 23, 9:46 AM PDT The best way to beat bird flu and other zoonotic diseases
is to keep humans and wildlife healthy. Unfortunately, it
never actually went away and is now worse than ever. "There
are more flu infections in more countries than ever before,"
said veterinarian William Karesh, head of the Field
Veterinary Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society
(WCS), during a WSC conference in New York City last week.
(BIRD FLU) Wed Apr 23, 2:49 PM PDT Indian government health workers cull chickens suspected
of being infected with bird flu in the village of Lasur,
March 2006. Twenty rapid response teams will fan out in
Mohanpur and Hezamara blocks of Tripura's Sadar subdivision
tomorrow morning to kill nearly 55,000 poultry and wipe out
the remnants of bird flu from the state. (INDIA) (BIRD
FLU) Thu Apr 24, 12:19 AM PDT Indonesia does not want money for its bird flu virus
samples, it wants governments and pharmaceutical companies
to come up with a mechanism that will ensure future pandemic
vaccines are accessible to developing nations. That could
include creating a multilateral trust that would enable
price tiering or bulk purchasing of lifesaving vaccines, an
adviser to Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said
Wednesday. (INDONESIA) (BIRD FLU) Widjaja Lukito was responding to comments made by U.S.
Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, who
accused Indonesia of withholding virus samples from the
World Health Organization since early 2007 because it wanted
royalties or other monetary benefits. "This is not a line we want to cross," Leavitt told The
Associated Press at the end of a quick stopover in Indonesia
last week. "Because it means the next unique virus we come
across, wherever it is, we'll end up with people who say
there is a price to pay for the virus." He repeated the
allegation on his blog, saying Supari's bottom line appeared
to be "share samples, get paid." Thu Apr 24, 3:45 AM PDT PhysOrg . A computer-generated three-dimensional model of
the molecular structure of the H7 influenza virus coat
protein (hemagglutinin or HA, for short), the molecule
responsible for enabling the influenza virus to recognize
the host's cell and invade it. (PANDEMIC FLU) Thu Apr 24, 5:16 AM ET A health worker culls a rooster at a poultry farm in
Bijoy village, about 45 km (28 miles) west of the
northeastern Indian city of Agartala April 24, 2008.
Authorities battling a deadly outbreak of bird flu in
poultry in India's remote northeast blamed Bangladesh for
the spread on Thursday, but many experts said the state was
not doing enough to contain the virus. More than 25,000
chickens and ducks have already been slaughtered in Tripura
state this month after it was hit by the deadly H5N1 strain.
REUTERS/Stringer (INDIA) (BIRD FLU Rapid) (BIRD FLU) Thu, Apr 24 11:30 PM Agartala, April 24 : The World Health Organisation (WHO)
has asked India to prevent further spread of bird flu from
Bangladesh and voiced satisfaction over the way the avian
influenza was tackled in West Bengal and Tripura. (INDIA)
(BANGLADESH) (WHO) "Forty-seven of the 64 districts in Bangladesh have been
affected by bird flu and the chances of the virus spreading
into India are big. Thousands of poultry firms exist on both sides of the
border apart from the illegal trade of birds and their
products," the official said. Fri Apr 25 12:41 AM Rapid, widespread vaccination likely would be the best
way to fight a worldwide outbreak of bird flu, an
international team of researchers led by the University of
Pittsburgh concluded today in the scientific journal The
Lancet.(VACCINES) (BIRD FLU) The team reviewed more than 150 scientific studies on
bird flu and identified three main categories of potential
vaccines. Treating infected people with antiviral drugs is
not very effective and tests to diagnose infection need to
be updated as the virus mutates, the researchers said. "The big problem now is the limited capability of
producing a vaccine," said Dr. Andrea Gambotto, an assistant
professor of surgery at Pitt's School of Medicine who led
the study. "Right now, not more than 600 or 700 million doses of vaccine can be manufactured and the
target population is 8 billion people." Fri Apr 25, 5:09 AM ET Health workers in protective suits evacuate a man during
a bird flu outbreak drill, on April 25, in Tukaddaya
village, some 80 kilometers (48 miles) west of Denpasar on
the resort island of Bali. (AFP/Sonny Tumbelaka) (INDONESIA)
(BIRD FLU PANDEMIC) Fri Apr 25, 2:51 PM ET Expert Steven Parker says migratory birds, such as the
Canada Goose shown in this Game Commission file photo, are a
potential source of an Avian Flu outbreak.PGC PHOTO (BIRD
FLU PANDEMIC) Fri Apr 25, 4:52 PM ET During the summer, when travel peaks and Americans
stampede to Europe, you can expect your friendly Customs
officers to be even more vigilant than usual. Peak tourism
season spurs special vigilance, Customs officials say..If
there's something specific you know you will want to bring
back, you can research it in the various manuals or on
government Web sites. But it may take several phone calls
before you get a clear answer about how, or whether, you can
bring the item back. In some cases you may need a permit or
other certificate. Sat Apr 26, 11:22 AM ET A villager brings poultry to health workers for culling
in Kalakacchya village, about 50 km (32 miles) north of
Agartala, capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura
April 25, 2008. Authorities battling an outbreak of bird flu
in poultry in Tripura blamed Bangladesh for the spread on
Thursday, but many experts said India was not doing enough
to contain the virus. REUTERS/Stringer (INDIA) (BIRD
FLU) Sat Apr 26, 11:48 AM ET Amid an ongoing string of avian influenza outbreaks at
poultry farms that began in early April, Korean zoos have
been put on emergency notice to prevent the spread of the
disease. (ZOOS) (KOREAN) According to the zoo, it has about 380 birds including
chickens, ducks, flamingos, eagles, storks and cranes. Seven zookeepers and one veterinarian work at the
park. Mon Apr 28, 4:27 AM ET Indonesian health officials spray disinfectant to a car
at the Ngurah Rai International Airport in Kuta, Bali,
Indonesia, on Sunday, April 27, 2008. Three-day simulation
started on the resort island of Bali test the ability of the
nation hardest hit by bird flu to respond to a potentially
catastrophic pandemic. Thousands were taking part, from
local residents to government officials. (AP Photo/Firdia
Lisnawati) (INDONESIA) (BIRD FLU PANDEMIC) (BIRD FLU Hardest
Hit) Mon Apr 28, 7:00 AM ET TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has detected a strain of bird flu
in four wild swans after stepping up checks following major
outbreaks of the disease in neighboring South Korea, local
and government officials said on Monday. (JAPAN) (BIRD
FLU) The birds, three of which had died, were found on the
shores of Lake Towada in Akita prefecture in the north on
April 21, the prefectural government said in a news
release. There are no chicken farms within a 10 km radius of the
area where the swans were found, and no unusual incidents
were noted at other farms. "We've asked to step up surveillance measures at poultry
farms in the prefectures of Aomori, Akita and Iwate," a farm
ministry official said, referring to the prefectures in the
area. Tues Apr 29, 12:15 AM ET A mild winter and recent warm weather is thought to have
encouraged the fluffy grey cygnet to come out of its shell
three weeks early - making it the earliest arrival in the
area in 600 years. Dave Wheeler who was once a teacher but
has been at Abbotsbury for 22 years and he's now
Britain's only remaining swanherd. Proud swanherd David
Wheeler, who can trace his predecessors back to a
Benedictine Monk called William Squillor in 1393, said he
was delighted (UK) (BIRD FLU) Tues Apr 29, 12:30 AM ET A committee is considering whether Tamiflu should be made
available direct to the public without seeing a doctor. A drug that can cut the severity of the flu by around 30
per cent could be made available without a prescription. Tamiflu is only effective if taken within 48 hours of
developing flu symptoms. And many finding it difficult to see a doctor it is hard
to get hold of the medicine when it can work. Making it available over the counter could improve a
patient's chances of using the drug in the necessary
timeframe. Tues Apr 29, 12:45 AM ET At their production facility in France, sanofi pasteur
technicians culture the viruses that will be used in
vaccines. Photo courtesy sanofi pasteur. PARIS - Sanofi
Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi-Aventis, said it
has received an order worth $192.5 million from the U.S.
government for vaccines against a new strain of avian
influenza. (VACCINES) (HHS) (BIRD FLU) Tues Apr 29, 1:20 AM ET KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal has issued a bird flu alert
and is testing poultry along the border with India, where
the virus rages despite the culling of tens of thousands of
chickens since 2006, officials said. (BIRD FLU) (NEPAL) Tue Apr 29, 11:43 AM ET Health officials work to contain an outbreak of bird flu
in Stenstrup, Denmark, Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Some 2,000
ducks and geese on the farm in Stenstrup on the island of
Funen were culled Tuesday to contain the spread of the
disease of the H7N1 strain, the Danish Veterinary and Food
Administration said in a statement. (AP Photo/Lars Skaaning)
(DENMARK) (BIRD FLU) Tues Apr 29, 1:12 PM ET A photo released by the Okayama prefecture government
shows a health official entering a poultry house to put down
the birds at a chicken farm in Takahashi city in January
2007. Japan on Tuesday confirmed four swans found last week
were infected with the H5N1 strain of bird flu. (JAPAN)
(BIRD FLU) Tues Apr 29, 7:45 PM ET Chickens are seen in a cage in a market in Cairo, Feb 14,
2007. Over a quarter of Egyptians who are aware of the
dangers of the H5N1 bird flu virus continue to raise birds
at home despite warnings that this could spread the deadly
disease, a government poll showed on Tuesday. (EGYPT) (BIRD
FLU) Tue Apr 29, 9:10 PM ET An endangered drill monkey is seen in 2007 in the Afi
Mountain sanctuary in Nigeria's Cross River state. West and
Central Africa are emerging as the major potential sources
for the next new infectious disease. Deforestation in these
regions is forcing wild animals that are a natural host for
pathogens into ever smaller areas and into ever likelier
contact with fast-growing human populations. (AFP/File/Helen
Vesperini) (AFRICA) Wed Apr 30, 3:01 AM ET A three-year-old boy in Indonesia has died from bird flu,
the health ministry said, taking the death toll in the
country hardest hit by the disease climbed to 108.
(INDONESIA) (BIRD FLU) The toddler, from Central Java province, first showed
flu-like symptoms, high fever and breathing difficulties, on
April 17. He died five days later after being admitted to a local
hospital, ministry spokeswoman Lily Sulistyowati said.
Pandemic warning over the hospital superbug that resists
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Mysterious disease claims thousands of birds in Tripura,
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