]> http://www.healthedia.com/tags/sars Blog Articles Tagged with 'sars' at http://www.healthedia.com en http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923803?rsstype=tag&tag=sars 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=sars Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:13:40 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923808?rsstype=tag&tag=sars 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=sars Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:59:51 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923812?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Via the Jakarta Post: Chicken stalls cry foul over plan to shut them down. Excerpt:Sellers and buyers of live and freshly slaughtered chickens are objecting to the city's plan to close 1,200 chicken stalls by 2010 because of concerns about avian flu.... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923812?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:13:01 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/923430?rsstype=tag&tag=sars 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=sars Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:28:58 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/922314?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Via Khaleej Times: Al Jazeera Effect Forcing Leaders To Plan New Virtual World. Excerpt:The time has come for political leaders to develop a contingency plan on how to reshape the virtual world as new global media that never existed before the 21st c... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/922314?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:42:49 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/921403?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Thanks to Ma Yingshen at Chen Qi for sending the link to this article in Discover magazine: Where Will the Next Pandemic Emerge? Infectious Diseases DISCOVER Magazine href= http://discovermagazine.com... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/921403?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:16:24 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/920771?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Via ABS-CBN News.com, a report that should make us think: Survivors: OFWs have endured major crises. OFWs = Overseas Filipino Workers. Excerpt:Whenever an outbreak of a disease happens in other countries, one of the greatest fears of the Filipinos is... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/920771?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:33:40 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/920587?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Via The Guardian: Technology guardian.co.uk href= http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/oct/21/google-healthcare Pandemics: Google takes on real viruses. Excerpt:Google has pledged to try to stop the next global pandemic by investi... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/920587?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:18:26 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/920109?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Via The Post, a story datelined Islamabad: Butchers play havoc with public health. Excerpt:Furqan Asghar, a businessman, said huge quantities of mutton and beef are sold at the Peshawar Morr market. As the meat remains hanging outside the butcher sho... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/920109?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:50:29 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/918749?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Via The Globe and Mail: How a Canadian cracked the Great Firewall of China. Excerpt:When Nart Villeneuve couldn't remember the password to his Chinese MySpace page, the industrious Canadian hacker began examining China's version of Skype, and in the ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/918749?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:01:06 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/allergy-and-asthma-source/917879?rsstype=tag&tag=sars from FTC (Federal Trade Commission) Website www.ftc.govFTC Sweep Stops Peddlers of Bogus Cancer CuresPublic Education Campaign Counsels Consumers, Talk to Your Doctor The Federal Trade Commission today announced 11 law enforcement actions challe... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/allergy-and-asthma-source/917879?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:45:05 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/917762?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Via the New Zealand news source Scoop.co.nz: Scoop: WHO Urges Improved Ability To Combat New Diseases href= http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0809/S00594.htm WHO Urges Improved Ability To Combat New Diseases.The World Health Organization (WHO) has u... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/917762?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:27:28 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/917508?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Via The Times & Transcript in Fredericton, New Brunswick, a Canadian Press report by Helen Branswell: SARS restrictions worked well. Excerpt:Patients with serious health conditions who had to be hospitalized during Toronto's SARS outbreak didn't appe... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/917508?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:33:22 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/get-ready-for-flu/917107?rsstype=tag&tag=sars History reminds us that there are plenty of good reasons to prepare: smallpox, plague, yellow fever to name a few. The list is long and with new threats emerging, it continues to grow. But the past also reveals how people have identified those harmfu... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/get-ready-for-flu/917107?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:29:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/917000?rsstype=tag&tag=sars In most jurisdictions, this report on the Hong Kong government website would be ignored: Toddler critical with fever.A five-year-old girl is fighting for her life after coming down with a fever on September 11, the Centre for Health Protection says.S... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/917000?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:29:58 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/916851?rsstype=tag&tag=sars A commentary appeared today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal: Learning from Listeria: the autonomy of the Public Health Agency of Canada. Excerpt:Five years after the SARS outbreak Canada's public health system is being tested again, this ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/916851?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:08:20 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/916477?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Helen Branswell has published two important articles today. Here's the second one, from C-Health: Expert says ground is more fertile for next pandemic, 90 years after Spanish flu. Excerpt:Could it really happen again?Influenza scientists repeat like ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/916477?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:58:08 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/915592?rsstype=tag&tag=sars I was sorry to learn that The Coming Influenza Pandemic? has closed down. When I stumbled into Flublogia in March 2005, Orange's site was already a major source of information. I'm grateful for his efforts over the years.Losing a major flu blog makes... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/915592?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:16:10 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/913742?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Via AsiaOne.com, a story in The Straits Times: Flu pandemic drill for financial institutions. Excerpt:Financial institutions will soon face a life-like test of how they might hold up in a devastating flu pandemic.A simulation exercise to test their c... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/h5n1/913742?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:34:29 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/effect-measure/912888?rsstype=tag&tag=sars We've argued before that the US biodefense laboratory effort -- whose planning principle seems to be based on more -- was making us less safe, not more safe. Whatever else you say about the anthrax attacks, they are a perfect illustration of this. ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/effect-measure/912888?rsstype=tag&tag=sars Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:21:02 -0400