]> http://www.healthedia.com/tags/influenza Blog Articles Tagged with 'influenza' at http://www.healthedia.com en http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923802?rsstype=tag&tag=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=influenza Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:15:56 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923803?rsstype=tag&tag=influenza Via Pacific Magazine.net: Regional Experts To Gather For Pacific Pandemic Task Force Meeting. Excerpt:Next week, the Pacific Avian and Pandemic Influenza Taskforce (PAPITaF) will meet in Nadi, Fiji Islands, from Monday to Wednesday to discuss the cur... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923803?rsstype=tag&tag=influenza Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:13:40 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923806?rsstype=tag&tag=influenza Via Reuters, an IRIN report: EGYPT: Contingency planning for an avian flu pandemic . Excerpt:Egypt, the country hit hardest by avian flu in the Middle East, is working on preventative measures to stop a potential human influenza pandemic.The governme... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923806?rsstype=tag&tag=influenza Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:20:27 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923807?rsstype=tag&tag=influenza Via CIDRAP: Report says pandemic will threaten coal, power supplies href= http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/biz-plan/news/nov2008coal.html Report says pandemic will threaten coal, power supplies. Excerpt:A new report from the Uni... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923807?rsstype=tag&tag=influenza Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:10:33 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923808?rsstype=tag&tag=influenza Thanks to Chen Qi for the link to this story in Science Daily: Common Cold Virus Came From Birds About 200 Years Ago. It deals with the history of human metapneumovirus (HMPV). Excerpt: HMPV was first discovered in 2001, but studies have shown that t... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923808?rsstype=tag&tag=influenza Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:59:51 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923810?rsstype=tag&tag=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=influenza Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:17:24 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923815?rsstype=tag&tag=influenza I confess: I find vaccine stories dull. But this one from IrishTimes.com caught my interest: Malaria one-two could stop bird flu. Excerpt:A researcher at UCC [University College Cork] is studying a vaccine that could protect against any form of influ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923815?rsstype=tag&tag=influenza Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:49:42 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/lancet-blog/923757?rsstype=tag&tag=influenza The following will appear in the Nov 22 issue of The Lancet:Clinical guidelines The American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association have released the first guidelines for the treatment of adults with congenital heart disease. These guid... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/lancet-blog/923757?rsstype=tag&tag=influenza Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:48:15 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923639?rsstype=tag&tag=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=influenza Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:31:29 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923640?rsstype=tag&tag=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=influenza Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:25:25 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923581?rsstype=tag&tag=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=influenza Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:48:10 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923532?rsstype=tag&tag=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=influenza Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:08:48 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923519?rsstype=tag&tag=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=influenza Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:32:39 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/baseline-of-health/923510?rsstype=tag&tag=influenza As the old saying goes, Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. And now, thanks to Google, that just might be even more true today than it was yesterday. When flu season hits, the media usually devotes generous spa... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/baseline-of-health/923510?rsstype=tag&tag=influenza Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:21:03 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/effect-measure/923491?rsstype=tag&tag=influenza One of the good things about the pandemic flu threat (if you'll let me put it that way) is the stimulus it has provided for vaccine technology. While current flu vaccines are still mired in horse and buggy technology of egg-based production, all sort... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/effect-measure/923491?rsstype=tag&tag=influenza Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:24:24 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923430?rsstype=tag&tag=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=influenza Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:28:58 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923342?rsstype=tag&tag=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=influenza Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:33:52 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923344?rsstype=tag&tag=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=influenza Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:23:47 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/get-ready-for-flu/923345?rsstype=tag&tag=influenza Pregnancy can be an exciting time: Baby names, baby showers and, oh, those cute little baby clothes. It's also a key time to focus on health, both for mom and her newborn-to-be. Expectant moms know that it is important to eat nutritious food and get ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/get-ready-for-flu/923345?rsstype=tag&tag=influenza Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:00:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923242?rsstype=tag&tag=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=influenza Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:01:27 -0500