News Reports for June 6

by: AlohaOR

Wed Jun 06, 2007 at 00:29:59 AM EDT

• Indonesia - Fatality rate from bird flu rises to 87%
• Indonesia - Worries over latest bird flu virus samples
• Malaysia detects new outbreak of bird flu
• Chinese gangs and counterfeit drugs
• Vietnam - Bird-flu vaccination programme suspected of fraud
• Vietnam - Ministry of Health calls for rigorous bird flu surveillance
• Indonesia prepares bird flu vaccine for 290 million chickens
• Indonesia & Australia agree to develop bird flu vaccine
• Indonesians ignorant of flu risk
• U.K. - Restrictions placed on "bird flu" premises
• Australia - APEC meeting
• China - Undiagnosed disease, porcine
• Malaysia - Bird flu virus found in Sungai Buloh village, Selangor (4 articles)
• India - Dead hens spread panic

Summary of News for June 5, 2007
Bangladesh
•   Bird flu detected in Dinajpur (Link)
China
•   Hong Kong: Bird carcass tested suspected avian flu (Link)
Ghana
•   Ghana needs US $14m to prevent avian influenza from spreading (Link)
Indonesia
•   UNICEF to distribute 100,000 bird flu prevention kits in Indonesia (Link)
Nigeria
•   Nigeria: FG compensates farmers for loss to avian flu (Link)
United Kingdom
•   Wales bird flu is over (Link)
•   For deadly flu pandemic, it's not if, but when, officials warn (Link)
United States
•   FDA finalizes guidances for pandemic and seasonal influenza vaccines (Link)
•   Face masks, respirators might help during pandemic flu outbreak (Link)
•   Hemispherx unveils positive influenza data for Ampligen (Link)
Vietnam
•   Vietnam reports 2 suspected bird flu cases (Link)
•   Two patients recover as Vietnam grapples with bird flu crisis (Link)
General
•   TB scare recalls the first days of SARS (Link)

News Reports for June 6, 2012

by: NewsDiary

Sat Jun 02, 2012 at 18:09:44 PM EDT

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Australia
• Sidney: Flu cases double as experts urge vaccinations (Link)
• Warning On New Strain Of Flu (Link)

Bangladesh
• Govt to vaccinate poultry birds (Link)

China
• Hong Kong: Brain worries ease for tot with bird flu (Link)
• H5N1 bird flu (in poultry) reported in NW China  (Link)

General
• Medline Introduces U.S. Health Care Industry's First Antiviral Face Mask That Inactivates Flu Viruses (Link)

Commentary
• Recombinomics: Clade 2.3.2.1 H5N1 Guangdong China Case (Link)

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News Reports for June 6, 2011

by: NewsDiary

Sun Jun 05, 2011 at 00:06:17 AM EDT

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Australia
•  Flu season strikes early (Link)

Uganda
•  Government Launches Influenza Fight (Link)

United States
•  CDC: Pregnant women at high risk from flu (Link)

General
•  Report outlines post-H1N1 pandemic planning steps for Asia (Link)

Commentary
•  Recombinomics: Pneumonia and Influenza Death Toll In El Paso Increases To 106 (Link)

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News Reports for June 6, 2010

by: NewsDiary

Sat Jun 05, 2010 at 00:00:43 AM EDT

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Malaysia
•  Current Situation of Influenza A (H1N1) - June 6, 2010 (Link and translation)

United States
•  IL DPH and US CDC have suspended weekly flu reports (Link)

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News Reports for June 6, 2009

by: NewsDiary

Sat Jun 06, 2009 at 00:05:50 AM EDT

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Australia
•  Melbourne world's swine flu capital: report  (Link)
•  Swine flu victim 'left hungry for days' (Link)

Canada
•  Ottawa: 29 city schools hit with swine flu (Link)

Dominican Republic
•  Pregnant teenager first Caribbean swine flu death (Link)

Malaysia
•  Australian Student Is Malaysia's Seventh Influenza A Victim (Link)

Nepal
•  Nepal Flu/Mystery Disease - Viral flu hits scores of Okharbot locals (Link)

Philippines
•  Swine Flu Cases Still Rising (Link)

United Kingdom
•  Swine flu woman gives birth (Link)
•  Second swine flu case is a doctor (Link)
•  Update on confirmed swine flu cases 6 June 2009 (Link)
•  Fears over 'critically ill' swine flu mother  (Link)

United States
•  TX: Two more deaths, 142 new cases confirmed (Link)
•  8th Death in NYC Reported (Link)
•  City's swine flu death toll up to 8 (Link)
•  69 new swine flu cases brings Massachusetts total to 854 (Link)
•  Avian Flu Fears Said to Help U.S. Prepare for Swine Flu (Link)
•  U.S. state of Washington reports second death related to A/H1N1 flu (Link)

Commentary
•  Daily Kos: WHO Moves Closer To Pandemic Declaration (Link)

General
•  Bird Flu Virus Can Survive Two Years in Landfill (Link)
•  New CDC Chief Vows to Fight New Flu
CDC's Chief Vows Intense Fight Against New Flu  (Link)
•  Bird Flu Viruses Can Live for Five Months in Water  (Link)
•  Pregnancy reconceived: what keeps a mother's immune system from treating her baby as foreign tissue? A new theory resolves the paradox (Link)
•  WHO Tweaks Pandemic Label to Avoid Swine Flu Panic (Link)
•  Europe - Mitigation and delaying (or 'containment') strategies (Link)
•  ECDC Situation Report (Link)

News Reports for June 6

by: AlohaOR

Fri Jun 06, 2008 at 01:27:08 AM EDT

• South Africa - Flu vaccine stocks run dry as big chill looms
• Indonesia's bird flu reporting policy draws ire
• Beware: Indonesian Health Minister at the wheel (scienceblog)
• WHO concerned by Indonesia's plan (2 stories)
• WHO's Complicity (Recombinomics commentary)
• Bird flu mixed with human virus could form pandemic: research
• We are developing capacity - Ugandan avian flu official
• Indonesian health minister silent on bird flu toll
• UK: Bird flu at Shenington is 'highly infectious' H7N7
• Indonesia cluster reporting failures increase concerns (Recombinomics commentary)