]> http://www.healthedia.com/popular/articles/sars-birdflu Bird Flu Etc. - Today's Popular Articles at http://www.healthedia.com en http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/885352?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Investigators from the University of Wisconsin-Madison figured out a genetic way to tame down the deadly virus responsible for Ebola hemorrhagic fever: We wanted to make biologically contained Ebola virus, explains Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a professor of ... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:00:14 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/885352?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885460?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 What did the Indian media do before H5N1 came along? The flood of stories never slackens. Nor does the spat between New Delhi and the West Bengal state government. Via Express India.com: Over 2000 complain of fever, govt says it means nothing. ... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:46:32 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885460?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885464?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via The Nation, a Pakistani news source: Avian influenza outbreak feared. Excerpt:Ministry of Health has directed the Health Secretaries, EDOs and head of all the public hospitals to remain on high alert and make emergency arrangements for any epidem... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:09:49 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885464?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885457?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via The Telegraph: Calcutta, satellites flu-free: Official. Excerpt: Poultry samples from Haringhata block in Nadia tested positive for bird flu today, but Calcutta and its five neighbouring districts are still free of the virus, officials said.Sampl... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:59:02 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885457?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885459?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Her byline isn't on this Canadian Press story, but it must be hers: WHO launches bird flu virus tracker after facing protests over transparency. Excerpt:A new World Health Organization system designed to allow countries to track the H5N1 influenza vi... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:59:53 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885459?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885458?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via Xinhuanet: Media: Vietnamese man dies of bird flu _English_Xinhua href= http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/23/content_7477105.htm Media: Vietnamese man dies of bird flu.A 32-year-old man from Vietnam's northern Tuyen Quang province died ... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:51:54 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885458?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/effect-measure/885386?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 A report late last night by Helen Branswell alerted me to a tabulation from a new tracking system WHO is putting into place to answer demands from a number of member states in the developing world that there be more transparency in how isolates of av... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:09:08 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/effect-measure/885386?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885461?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via Today's Zaman: New bird flu case reported in Turkey. Excerpt:Officials from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs stated on Monday that several dead chickens found in a village in the northern province of Zonguldak during a routine inspec... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:32:47 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885461?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885463?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Dr. Samuel Johnson once observed that Men are seldom so innocently employed as in making money. He didn't know the poultry industry in a hot zone. Via ExpressIndia.com: Virus spreading, Bengal intercepts trucks smuggling birds from flu area. Excerp... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:00:42 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885463?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory//?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 ... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory//?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885465?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via The Times of India: Bird flu knocks on Kolkata door.With contiguous districts - Howrah, North and South 24-Parganas - reporting virus sightings in backyard poultry farms, entry of the deadly H5N1 virus into Kolkata now appearsimminent.As many as ... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:38:31 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885465?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885466?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 The outbreak seems to have become a nasty political dispute between New Delhi ('the Centre ) and the West Bengal state government. Via The Statesman: Centre nails Bengal for spread of flu. Excerpt:The Centre today suggested that the West Bengal gover... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:29:22 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885466?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885467?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via Reuters: Bird flu hits Vietnam poultry, may have killed a man. Excerpt:Bird flu may have killed a 32-year-old Vietnamese man in a northern province where the virus has been found in poultry, state-run media and a government report said on Tuesday... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:21:13 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885467?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885468?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via Merinews.com: Fears of bird flu in humans in Bengal allayed. Excerpt:Fears that humans may have developed avian flu symptoms in Bengal have been allayed. Five people, all from Murshidabad district under observation for displaying clinical symptom... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:18:37 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885468?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885469?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via the Times of India: Bird flu spreads to further in Bengal. Excerpt:Bird flu spread to further areas of West Bengal on Tuesday as the Centre increased the target of number of poultry to be culled to nearly 15 lakh[1.5 million].Samples from two mor... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:29:51 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885469?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885470?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Reuters offers a good summary of the Indian situation, with reports on two other countries: Bird flu hits India as Turkey, Indonesia detect cases. Excerpt:An outbreak of bird flu in India's most densely populated state could spiral out of control, of... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:21:33 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885470?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885471?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Xinhuanet confirms a report the Flu Clinic picked up yesterday: Three Indonesian children hospitalized with bird flu symptoms_English_Xinhua href= http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/22/content_7472765.htm Three Indonesian children hospitaliz... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:17:36 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885471?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885472?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via Channel NewsAsia: Turkey battles deadly bird flu outbreak. Excerpt:Turkish officials said Tuesday that the potentially fatal H5N1 bird flu virus has been found in a village in the north of the country, but remained confident that the disease has ... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:14:56 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885472?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885473?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via Canoe.ca, an important report from Helen Branswell: Bird flu-afflicted countries have shared +700 viruses with WHO labs: report. Excerpt:Countries afflicted with H5N1 avian flu sent more than 700 viruses to World Health Organization laboratories ... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:07:56 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885473?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/get-ready-for-flu/885478?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 While health officials around the world continue to track avian flu cases, they are also keeping their eyes trained for other infectious diseases that are emerging as a threat or are making a comeback. Among the diseases that are on the radar are den... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:45:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/get-ready-for-flu/885478?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885358?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via The Straits Times: Indonesia confirms 120th human bird flu infection.A 30-year-old man has been confirmed as the 120th bird flu victim in the nation worst hit by the virus, the health ministry said.The man is being treated in a Jakarta hospital f... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:27:47 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885358?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885359?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 It's 9:10 pm Monday in Vancouver and 10:40 Tuesday morning in New Delhi. Via NewIndPress.com: Trading on bourses suspended till 10.55 am. Excerpt:Trading was suspended for one hour at the Bombay stock exchange after the benchmark Sensex fell to the l... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:12:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885359?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885360?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via the Myanmar Times & Business Review: Three journalists from Myanmar Times Journal were fired by the order of minister of Information. Excerpt:Last Monday, General Kyaw San executed special orders from Naypidaw to fire three journalists from the M... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:29:23 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885360?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885362?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via Xinhuanet: Threat of bird flu spread increases in Nepal_English_Xinhua href= http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/21/content_7465250.htm Threat of bird flu spread increases in Nepal. Excerpt:The threat of bird flu spread in Jhapa district ... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:32:12 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885362?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885363?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 This article has just appeared: A pandemic that wasn't but might be. I won't excerpt it because it's a long, painfully balanced piece: On one hand this, on the other hand that.I'd appreciate your comments on it.... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:29:29 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885363?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885327?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 India's ministry of health has a terrible avian flu page. But it does at least now offer a daily status report on the Avian Influenza outbreak in West Bengal. The link will take you to the January 21 report.For the reports going back to January 14, g... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:01:44 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885327?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885328?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 The Indians are already thinking about the long-term implications of mass culls. Via The Times of India: Extinction threat to country chicken. Excerpt:The indiscriminate culling of country chickens in the wake of the bird flu outbreak in the state mi... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:39:46 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885328?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885329?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 On the morning of Sunday, January 13, I posted this: Possible B2B H5N1 in India. The first detailed report came a little later. (Click on 13 in the calendar in the right-hand column and you can see everything I posted that day.)The West Bengal author... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:18:36 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885329?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885330?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Dutchie at CurEvents.com has a report translated from Bahasa Indonesia stating that a five-year-old named Isan is in Garut Hospital and suspected to have H5N1. Two other suspect patients are also in hospital, but the reports have no real information ... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:59:10 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885330?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885272?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via Sri Lanka's Daily News, a report from Tamil Nadu on the mainland: Bird flu will not affect Tamil Nadu.Tamil Nadu Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said that there was no chance of avian flu striking Tamil Nadu.Briefing media persons on the... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:44:21 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885272?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885273?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 A depressing report from The Telegraph: Officials clueless about Tamiflu href= http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080121/jsp/bengal/story_8807311.jsp Promise in vain, no culling team at doorstep;Officials clueless about Tamiflu. Excerpt:In village afte... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:36:31 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885273?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885275?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via the Times of India: Bengal bird flu spreads to humans?India may record its first human bird flu cases if five persons in West Bengal, under observation for displaying clinical symptoms associated with the infection after handling backyard poult... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:15:30 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885275?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885276?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Alarming if confirmed. Via PR-inside.com: New bird flu case reported in Turkish village .Several dead chickens tested positive for the bird flu virus in a northern Turkish village, Agriculture authorities said Monday, adding that further tests wer... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:09:41 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885276?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885277?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via The Hindu: Bird flu in WB spreads to seventh district.Bird flu in West Bengal spread to a seventh district Malda while authorities on Monday raised the target to cull 20 lakh [2 million] birds in the next one week in a desperate bid to curb the r... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:03:19 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885277?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885278?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via the Times of India, a reminder that not only chicken vendors are getting hurt: Bloodbath on Dalal Street, Sensex ends 1400 pts down. Excerpt:It was one trading day that investors will take a long time to forget. Fears of recession in the US becom... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:48:46 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885278?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885279?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via IRIN: IRIN Middle East Middle East Egypt EGYPT: Avian flu outbreak abating, says government Avian Flu Health & Nutrition Aid Policy News Item href= http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=76341 Avian flu outbreak abating, says ... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:31:44 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885279?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/effect-measure/885236?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 We've complained enough about the unwise words of M. Vallat, Director General of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE; see here and here). Nor was it the first time (May 2007). What I didn't say was that whenever I hear an official like M. V... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:38:57 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/effect-measure/885236?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885203?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via Reuters, more bad news to end the weekend: Bird flu spreads in east India as culling slows Reuters href= http://www.reuters.com/article/europeCrisis/idUSSP203649 Bird flu spreads in east India as culling slows. Excerpt:The deadly bird flu ... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:13:52 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885203?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885204?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via NewIndPress.com: Bird flu fear stalks tribal belt. Excerpt, datelined Jeypore:The panic button is on. The fear of bird flu has gripped the district with school teachers and social activists demanding immediate steps to leave out eggs from the mid... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:27:30 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885204?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885205?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via the Jakarta Post, a sad but wonderful article: Unaware residents, officials hurdle bird flu battle. Excerpt:One year has passed since Jakarta administration passed its much-praised poultry restriction bylaw which banned backyard poultry farms and... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:53:10 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885205?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885206?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via Xinhuanet: Vietnam to import 500 mln bird flu vaccine doses this year_English_Xinhua href= http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/21/content_7463240.htm Vietnam to import 500 mln bird flu vaccine doses this year.Vietnam will import 500 milli... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:46:37 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885206?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885180?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via The Statesman, a report that duplicates some of what's been posted here this weekend. But it has some new information and deserves a comment: Slow culling causes H5N1 to spread. Re-paragraphed:Culling of chickens in the Bird flu-hit areas in Birb... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:28:31 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885180?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885141?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via The Asian Age, a sad report: Poultry trader commits suicide. Excerpt:Unable to bear the losses in business due to the bird flu scare, a poultry trader in Malda committed suicide on Sunday. The body of 28-year-old Ananda Haldar was found near the ... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:36:21 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885141?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885142?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 I've been neglecting the OIE DAILY UPDATE ON AVIAN INFLUENZA SITUATION IN BIRDS, which is actually a very useful and informative resource. It includes links to recent reports from India and Iran. Very much worth exploring.... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:34:44 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885142?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885143?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via the Daily Star: High alert in Benapole, Bhomra.Benapole border in Jessore and Bhomra border in of Satkhira have been put on high alert to check entry of poultry from India, said Md Abdul Hai, Deputy Director of Khulna divisional office of Livesto... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:02:15 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885143?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885144?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via India Abroad: Bird flu in WB spreads to 6th district.Bird flu in West Bengal spread to a sixth district Bankura and poultry deaths were reported on Sunday from new areas of the state including in northern districts of Darjeeling and Cooch Behar.T... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:56:42 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885144?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885145?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via BBC News Online: West Bengal battles with bird flu. Excerpt:After walking around the village for 15 minutes I finally see a team of men in protective white suits.They are part of the culling team. The state government here in West Bengal has orde... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:51:10 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885145?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885091?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via Zee News.com: Culling team beaten up in Birbhum district.Four members of a culling team in West Bengal s bird flu affected Birbhum district were injured after they were beaten up by a mob at Nalhati on Saturday, police sources said. A five-member... Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:24:49 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885091?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885078?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 I'm both impressed and alarmed by the approach taken by India's media, as contrasted with, say, Indonesia's or Vietnam's or China's. Case in point: this report from Express India.com: Tamiflu nowhere to be found at Ground Zero. Excerpt, re-paragraphe... Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:48:14 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885078?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885079?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82 Via Express India.com: In one week, bird flu panic incurs Rs 25-cr-loss for poultry owners. Excerpt:The organised poultry sector in the state is incurring huge losses in the wake of the panic that gripped the state after bird flu was confirmed in few... Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:15:28 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/885079?rsstype=populararticles&cid=82