S.Korea: poultry farm has suspected bird flu case
submitted by sky at Nov, 24, 2006 from Reuters (via http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=globalNe)
KWACHON, South Korea, Nov 23 (Reuters) - South Korea´s farm ministry said on Thursday it had discovered a suspected case of bird flu at a poultry farm in the southwest of the country, which could be the ... Africa must join fight against bird flu-WHO
submitted by sky at Nov, 24, 2006 from Reuters (via http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=globalNe)
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Africa must find resources to back international efforts to stop the spread of bird flu and help prevent a human pandemic, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday, ... HHS awards 3 contracts for more H5N1 vaccine
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Nov 20, 2006 (CIDRAP News) – The US government today announced the awarding of three contacts to buy enough additional H5N1 avian influenza vaccine to immunize almost 2.7 million people, at a cost of $199.45 ... CIDRAP: OSHA updates guidance on avian flu
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Nov 15, 2006 (CIDRAP News) – The US Department of Labor yesterday released revised Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) guidance to help employers protect their workers from job-related ... CIDRAP: Reports show difficulty of diagnosing H5N1 cases
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Nov 22, 2006 (CIDRAP News) – Two new reports on human cases of H5N1 avian influenza that occurred in Turkey and Indonesia last year show that the illness proved difficult to diagnose, with many tests yielding ... Greece finds bird flu virus in wild duck
submitted by kickingbird at Nov, 18, 2006 from Reuters (via http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061117/hl_afp/healthflugreece)
Greece said it found bird flu in a wild duck shot by a hunter, adding that more tests were underway to establish whether the virus was the strain that can kill humans.
The H5 virus, most of whose sub-types ... Scientists identify key mutations in bird flu virus
submitted by kickingbird at Nov, 16, 2006 from Reuters (via http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=globalNe)
Scientists have discovered two spots on the H5N1 bird flu virus which would need to mutate for the virus to infect people more easily.
H5N1 is largely a disease in animals because it has surface proteins ... Tamiflu to carry new caution in U.S.
submitted by kickingbird at Nov, 15, 2006 from Reuters (via http://today.reuters.com/News/GlobalCoverage.aspx?type=globa)
Roche AG´s influenza drug Tamiflu will come with a new caution urging close monitoring of patients for abnormal behavior such as delirium and self-injury, U.S. regulators said on Monday.
Officials felt ... WHO: Avian influenza-situation in Indonesia-update 37
submitted by kickingbird at Nov, 13, 2006 from WHO (via http://www.who.int/csr/don/2006_11_13/en/print.html)
13 November 2006
The Ministry of Health in Indonesia has confirmed an additional two cases of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus.
The first newly-confirmed case is a 35-year-old female ... Indonesian toddler dies of bird flu
submitted by kickingbird at Nov, 13, 2006 from Reuters (via http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=globalNe)
A 2-1/2-year-old Indonesian boy has died of bird flu, taking the country's human death toll from the virus to 56, a health ministry official said on Monday.
The toddler from Karawang regency in West ... Dr Margaret Chan to be WHO´s next Director-General
submitted by kickingbird at Nov, 10, 2006 from WHO (via http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2006/pr66/en/in)
9 NOVEMBER 2006 | GENEVA -- Dr Margaret Chan of China will be the next Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). After her appointment, she told the World Health Assembly she wanted to be ... Dr Margaret Chan nominated to be WHO Director-General
submitted by kickingbird at Nov, 9, 2006 from WHO (via http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2006/pr65/en/in)
NOVEMBER 2006 | GENEVA -- Dr Margaret Chan of China was nominated today by the Executive Board of the World Health Organization for the post of Director-General. The Director-General is WHO's chief ... Chinese scientists identify deadly gene in H5N1
submitted by kickingbird at Nov, 7, 2006 from Reuters (via http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HKG277591.htm)
Chinese scientists have identified a gene in the H5N1 bird flu virus which they say is responsible for its virulence in poultry, opening the way for new vaccines.
There are many different strains of ... ProMED Mail: Avian Influenza, Italy-clarification
submitted by kickingbird at Nov, 6, 2006 from ProMED Mail (via http://www.promedmail.org)
The low-pathogenic H5 strain detected in Italy was obtained as a result of surveillance efforts from a premise rearing primarily waterfowl, a small number of galliform birds and one psittacine. In detail, ... Influenza research at the human and animal interface-Report of a WHO working group
submitted by kickingbird at Nov, 3, 2006 from WHO (via http://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/influenza/WHO_)
Contents- Introduction- Executive summary- Detection and diagnosis of human H5N1 infections- Protecting humans: vaccines and antiviral drugs- Surveillance in birds and other animals: assessing the coming ... Italy: bird flu in wild ducks near Grosseto
submitted by kickingbird at Nov, 2, 2006 from AGI on line (via http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200611011242-1068-RT1-)
After the discovery of avian influenza yesterday in the Grosseto area, hundreds of animals will be put down. Late yesterday evening, the Health Ministry asked the National Avian Influenza Centre for its ... Egypt: Seventh Egyptian dies of bird flu
submitted by kickingbird at Oct, 31, 2006 from Reuters (via http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=globalNe)
An Egyptian woman died of bird flu on Monday, bringing the total number of human deaths in Egypt to seven, the state news agency MENA said.
The victim was a woman from the Nile Delta town of Samanoud ... S. Korea says it will step up bird flu program
submitted by wanglh at Oct, 28, 2006 from Reuters (via http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/GlobalCoverage2/~3/41)
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will step up efforts to counter a potential outbreak of bird flu from migrating birds passing through the Korean peninsula in the coming months, the Agriculture Ministry said ... Jamaica: Stimulation excerise for HPAI
submitted by kickingbird at Oct, 28, 2006 from OIE (via http://www.oie.int)
Dr Headley Edwards, Director of Veterinary Services Division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, Jamaica, informed the OIE that his country will conduct a real-time simulation exercise on ... CIDRAP: WHO to report on ethical issues in pandemic planning
submitted by kickingbird at Oct, 28, 2006 from CIDRAP (via http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/ne)
The World Health Organization (WHO) plans to issue a report in January on ethical issues raised by pandemic influenza planning, such as how to provide fair access to available drugs and vaccines, WHO officials ... 5705 items, 20/Page, Page[216/286][|<<] [|<] [211] [212] [213] [214] [215] [216] [217] [218] [219] [220] [>|] [>>|] Search local
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