News Reports for June 23

by: AlohaOR

Sat Jun 23, 2007 at 00:02:28 AM EDT

• Indonesia - 4-year-old girl suffers bird flu
• Flu could hitch a ride on banknotes
• Vietnam - Bird flu heats up in Asia
• Egyptian boy tests positive for bird flu
• Germany - Several cases of H5N1 bird flu found (in birds)

Summary of News for June 22, 2007
China
•   Hong Kong Influenza B (kindergarten) (Link)
•   Stretch limited vaccines to fight pandemic-experts (Link)
•   Bird smugglers under tight watch to stop deadly virus (Link)
Czech Republic
•   6,000 turkeys slaughtered at Czech bird flu farm (Link)
France
•   France worries about Czech BF (Link in French)
Indonesia
•   Indonesia mulls bird flu vaccination in human (Link)
Togo
•    Togo confirms H5N1 in poultry (Link)
United States
•   Chickens increasingly popular pets in urban, suburban neighborhoods (Link)
•   Influenza pandemic: Efforts to forestall onset are under way; identifying countries at greatest risk entails challenges June 2007 (Link)
Vietnam
•   28-year-old woman dies from bird flu; second victim of `07 (Link)
•   10.5% of poultry tested in Hanoi H5N1 positive (Link)

News Reports for June 23, 2012

by: NewsDiary

Sat Jun 16, 2012 at 12:55:44 PM EDT

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Bolivia
• Bolivia Reported 637 Confirmed Cases of Influenza A (H1N1) (Link)

Indonesia
• East Java: Livestock Service Officials Destroyed 650 Quails (translated) (Link)

United States
• CDC unveils new pandemic preparedness tools (Link)

Research
• DURC policy in flux in the wake of published H5N1 studies (Link)
• Debate over H5N1 fatality rate flares again (Link)

General
• More Bird Flu Research Goes Public, Has Bad News About Global Pandemic Possibilities (Link)

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News Reports for June 23, 2011

by: NewsDiary

Sun Jun 19, 2011 at 17:24:26 PM EDT

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Argentina
•  They deny human influenza outbreak in Argentina in the Copa America days (translated) (Link)
•  For the Copa America try to hide the alert for outbreaks of influenza A in Mendoza (translated) (Link)
•  Outbreak of Influenza A in Mendoza: There is a nearly 60 dead and infected (translated) (Link)

Australia
•  South Australia: More cases of the flu in Whyalla (Link)
•  Queensland: Seasonal flu hits Gympie early (Link)

Colombia
•  Epidemic strikes Amazon nomads (Link)

South Korea
•  Mom, two daughters stricken by mysterious lung disease (Link)

Sri Lanka
•  Virus flu raging among children (Link)

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News Reports for June 23, 2010

by: NewsDiary

Sat Jun 19, 2010 at 23:21:11 PM EDT

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India
•  Woman succumbs to swine flu (Link)
•  Rains fuel swine flu, 13 dead in a week (Link)

Indonesia
•  Four-Year-Old Bird Flu Patient (translated) (Link)
•  Excerpt from an Indonesian article on Sick Building Syndrome (translated) (Link)

Malaysia
•   Current Situation of Influenza A (H1N1) For Week 24/2010 (13 - 19 June 2010) (translated) (Link)

Mexico
•  Announce most deadly virus A-H1N1 (Link)

Taiwan
•  Physician, 62, dies of H1N1 (Link)

United States
•  New Test Approved for Swine Flu (Link)
•  Transcript for FDA Vaccines & Biologics advisory committee meeting on May 7, 2010 (Link)
•  ACIP meeting Feb. 2010: minutes posted (Link)
•  Early vaccination against influenza: Experts offer a review of the evidence (Link)

General
•  2 experts resign from WHO swine flu review panel (Link)

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News Reports for June 23, 2009

by: NewsDiary

Fri Jun 19, 2009 at 23:42:01 PM EDT

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Australia
•  Victorian is nation's second swine flu casualty (Link)
•  Sen. Fielding taking Tamiflu as precaution (Link)
•  No bed for man sick with swine flu (Link)

Canada
•  Confirmed A/H1N1 flu cases surge to 6,457 in Canada (Link)
•  ON: Swine flu kills Brampton girl, 6, in 24 hrs (Link)
•  ON: Ottawa teen dies with swine flu (Link)

Chile
•  2 new flu deaths in Chile (Link)

Fiji
•  Flu threat prompts fresh hospital initiation (Link)

France
•  Police: 24 Paris schoolchildren have swine flu (Link)

Germany
•  German authorities warn of swine flu mutation risk (Link)

Ireland
•  Cases of swine flu double in two weeks (Link)

Jamaica
•  Jamaica parish closes schools over swine flu fears (Link)

Latvia
•  Latvia has first confirmed case of H1N1 flu (Link)

Mexico
•  Ministers from 40 countries will meet in Mexico to discuss swine influenza (translated) (Link)

Philippines
•  Philippines: Over 3,000 House employes vaccinated, sent home (Link)

Spain
•  The first two confirmed cases of influenza A in the Canary Islands (Link)

Thailand
•  Thailand confirms 125 new H1N1 cases (Link)

United Kingdom
•  Update on swine flu cases 23 June 2009 (Link)

United States
•  PA: Second Bucknell student has swine flu (Link)
•  Congress approves $7.65 billion for pandemic flu response (Link)
•  MA: State's only swine flu death still a mystery (Link)
•  Alaska officials report 13 new swine flu cases (Link)
•  HHS Announces Advanced Development Contract for New Way to Make Flu Vaccine (Link)
•  2-Creditors seek bankruptcy for H1N1 vaccine maker (Link)
•  CDC Telebriefing on Investigation of Human Cases of Novel Influenza A (H1N1) (Link)
•  Novel Influenza A (H1N1) Virus Infections Among Health-Care Personnel (Link)
•  NY: 2 more NYC swine flu deaths (Link)
•  MD: State Reports First Swine Flu Death (Link)
•  Connecticut records 5th swine flue death (Link)
•  More on CT death (Link)
•  Swine Flu Fears Cancel MDA Camps (Link)
•  California - Sacramento County sees first swine flu death (Link)
•  Oregon: 2nd death confirmed in Marion County (Link)
•  More details on the OR death (Link)

Commentary
•  Pandemic Reality Check: What Can Be Done and What Can't To Protect Against H1N1 (Link)
•  Health Care Tuesday (Link)

General News
•  Pandemic Might Be as Severe as Hong Kong Flu, World Bank Says (Link)
•  Experts divided on treatment for bird flu patients (Link)
•  Analysis of influenza A(H1N1)v individual data in EU and EEA/EFTA countries (Link)
•  Pandemic influenza: implications for occupational medicine (Link)
•  Swine Flu May Have Come From Asia (Link)

News Reports for June 23

by: AlohaOR

Mon Jun 23, 2008 at 00:09:12 AM EDT

• Pakistan: Bird flu outbreak kills 6,000 chicks (2 stories + more links)
• Media Monkey on the Olympics
• Bird flu vaccine effectiveness varies: study
• World unprepared to control flu pandemic, health officials say
• The problem of testing the effectiveness of bird flu vaccines (EM commentary)
• Japan: Government panel recommends bigger stockpile of flu drugs
• US: Scientists create avian flu vaccine with monkey cells
• US: Secretary Leavitt travels to Mexico and Central America to advance product safety efforts
• Canada: Faster diagnostics for bird flu on the horizon
• Viet Nam: Caring kindergarten has gone to the birds
• H5N1 vaccine stockpiling concerns (commentary)
• H5N1 pre and post-pandemic vaccine concerns (commentary)