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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. | | | Although some have questioned the wisdom of such wholesale slaughter as well as the methods used to cull birds — many are burned or buried alive — the WHO considers this approach the first-line defense against avian viruses. |
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http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/library/DS/00566.html
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| | H5N1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Since H5N1 is an influenza virus, symptoms similar to those of the common flu, such as fever, cough, sore throat, and sore muscles, can develop in infected humans. | | | Bird Flu Drug Rendered Useless: Chinese Chickens Given Medication Made for Humans By Alan Sipress in the Washington Post Saturday, June 18, 2005. | | | Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response Guide to WHO's H5N1 pages |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H5N1
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| | SciDev.Net > Bird flu: the facts |
| | This remains controversial as an effective means of controlling the disease remains contentious. | | | There is a worry, however, that antiviral drugs are expensive and in limited supply. | | | This could generate a new virus that would pose a greater threat to human health. |
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http://www.scidev.net/ms/bird_flu/index.cfm?pageid=377
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| | BIRD FLU |
| | Humans, on the other hand, can make far more ascorbate in their chemical plants but are kept ignorant of how to use this ascorbate to save lives from these diseases so as to profit the drug industry. | | | One should ask themselves why an article on 1949 in a peer reviewed medical journal described how to cure polio and there has never been a study using comparable doses that refutes this article. | | | The drug industry has to keep this from being widely recognized because someone with an IQ over 100 might figure out that ascorbate might cure humans. |
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http://www.orthomed.com/bird.htm
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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. | | | The virus may then be passed from one animal to another and possibly even to humans. | | | BBC - Health - Conditions - Bird flu |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/birdflu1.shtml
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| | Bird Flu - Are You Prepared? |
| | Indonesia’s first human bird flu case, coupled with more birds dying elsewhere including Russia, are signs a long-dreaded global influenza pandemic may be approaching, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said today. | | | Vaccine stockpiles may prove useless against an outbreak of the human form of bird flu, a UN official warned Tuesday. | | | Unfortunately, history is about to prove that human to human transmission is a natural progression for the virus and it is more a matter of when rather than if. |
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http://www.drugdelivery.ca/bird-flu.aspx
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| | Next Killer Flu @ National Geographic Magazine |
| | Some critics think that's reckless, but Erich Hoffmann, a St. Jude researcher who helped develop a genetic engineering technique for flu, says the experiments are key to learning what we may eventually face. | | | Researchers at the University of Hong Kong have found that a victim's own immune system may be part of the problem. | | | The sick took to their beds with fever, piercing headache, and joint pain. |
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http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0510/feature1
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| | Bird Flu |
| | A: There is no evidence that bird flu can be transmitted to cats and dogs. | | | AVA and the National Environment Agency also conduct regular checks on crows, mynahs and pigeons. | | | Q: Will crows and other common birds in Singapore such as pigeons and mynahs pose a threat to us? |
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http://www.ava.gov.sg/javascript/birdflu.html
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| | CBS News U.S. Bird Flu Scenario Eyed September 21, 2005 10:30:07 |
| | The organization regards a pandemic as a multi-country outbreak of bird flu, in which the disease has been passed from human to human. | | | The World Health Organization is prepared to begin distributing large-scale quantities of an antiviral drug to treat bird flu in humans "if and when a pandemic starts," a top WHO official said Wednesday. | | | Canadian medical journalist Helen Branswell said she feels no one, including the World Health Organization, is ready to deal adequately with an avian flu pandemic. |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/21/health/main870945.shtml
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| | Declan Butler assesses the situation in Indonesia, and finds out how likely it is that the virus might evolve into a pandemic strain. | | | Here, news@nature.com keeps track of the key events and scientific discoveries as researchers assess the threat. | | | Experts pressure China for samples that can be analysed. |
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http://www.nature.com/news/infocus/birdflu.html
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| | Bird Flu (Avian Influenza) - US Department of State |
| | In regard to the human cases that have appeared in six nations, the fact sheet points out some puzzling unknown factors. | | | Food and Drug Administration again warns of purported drugs, vaccines | | | A young bird flu patient is monitored in a Chinese hospital, January 13, 2006. |
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http://usinfo.state.gov/gi/global_issues/bird_flu.html
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| | sars.com.sg - Home page |
| | Hungary bird flu vaccine effective, health minister says | | | Spain provides fund to WHO to fight bird flu | | | China approves clinical test of self-developed human bird flu vaccine |
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http://www.sars.com.sg/birdflu/bfindex.php
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| | Tests confirm deadly bird flu strain in Romania - Bird Flu - MSNBC.com |
| | Turkish medical staff on Friday tested nine people from the western town of Turgutlu for possible bird flu after 40 pigeons died, state-run Anatolian news agency said. | | | Because people have not developed immunity to H5N1, unlike the usual strains of human flu, it could have more severe effects on a greater number of people. | | | The report, to be published in the journal Nature next week, is bad news for doctors who already have precious little in the arsenal against bird flu should it become a human disease. |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9674377#storyContinued
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| | BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific Indonesia bird flu toll increases |
| | Finding the source of an outbreak is therefore extremely difficult, our correspondent says, and the chances of the virus spreading in a teeming city of more than 15 million people are high. | | | Almost all human cases thought to be contracted from birds | | | There was initial confusion as to whether she had in fact died of the disease - she was found to be positive for the virus in one test but negative in another - and at one stage officials said that meant she could not be classified as having had bird flu. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/4281794.stm
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| | WHO: Avian influenza - fact sheet |
| | Antiviral drugs, some of which can be used for both treatment and prevention, are clinically effective against influenza A virus strains in otherwise healthy adults and children, but have some limitations. | | | This form is characterized by sudden onset, severe illness, and rapid death, with a mortality that can approach 100%. | | | Infection causes a wide spectrum of symptoms in birds, ranging from mild illness to a highly contagious and rapidly fatal disease resulting in severe epidemics. |
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http://www.who.int/csr/don/2004_01_15/en
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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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| | CDC - Avian Influenza (Flu) Key Facts About Avian Influenza |
| | Symptoms of avian influenza in humans have ranged from typical human influenza-like symptoms (e.g., fever, cough, sore throat, and muscle aches) to eye infections, pneumonia, severe respiratory diseases (such as acute respiratory distress), and other severe and life-threatening complications. | | | Wild birds worldwide carry the viruses in their intestines, but usually do not get sick from them. | | | Domesticated birds may become infected with avian influenza virus through direct contact with infected waterfowl or other infected poultry, or through contact with surfaces (such as dirt or cages) or materials (such as water or feed) that have been contaminated with the virus. |
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http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/gen-info/facts.htm
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| | Wired News: Predicting Bird Flu's Future |
| | Avian flu could be morphing into forms going unobserved by most researchers, if one scientist's theory is correct. | | | Niman has founded a biotech company called Recombinomics based on his theory that avian flu genes are swapping pieces in a predictable way. | | | With a database detailing genetic sequences, bird migration patterns, and the age and geography of patients, among other information, scientists could indeed make estimates as to how, when and where the virus will change. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,66752,00.html
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| | Bird Flu (Avian Flu) - ADB.org |
| | Bird flu (also known as avian flu or avian influenza), which has now spread from Asia to Europe, continues to pose a significant threat to human health and economic activity in the region and beyond. | | | The bird flu (also known as avian flu or avian influenza) outbreak in Asia continues to pose a significant threat to human health and economic activity in the region and beyond. | | | We are working closely with the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and other international and bilateral partners to rapidly and adequately respond to the needs of the countries in Asia and the Pacific. |
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http://www.adb.org/BirdFlu
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| | CBS News CDC: Bird Flu Could Spark Epidemic February 24, 2005 09:00:10 |
| | The genes of the avian flu change rapidly, she said, and experts believe it is highly likely that the virus will evolve into a pathogen deadly for humans. | | | The mortality rate is very high — about 72 percent of identified patients, said Gerberding. | | | This assessment, she said, is based on the known history of the flu virus. |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/21/health/main675264.shtml
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| | Scotsman.com News - Bird flu |
| | A BIRD flu pandemic will not be stopped by mass stockpiling of antiviral drugs, according to an... | | | Bird flu drug firm ups WHO donation by 2 million doses | | | THE European Union and the drug maker Roche each sharply increased their commitment to fighting... |
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http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=161
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| | Influenza A (H5N1) Bird Flu (Avian Flu) - Vads Corner |
| | Bird flu passed directly to humans, researchers say | | | Bird flu may have spread to mainland China | | | WHO downplays fears that bird flu in cats poses a risk for humans 21 Feb 2004 |
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http://www.vadscorner.com/h5n1.html
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| | Bird Flu Drug Rendered Useless |
| | But researchers determined last year that the H5N1 bird flu strain circulating in Vietnam and Thailand, the two countries hardest hit by the virus, had become resistant, leaving only an alternative drug that is difficult to produce in large amounts and much less affordable, especially for developing countries in Southeast Asia. | | | International researchers now conclude that this is why the drug will no longer protect people in case of a worldwide bird flu epidemic. | | | A health worker vaccinates a chicken against bird flu at a Chinese farm in late May. Chinese farmers also have used an anti-viral made for humans on chickens. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/17/AR2005061701214.html
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| | Bird Flu Monitor |
| | The article goes on to say that nearly 7 billion birds have been vaccinated this year, 22,225,800 have been culled, and only five people have become ill, with only two of them having died. | | | [Worldwide Disasters] The Vietnam government has banned the sale of the anti-viral Tamiflu to prevent those not affected by the bird flu virus from taking it, thus increasing the likelihood that H5N1 will develop resistance to the drug. | | | I have also been wondering about the public health risk of dumping untreated sewage into lakes, rivers and streams and whether this minor problem will compound the problems of pandemic bird flu. |
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http://www.birdflumonitor.com
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| | Singapore Government Flu Website |
| | Zoonotic diseases or animal diseases that could be transmitted to humans had the Singapore health system in a hot zone throughout the year. | | | However, no birds from flocks with disease should enter the food chain. | | | Chicken and other poultry are safe to eat if cooked properly, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). |
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| | Flu Wiki - Main - Flu Wiki |
| | The purpose of the Flu Wiki is to help local communities prepare for and perhaps cope with a possible influenza pandemic. | | | Flu Wiki in other languages · otros idiomas · diğer diler | | | 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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http://www.fluwikie.com
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| | Bird Flu - myDNA |
| | WASHINGTON DC (myDNA News) Three more human bird flu fatalities have been confirmed in Asia. | | | Home » Health Center » Other Diseases » Bird Flu | | | Embargo of Birds from Specified Southeast Asian Countries |
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