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| | YaleGlobal Online Magazine |
 | | There are several strains of avian influenza, but the H5N1 virus - which occurs mainly in birds and, less commonly, pigs - poses the greatest threat to humans. | | | This string of numbers and letters - representing a strain of avian influenza, or bird flu - has the international public health community deeply concerned. | | | Most ominous is when the virus mutates to affect humans, as well - and this is what seems to have happened. |
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http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/reports/avianflu.jsp
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| | Bird flu (avian influenza) |
| | The international effort to prevent the spread of bird flu is multifaceted, focusing on the health of both birds and humans. | | | Although the exact incubation period for bird flu in humans isn't clear, illness seems to develop within one to five days of exposure to the virus. | | | Because they're in short supply, it's not entirely clear how flu drugs would be allocated if there were a widespread epidemic. |
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http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/library/DS/00566.html
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| | Avian Flu - What we need to know |
| | We're trying to locate them but our sources can't provide us with addresses for now," said Abdulsalam Nasidi, who is in charge of the response to bird flu as a threat to humans at the federal Health Ministry. | | | The seven, including five children aged between 2 and 12, all had respiratory problems and test results would be available within a day, Malaysia's health minister said. | | | Also, Asian companies learned in the 2003 outbreak of Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, that even a small infectious outbreak could have devastating consequences, bringing commerce in Hong Kong, Singapore and Beijing to a near standstill. |
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http://avianflu.typepad.com
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| | Influenzavirus A - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Dog flu (or "canine influenza") refers to varieties of influenza virus A that affect dogs. | | | Those few changes turned a bird virus into a killer that could spread from person to person." [24] | | | Measured resistance to the standard antiviral drugs amantadine and rimantadine in H3N2 has increased from 1% in 1994 to 12% in 2003 to 91% in 2005. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avian_influenza
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| | BBC NEWS Health Q&A: Bird flu |
| | Scientists say it may be helpful to have stocks of other drugs from the same family such as Relenza (zanamivir). | | | In a similar case in Hong Kong in 1997, a doctor possibly caught the disease from a patient with the H5N1 virus - but it was never conclusively proved. | | | But antiviral drugs, such as Tamiflu which are already available and being stockpiled by countries such as the UK, may help limit symptoms and reduce the chances the disease will spread. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3422839.stm
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| | BBC - Health - Conditions - Bird flu |
| | The appearance in humans of a type of flu which normally only affects birds may be an important sign that some strains of the virus are changing in a way that could threaten people around the globe. | | | BBC - Health - Conditions - Bird flu | | | H5N1 is also resistant to some of the drugs used to treat flu (such as amantadine). |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/birdflu1.shtml
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| | Avian Flu Guidance |
| | In the absence of sensitivity testing, a neuramindase inhibitor (oseltamavir) is the first choice since the likelihood is smaller that the virus will be resistant to this class of antiviral drugs than to amantadine or rimantadine. | | | Personnel should be aware of the symptoms of avian influenza. | | | Although experience with human infection is limited, persons infected with avian influenza would likely have fever and respiratory symptoms (cough, sore throat, shortness of breath). |
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http://www.osha.gov/dsg/guidance/avian-flu.html
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| | WHO Avian influenza |
| | WHO is coordinating the global response to human cases of H5N1 avian influenza and monitoring the corresponding threat of an influenza pandemic. | | | Avian influenza – situation in Azerbaijan – update | | | Information on this page tracks the evolving situation and provides access to both technical guidelines and information useful for the general public. |
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http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/en
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| | CBC News Indepth: Avian Flu |
| | A string of numbers and letters that has the World Health Organization deeply concerned. | | | Definition: The flu is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses. | | | The cause – the H5N1 strain of avian influenza. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/avianflu
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| | The threat of avian flu - Editorials/Op-Ed - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper |
| | Right now, our national stockpiles of anti-viral drugs sit at dangerously low levels — about 2 percent of what we would need in a serious outbreak — and no existing vaccine can provide perfect protection against the avian flu virus. | | | The avian flu poses a serious risk to our nation's health and security. | | | So far, humans infected with the avian flu have not transmitted it to other humans. |
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http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20050928-084420-7052r.htm
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| | ABC News: Avian Flu: Is the Government Ready for an Epidemic? |
| | You might have some other animals — cats, dogs, turtles, snakes — and they're all stacked in cages, and they're all spreading their germs to each other." | | | "If we had a significant worldwide epidemic of this particular avian flu, the H5N1 virus, and it hit the United States and the world, because it would be everywhere at once, I think we would see outcomes that would be virtually impossible to imagine," he warns. | | | Karesh has been tracking this flu strain for the last several years as it has gained strength, spreading from wild birds to chickens to humans. |
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| | Bird Flu (Avian Influenza) - US Department of State |
| | Further analysis of samples from the three victims – all women, aged 17-21 – is ongoing, but WHO says it is likely the findings will point to H5N1. | | | About 450,000 birds have been destroyed or died from disease as poultry producers and health officials work together to contain the damage and prevent further spread of the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported March 9. | | | Three deaths in Azerbaijan likely were caused by the H5N1 avian influenza virus, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) statement March 14, a finding that will push the global total of human deaths from bird flu to more than 100. |
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http://usinfo.state.gov/gi/global_issues/bird_flu.html
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| | CIDRAP >> Avian Influenza |
| | WHO: Changes in H5N1 virus may promote spread in birds | | | HHS orders drugs to treat 14 million in flu pandemic | | | Avian Influenza (Bird Flu): Implications for Human Disease |
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http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/hot/avianflu
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| | CDC - Influenza (Flu) Avian Flu |
| | Seasonal flu is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses. | | | Pandemic flu is flu that causes a global outbreak, or pandemic, of serious illness that spreads easily from person to person. | | | Avian flu is caused by avian influenza viruses, which occur naturally among birds. |
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http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian
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| | TAMIFLU - The Only Protection From The Avian Flu (H5N1) |
| | Tamiflu (Also known as Oseltamivir) is an antiviral drugs primarily invented for the purpose of treating influenza. | | | This drug was manufactured by Roche and is the only effective way to STOP the spread of the virus once exposed. | | | There is only one approved drug out there to protect you from the Avian Flu, and that is Tamiflu. |
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| | Avian flu : Web focus : Nature |
| | Threat of pandemic brings flu drug back to life | | | The H5N1 virus has already 'jumped' from birds to humans, and in one case of bird flu may have passed directly from one person to another, but this may not be the only such case, nor the last. | | | Investigation of past human flu pandemics is giving clues to revealing both the origins of pandemic influenza viruses and their evolutionhow they evolved. |
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| | BBC NEWS Health Medical notes Avian flu |
| | But the WHO has warned that avian flu does have the potential to be more serious than the Sars virus which emerged in 2003, if it mutates into a more lethal form or a form which can pass from human to human. | | | The fear is that the more widespread it becomes the more chance there is that it could alter its form. | | | Investigations into the Hong Kong outbreaks suggest there were conditions which made transmission to humans more likely: |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/health/medical_notes/1337640.stm
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| | Flu Wiki - Main - Flu Wiki |
| | Flu Wiki in other languages · otros idiomas · diğer diler | | | The purpose of the Flu Wiki is to help local communities prepare for and perhaps cope with a possible influenza pandemic. | | | Just a Bump in the Beltway, The Next Hurrah and Effect Measure blogs announce the launch of a new experiment in collaborative problem solving in public health, The Flu Wiki. |
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| | Commercial Agriculture: Avian Flu |
| | Your county agricultural agent or program associate, who is being supplied with the most current information | | | Avian Influenza Strain in 4 New Jersey Live Bird Markets Not Harmful to Humans (NJDA) | | | A low-pathogen form of Avian Influenza has been detected through serum laboratory testing in four live chicken markets in northern New Jersey. |
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http://www.rce.rutgers.edu/avianflu
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| | Prevention of Avian Influenza |
| | Following is a transcript of remarks made by the Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food, Dr York Chow, at a stand-up media session at the Legislative Council Building. | | | The Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food, Dr York Chow, further explained to live poultry traders that the Government had to reduce the number of imported chickens and the live poultry population in Hong Kong as well as to develop a poultry slaughtering plant in view of the mounting risk of an avian influenza outbreak. | | | Preliminary testing of dead feral pigeons collected at the junction of Leighton Road and Wong Nai Chung Road found that none of them carried the H5 virus, a spokesman for the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said. |
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| | CDC - Influenza (Flu) |
| | CDC Health Alert: CDC Recommends against Amantadine and Rimantadine for Treatment or Prophylaxis of Flu in U.S. during 2005–06 Season | | | Press Release: Change in Recommendations for use of Antivirals | | | Skip directly to the search box, site navigation, or content. |
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