US: HHS Announces Additional $225 Million for State and Local Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Efforts
submitted by wanglh at Jul, 12, 2006 from HHS (via http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2006pres/20060711.html)
As part of President Bush's plan to mobilize the nation and prepare for an influenza pandemic, HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt today announced an additional $225 million in funding for state and local preparedness.
“Earlier ... India says nearly done on local bird flu vaccine
submitted by wanglh at Jul, 11, 2006 from Reuters (via http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=globalNe)
India is close to developing its own vaccine against avian flu in poultry with final phase trials showing 90 percent success, the head of the country's top animal disease research laboratory said on Monday. ... CIDRAP: Report says avian flu entered Nigeria 3 times
submitted by wanglh at Jul, 7, 2006 from CIDRAP (via http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/avianflu/)
Nigeria was the first African nation to report H5N1 avian influenza, and now scientists have found evidence that the virus was introduced into the country at least three separate times, possibly by migratory ... Journal review: reports of human AIV case in mainland China since 2005 [Primary member]
submitted by wanglh at Jul, 7, 2006 from FIC
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Treatment review of a HPAIV human case in Jianyang city, Sichuan province, Chinahttp://www.flu.org.cn/scn/article_detail.asp?articleId=4686 Clinical analysis of first HPAIV ... China: Probe continues into ´first bird flu death´
submitted by wanglh at Jun, 28, 2006 from China Daily (via http://english.people.com.cn/200606/28/print20060628_277992.)
Chinese scientists are continuing investigations into what is believed to be the world´s first bird flu fatality. In a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine last Thursday, eight Chinese scientists ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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) ... 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)
The proposal is among a number of recommendations made by members of the Science Advisory Council (SAC) of Britain's Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to improve contingency plans ... Scientists in Rome to discuss bird flu
submitted by wanglh at May, 30, 2006 from Yahoo (via http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.ya)
Three years after the first outbreaks of bird flu in Asia, experts are still puzzling at how the disease spread across three continents so quickly and how wild birds have helped disseminate the deadly ... Susceptibility of animal species to the H5N1 Asian strain
submitted by kickingbird at May, 23, 2006 from FAO (via http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000278/index.html)
The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and FAO confirm that the animal species playing a role in the transmission and spread of highly pathogenic avian H5N1 influenza virus are essentially domestic ... Susceptibility of animal species to the H5N1 Asian strain
submitted by kickingbird at Apr, 21, 2006 from FAO and OIE (via http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000278/index.html)
The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and FAO confirm that the animal species playing a role in the transmission and spread of highly pathogenic avian H5N1 influenza virus are essentially domestic ... Avian flu: Influenza virus receptors in the human airway
submitted by kickingbird at Mar, 23, 2006 from Nature (via http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7083/full/440435a)
Although more than 100 people have been infected by H5N1 influenza A viruses, human-to-human transmission is rare. What are the molecular barriers limiting human-to-human transmission? Here we demonstrate ... Influenza Virus Sequences Resource
submitted by kickingbird at Mar, 21, 2006 from Science
Need to know which hemagglutinin proteins were carried last year by influenza viruses in Asia? Want to compare your viral samples to the deadly H5N1 subtype? Visit the Influenza Virus Resource from the ... Demark: Full genomic sequencing of HP H5N1 Avian Influenza virus isolated from a buzzard [Primary member]
submitted by kickingbird at Mar, 20, 2006 from ProMedMail
Full genomic sequencing of HP H5N1 Avian Influenza virus isolated from a buzzard in Denmark-------------------------On Tue 14 Mar 2006, an H5 avian influenza virus was detected in respiratory tissues from ... Study finds mutations needed for bird flu pandemic
submitted by kickingbird at Mar, 17, 2006 from Reuters (via http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N16318221.htm)
Scientists said on Thursday they had identified some of the mutations the H5N1 avian influenza virus needs to gain a permanent foothold in the human population, causing a greatly feared pandemic.
They ... Scientists Develop Potential Pandemic Influenza Vaccine In Mice [Primary member]
submitted by kickingbird at Feb, 9, 2006 from Medical News today (via http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=37290)
US researchers have genetically engineered a vaccine that can protect mice from different human strains of the H5N1 influenza virus. They report their findings online today (Thursday February 2, 2006) ... US:most influenza viruses are resistant to Adamantane drugs
submitted by kickingbird at Feb, 9, 2006 from Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Feb 02 - Approximately 90% of influenza A virus isolates circulating in the US in this flu season are resistant to the adamantane drugs amantadine and rimantadine, report investigators ... Human cases of avian influenza in eastern Turkey: the weather factor
submitted by kickingbird at Jan, 20, 2006 from Eurosurveillance monthly release 2006 Volume 11 Issue 1 (via http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ew/2006/060119.asp#2)
J Giesecke (johan.giesecke@ecdc.eu.int), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Solna, Sweden
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