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It added that it was also closely monitoring the risk of the H5N1 virus combining with the H1N1 swine-flu virus to produce a new and deadlier strain. "We don't know if this is possible, but we are certainly aware of the risk," said Shin Young-Soo, WHO...
Tags: bird flu, Shin Young-Soo, Egypt, Cairo, Pandemics, Microbiology, Influenza A virus subtype H5N1, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Avian influenza, H5N1, Animal virology, Epidemiology, Environment
Ask Afonso de Jesus what he knows about avian influenza (H5N1) and the answer is worrying. “What’s that?” the 27-year-old chicken vendor asked, holding a bird he hopes to sell on the open market in Dili, the Timorese capital. “I don’t know what bird flu...
Tags: Dos Santos, bird flu, Dili, IRIN, Indonesian, East Timor, Pandemics, Microbiology, Influenza A virus subtype H5N1, Avian influenza, Influenza, H5N1, Epidemiology, Animal virology, Environment
China said Thursday that no other cases of bird flu have been detected in Beijing and neighboring provinces after a woman died from the avian influenza in the capital. The Agricultural Ministry said in a notice on its Web site that authorities had investigated...
Tags: China Daily, bird flu, Beijing, China, Influenza A virus subtype H5N1, Influenza pandemic, Influenza, Global spread of H5N1, H5N1, Epidemiology, Avian influenza, Environment
A new study by American and British scientists has tried to explain why bird flu has not become a pandemic disease. The report prepared by scientists from Imperial College London, the University of Reading and the University of North Carolina, USA, says...
Tags: bird flu, Charlotte, Influenza, Human mortality from H5N1, Pandemic, Global spread of H5N1, Virus, Epidemiology, H5N1, Influenza A virus subtype H5N1, Health Medical Pharma
Thailand's North has alerted of the bird flu outbreak after almost 100 poultries died recently in a northern province of Nan. As Thailand's North is now experiencing the winter, during Oct.7 to Nov. 5 some 79 poultries died in six districts of Nan...
India has declared itself free from the notifiable Avian Influenza (H5N1) and notified this to the OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health). The notification to this effect has been issued on 22nd October, 2009. India notified outbreaks...
Tags: Bird Flu
Scientists have discovered an unexpected fact about bird flu: It might be a sexually-transmitted disease, at least in ducks. And, just as unexpectedly, the key to transmission may be all about penis size and vagina "complexity." New Scientist reports...
First if you listen to the video/audio at this web site, http://www.youtube.com/watch? you'll get a handle on what people are reporting on the H1N1 flu (formerly called swine flu) on the theory that some government agency (mentioned in the...
Tags: swine flu, bird flu, human flu, more research and videos on what citizen journalism is reporting
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has failed to deliver on promises to improve human rights and some violations have worsened since he took office last year, Amnesty International said on Thursday. Medvedev, a 43-year-old former lawyer, has scolded officials...
Tags: Russian, Ukraine, Amnesty International, Dmitry Medvedev, bird flu
Dhaka, May 20 (bdnews24.com)-Beximco Pharma has started supplying Oseltamivir capsules, Oseflu, to south and central American countries, the regions most affected by the recent H1N1 swine flu outbreak. The World Health Organization estimates that 39 countries...
Tags: swine flu, Chilean Health Ministry, Egyptian Health Ministry, h1n1 flu, Santiago, bird flu