Indonesia: Labs will be upgraded for bird flu tests
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 23, 2006 from Reuters (via http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=globalNe)
Indonesia plans to upgrade its national health laboratory to meet World Health Organization standards, a leading scientist said on Friday, to be able to conduct definitive bird flu tests at home.The country ... Malaysia declares itself free of bird flu
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 23, 2006 from Reuters (via http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=globalNe)
Malaysia declared itself free of bird flu on Thursday and asked Singapore to lift restrictions on imports of Malaysian chickens and ducks.Agriculture Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said the potentially deadly ... WHO says H5N1 mutated in Indonesia
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 23, 2006 from Reuters (via http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060623/ts_nm/birdflu_who_indone)
A spokeswoman for the U.N. agency, Maria Cheng, said the result had come from its investigation into a recent cluster of cases in northern Sumatra, where seven members of a single family were killed in ... 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 ... China: Contacts of bird flu victim in Shenzhen released
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 21, 2006 from Shenzhen Daily (via http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-06/21/content_4725868)
The 98 people who had close contact with Shenzhen City's first confirmed human bird flu patient were released after seven days of medical observation Tuesday. None of the 98 had shown bird flu symptoms, ... WHO:Avian influenza-situation in Indonesia-update 20
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 21, 2006 from WHO (via http://www.who.int/csr/don/2006_06_20/en/print.html)
20 June 2006The Ministry of Health in Indonesia has confirmed the country’s 51st case of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus.The case, which was fatal, occurred in a 13-year-old boy from ... 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, ... China: New bird flu outbreak confirmed in Shanxi
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 19, 2006 from Xinhua News Agency (via http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-06/19/content_4716583)
A new bird flu outbreak has been reported in north China's Shanxi Province, said sources with the Ministry of Agriculture here Monday. The outbreak was identified after chickens died in poultry farms ... 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, ... Canada: H5 avian flu virus found in domestic goose in PEI
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 18, 2006 from The Canadian Press (via http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=070)
A domestic goose that died in western Prince Edward Island this week tested positive for an H5 avian influenza virus, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed Friday.Samples are being sent to the ... WHO completes bird flu study on biggest cluster death in Indonesia
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 17, 2006 from xinhuanet@xinhua.org (via http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-06/17/content_4710671)
JAKARTA, June 17 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) had completed a month-long investigation of Indonesia's biggest cluster death of bird flu in Karo regency, North Sumatra, but declined to ... Local test confirms another death of bird flu in Indonesia
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 17, 2006 from xinhuanet@xinhua.org (via http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-06/17/content_4710657)
JAKARTA, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Local laboratory examination has showed another Indonesian, a 14-year-old boy, died of bird flu, a health official said here on Saturday.
"The local ... WHO: Distinctive seasonal patterns of bird flu still unclear
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 17, 2006 from xinhuanet@xinhua.org (via http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-06/17/content_4709708)
BEIJING, June 17 (Xinhua) -- It remains unclear whether there are truly distinctive seasonal patterns to outbreaks of the bird flu in poultry, said an official with the World Health Organization (WHO) ... New China case suggests H5N1 now more infectious
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 16, 2006 from Reuters (via http://feeds.feedburner.com/Reuters/GlobalCoverage2?m=3833)
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's latest human bird flu infection is worrying as it indicates that the H5N1 virus may have mutated and become as infectious in warm months as it is in cooler ones, Hong Kong's ... MedImmune And National Institutes Of Health Begin Clinical Testing Of A Live, Attenuated Intranasal Vaccine Against An H5N1 Avian Influenza Virus
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 16, 2006 from Medical News Today (via http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=45286)
MedImmune, Inc.(Nasdaq: MEDI) announced today that the National Institutes of Health (NIH)has begun enrolling participants in a Phase 1 study of an intranasal H5N1influenza vaccine candidate based on the ... China confirms new human case of bird flu
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 15, 2006 from xinhuanet@xinhua.org (via http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-06/15/content_4703586)
BEIJING, June 15 (Xinhua) -- A 31-year-old man in south China's Guangdong Province has been ... UK scientists call for more research into bird flu
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 15, 2006 from Reuters (via http://feeds.feedburner.com/Reuters/GlobalCoverage2?m=3801)
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