Nature urges world to take pandemic threat seriously
submitted by kickingbird at May, 27, 2005 from CIDRAP (via http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/ne)
The British magazine Nature trained a floodlight on the threat of an influenza pandemic today with a collection of 10 articles that explore the danger and possible remedies and demand a more serious global ... China:No human infection of avian flu in Qinghai(official)
submitted by kickingbird at May, 27, 2005 from Xinhua News Agency (via http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/26/content_3004962)
No human infection of avian flu or unexplained pneumonia case has been detected in northwest China's Qinghai Province and health departments are going all out to prevent a possible outbreak of bird flu, ... U.S.: still unprepared against new flu, experts say
submitted by kickingbird at May, 27, 2005 from Reuters (via http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N26477520.htm)
The United States still has no licensed vaccine to prevent avian flu and has nowhere near enough drugs on hand to treat the sick if there is an epidemic, experts told Congress on Thursday.
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F.I.C ... World Health Assembly adopts new International Health Regulations [Primary member]
submitted by kickingbird at May, 24, 2005 from WHO (via http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr_wha03/e)
World Health Assembly adopts new International Health Regulations
New rules govern national and international response to disease outbreaks
Today, the World Health Assembly approved a new set of International ... Vietnam:46-year-old man died from bird flu
submitted by kickingbird at May, 24, 2005 from News-Medical.Net (via http://www.news-medical.net/?id=10318)
A death of a man from bird flu in Vietnam´s Northern Province, has brought the total deaths in the country since late 2003 to 38.
The 46-year-old man died three days after he entered the Institute ... OIE:Highly pathogenic avian influenza in the People´s Republic of China
submitted by kickingbird at May, 23, 2005 from OIE
Highly pathogenic avian influenza in the People´s Republic of Chinavirus type H5N1 in wild birds
(Date of previous outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the People´s Republic ... China:Death of migratory birds in Qinghai confirmed due to bird flu
submitted by kickingbird at May, 22, 2005 from Xinhua News Agency and Recombinomics Commentary
The Ministry of Agriculture announced here Saturday that the reported death of migratory birds in West China's Qinghai Province was caused by bird flu.
The ministry said the national ... WHO:Avian influenza–cumulative number of cases–update 18
submitted by kickingbird at May, 19, 2005 from WHO (via http://www.who.int/csr/don/2005_05_19/en/)
Avian influenza – cumulative number of cases – update 18
19 May 2005
WHO is updating its table showing cumulative numbers of human cases of H5N1 avian influenza broken down according to phases in the ... Hong Kong:Virus Isolation and Serology Testing (Respiratory Pathogens) [Primary member]
submitted by kickingbird at May, 19, 2005 from Center of Health Protection, Hong Kong (via http://www.chp.gov.hk/guideline_sub.asp?lang=en&id=267&a)
Virus Isolation and Serology Testing (Respiratory Pathogens)
Specimens for virology testing in Hong Kong are undertaken by laboratories in public hospitals, private laboratories, and the Virology Division ... Air passengers carries bird flu virus in eggs to Guangzhou [Primary member]
submitted by kickingbird at May, 19, 2005 from Xinhua News Agency (via http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/19/content_2974754)
Guangzhou quarantine officials found a deadly bird flu virus in eggs carried by air passengers from Vietnam, the first time China had found the H5N1 virus in an airport checkpoint since the end of ... WHO Inter-country Consultation:Influenza A/H5N1 in Humans in Asia
submitted by kickingbird at May, 19, 2005 from WHO
Some important epidemiological features of human H5N1 infections occurred in northern Viet Nam during January through April 2005 and appeared to differ in some respects from those seen in 2004 in other ... Novel H5N1 Receptor Binding Domains in Northern Vietnam [Primary member]
submitted by kickingbird at May, 19, 2005 from Recombinomics Inc (via http://www.recombinomics.com/News/05180506/H5N1_Novel_Recept)
The HA gene of viruses isolated from humans in Viet Nam in the first 3 months of 2005 showed several amino acid changes relative to 2004 viruses. None of the changes in the HA were common to all of the ... Recombination Between H5N1 in Vietnam and Japan / China [Primary member]
submitted by kickingbird at May, 19, 2005 from Recombinomics Inc (via http://www.recombinomics.com/News/05180503/H5N1_Recombinatio)
>> Recent viruses circulating in Northern Viet Nam have lost anarginine residue in the mutibasic amino cluster at the proteolytic cleavage site of the HA protein. It does not seem to be responsible ... Bird flu in Vietnam shows greater signs of human-to-human infection
submitted by kickingbird at May, 19, 2005 from AFP
A World Health Organisation study in Vietnam has raised the possibility that bird flu is becoming more capable of human-to-human transmission, the WHO said.
The study of bird flu outbreaks in Vietnam ... Second human bird flu case in Vietnam in a week
submitted by kickingbird at May, 17, 2005 from China Daily (via http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-05/17/content_)
A second human case of bird flu has been identified in under a week in Vietnam where 36 people have died from the disease since late 2003, a health official said.
A 58-year-old man from northern Vietnam´s ... Vietnam reports first human bird flu case in a month
submitted by kickingbird at May, 16, 2005 from Reuters (via http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HAN89189.htm)
A 52-year-old Vietnamese man who ate chicken that had died of a disease has been infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus, the country's first human case in a month, a health official said on Monday.
The ... Bird flu found in Indonesian pigs
submitted by kickingbird at May, 14, 2005 from Reuters
JAKARTA (Reuters): Bird flu has infected pigs in Indonesia, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday, raising fears of a wider outbreak in the world´s fourth-most populous country and Southeast Asia´s ... Asian countries urged to enhance bird flu prevention cooperation
submitted by kickingbird at May, 13, 2005 from Xinhua News Agency (via http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/13/content_2954070)
Asian countries need to work togetherto build a transnational network for bird flu information exchange and experience sharing to control the disease more effectively, a WHO meeting here has urged. ... Vietnam:initial tests show new human bird flu case(55-year-old male)
submitted by kickingbird at May, 13, 2005 from Agence France Presse (via http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/)
HANOI: Initial tests showed a man in northern Vietnam was contaminated by the bird flu virus, the first human case in more than three weeks, doctors said on Friday. "Initial tests showed that the 55-year-old ... 4796 items, 20/Page, Page[204/240][|<<] [|<] [201] [202] [203] [204] [205] [206] [207] [208] [209] [210] [>|] [>>|] Search local
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