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| | Experts Study Hong Kong Flu Threat |
 | | Webster helped detect the first human infection of the avian influenza virus H5N1 in Hong Kong last May. In a teleconference held Monday, he said that if the virus continues to infect humans, "it is only a matter of time" before human-to-human transmission occurs, the critical step in the initiation of a flu pandemic. | | | We've already had six or seven cases of transmission, presumably from avian reservoir to humans, but we have no evidence yet of human-to-human transmission," said Dr. Robert G. Webster, chairman of the department of virology and molecular biology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. | | | None of the patients with confirmed H5N1 infection had contact with each other, nor did they share any medical characteristics that might make them more susceptible to a viral infection, such as impaired immunity. |
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http://www.personalmd.com/news/a1997121510.shtml
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| | Avian Influenza Bird Flu news |
| | bird flu avian influenza h5n1 strain chicken human pigs health transmission outbreaks control earlier peiris professor bangkok replicate fao china disease meeting scientists pig viruses mixing animal | | | Avian influenza news, H5n1, bird flu news, poultry diseases, chicken flu, bird flu, Avian Influenza, H5n1 strain, H5n1 virus, salmonella, salmonella bacteria, prevent salmonella infection, chicken virus, bacteria, cclean chicken slaugther using machines latest news about bird flu avian influenza 05 08 2004 thailand s livestock... | | | Avian Influenza Bird Flu news - Avian influenza news, H5n1, bird flu news, poultry diseases, chicken flu, bird flu, Avian Influenza, H5n1 strain, H5n1 virus, salmonella, salmonella bacteria, prevent |
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http://www.thaipro.com/z1047b/955_thailand.html
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| | Quang Ninh Physician Death Linked to H5N1 |
| | The physician fatality, linked to three patients not treated by the physician, is a classic example of efficient transmission of a virus in a health care setting (nosocomial infection). | | | The death of a health care work linked to a hospital where there was no reported contact with H5N1 patients is a clear example of efficient human-to-human transmission of H5N1 avian influenza. | | | The linkage of the 34 year-old physician to a facility with two confirmed and one suspect bird flu case is clearly cause for concern. |
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http://www.recombinomics.com/News/04060503/Quang_Ninh_H2H.html
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| | AADMC: WYPR 1998: Avian Flu - Concerns about a possible pandemic |
| | There was no evidence of human-human transmission and no reassortment of the RNA. | | | Because live chickens frequently are kept in close proximity to human habitation and restaurants in Hong Kong, these fowl were considered to be a primary source of infection. | | | Therefore, you can reassure your patients that a severe pandemic is very unlikely to occur due to infection with this flu virus strain. |
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http://www.aaaai.org/AADMC/inthenews/wypr/1998archive/avianflu.html
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| | This is getting Serious.... |
| | Both lived in the northern province of Thai Binh, where a cluster of cases is causing great concern about the possibility of human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 virus, which experts fear could mutate into a form which could cause a pandemic. | | | The 41-year-old nurse, also from Thai Binh province, was hospitalized on Thursday in Hanoi with a high fever, coughing and a lung infection - typical bird flu symptoms - a doctor said on condition of anonymity. | | | Northern Thai Binh province, which has been a hotbed for the virus with two deaths and four other infections reported since December, is typical of most rural areas. |
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http://www.ranchers.net/forum/post-6720.html
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| | CBC News Indepth: Avian Flu |
| | The cause – the H5N1 strain of avian influenza. | | | The WHO says it cannot rule out the possibility of human-to-human transmission of avian flu in these cases. | | | Bird flu is an infection caused by avian influenza viruses. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/avianflu
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| | The Observer International Family's hell at bird flu deathbed |
| | Thi Ngoan said she could not be sure of the source of her brother's infection but five days before he was ill he too slaughtered a duck and prepared duck's blood pudding - a delicacy enjoyed all over Vietnam on the eve of Tet, the start of the lunar new year. | | | Ducks might be playing a 'silent role' in the transmission of the virus. | | | Instead, virus experts could not rule out the possibility that he caught the disease from his brother, fuelling fears that H5N1 is on the brink of mutating into a new strain capable of causing a worldwide contagion. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Observer/international/story/0,6903,1426313,00.html
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