]> http://www.healthedia.com/tags/pandemic Blog Articles Tagged with 'pandemic' at http://www.healthedia.com en http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/924234?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic Here's a Google translation from a report in Berita Kota Makassar. I've put a couple of explanations [in brackets]:Two districts in Makassar, each Panakkukang Makassar and now is under the monitoring of the World Health Organitation (WHO). Both these... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/924234?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:26:55 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/straight-from-the-doc/924159?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic Here's another one from the mail that is worth sharing with you readers:Hi Gloria,In commemoration of World Aids Day this year (December 1), I wanted to let you know that a number of high-res photographs from I AM BECAUSE WE ARE, a powerful new work ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/straight-from-the-doc/924159?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:00:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/924248?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic 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=pandemic Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:05:59 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923798?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic Via the Jakarta Post: Poultry markets major source of bird flu, govt says. Excerpt:The government has warned of an increase in bird flu cases across Java, saying the deadly virus may have already infected 50 percent of poultry sold at markets throug... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923798?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:47:51 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923800?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic Mike Coston gives praise where it's due: Newshounds: They Cover The Pandemic Front. Apart from honouring some very hard-working (and unpaid) people, Mike's piece is a reminder that Flublogia is a self-assembled information system. Such a system was o... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923800?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:42:09 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923803?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic 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=pandemic Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:13:40 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923806?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic 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=pandemic Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:20:27 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923807?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic 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=pandemic Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:10:33 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923816?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic Via Talking Points Memo Election Central: Report: Obama Picks Daschle For Health And Human Services. Excerpt:Tom Daschle, who suffered a major downfall when he went from being Senate Democratic Leader to losing his own seat in 2004, is now enjoying a... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923816?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:58:49 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/effect-measure/923491?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic 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=pandemic Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:24:24 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923430?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic 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=pandemic Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:28:58 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/paging-drgupta/923434?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic By Miriam FalcoCNN Medical Managing EditorA German hospital announced this week that a 42-year old American living in Berlin who did not want to be identified had come to them three years ago for treatment. It was determined that he had acute leukemi... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/paging-drgupta/923434?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:59:10 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/paging-drgupta/923978?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic By Miriam FalcoCNN Medical Managing EditorA German hospital announced this week that a 42-year old American living in Berlin who did not want to be identified had come to them three years ago for treatment. It was determined that he had acute leukemi... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/paging-drgupta/923978?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:59:10 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923381?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic I gather that in the 1970s, a British TV series called Survivors was a three-season hit in portraying the problems of those who live through a mysterious plague. Now it's coming back as a six-part series, also called Survivors. The video clips and pr... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923381?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:58:32 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923343?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic Via the Blackburn Citizen: GP s dire warning over East Lancashire hospital 'chaos.' Excerpt:A family doctor has launched a stinging attack on East Lancashire s hospital service, warning of third world scenes if there was a flu pandemic.Dr I... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923343?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:29:22 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/effect-measure/923216?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic If there's an influenza pandemic in the near future all bets are off when it comes to unplanned for consequences. Well, maybe not all bets. Right now the only oral antiviral likely to have any effectiveness in a pandemic is oseltamivir (Tamiflu), alt... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/effect-measure/923216?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:51:15 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923170?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic Thanks to Mike Coston at Avian Flu Diary for the link to Pandemic Information News, a new blog that seems to specialize in computer translations from other languages. I'll follow it with interest, and it's now in the H5N1 Bloggers list.... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923170?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:27:10 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/922775?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic Via the November 9 Guardian: Comment is free guardian.co.uk href= http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/09/health-health Don't panic over flu! Excerpt:Thus, in the same way that it was not the initial defaulting on mortgages, b... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/922775?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:26:53 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/922776?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic Via Swisster.ch: Flu pandemic still a risk, say Swiss health authorities. Excerpt:The threat of a deadly pandemic caused by bird flu is still a reality and should not be underestimated according to Swiss public health authorities, who say companies a... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/922776?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:22:44 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/effect-measure/922468?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic The virulent influenza A subtype H5N1, known colloquially as bird flu, has caused sporadic cases of human disease but has not yet become a pandemic strain. There are several things which still separate H5N11 from the kind of seasonal influenza infect... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/effect-measure/922468?rsstype=tag&tag=pandemic Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:40:34 -0500