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 ... Supply, demand concerns dominate flu vaccine meeting [Primary member]
submitted by kickingbird at May, 13, 2005 from ASSOCIATED PRESS (via http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/flu11.html)
Uncertainties over vaccine supply and demand dominated a two-day brainstorming session for the upcoming flu season, where public health officials and manufacturers discussed ways to avoid a crisis like ... large influenza outbreak in Shenzhen, China(Not)
submitted by kickingbird at May, 10, 2005 from F.I.C
A news ( http://etna.mcot.net/query.php?nid=38317) citing a serious influenza outbreak in shenzhen, China is not true. F.I.C have contacted the surveillance department of Shenzhen CDC, currently ... Vietnam:Human test of bird flu vaccine set for this August
submitted by kickingbird at May, 10, 2005 from vietnam news (via http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01HEA)
Viet Nam expects to start testing the H5N1 vaccine on humans in August, said a local scientist from the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology.
Initial tests will take place on about 10-20 volunteers ... Experts meet in Vietnam on Avian flu
submitted by kickingbird at May, 10, 2005 from HongKong Government News (via http://news.gov.hk/en/category/healthandcommunity/050509/htm)
Centre for (Hong Kong) Health Protection Controller Leung Pak-yin is leading a team of medical and public health professionals on a trip to Hanoi to attend a World Health Organisation meeting on avian ... Bird flu tests used in Vietnam out-of-date, may have missed cases
submitted by kickingbird at May, 9, 2005 from Canadian Press (via http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/11155778)
TORONTO — A diagnostic test designed by Canadian researchers and used in Vietnam to detect H5N1 avian flu is out of date, scientists from the National Microbiology Laboratory admit -- raising the possibility ... Thailand says its avian flu battle is over
submitted by kickingbird at May, 6, 2005 from CIDRAP,BGCD Thailand (via http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/avianflu/)
May 5, 2005 (CIDRAP News) – After an arduous 10-month battle against the H5N1 avian influenza virus, Thailand has declared itself free of the disease, the Bangkok Post reported today.
The country hasn´t ... New legislation to control avian influenza in Europe proposed by Commission
submitted by kickingbird at May, 6, 2005 from Eurosurveillance weekly 2005 Volume 10 Issue 5, 05 May 2005 (via http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ew/2005/050505.asp)
New legislation to control avian influenza in Europe proposed by Commission
Editorial team (eurosurveillance.weekly@hpa.org.uk), Eurosurveillance editorial office
To prevent and control outbreaks of ... Vietnam to test bird flu vaccine on 600,000 chickens in Ho Chi Minh City [Primary member]
submitted by kickingbird at May, 4, 2005 from AP (via http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050504/ap/d89s4bm81.html)
Some 600,000 chickens in Vietnam´s southern commercial hub will be vaccinated against bird flu in an attempt to control the deadly virus, an official said Wednesday.
The vaccine produced by French ... Cambodia：fourth bird flu death confirmed
submitted by kickingbird at May, 4, 2005 from Xinhua News Agency (via http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/04/content_2915324)
Cambodia´s health ministry on Wednesday officially confirmed that the woman died in Vietnam last month was killed by bird flu.
"Samples taken from the woman were sent to ... US CDC:All H2N2 flu virus samples destroyed
submitted by kickingbird at May, 4, 2005 from CIDRAP (via http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/general/n)
All H2N2 flu virus samples destroyed, CDC says
May 3, 2005 (CIDRAP News) – All samples of a potentially dangerous influenza virus that were sent to thousands of laboratories in 18 countries in recent ... China:mild influenza A virus(H1N1) activity in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province
submitted by kickingbird at Apr, 29, 2005 from Shenzhen Daily
From the report of Shenzhen CDC, only 15 Influenza cases (reported) from Feb to Mar so far. Shenzhen had milder influenza activity compared with same period last year. And H1(N1) were the dominant isolates, ... Swiss get ready for human flu pandemic [Primary member]
submitted by kickingbird at Apr, 27, 2005 from swissinfo
The Swiss government is preparing itself for an expected influenza epidemic by issuing new guidelines.
The announcement comes at a time when the authorities are revamping their emergency health ... FAO:Bird flu outbreak in North Korea contained
submitted by kickingbird at Apr, 26, 2005 from FAO (via http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2005/102016/index.html)
25 April 2005, Rome - The recent outbreak of avian influenza in North Korea (DPRK) has been successfully contained, FAO said today, urging the country to continue surveillance on the affected farms and ... Computer Modeling:Cooping Up Avian Flu
submitted by kickingbird at Apr, 25, 2005 from Scientific American
In anticipating the next pandemic, flu specialists think the H5N1 avian flu strain, which has jumped from birds to dozens of people in Asia, will inevitably adapt to spreading from person to person. The ... China: influenza A virus outbreak in Leizhou, Guangdong Province
submitted by kickingbird at Apr, 26, 2005 from F.I.C
The BOH of Guangdong announced yesterday a influenza A virus outbreak occurred in Xuhuang village, Leizhou city of Guangdong province. 286 people were diagnosed as influenza A virus infection. mainly children ... Dark side to good news on bird flu
submitted by kickingbird at Apr, 23, 2005 from THE WASHINGTON POST
Nguyen Sy Tuan can barely talk. His wasted frame is tucked beneath a thin white sheet on the hospital cot. His cheeks are sunken and his bulging eyes stare blankly at the ceiling.
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