China setting down rules to share bird flu samples
submitted by kickingbird at Sep, 5, 2006 from Reuters (via http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=globalNe)
China has not provided international health agencies with samples of bird flu viruses found in the country since 2004, but is putting in place procedures to do so, a senior official said on Tuesday.
Scientific ... Thailand: New round of bird flu inspections begins in September
submitted by kickingbird at Sep, 5, 2006 from TNA (via http://etna.mcot.net/query.php?nid=24577)
The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives will commence a new round of bird flu inspections beginning this month until November to clean up poultry production sites and spray disinfectants in provinces ... Indonesia launches national campaign against bird flu
submitted by kickingbird at Sep, 1, 2006 from Xinhua News Agency (via http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-09/01/content_5036088)
The Indonesian government launched Friday a national campaign against bird flu after more than two years of efforts to curb the disease, which has killed 47 people so far in the country.
"Bird flu will ... Expert calls for animal surveillance in Indonesia
submitted by kickingbird at Sep, 1, 2006 from Reuters (via http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=globalNe)
A leading bird flu expert urged Indonesia on Thursday to do more animal surveillance to curb the H5N1 virus, which has killed 46 people so far in the country, the highest death toll anywhere in the world. ... WHO case definitions for human infections with influenza A(H5N1) virus
submitted by kickingbird at Aug, 30, 2006 from WHO (via http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/guidelines/ca)
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Prompt and accurate reporting of H5N1 influenza cases to WHO is the cornerstone for monitoring both the global evolution of this disease and the corresponding risk that a pandemic virus might ... Asia: Regional health meeting seeks bird flu strategy
submitted by kickingbird at Aug, 21, 2006 from Reuters (via http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=globalNe)
South and southeast Asian countries met to discuss health strategies, including the fight against bird flu, in Bangladesh on Sunday ahead of a regional meeting of the World Health Organization.
The two-day ... New bird flu strains blamed for S.E. Asia outbreaks
submitted by kickingbird at Aug, 17, 2006 from Reuters (via http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=globalNe)
New strains of the H5N1 virus caused some of the fresh outbreaks of bird flu in Thailand and Laos and they appear to have spread from southern China, the Food and Agriculture Organization said on Thursday. ... Asian countries made plans to join forces to fight the H5N1 virus
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 29, 2006 from Reuters (via http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=globalNe)
Asian countries hit by bird flu made plans on Friday to join forces to fight the H5N1 virus, which killed a teenager in Thailand and was found in chickens in Laos this week.
It was the first human case ... WHO to observe Chinese tests on 2003 bird flu case
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 26, 2006 from Reuters (via http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=globalNe)
China has invited UN experts to observe its tests to verify findings by eight Chinese scientists that a man who died in late 2003 contracted the H5N1 bird flu virus, the World Health Organization said ... Launch of global early warning system for animal diseases transmissible to humans
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 26, 2006 from OIE (via http://www.oie.int/eng/press/en_060724.htm)
Geneva, Rome, Paris: A global early warning system for animal diseases transmissible to humans (zoonoses) was formally launched this week in WHO, Geneva by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), ... Caribbean: conference on Avian flu
submitted by wanglh at Jul, 19, 2006 from Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (via http://www.cbc.bb/content/view/6475/45/)
Local and regional health and agricultural officials are meeting in Barbados to map out a preparedness and prevention plan for the avian pandemic influenza.The one-week meeting at the Sherbourne Conference ... OFFLU Network on Avian Influenza
submitted by wanglh at Jul, 18, 2006 from Emerg Infect Dis, 2006 Aug (via http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol12no08/06-0380.htm)
OFFLU is the name of the network of avian influenza expertise inaugurated jointly in 2005 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Organisation for Animal Health. ... Italy: a simulation exercise on avian influenza will take place this week
submitted by wanglh at Jul, 17, 2006 from OIE
Dr Romano Marabelli, Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Health, Italy, informed the OIE that a simulation exercise on avian influenza will take place in his country from 18 to 21 July 2006.
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Animal ... Thailand puts 7 provinces on bird flu watch list
submitted by wanglh at Jul, 17, 2006 from Reuters (via http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=globalNe)
Thailand has stepped up bird flu surveillance in seven provinces for the hot, monsoon season when the virus could re-emerge, a senior government official said on Saturday.
"July is a risky month. Over ... New York unveils bird flu emergency plan
submitted by wanglh at Jul, 11, 2006 from AFP (via http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060710/ts_alt_afp/healthfluusn)
New York officials unveiled an emergency response plan to limit the havoc a global flu pandemic might wreak on one of the world's densest, busiest cities.
The plan, drawn up by the Department of Health ... China: Tests being conducted to confirm possible 2003 bird flu death
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 10, 2006 from Xinhua News Agency (via http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-07/10/content_4814409)
China is conducting lab tests to confirm whether a man died of bird flu in 2003, the Ministry of Health said on Monday.
A letter published by eight Chinese scientists in a June ... China: Shenzhen removes emergency warning against human bird flu
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 7, 2006 from Xinhua News Agency (via http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-07/07/content_4806070)
The municipal health bureau of the city of Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, removed the emergency warning against human bird flu on Friday.
The level of prevention ... PAHO conducts Avian Influenza preparedness workshop in Grenada
submitted by wanglh at Jul, 7, 2006 from GBN (via http://www.klassicgrenada.com/index.pl/article?id=1841218)
The Pan American Health Organization is conducting a national workshop on Avian Influenza preparedness here this week.
The workshop which will be held on Thursday and Friday is designed to help the ... Epidemiology of human H5N1 cases reported to WHO
submitted by wanglh at Jul, 1, 2006 from WHO (via http://www.who.int/csr/don/2006_06_30/en/print.html)
30 June 2006
This week’s issue of the Weekly Epidemiological Record, published online by WHO, sets out results from the first analysis of epidemiological data on all 205 laboratory-confirmed H5N1 cases ... HongKong: adopt new alert system for flu pandemic
submitted by wanglh at Jun, 30, 2006 from Xinhua News Agency (via http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-06/29/content_4768311)
The Hong Kong Hospital Authority announced Thursday that a new alert system for influenza pandemic will be implemented from July 1 to replace the existing one.
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