News Reports for February 6

by: gardner

Wed Feb 06, 2008 at 01:08:54 AM EST

• 'Mysterious' bird flu baffles Indonesian scientists
• Hong Kong reserve closed on suspected bird flu case
• Recombionics Commentary: False Negatives in India Raise Pandemic Concerns
• Bird flu found in poultry in Turkey
• DHS to promote Charbo - USA, New infrastructure and risk management person
• Transportation Security Administration blog - USA Meet the bloggers
• County participates in pandemic flu exercise for second year in row - USA (Ohio)
• Warning over length of flu pandemic - UK nurses
• Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Community Resiliency - JAMA USA
• City school board reviews flu policy, math program - NC USA
• New Target For Preventing And Treating Flu Discovered
• Andhra Pradesh, India: Serum samples of poultry birds to be collected

News Reports for February 6

by: Nimbus

Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 23:57:15 PM EST

• Indonesia confirms 2 more human cases of bird flu
• Q & A with Margaret Fong - Hong Kong Commissioner to USA
• Chinese New Year meal raises fears in Cambodia
• Chicken culling in Sweden due to salmonella
• H5N1 Bird Flu Found in Pakistan after a year...
• Woman dies of suspected bird flu in Azerbaijan
• WHO seeks bird flu facts for vaccines
• South Korea, Hong Kong join UK poultry ban
• Volunteers Selected for Human Clinical Trial of Generex Biotechnology's Synthetic Avian Influenza Vaccine
• WHO experts to help find source of Nigeria's first human bird flu case
• Lock up your cats, they'll get bird flu
• Nigerian death highlights West African bird flu risks
• 'No decision' on stockpiling safety masks - UK
• Dead Birds Washing Ashore from Maryland to Florida
• Ivory Coast on high alert after bird flu death in Nigeria
• British bird flu worker is hospitalised UPDATE confirmed as vet who attended outbreak
• Link to BBC graphic of bird flu spread (to Dec 2006)
• WHO update for Egypt
• Vets investigate link to virus in Hungary
• US companies bracing for bird flu
• CDC plagued by a different virus (computer)
• USA - Government offers guidelines for business and avian flu preparations
• Bird flu hits Pakistan again
• Hong Kong railway company holds drill on prevention of bird flu
• Egypt - latest victim's mother also hospitalised

Thailand - Avian Flu Situation as of February 4, 2007 (Link)

 

Since January 1, to Febuary 4, 2007, the Bureau of Epidemiology has received reports of influenza or pneumonia cases in Avian Influenza Surveillance Network from the Provincial Health Offices and Disease Prevention and Control Regional Offices. The investigation and analysis were summarized as follows:

• Cumulative number of patients under surveillance are 440 cases 47 provinces; Today reports are 18 cases. Ten cases from Suphanburi, 5 from Phitsanulok, and 1 each from Ratchaburi, Sukhothai and Chaiyaphum.
  
• Confirmed human case of avian influenza 2006 = 3 cases, with 3 death cases.·  
  
• There are 27 cases under investigate reported, of which waiting for laboratory result.
  
  

News Reports for February 6, 2010

by: NewsDiary

Fri Feb 05, 2010 at 23:01:46 PM EST

Reminder: Please do not post whole articles, just snippets and links. Thanks!!

Brazil
•  Outbreak of "unknown illness" in Mirassolandia (Link)

India
•  Jharkhnad issues alert as bird flu hits bordering West Bengal (Link)

Myanmar
•  Bird flu H5N1 re-strikes Myanmar (Link)

Peru
•  Respiratory infections increase among children in Puno (Link)

Philippines
•  DENR issues 'bird-flu' alert (Link)

Spain
•  Spain Reports Two New Influenza A/H1N1 Mutation Cases (Link)

United States
•  US: Swine flu still spreading, but at reduced rate (Link)
•  US: Goodbye swine flu! Epidemic seems to be over (Link)
•  CA: California - Possible New Flu Strain?  (Link)
•  IL: one death, aged over 65 (Link)
•  OR: Analysis of Hospitalizations in Portland Metro area (Link)

Vietnam
•  Fresh swine flu outbreak hits Bac Kan (Link)

General
•  Global swine flu death toll hits 15,174 (Link)
•  Flu-based encephalitis jumps in kids aged 5-9 (Link)

Commentary
•  Recombinomics: Wave 3 Start Signaled By H1N1 Increases in North Carolina (Link)
•  Recombinomics: US Wave 3 Start Confirmed By H1N1 Increases in Region 4 (Link)
•  Effect Measure: Random thoughts on CDC's swine flu effort: epidemiology and surveillance (Link)

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News Reports for February 6, 2009

by: NewsDiary

Fri Jan 30, 2009 at 19:33:57 PM EST