WHO draws up formula on mechanism for bird flu virus distribution
submitted by 2366 at Mar, 27, 2007 from People Daily (via http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200703/27/eng20070327_3611)
The World Health Organization ( WHO) kicked off a high-level technical meeting of officials from 16 countries here on Monday to draw up a formula on the means of distribution and dispatch of the Avian ... Japan says it will keep stockpiling Tamiflu (Reuters)
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan plans to keep stockpiling theTamiflu anti-viral drug to tackle any future bird flu pandemic,even though it has warned doctors not to give the drug toteenagers, a Health Ministry ... Egypt: two children test positive for bird flu
submitted by kickingbird at Mar, 27, 2007 from Reuters (via http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L27231582.htm)
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CAIRO, March 27 (Reuters) - Two Egyptian children have tested positive for the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, bringing the total number of human cases of the disease in the most populous ... Indonesia: two more suspected bird flu deaths
submitted by kickingbird at Mar, 27, 2007 from Reuters (via http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070327/wl_nm/birdflu_indonesia_)
A teenager and a 22-year-old woman have died from suspected bird flu in Indonesia, a health ministry official said on Tuesday.
Both had tested positive for the H5N1 virus after an initial test, but officials ... Indonesia firm on bird flu virus dispute (AP)
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JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia insisted Tuesday that it only will resume sharing bird flu virus samples with the World Health Organization if the body stops providing them to commercial vaccine makers.
The ... Regional exercise to test Asia bird flu preparedness (AFP)
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MANILA (AFP) - Cambodia, Singapore and the World Health Organisation are to conduct a two-day exercise next week to test Asia's ability to stem a bird flu pandemic, the UN agency said here Tuesday.
The ... Two more suspected bird flu deaths in Indonesia (Reuters)
submitted by 2366 at Mar, 27, 2007 from Yahoo News (via http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.ya)
JAKARTA (Reuters) - A teenager and a 22-year-old woman havedied from suspected bird flu in Indonesia, a health ministryofficial said on Tuesday.Both had tested positive for the H5N1 virus after aninitial ... Bangladesh says no human case of bird flu
submitted by 2366 at Mar, 26, 2007 from Reuters (via http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DHA263826.htm)
DHAKA, March 26 (Reuters) - There has been no human case of bird flu in Bangladesh, the health ministry said on Monday, after an outbreak of the H5N1 virus in nine poultry farms near the capital set off ... Indonesia calls for bird flu shakeup
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JAKARTA (AFP) - Indonesia´s health minister called Monday for new rules to govern the development of human vaccines against bird flu to ensure poorer nations can afford them.
Siti Fadilah Supari made ... Bird flu outbreak spreads in Bangladesh (AFP)
submitted by linshuiping at Mar, 26, 2007 from Yahoo News (via http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.ya)
DHAKA (AFP) - Three new farms reported bird flu outbreaks in Bangladesh Sunday after thousands of poultry were destroyed last week due to confirmed cases of the deadly virus, the government said.On Friday, ... Egypt: A 3-year-old girl became 27th human case of bird flu
submitted by 2366 at Mar, 26, 2007 from Reuters (via http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L25434851.htm)
CAIRO, March 25 (Reuters) - A three-year-old Egyptian girl has contracted bird flu, the 27th case among humans in Egypt, the state news agency MENA said on Sunday. The girl, Hajer Mohamed Awadallah, was ... Bangladesh slaughters chickens after first bird flu outbreak (AFP)
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DHAKA (AFP) - Authorities in Bangladesh said they had slaughtered tens of thousands of chickens at farms on the outskirts of Dhaka where the country's first case of bird flu was confirmed.More than ... Tamiflu side effects come under scrutiny
submitted by kickingbird at Mar, 24, 2007 from Nature (via http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v446/n7134/full/446358a)
Japanese paediatricians are studying whetherTamiflu, the drug widely thought to be ourbest defence against avian flu, might be causingmental instability and suicidal tendencies.An initial study cleared ... Pandemic influenza vaccine: WHO and international community make progress towards ensuring access of developing countries
submitted by kickingbird at Mar, 24, 2007 from WHO (via http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2007/np13/en/index)
22 MARCH 2007 | GENEVA -- The World Health Organization (WHO) is today reporting progress towards ensuring access to pandemic influenza vaccines for developing countries in the event of a pandemic and ... Saudi Arabia: first bird flu outbreak in fowl reported
submitted by kickingbird at Mar, 23, 2007 from AFP (via http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070322/wl_mideast_afp/healthfl)
Saudi authorities announced Thursday that they had found H5N1 bird flu in captive birds, in the kingdom's first outbreak of the strain of the disease that is dangerous to humans.
Laboratory tests found ... Bangladesh: the first case of bird flu confirmed
submitted by kickingbird at Mar, 23, 2007 from AFP (via http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070322/wl_sthasia_afp/healthfl)
Bangladesh confirmed Thursday its first case of bird flu, prompting mass culling of poultry at a farm outside the capital Dhaka, officials said.
"The cabinet held a special meeting on Thursday afternoon ... Pakistan: bird flu detected in capital
submitted by kickingbird at Mar, 23, 2007 from AFP (via http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070322/hl_afp/healthflupakista)
Authorities have detected the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in dead crows in Pakistan's capital, officials said Thursday.
About 40 dead crows had been found in the past two weeks in and around Islamabad, ... South Korea joins Japan in Tamiflu alert
submitted by kickingbird at Mar, 22, 2007 from AFP (via http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070322/hl_afp/healthfluasiapha)
South Korean officials said Thursday they will issue warnings on the bird flu drug Tamiflu, the second Asian nation to do so after Japan following reports of abnormal behaviour by young users.
The alert ... Japan warns against bird flu drug for teens
submitted by kickingbird at Mar, 21, 2007 from Reuters (via http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070321/hl_nm/tamiflu_warning_ja)
Japan's Health Ministry said on Wednesday it had ordered the importer of the bird flu drug Tamiflu to warn doctors against giving it to teenagers after two new cases of abnormal behavior were reported. ... Myanmar: 1,000 chickens killed in new bird flu outbreak
submitted by kickingbird at Mar, 21, 2007 from AFP (via http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070320/hl_afp/healthflumyanmar)
Myanmar has slaughtered more than 1,000 chickens after discovering another outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in Yangon, a livestock department official said Tuesday.
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