]> http://www.healthedia.com/tags/avian-influenza Blog Articles Tagged with 'avian-influenza' at http://www.healthedia.com en http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/924236?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Via The New Nation: Preventive steps to check bird flu stressed. Excerpt:Speakers at a workshop here yesterday underscored the need for taking preventive measures against infection of avian influenza (bird flu) to protect the country's poultry farms ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/924236?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:21:17 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/924242?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Via the Korea Times: No Chicken Burger at KFC? Excerpt:If you're at a local Kentucky Fried Chicken joint looking for a juicy chicken burger, there's a good chance you won't get one. That's because the fast food giant has discontinued selling two of i... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/924242?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:35:59 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/924243?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Via ExpressBuzz.com: Bird flu alert in Bhitarkanika href= http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Bird+flu+alert+in+Bhitarkanika&artid=CkCzSE5idhU= Bird flu alert in Bhitarkanika. Excerpt:The Forest and Veterinary officials have sounde... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/924243?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:24:24 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/effect-measure/924211?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza The other day we wrote a post about the reduction in genetic diversity among commercial chicken breeds that attracted a surprising amount of informed comment (surprising to us, anyway; I think it shows more about the general knowledge of a city boy l... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/effect-measure/924211?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:24:32 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/924248?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza I have a Google alert for flu burung, and it just turned up a bilingual resource: Pilot Project of Avian Influenza Control and Pandemic Influenza Preparedness in Tangerang, Banten Province. It's not recent news, and the site is confusing because al... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/924248?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:05:59 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/924251?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Via Dawn: PESHAWAR: Isolation units for bird flu patients still awaited. Excerpt:The provincial health department has failed to establish respiratory isolation units for bird flu patients despite the lapse of one year, sources said.After confirmation... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/924251?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:19:04 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/924252?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Via the Avian Influenza Daily Digest, mentioned in the post just below: China: Suspected AI in poultry in Jiangsu province. Excerpt:An industry forum included a posting dated November 24 by a Xuzhou farmer who posted a claim that in Hai?an and Taidon... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/924252?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:21:29 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/effect-measure/924217?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Public health scientists and professionals have human health and welfare at the center of our concerns. But we have learned that the human species is part of a tightly connected web of other living species and we are all roaming around in a common en... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/effect-measure/924217?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:31:22 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923802?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza I've just discovered OIE's World Animal Health Information Database. It looks like a very useful resource.For example, you can go to Disease Information, select Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, and then see a map of outbreaks within a time period o... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923802?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:15:56 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923810?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Via The Mainichi Daily News: Bird lovers' feathers ruffled after being told not to feed migratory birds. Excerpt:This spring, after the deadly avian influenza (bird flu) virus was detected in swans in the Tohoku region, bird lovers began to refrain f... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923810?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:17:24 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923639?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Via Xinhuanet: Jakarta to combat bird flu by restricting poultry sales_English_Xinhua href= http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-11/17/content_10371952.htm Jakarta to combat bird flu by restricting poultry sales. Excerpt:The Jakarta administratio... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923639?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:31:29 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923640?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Created by the Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, the href= http://www.aitoolkit.org/Default.aspx Avian Influenza Toolkit is more like a full-sized machine shop. A quick scan gives the impression of enormous amounts of ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923640?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:25:25 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923581?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Via The Nation, a report with a slightly misleading headline: Migratory birds do not cause bird flu: experts. Excerpt:Migratory birds cannot be declared responsible for the outbreak of bird flue in any part of the world, including Pakistan, as recent... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923581?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:48:10 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923532?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Via This Day: Bird flu: FG, W'Bank pay N631m to farmers. Excerpt:The Federal Government and World Bank have paid N630.9 million as compensation between February 2006 and October 31 this year to 3,037 farmers, who were affected by the bird flu outbrea... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923532?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:08:48 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923519?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Thanks to the French reader who sent the link to this very important Jakarta Post report: Suspected bird flu patients isolated. Excerpt:The Wahidin Sudirohusodo regional hospital in Makassar, South Sulawesi, is continuing to isolate 17 patients of Bi... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923519?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:32:39 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923430?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Via CIDRAP, an article in the journal Asia Pacific Family Medicine: Avian Influenza: A Global Threat Needing a Global Solution. The abstract, re-paragraphed:There have been three influenza pandemics since the 1900s, of which the 1918-1919 flu pandemi... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923430?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:28:58 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923342?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza This seems to be today's total Jakarta Post coverage on the Makassar H5N1 outbreak: OUTBREAK VILLAGE.A team from the Makassar health and public safety agencies exterminate poultry suspected to be infected with avian influenza in Sudiang village, Brin... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923342?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:33:52 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923344?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza When meningitis broke out in 1964 among basic trainees at Fort Ord, California, the brass decreed that anyone with so much as the sniffles would report to sick call on the double. Every ailment was considered meningitis until proven otherwise.The Tha... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923344?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:23:47 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923242?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza I can hardly believe the burst of H5N1 news out of Indonesia, which now includes this story from The Jakarta Post: 17 in hospital with suspected bird flu. Excerpt:A South Sulawesi hospital was overwhelmed as it admitted in two days 17 patients believ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923242?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:01:27 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923243?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Via CIDRAP, Lisa Schnirring sums up what we know so far: Another Thai province reports H5N1 outbreak href= http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/avianflu/news/nov1308birds-br.html Another Thai province reports H5N1 outbreak. Excerpt:... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923243?rsstype=tag&tag=avian-influenza Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:27:36 -0500