Bird Flu Finds Children's Lungs Faster
ScienceDaily (Oct. 27, 2007) — New findings, reported in the journal Respiratory Research, about how the virus binds to the respiratory tract and lung suggest children may be particularly susceptible to avian influenza,.
Bird flu hits central Vietnam
Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:50:43
( Press TV )
Bird flu kills hundreds of ducks in Vietnam
Bird flu has killed nearly 300 ducklings in central Vietnam, the second outbreak found in the Southeast Asian country this month.
Bird Flu Claims Its\' 89th Death in Indonesia
( KOMNAS FBPI )
Jakarta, October 24, 2007 - Bird Flu Command Post - Bird Flu claims another victim in Banten Province. DA, a 5-year old girl from Tangerang District, Banten Province died on Monday October 22, 2007. A laboratory test results from the Ministry of Health's Research and Development Center dated October 21, 2007 confirmed that DA is positively infected by the H5N1 virus.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Sunday, October 21, 2007
US gives additional US$38 million to help UN agency fight bird flu
( PR-inside.com )
ROME (AP) - The United States will contribute an additional US$38 million (¤26.76 million) to a U.N. program that works to control and prevent the spread of bird flu in animals worldwide, the U.N. food agency that runs the program said Wednesday.
With the new funds provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. support
for the program will total US$63 million (¤44.37 million), the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization said.
Bird Flu claims its' 88thdeath in Indonesia
( KOMNAS FBPI )
Jakarta, October 14, 2007 - Bird Flu Information Center - Bird Flu claims another victim in Indonesia. IR, a 12-year old boy from Tangerang District, Banten province died on Saturday October 13, 2007.
A laboratory test results from the Ministry of Health's Research and Development Center dated October 10, 2007 confirmed that IR is positively infected by the H5N1 virus.
INDONESIA BIRD FLU DEATH TOLLS UP TO 87
Jakarta, October 9, 2007 - Ministry of Health -
Test results from the Health Research and Development Center of the Ministry of Health confirmed that LT, a 44-year old woman from Pekanbaru in Riau Province, Sumatra is infected with the H5N1 influenza virus. Overall, Indonesia has now recorded 108 confirmed human H5N1 cases and 87 fatalities. The case fatality rate now stands at 80.55%. Up to today, Riau Province has recorded 5 bird flu positive cases with 4 fatalities.
( PR-inside.com )
ROME (AP) - The United States will contribute an additional US$38 million (¤26.76 million) to a U.N. program that works to control and prevent the spread of bird flu in animals worldwide, the U.N. food agency that runs the program said Wednesday.
With the new funds provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. support
for the program will total US$63 million (¤44.37 million), the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization said.
Bird Flu claims its' 88thdeath in Indonesia
( KOMNAS FBPI )
Jakarta, October 14, 2007 - Bird Flu Information Center - Bird Flu claims another victim in Indonesia. IR, a 12-year old boy from Tangerang District, Banten province died on Saturday October 13, 2007.
A laboratory test results from the Ministry of Health's Research and Development Center dated October 10, 2007 confirmed that IR is positively infected by the H5N1 virus.
INDONESIA BIRD FLU DEATH TOLLS UP TO 87
Jakarta, October 9, 2007 - Ministry of Health -
Test results from the Health Research and Development Center of the Ministry of Health confirmed that LT, a 44-year old woman from Pekanbaru in Riau Province, Sumatra is infected with the H5N1 influenza virus. Overall, Indonesia has now recorded 108 confirmed human H5N1 cases and 87 fatalities. The case fatality rate now stands at 80.55%. Up to today, Riau Province has recorded 5 bird flu positive cases with 4 fatalities.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Bird flu returns to Vietnam
( Digital Journal )
After months of no reported cases of avian influenza, ducks in Vietnam's Mekong Delta have tested positive for the virus, a local official said Thursday.
Fears of Indonesian human bird flu cluster recede
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Tests on Indonesian villagers suspected of being a cluster of human bird flu cases were negative for the feared virus, a health ministry official said Wednesday.
"Their results were all negative," said Momo, a Bird Flu Information Centre official, after tests on five people in Telaga Tujuh village, North Sumatra.
Eight suspected bird flu patients admitted to hospital in Medan
Medan, North Sumatra (ANTARA News) - Some eight suspected bird flu patients were admitted to Adam Malik Hospital in the North Sumatran city of Medan on Sunday night, a hospital spokesman said on Monday.
The spokesman, M Nur Rasyid Lubis, said the condition of six of the patients has begun to improve while that of the two others, a pregnant women and a three-year old toddler, remained serious.
"The condition of the two other patients is still worrisome," Nur Rasyid said.
( Digital Journal )
After months of no reported cases of avian influenza, ducks in Vietnam's Mekong Delta have tested positive for the virus, a local official said Thursday.
Fears of Indonesian human bird flu cluster recede
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Tests on Indonesian villagers suspected of being a cluster of human bird flu cases were negative for the feared virus, a health ministry official said Wednesday.
"Their results were all negative," said Momo, a Bird Flu Information Centre official, after tests on five people in Telaga Tujuh village, North Sumatra.
Eight suspected bird flu patients admitted to hospital in Medan
Medan, North Sumatra (ANTARA News) - Some eight suspected bird flu patients were admitted to Adam Malik Hospital in the North Sumatran city of Medan on Sunday night, a hospital spokesman said on Monday.
The spokesman, M Nur Rasyid Lubis, said the condition of six of the patients has begun to improve while that of the two others, a pregnant women and a three-year old toddler, remained serious.
"The condition of the two other patients is still worrisome," Nur Rasyid said.
Saturday, October 6, 2007
H5N1 mutation that could help spark pandemic identified
Oct 5, 2007 (CIDRAP News) – An international research team led by the University of Wisconsin at Madison (UW-Madison) has identified a key mutation that would arm the H5N1 avian influenza virus with one of the tools it needs to more easily infect and spread among humans.
(Bird flu on Saskatchewan farm results in culling of 50,000 chickens
( News Medical.Net )
Disease/Infection News
Published: Thursday, 4-Oct-2007
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says chickens infected with a highly pathogenic H7N3 strain of avian influenza on a farm in Saskatchewan have all been destroyed.
Oct 5, 2007 (CIDRAP News) – An international research team led by the University of Wisconsin at Madison (UW-Madison) has identified a key mutation that would arm the H5N1 avian influenza virus with one of the tools it needs to more easily infect and spread among humans.
(Bird flu on Saskatchewan farm results in culling of 50,000 chickens
( News Medical.Net )
Disease/Infection News
Published: Thursday, 4-Oct-2007
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says chickens infected with a highly pathogenic H7N3 strain of avian influenza on a farm in Saskatchewan have all been destroyed.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
AR, Newest Bird Flu Fatality in Jakarta
( KOMNAS FBPI )
Jakarta, October 1, 2007 - Ministry of Health - Test results from the Health Research and Development Center of the Ministry of Health confirmed that a 21-year old man, known as "AR" from Cengkareng area in West Jakarta, is the most recent confirmed H5N1 case in Indonesia. Overall, Indonesia has now recorded 107 confirmed human H5N1 cases with 86 fatalities.
Bird flu outbreak reported in Russia
( Sciense Daily )
MOSCOW, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Hundreds of thousands of birds at a poultry farm in Russia's southern Krasnodar Terroritory are being destroyed following an outbreak of bird flu.
50,000 birds to be euthanized by gas
50,000 birds to be eythnized by gas
( Canada.com )
Angela Hall, The Leader-Post
Published: Friday, September 28, 2007
The strain of avian influenza detected at a Regina Beach-area commercial operation is deadly to domestic poultry, but generally isn't a risk to humans, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says.
( KOMNAS FBPI )
Jakarta, October 1, 2007 - Ministry of Health - Test results from the Health Research and Development Center of the Ministry of Health confirmed that a 21-year old man, known as "AR" from Cengkareng area in West Jakarta, is the most recent confirmed H5N1 case in Indonesia. Overall, Indonesia has now recorded 107 confirmed human H5N1 cases with 86 fatalities.
Bird flu outbreak reported in Russia
( Sciense Daily )
MOSCOW, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Hundreds of thousands of birds at a poultry farm in Russia's southern Krasnodar Terroritory are being destroyed following an outbreak of bird flu.
50,000 birds to be euthanized by gas
50,000 birds to be eythnized by gas
( Canada.com )
Angela Hall, The Leader-Post
Published: Friday, September 28, 2007
The strain of avian influenza detected at a Regina Beach-area commercial operation is deadly to domestic poultry, but generally isn't a risk to humans, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says.
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