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)
Background
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), ... 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 ... Bird flu may have been mistaken for SARS
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 23, 2006 from Reuters (via http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=globalNe)
A Chinese man who died of pneumonia in 2003 and was at first classified as a SARS victim might have in fact died of avian influenza, Chinese researchers reported on Wednesday.But in a confusing development, ... China May Had Human Bird Flu Infection Two Years Earlier Than Stated
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 23, 2006 from Medical News Today (via http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php?newsid=45733&)
China had its first case of human bird flu infection in 2003, not 2005 when the first case was officially reported to the World Health Organization, according to eight Chinese scientists who wrote to the ... US trains foreign scientists in bird flu testing
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 20, 2006 from Reuters (via http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=globalNe)
Two dozen scientists from 19 countries will be trained this week by the U.S. Agriculture Department in diagnostic testing for bird flu, the department said on Monday.The one-week session at the National ... China: Suspected case of Influenza A (H5) ruled out in HongKong
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 19, 2006 from Xinhua News Agency (via http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-06/19/content_4716572)
Hong Kong North District Hospital (NDH) announced on Monday that a male patient was confirmed negative to Influenza A (H5). The patient is now being treated under isolation and is instable condition, ... HongKong fights poultry smuggling to keep out bird flu
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 18, 2006 from Reuters (via http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=globalNe)
Authorities in Hong Kong stepped up customs checks at the weekend to stamp out poultry smuggling after a truck driver was found infected by the H5N1 bird flu virus across the border in mainland China.More ... Experts meet in Tunisia to counter bird flu in north Africa
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 18, 2006 from AFP (via http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060614/hl_afp/healthflutunisia)
Experts were meeting in the Tunisian city of Hammamet to discuss how to fight the possible arrival of bird flu in north Africa, organizers said.Representatives of Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia, ... HK bird flu experts head for Shenzhen
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 14, 2006 from xinhuanet@xinhua.org (via http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-06/14/content_4697077)
HONG KONG, June 14 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong medical and veterinary experts will go to its ... EU Commission gives up on flu stockpile
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 9, 2006 from Reuters (via http://feeds.feedburner.com/Reuters/GlobalCoverage2?m=3778)
The European Union's executive commission has given up on the idea of creating a strategic stockpile of antiviral drugs to deal with a flu pandemic after health ministers from the 25-nation bloc effectively ... Negligible risk of H5N1 infection from bathing and drinking water in Europe: ECDC risk assessment
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 9, 2006 from Eurosurveillance Vol 11 Issue 6 (via http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ew/2006/060608.asp#4)
People who bathe in water in areas of Europe where birds have been tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 are at negligible risk of infection with that virus, according to a risk assessment ... Updated Interim Guidance for Laboratory Testing of Persons with Suspected Infection with Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus in the United States
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 9, 2006 from US CDC (via http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/HAN/ArchiveSys/ViewMsgV.asp?AlertNu)
CDC Health UpdateThis update provides revised interim guidance for testing of suspected human cases of avian influenza A (H5N1) in the United States and is based on the current state of knowledge regarding ... China: Scientist urges improvement of bird flu control methods
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 6, 2006 from Xinhua News Agency (via http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-06/06/content_4652440)
BEIJING, June 6 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government should review the strategies and effects of the bird flu control efforts of the past two years and improve them to cope with the epidemic which is still ... 479 items, 20/Page, Page[9/24][|<<] [|<] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [>|] [>>|] Search local
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