News Reports For January 13

by: MaMa

Sat Jan 13, 2007 at 00:51:33 AM EST

• Two Indonesian women die of bird flu, cluster feared
• Jakarta: City Council demands proof of commitment to bird flu battle
• Japan: Gov't eyes culling 10,000 chickens if bird flu confirmed in Miyazaki
• China confirms new human bird flu case(first announced Jan.10)
• Knowing what you don't know (2nd part of Turkey article)
• Jakarta: A boy, positive from bird flu, is in critical condition
• Report on UK internet resillience during a pandemic
• Hong Kong confirms (new) bird flu case (in birds)
• Bird flu spreads to 6th Vietnamese province
• Alarm as bird flu spreads
• Edmonton hospitals test pandemic containment tents
• Bird Flu Cases Climb in Indonesia
• Hong Kong: Buddhists free birds despite flu worries
• Chinese Poultry Vaccination Woes
• Another H5N1 positive bird in Hong Kong
• Britain's Bird flu 'buddies' plan

Indonesia
    •  Three Indonesian teenagers suspected of being infected with bird flu (Link) and (Link)
    •  Fear of bird flu yet to reach those in the poultry business (Link)
    •  Situation in Indonesia: WHO update- January 12th (Link)
    •  Mystery infection that killed 20 in Indonesia still unidentified (Link)
    •  Indonesian Woman 59th Bird Flu Death (more details) (Link)
    •  A suspected bird flu patient dies in Jakarta (Link)
    •  2 Indonesian women die from bird flu, bringing death toll to 61 (Link) and (Link)
South Korea
    •  Seoul Temporarily Bans Japanese Poultry Imports (Link)
Japan
    •  Japan to conduct nation-wide bird flu inspections at all poultry farms (Link)
    •  Public told to brace for flu, get shots (Link)
    •  Suspected bird flu virus likely to be very virulent (Link)
Nigeria
    •  Bird flu returns to Nigeria farms (Link)
    •  New suspected case of bird flu reported in northern Nigeria (Link)
    •  Nigeria reports 1 more state infected with bird flu amid fresh outbreak (Link)
    •  Bird flu re-emerges, culling underway (Link)
Australia
    •  Officials rule out bird flu in mass of avian deaths in Western Australia (Link)
    •  Autopsy may solve bird deaths (more details, photo) (Link)
Europe
    •  UN-backed body `disappointed' by European ban on wild bird trade (Link)
    •  Seasonal flu- current European Surveillance Report(Link)
Vietnam
    •  Vietnam to set up bird flu emergency squads nationwide (Link)
USA
    •  Nebraska Offers Farmers Free Bird-Flu Testing (Link)
    •  Researchers testing for deadly bird flu at Salton Sea (Link)
    •  Seasonal flu cases: CDC- week of Jan.6 map (Link), and report (Link)
    •  Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Prioritization: Public Engagement Meetings (Link)
Turkey
    •  Turkey's Bird Flu outbreak: one year later (Link)
General
    •  WHO expects global bird flu resurgence (Link)
    •  Bird flu cases are reminder of threat - WHO expert (Link)

News Reports for January 13, 2013

by: NewsDiary

Sat Jan 12, 2013 at 14:04:08 PM EST

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Cambodia
• CIDRAP: H5N1 found in 20% of environmental samples from Cambodian bird markets (Link)

China
• Shaanxi - A stream of cases over 20 schools must be closed (translated) (Link)

India
• Rajasthan: State seeks NCDC help to contain swine flu (Link)

Indonesia
• The Komnas Zoonosis Denies Bird Flu Bioterrorism (translated) (Link)

Jordan
•  Swine flu kills second Jordanian in week (Link)

Palenstine
• Official: Swine flu death toll rises to 15 in West Bank (Link)

United States
• Flu Epidemic: Officials, Drug Stores Say Call Ahead Before Getting Vaccine (Link)
• Flu Season 2013 - Low Vaccine Supply (Video) (Link)
• CA: San Francisco Flu Leaves Residents Worried As Doctors Urge Vaccinations (Link)
• MA: Flu Is Here - 5 Things Parents Must Do (Link)
• MI: Wyandotte Hospital Tackles Flu Myths v Facts (Link)
• NY: ProMED - Avian influenza (H5N1:low path) - USA: (NY) poultry, RFI (Link) (Link)
• NY: New York City parents scrambling to find flu shots in stock (Link)

Research
• CIDRAP: DARPA grant supports flu evolution study (Massachusetts) (Link)
• Flu shot flaws leave experts queasy (Link)

General
• Phooey On Flu (Video) (Link)

• H (Link)

News Reports for January 13, 2012

by: NewsDiary

Sat Jan 07, 2012 at 14:46:31 PM EST

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Cambodia
•  Cambodia finds first case of H5N1 infection in human in 2012 (Link)

Egypt
•  Egypt's poultry farms stop clucking (Link)

India
•  Odisha: Bird flu battle begins in state (Link)
•  Odisha: Poultry sale hit after bird flu outbreak (Link)
•  Assam: Bird flu alert sounded in Assam (Link)
•  Bird flu scare continues to grip Odisha (Link)
•  Bird flu: Mopping up ops begin in Meghalaya (Link)
•  Migratory bird death causes flu ripples in Chilika (Link)
•  Man dies of swine flu in city (Link)

South Africa
•  South African ostriches culled due to bird flu (Link)

South Korea
•  Influenza Advisory In Effect (Link)

Taiwan
•  Flu claims four more lives in Taiwan, including 10-month-old infant (Link)

United States
•  WA: Whatcom health officials: When flu season comes, it could be severe (Link)

Research
•  Universal Flu Vaccine Could Be Available by 2013 'Holy Grail' of Flu Vaccines by Next Year (Link)

•  H (Link)

News Reports for January 13, 2011

by: NewsDiary

Sat Jan 08, 2011 at 21:36:00 PM EST

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Canada
•  Hospitals overwhelmed by surge of flu cases  (Link)

Egypt
•  WHO confirms human H5N1 case (Link)

Japan
•  No. of new flu patients surging since New Year's onset (Link)

South Korea
•  S. Korea confirms more FMD cases in central, southeastern regions (also more cases of H5N1) (Link)

United Kingdom
•  Number of flu deaths reaches 112 (Link)
•  Seasonal flu deaths more than double in Britain (Link)
•  Latest flu stats (Link)
•  Four die of flu at William Harvey Hospital (Link)

United States
•  CT: Flu becoming widespread in Connecticut  (Link)

•  H (Link)

News Reports for January 13, 2010

by: NewsDiary

Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 23:27:16 PM EST

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Indonesia
•  Bird Flu Birds Attack in South Lampung (translated) (Link)

Mexico
•  Mexico still waiting for most swine flu vaccines (Link)

Poland
•  Poland stands alone in refusing swine flu vaccines (Link)

Serbia
•  Serbia to stop import of swine flu vaccines (Link)

United States
•  CO: Colorado seeing more swine flu in Latinos, blacks (Link)

Vietnam
•  Swine-flu fight continues (Link)
•  Bird, cattle diseases (Link)
•  Vietnam reconsiders H1N1 vaccine import plan (Link)

General
•  Genetic Analyses of Influenza in Wild Birds Can Improve Avian Flu Surveillance Programs (Link)
•  WHO denies charges of pharma companies influencing its decisions (Link)

Commentary
•  Recombinomics: D225G Link to Fatal H1N1 Caracal Cluster in Romania? (Link)
•  Effect Measure: WHO (Link)
•  Recombinomics: Caracal Cluster Pandemic Panic Likely Linked to D225G (Link)
•  Recombinomics: H1N1 D225G In India (Link)

•  H (Link)

News Reports for January 13

by: Nimbus

Tue Jan 13, 2009 at 00:00:28 AM EST

• China - More than 1,200 Chinese die of infectious diseases in Dec
• Vietnam finds H5N1 virus in smuggled Chinese poultry
• Egypt confirms new human case of bird flu
• Two yr.old girl becomes latest bf victim in Egypt
• Beijing bird flu victim's close contacts removed from medical observation
• China says no evidence of bird flu virus mutation
• H5N1 Confirmed Case in Cairo Suburb
• Singapore - Govt needs private sector's help to fight pandemics
• Viet Nam - Type A/H5N1 patient's sister may die by viscera failure
• Viet nam - Local people indifferent to implementing bird flu preventive measures
• India - 'Unhygienic poultry farms add to bird flu'
• India - Culling continues in bird flu-hit Assam, West Bengal
• India - Dharamsala residents fear bird flu outbreak
• Bolivia - Dengue/DHF Update

News Reports for January 13

by: AlohaOR

Sun Jan 13, 2008 at 00:31:14 AM EST

• Bangladesh - Bird flu strikes farm
• India sounds bird flu alert after chicken deaths
• Egypt - Poultry sellers ignore live sales ban despite new bird flu cases
• India -  25,000 birds die, avian flu scare in Bengal
• US (Ohio) - Local writes about 1918 flu outbreak