Flu pandemic could kill half million in US -report
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 24, 2005 from Reuters (via http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N23137020.htm)
WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) - Half a million Americans could die and more than 2 million could end up in the hospital with serious complications if an even moderately severe strain of a pandemic flu ... New Zealand:Ministry of Health warns Influenza B can be serious health risk to children and young people
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 21, 2005 from Ministry of Health, New Zealand (via http://www.moh.govt.nz/influenzab)
Ministry of Health warns Influenza B can be serious health risk to children and young people
A CURRENTLY-circulating strain of influenza has not been common in New Zealand since 1987 and means children ... Misuse of flu drug seen in China [Primary member]
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 19, 2005 from Washington Post (via http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/06/18/mi)
HONG KONG -- Chinese farmers, acting with the approval and encouragement of government officials, have tried to suppress major bird flu outbreaks among chickens with an antiviral drug meant for humans, ... Myanmar: urges remaining vigilant against avian influenza
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 19, 2005 from Xinhua News Agency (via http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-06/19/content_3104610)
The Myanmar health ministry has urged the public to remain vigilant against avian influenza following the persistent presence of such virus and freshed outbreak in some Southeast Asian countries, a local ... WHO urges bird flu vigilance, warns virus unstable
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 11, 2005 from Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation urged vigilance against a deadly strain of bird flu on Friday, warning that the disease scientists say could cause a global pandemic was moving in new ... Australia:prepared for flu pandemic
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 6, 2005 from ABC
The Federal Government says Australia is as well prepared as humanly possible for an influenza pandemic.
The World Health Organisation has been monitoring the spread of bird flu and says the world is ... US:CDC hails Colorado´s counting of flu-linked hospital cases [Primary member]
submitted by kickingbird at Jun, 2, 2005 from CIDRAP (via http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/general/n)
Colorado´s new system for tracking hospital admissions related to influenza is a potential model for measuring the burden of serious flu complications and the severity of flu seasons, the Centers ... Nature urges world to take pandemic threat seriously
submitted by kickingbird at May, 27, 2005 from CIDRAP (via http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/ne)
The British magazine Nature trained a floodlight on the threat of an influenza pandemic today with a collection of 10 articles that explore the danger and possible remedies and demand a more serious global ... U.S.: still unprepared against new flu, experts say
submitted by kickingbird at May, 27, 2005 from Reuters (via http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N26477520.htm)
The United States still has no licensed vaccine to prevent avian flu and has nowhere near enough drugs on hand to treat the sick if there is an epidemic, experts told Congress on Thursday.
Hospitals ... World Health Assembly adopts new International Health Regulations [Primary member]
submitted by kickingbird at May, 24, 2005 from WHO (via http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr_wha03/e)
World Health Assembly adopts new International Health Regulations
New rules govern national and international response to disease outbreaks
Today, the World Health Assembly approved a new set of International ... WHO Inter-country Consultation:Influenza A/H5N1 in Humans in Asia
submitted by kickingbird at May, 19, 2005 from WHO
Some important epidemiological features of human H5N1 infections occurred in northern Viet Nam during January through April 2005 and appeared to differ in some respects from those seen in 2004 in other ... 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. ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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.
But the young man ... Australia survives worst season for bird flu [Primary member]
submitted by kickingbird at Apr, 20, 2005 from Reuters (via http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SYD74201.htm)
Australia, one of the few countries of the Asia-Pacific region that has not been hit by the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, has survived the most dangerous time of year for the spread of the infection. ... 472 items, 20/Page, Page[14/24][|<<] [|<] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [>|] [>>|] Search local
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