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A 19-year old Chinese soldier was diagnosed with the highly pathogenic bird flu strain H5N1 last week, the Chinese Ministry of Health confirmed.
Obviously, the Chinese government is keeping a close watch on this case and ordered the army to monitor all who have come in contact with the soldier, who is serving in the Fujian […]
The H5N1 is still spreading like wildfire all over the world. This time it’s found in the south and north provinces of Vietnam.
Over 1,600 ducks have died from H5N1 in the southern Thap Muoi district and another site in a northern Quang Ninh Province. So far this month, bird flu was confirmed in 15 communies […]
About 12,000 birds mysteriously died this week in Islamabad, Pakistan and bird flu is to blame.
The rest of the 6,000 birds on the affected farms have been culled but there are no reports of human infection.
This year alone, there have been 23 H5N1 outbreaks in Pakistan but authorities are quick to say these have been […]
The bird flu might be coming to the end of a cycle, speculates the World Organization of Animal Health (OIE).
Based on reports and observations, the H5N1 strain of bird flu is infecting fewer wild and migratory birds in 2007, the OIE said that the strain might be dying out in the wild, but not […]
The World Health Organization doled out US$2 million for Thailand to produce a human bird flu vaccine.
The asian country plagued by bird flu needs a total of US$45 million to manufacture the vaccine in its own pharmaceutical factory and the $2 million seed money will be used for a pilot plant that can produce about […]
Egypt teams with Indonesia for bird flu vaccine. Egyptian vaccine maker is teaming up with an Indonesian company to develop a bird flu vaccine for humans. [SciAm News]
Egyptian toddler tests positive for H5N1. A two-year old Egyptian girl tested positive for the bird flu virus, bringing the total human victims in Egypt to 33. [Reuters […]
Indonesia’s human death toll is now at 69, after reports confirmed that three Indonesians died from the highly pathogenic bird flu virus.
A 22-year old woman died Saturday, followed by a 15-year old boy on Sunday, and a 39-year old man on Wednesday.
This news followed the announcement made yesterday by Indonesian health minister Siti Fadilah Supari […]
Bird flu quote of the day: “We have the most virus and patients.”
- Indonesian health minister, Siti Fadillah Supari.
Not THAT is true. Indonesia definitely has the most virus and patients anywhere. The country has never been completely successful in stopping the spread of the bird flu virus, and continues to produce one outbreak after another […]
Since the first domestic birds died two weeks ago in the capital’s Sadovod market, eight more districts in suburban Moscow were found to harbor H5N1-infected birds.
The highly pathogenic Asian-type bird flu virus has killed at least 333 domestic birds since February 9. More birds are being slaughtered and villages have been quarantined in a desperate […]
According to the RawStory, laboratory results confirmed new cases of bird flu in poultry that died in a farm in Dolucu, southeast Turkey. But according to the Jerusalem Post, bird flu was detected near the town of Silvan in neighboring Diyarbakir province. I’m not sure if these are different places, but these are a cause […]
World news, information, and guidelines in preparation of the flu.
Written by Grace Ibay, MHS for b5media.
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