News Reports for June 5

by: AlohaOR

Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 23:48:47 PM EDT

• Vietnam - 2 suspected bird flu cases
• Wales bird flu is over
• USA - FDA Finalizes Guidances For Pandemic And Seasonal Influenza Vaccines
• Two patients recover as Vietnam grapples with bird flu crisis
• UK - For deadly flu pandemic, it's not if, but when, officials warn
• TB Scare Recalls the First Days of SARS
• Ghana needs US $14m to prevent Avian Influenza from spreading
• UNICEF to distribute 100,000 bird flu prevention kits in Indonesia
• U.S. - Face Masks, Respirators Might Help During Pandemic Flu Outbreak
• Bangladesh -  Bird flu detected in Dinajpur
• Nigeria: FG compensates farmers for loss to avian flu
• Hong Kong: Bird carcass tested suspected avian flu
• Positive influenza data for Ampligen

Summary of News for June 4, 2007
Australia
•   Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) bird flu forum in Australia (Link)
Canada
•   Measles scare keeping students in Canada (Link)
China
•   WHO: Chinese soldier died of bird flu (Link)
•   Undiagnosed disease, porcine  (Link)
India
•   Smallpox alert in northeast (Link and Link)
•   WHO allays smallpox fears (Link)
Indonesia
•   Bird flu vaccine trials in Indonesia (Link)
Myanmar
•   State not equipped to deal with a smallpox outbreak (Link)
Singapore
•   Institute plans clinical trials of bird flu vaccine (Link)
United Kingdom
•   Mild bird flus generate worries (Link)
United States
•   New HHS blog posting: Getting the job done (Link)
•   Human antibodies against bird flu hold promise for cure (Link)
•   Bracing for a flu pandemic (Link)
Vietnam
•   H5N1 bird flu virus may have mutated to a G-shaped gene from a Z-shaped gene (Link)
General
•   UNICEF puts workers on avian flu alert (Link)
•   Survey reveals doctors' complacency over risk of avian flu (Link)
•   More effort needed in 'bird flu' fight (Link)

News Reports for June 5, 2013

by: NewsDiary

Sat Jun 01, 2013 at 22:29:18 PM EDT

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Italy
• Possible pandemic: the MERS could be the new SARS? (translated) (Link)
• FLORENCE New Sars, Meyer resigned from the little girl of eighteen months (translated)(Link)
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New Zealand
• Ministry continues to monitor overseas viruses (Link)

Saudi Arabia
• Saudi girl, 14, latest confirmed case of MERS (Link)
• New Sars: Lorenzin, situation under control, 60 negative tests (translated) (Link)
• Coronavirus: three cases remain (translated) (Link)
• A vial of coronavirus intercepted at the airport (translated) (Link)

Syria
• CIDRAP: WHO voices concern over infectious diseases in Syria, exiles (Link)

United States
• Administration declares Mideast flu a public health emergency (Link)

Commentary
• Recombinomics: MERS-CoV Asymptomatic Health Care Workers In Italy (Link)
• Helen Branswell: WHO expert team, including Canadian, in Saudi investigating MERS outbreak (Link)

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News Reports for June 5, 2012

by: NewsDiary

Sat Jun 02, 2012 at 18:09:23 PM EDT

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China
• Hong Kong: No bird flu mutation as tot fights on (Link)
• Hong Kong: Boy's case isolated, bird flu outbreak unlikely (Link)
• Hong Kong: Boy with bird flu still in serious condition in HK (Link)
• WHO: Avian influenza - situation in China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Hong Kong, SAR)- update  (Link)

India
• Swine flu: 72-year-old woman tests positive (Link)

New Zealand
• Severe flu season tipped this year (Link)
• Two dangerous flu strains lurking (Link)

Thailand
• Uttaradit: Illness not bird flu, army says (Link)
• Bangkok: Public Health warns residents of influenza spread during rainy season (Link)

• H (Link)

News Reports for June 5, 2011

by: NewsDiary

Sun Jun 05, 2011 at 00:06:03 AM EDT

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Pakistan
•  People advised to get swine flu vaccine (Link)

Research
•  Acquisition of Human-Type Receptor Binding Specificity by New H5N1 Influenza Virus Sublineages during Their Emergence in Birds in Egypt (Link)

General
•  German beansprouts source of E Coli outbreak in Europe (Link)

Commentary
•  Recombinomics: Pneumonia and Influenza Death Toll In El Paso Increases To 93 (Link)

•  H (Link)

News Reports for June 5, 2010

by: NewsDiary

Sat Jun 05, 2010 at 00:00:19 AM EDT

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China
•  Pregnant Woman Dies Of Bird Flu Infection In China (Link)
•  CIDRAP: H5N1 death in China (Link)

Korea (South)
•  More low-path H7N7 outbreaks in ducks (Link)

Malaysia
•  Current Situation of Influenza A (H1N1) - June 5, 2010 (Link and translation)

General
•   World Health Organization Scientists Linked to Swine Flu Vaccine Makers (Link)

•  H (Link)

News Reports for June 5, 2009

by: NewsDiary

Fri May 29, 2009 at 23:54:15 PM EDT

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Argentina
•  Confirmed A/H1N1 flu cases rise to 163 in Argentina (Link)

Australia
•  Nurses call for special leave during swine flu outbreak (Link)

Barbados
•  First H1N1 case in Barbados confirmed (Link)

Canada
•  Remote Manitoba First Nation confirms 2 cases of swine flu (Link)
•  Winnipeg emergency departments experience spike in visits (Link)
•  Regina school has one swine flu case, 100 or more possible (Link)
•  NV: No need to be scared' of 5th swine flu case (Link)
•  Cobourg Ontario Canada - First Case Swine Flu (Link)
•  MB:Flu-like outbreak keeps hundreds of students away from Dauphin schools  (Link)
•  Canada's health minister announces $10.8M to fight swine flu (Link)
•  Flu sweeps Dauphin school (Link)
•  Canada: H1N1 flu forum announced (Winnipeg,June 8)  (Link)

Cayman Islands
•  First H1N1 case confirmed in Cayman (Link)

Chile
•  Swine Flu Causes Serious Complications in 2% of Chilean Cases (Link)
•  Reported cases of H1N1 influenza in Chile soar to 890 (translated) (Link)

Dominican Republic
•  Dominican Republic recorded the first human death (translated) (Link)

India
•  Bird culling fails, disease spreads (Link)

Mexico
•  Mexican H1N1 death toll rises to 106 (Link)

New Zealand
•  Prepare for swine flu: officials (Link)

Philippines
•  DOH may stop hospital-based treatment of H1N1 patients (Link)

Singapore
•  Two more cases confirmed (translated) (Link)

Spain
•  Big jump in H1N1 (Link)

Switzerland
•  Gov't: First swine flu infection in Switzerland (Link)

United Kingdom
•  Jump in Scotland's Swine Flu Cases
Shows Community Spread (Link)
•  Update on confirmed swine flu cases 5 June 2009 (27 New, 486 Confirmed) (Link)
•  Baby among 22 new swine flu cases (Link)
•  Doctors confirmed with swine flu (Link)

United States
•  New swine flu deaths reported in 6 states (Link)
•  More Hawaii Cases: Two articles (Link) (Link)
•  Bay Area records first death tied to swine flu (Link)
•  Aspen Colorado - Swine flu surfaces in Pitkin County (Link)
•  First Swine Flu Death Reported in Wisconsin (Link)
•  Avian Flu Fears Said to Help U.S. Prepare for Swine Flu (Link)
•  Congress Unlikely To Approve Obama's Request For Additional Flu Money (Link)
•  NY Health Dept. Confirms City's Eighth H1N1 Flu-Related Death (Link)
•  TX - El Paso Public Health Dept Says Man May Have Died Of Swine Flu (Link)and(Link)

General News
•  Identification and characterisation of a novel anti-viral peptide against avian influenza virus H9N2 (Link)
•  Pigs an underestimated source of flu: Study  (Link)
•  WHO holding emergency flu meeting (Link)
•  Bird Flu Viruses Can Live for Five Months in Water (Link)
•  Global Testing Shows No Variation in Swine Flu Virus (Link)
•  EU countries broadening H1N1 flu tests: officials (Link)
•  WHO says any announcement will be accompanied by a severity test (Link)
•  WHO statement to be posted later today (Link)
•  Ask The Doc: How Exactly Can Flu Kill A Healthy Person? (Link)
•  As jobs cut, will swine flu, traditional flu swamp vaccination efforts? (Link)

News Reports for June 5

by: AlohaOR

Thu Jun 05, 2008 at 00:37:37 AM EDT

• Singapore Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority monitoring Tyson chicken products
• North Korea: Undiagnosed fatal disease
• Indonesia says it will not announce bird flu deaths (2 stories)
• Vietnam: No bird flu in humans for now
• Britain & US must lead on prevention of bioterrorism
• USDA restricting Arkansas [chicken] sales to Russia