UK: Government launches new Flu Pandemic plan
submitted by kickingbird at Nov, 23, 2007 from Department of Health, UK (via http://www.gnn.gov.uk/environment/fullDetail.asp?ReleaseID=3)
Health Secretary, Alan Johnson, today published a new plan to increase preparedness and better protect the public against a possible flu pandemic.
A new clinical countermeasures strategy ... WHO urges nations to share birdflu virus samples
submitted by pub4world at Nov, 20, 2007 from Reuters (via http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L20235348.htm)
By Stephanie Nebehay
GENEVA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Countries must prepare for a human influenza pandemic and share samples linked to the H5N1 bird flu virus, the director-general of the World Health Organisation ... FAO receives $1.9 mln from USAID to fight bird flu in Cambodia
submitted by kickingbird at Oct, 18, 2007 from XinhuaNet (via http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-10/18/content_6903122)
PHNOM PENH, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has received an additional 1.9 million U.S. dollars of grant from the United ... US bird flu plans failing children, report says
submitted by kickingbird at Oct, 18, 2007 from Reuters (via http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N17347556.htm)
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - U.S. plans for an influenza pandemic have failed to take into account children, who will likely be among the biggest spreaders of ... WHO Interim Protocol: Rapid operations to contain the initial emergence of pandemic influenza
submitted by kickingbird at Oct, 17, 2007 from WHO (via http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/guidelines/dr)
Updated October 2007English - [pdf 292kb]
Changes to this version of the protocolThis document replaces previous versions of the protocol. In brief, key changes include:
More emphasis on rapid ... WHO: Towards a unified nomenclature system for the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza viruses
submitted by kickingbird at Oct, 17, 2007 from WHO (via http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/guidelines/no)
Over the last four years, a variety of different names have been used in publications to refer to emerging lineages of the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza viruses. As a result, discussion and comparison ... Turkey adopts action plan against bird flu
submitted by pub4world at Oct, 16, 2007 from XinhuaNet (via http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-10/16/content_6890764)
ANKARA, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Turkey"e;s ministries of health, environment and agriculture have drafted an emergency action plan to fight against a possible bird flu epidemic, local Today"e;s Zaman reported ... WHO: the interdisciplinary working group and the intergovernmental meeting on pandemic influenza preparedness: sharing of influenza viruses and access to vaccines and other benefits
submitted by kickingbird at Oct, 10, 2007 from WHO (via http://www.who.int/gb/pip/e/index.html)
A/PIP/IGM/1Provisional agenda
A/PIP/IGM/4Sharing of influenza viruses and access to vaccines and other benefits: Interdisciplinary Working Groupon Pandemic Influenza Preparedness
A/PIP/IGM/DIV/1Schedule ... Viet Nam: Seminar discusses plan on avian influenza in humans
submitted by kickingbird at Oct, 7, 2007 from VNA (via http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/life/061007/life_s.htm)
A seminar was held in Hanoi on October 5 to discuss amendments and supplements to an action plan on preventing avian influenza in humans.
Participants at the event, co-hosted by the Department of Preventive ... Database lists choice pandemic-planning resources
submitted by kickingbird at Sep, 25, 2007 from CIDRAP (via http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/ne)
Public health officials looking for ideas and tools to help them prepare for an influenza pandemic can find an online collection of peer-reviewed resources on a Web site that was officially launched today: ... US not ready for bird flu, other disasters -reports
submitted by pub4world at Sep, 11, 2007 from Reuters (via http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N10357587.htm)
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - An incident in which a tuberculosis-infected man walked past U.S. border controls in May shows how poorly the country is defended ... Online ´Epidemic´ Gives Clues to Bird Flu Spread (HealthDay)
submitted by kickingbird at Aug, 21, 2007 from Yahoo News (via http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.ya)
TUESDAY, Aug. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Online role-playing gamescould provide insight into how infectious diseases such as bird flu spreadamong people in the real world, American researchers report.
A ... WHO: Towards a unified nomenclature system for the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza viruses
submitted by kickingbird at Aug, 16, 2007 from WHO (via http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/guidelines/no)
Over the last four years, a variety of different names have been used in publications to refer to emerging lineages of the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza viruses. As a result, discussion and comparison ... WHO working group grappling with virus-sharing issues
submitted by kickingbird at Aug, 2, 2007 from CIDRAP (via http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/ne)
Representatives from 24 countries are meeting in Singapore this week to propose solutions to virus-sharing problems that threaten to derail global monitoring of the H5N1 avian influenza virus and stall ... U.S.: Students´ pandemic hotline plan interests health agency
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 8, 2007 from CIDRAP (via http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/ne)
Stanford University students have proposed a model for a local pandemic influenza information hotline staffed by home-based volunteers, and the Santa Clara County Public Health Department in San Jose, ... Highly pathogenic avian influenza A/H5N1 in birds within the EU - Implications for Public Health
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 6, 2007 from Eurosurveillance weekly releases 2007 Volume 12 (via http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ew/2007/070705.asp#2)
Since the later part of June 2007, three European Union (EU) Member States (Czech Republic, Germany, and France) have recorded cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) of the subtype A/H5N1 in ... W.Bank body, NGO to fight bird flu in Bangladesh
submitted by pub4world at Jul, 2, 2007 from Reuters (via http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DHA226333.htm)
DHAKA, July 2 (Reuters) - A World Bank subsidiary and a leading Bangladeshi NGO have formed an alliance to battle bird flu, which has spread to dozens of farms since March.
There have been no known cases ... European Commission Japan grant 15 mln USD to fight bird flu in Indonesia
submitted by pub4world at Jun, 14, 2007 from People Daily (via http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200706/13/eng20070613_3839)
The European Commission and the government of Japan provided 15 million U.S. dollars grant to support efforts of combating avian influenza on animal in Indonesia, an official said on Wednesday.
Chairman ... Nearly 13% of Vietnam´s waterfowls carry H5N1
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 14, 2007 from Xinhua (via http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-06/13/content_6236311)
Roughly 13 percent of waterfowls in Vietnam have bird flu virus strain H5N1, local newspaper Labor reported Wednesday.
Tests show that nearly 21.7 percent of waterfowls in capital ... Veterinarians At Increased Risk Of Avian Influenza Virus Infection
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 7, 2007 from Medical News Today (via http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=72750)
Veterinarians who work with birds are at increased risk for infection with avian influenza virus and should be among those with priority access to pandemic influenza vaccines and antivirals, according ... 532 items, 20/Page, Page[6/27][|<<] [|<] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [>|] [>>|] Search local
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