U.S.:Government Plans to Triple Airport Quarantine Stations [Primary member]
submitted by kickingbird at Aug, 29, 2005 from Washington Post (via http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08)
The government plans to more than triple the number of quarantine stations at airports around the country and hire scores of health officers as part of a broad plan to try to stop deadly infectious diseases ... English translations of the latest avian influenza news from Russia available from EpiNorth Website
submitted by kickingbird at Aug, 26, 2005 from Eurosurveillance (via http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ew/2005/050825.asp#2)
English translations of the latest official Russian press releases on the avian influenza situation in Russia are available on the EpiNorth website (http://www.epinorth.org/). EpiNorth, the project for ... Second drug should be readied for bird flu(Relenza) [Primary member]
submitted by kickingbird at Aug, 13, 2005 from Reuters
A second influenza drug, GlaxoSmithKline´s Relenza, should be stockpiled in readiness for a feared global pandemic of avian flu, researchers said on Thursday.
The drug, known generically as zanamivir, ... UK:The influenza immunisation programme 2005/06
submitted by kickingbird at Aug, 13, 2005 from CDR Weekly (via http://www.hpa.org.uk/cdr/pages/news.htm#flu_prog)
A letter from the Chief Medical Officer, the Chief Nursing Officer and the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer outlining the influenza immunisation programme for 2005/06 has been published. Copies can be obtained ... India: government on alert for bird flu as migrating birds arrive
submitted by kickingbird at Aug, 11, 2005 from Canadian Press (via http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=ea0cd9b1-f36f-4db)
India´s government warned health and wildlife officials throughout the country to watch for symptoms of avian influenza among migratory birds that have begun arriving from China and other regions ... Two studies model containment strategies for pandemic flu
submitted by kickingbird at Aug, 4, 2005 from CIDRAP (via http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/ne)
Aug 3, 2005 (CIDRAP News) – Researchers relying on mathematical modeling claim that early containment of pandemic influenza, an eventuality widely accepted as not an "if" but a "when," may well be attainable ... Bird flu pilot plan for Fiji [Primary member]
submitted by kickingbird at Aug, 3, 2005 from Fiji Times (via http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=25913)
AN influenza pandemic preparedness plan for Fiji is being developed to deal with the possible outbreak of Bird Flu in the region.
While the Secretariat of the Pacific Community has prepared a regional ... Australia: will invest more on development of a bird flu vaccine [Primary member]
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 24, 2005 from Xinhua News Agency (via http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-07/22/content_3254604)
Australian Health Minister Tony Abbott Friday announced that the government will invest nearly 5 million Australian dollars (3.8 million US dollars) to speed up development of a bird flu vaccine for Australia. ... Britain: will stockpile two million bird flu vaccines [Primary member]
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 21, 2005 from AFP
LONDON (AFP) - Britain is to stockpile two million doses of a bird flu vaccine in case an epidemic of the disease sweeps the globe.
Manufacturers are to be invited to submit tenders for a contract to ... WHO:Available evidence suggests no need to change the recommended influenza A/H5N1 vaccine prototype strains
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 20, 2005 from WHO (via http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/statement_200)
The WHO H5 Reference Laboratory Network and WHO Collaborating Centres and Reference Laboratories have reviewed available data to assess the suitability of the H5N1 prototype strains selected by WHO last ... Southern China:Infectious-disease crisis mechanism for region [Primary member]
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 15, 2005 from The Standard (via http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Metro/GG15Ak06.html)
Health authorities in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau have agreed to set up a public health emergency mechanism to respond to the threat of infectious diseases.
Concluding the Fifth Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau ... Australia: a national simulation exercise on avian flu outbreak to be conducted
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 14, 2005 from OIE Animal Health Information Department
Dr Gardner Murray, Chief Veterinary Officer, Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, informed the OIE that a national simulation exercise, Exercise Eleusis ?5, will be ... Australia:flu warning after New Zealand outbreak
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 8, 2005 from influenza centre (via http://www.influenzacentre.org/)
The Influenza Specialist Group (ISG) has warned that influenza outbreaks are expected in Australia and cautioned parents that influenza can be a serious infection in children – particularly for those at ... Bird flu may soon land in Europe and Australia [Primary member]
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 7, 2005 from NewScientist.com (via http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18725074.100)
Thousands of wild birds in north-west China may have been infected by a bird flu virus closely related to the one that has devastated poultry farms in south-east Asia. The birds might carry the virus as ... New Zealand:Second Flu Strain on Its Way [Primary member]
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 7, 2005 from Dominion Post (via http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=166264&source=r_)
A SECOND strain of flu could strike New Zealand in the wake of the current epidemic among schoolchildren.
Schools around the country have been hit by an early and severe outbreak of Hong Kong B influenza, ... International Conference Draws Up Strategy to Fight Avian Influenza
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 7, 2005 from WHO
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, July 6 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- International animal and human health experts today unveiled a multi-point plan designed to reduce the risk of the H5N1 avian influenza virus spreading ... OIE:Avian influenza crisis in Asia(animal health issues need more attention)
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 4, 2005 from OIE (via http://www.oie.int/fr/press/fr_050704.htm)
The scientific findings of the international expert team which recently visited Viet Nam at the request of the Ministry of Health of this country, showed that fortunately there is yet no evidence of a ... U.S.:flu season was moderate-CDC
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 1, 2005 from Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The 2004-2005 U.S. flu season was moderate, but the virus killed at least 36 children, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.
On the same day, CDC ... 10th Annual EISS meeting, Birmingham, May 2005
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 1, 2005 from EISS
The EISS group had its 10th Annual Meeting from 19–21 May in Birmingham, the United Kingdom, with over 90 participants from all over the world, among whom Denis Coulombier, as representative of the newly ... European:Summit of influenza experts discusses coordinated response to possible pandemic
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 29, 2005 from European Commission Press Releases
Summit of EU influenza experts discusses coordinated response to possible pandemic
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