News Reports for November 14

by: AlohaOR

Wed Nov 14, 2007 at 01:53:41 AM EST

• China - Shanghai wary about unidentified pneumonia
• UK - Bird flu cull extended to four more farms
• UK: Laboratory where deadly bird flu samples tested is safe say officials
• UK: Bird flu: hunt for source of outbreak narrows to lake at stately home
• Canada: Over 40% of critical healthcare workers may not go to work when a pandemic hits
• Deadly H5N1 confirmed at UK poultry farm
• Saudi Arabia - Lethal bird flu found in poultry farm
• UK: Dutch duckling imports are at centre of bird flu inquiry
• UK: Free-range farmers and the threat of an avian influenza pandemic
• India: Stray animals' menace (letter to editor)
• Late Tamiflu Use In Older Folks-Study finds greater, later role for antivirals in flu patients
• UK: Papers' gloomy bird flu prospects
• Colorado: Weld to participate in vaccination exercise

Summary of News for November 13, 2007
China
•   China provides WHO with bird flu strains (Link)
Indonesia
•   More on wife of Mohamad Nabi (Link)
•   Widow of M. Nabih is a suspected H5N1 case (updated) (Link)
New Zealand
•   New Zealand quarantines 223 over bird flu (Link)
Papua New Guinea
•   Bird flu fears in Wewak (Link) and (Map)
United Kingdom
•   Tests on birds after flu outbreak (Link)
•   Fresh bird flu outbreak in Britain (Link) and (Map)
•   DEFRA extends bird flu Restriction Zone (Link)
•   Scenes of devastation as vets cull 5,000 turkeys after bird blue outbreak (Link)
•   Suffolk bird flu 'is H5N1 strain' (Link)
•   Infected turkeys 'have deadly avian flu strain' (Link)
•   DEFRA link: "Latest Situation" w/ maps (Link)
•   Lax biosecurity at organic farm may have allowed virus to spread (Link)
United States
•   VA: Physician to discuss bird flu at library (Link)
•   CA: Drive-through clinic set up to test emergency response (Link)
General
•   Effect Measure: An idea to promote pandemic awareness (Link)
•   Global map of AF risks (Link)
•   ProMED-mail, comments on genome & 2/07 outbreak (Link) and (Link)

News Reports for November 13, 2012

by: NewsDiary

Sat Nov 10, 2012 at 15:49:43 PM EST

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Cuba
• Cuba to Kick off Vaccination Campaign Against the Flu (Link)

India
• New Delhi: 71 swine flu cases this year (Link)
• Tamil Nadu: Bird flu outbreak leaves poultry exporters in fever (Link)
• Tamil Nadu: state bans poultry feed due to bird flu (Link)

United Kingdom
• 'Essential medicine' Tamiflu accused of being useless in fighting flu (Link)

Research
• Getting the Flu Vaccine With Egg Allergy (Link)
• Cats and dogs could hatch new diseases (Link)
• UK: Rapid diagnosis of flu moves a step closer (Link)

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News Reports for November 14, 2011

by: NewsDiary

Sat Nov 12, 2011 at 13:58:40 PM EST

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Azerbaijan
•  Next 'bird flu' monitoring starts in Azerbaijan (Link)

India
•  Officials discuss steps to prevent disease outbreak (Link)

Paraguay
•  Tacumbú internal isolate of H1N1 influenza outbreak (translated) (Link)

South Africa
•  More H5N2 on ostrich farms (Link)

Tunisia
•  Undiagnosed Die-Off, Avian (Link)

Ukraine
•  Healthcare Ministry Expects First Wave Of Influenza In Ukraine Late In November (Link)

United States
•  IA: Iowa Confirms First Case of Flu (Link)
•  IA: First confirmed flu case features strain that can be nasty (Link)

Commentary
•  Why do some influenza virus subtypes die out? (Link)
•  Recombinomics: More Swine Match Failures With Novel 2011 Human trH3N2 (Link)

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News Reports for November 14, 2010

by: NewsDiary

Sat Nov 13, 2010 at 20:41:39 PM EST

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China
•  Shanghai this winter and next spring will be alert against avian influenza and SARS (translated) (Link) Original link (Link)

Mexico
•  Detected cases of H1N1 virus (translated) (Link)

Namibia
•  Namibia - Swine flu (Link)

Russia
•  Infection is imminent (translated) (Link)

Saudi Arabia
•  An Indonesian Jemaah Suspected H1N1 Affected (translated) (Link)
•  Thousands of Indonesian Jemaah Hospital (translated) (Link)

Ukraine
•  Outbreak of influenza type B in children - Ukraine (Zaporozhye) (translated) (Link)
•  Doctors believe a flu pandemic in Ukraine will not. It will be the usual epidemic (translated) (Link)
•   In late November, is expected flu epidemic (translated) (Link)

Commentary
•  Recombinomics: CDC Fails to Show Swine H3N2 Transmission To Humans (Link)

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News Reports for November 14, 2009

by: NewsDiary

Fri Nov 13, 2009 at 23:07:45 PM EST

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Australia
•  Man with severe swine flu defies the odds  (Link)

Austria
•  3rd A/H1N1 death (Link)

Canada
•  Access to vaccine increased (Link)
•  Newfoundland confirms its 7th death from H1N1
(Link)

Finland
•  First A/H1N1 flu fatal case reported in Finnish capital (Link)

India
•  India: A 2nd death confirmed in Orissa and 'nearly 200' children ILI (Link)
•  India: Punjab orphanage has both dengue cases and H1N1 (Link)

Iran
•  Iran: MP says H1N1 cases 'higher than those claimed', 16 students hospitalized (Link)

Italy
•  A/H1N1 death toll rises to 45 (Link)

Kosovo
•  Kosovo: confirmation of 1st death and 22 cases of H1N1 (Link)

Latvia
•  Latvia reports first swine flu death (Link)

Mexico
•  Flu deaths increase rapidly in Mexico (Link)

Philippines
•  Three little pigs in Mindanao (Link)

Poland
•  Poland Confirms Its 1st Death From H1N1 Flu Virus (Link)

Spain
•  2 more deaths confirmed in Catalonia (Link)

Sudan
•  confirmation of 13 cases of H1N1, 4 new cases
(Link)

Turkey
•  Death toll of A/H1N1 flu rises to 60 in Turkey (Link)

Ukraine
•  Fragile Care Worsened Swine Flu in Ukraine (Link)

United Kingdom
•  Wales: Eighteen mothers-to-be admitted to Welsh hospitals with swine flu [cumulative total] (Link)
•  Scotland confirms 2 more deaths, total now 37 (Link)

United States
•  FDA Panel to Consider New Flu Vaccine Technology (Link)
•  California H1N1 death rates by county (Link)
•  IA: H1N1 flu's strength, speed stun mourners (Link)
•  IL: 7 yr. old dies in Rockford; 3rd death in Winnebago County (Link)
•  IN: H1N1 kills 2 in La Porte County  (Link)
•  KS: KDHE announces additional death of Kansan infected with H1N1 (Link)
•  OR: H1N1 flu claims second local [Yamhill Co.] victim (Link)
•  PA: Geisinger confirms 2nd H1N1 Death in a Week (Link)
•  ME: Two more deaths in Maine (Link)
• FL: 3 yr old girl died of H1N1 (Link)
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General
•  Novartis receives approval in Switzerland for Celtura (Link)
•  CSL Limited's H1N1 influenza vaccine approved for infants  (Link)
•  Swine Flu Slowing Worldwide (Link)
•  H1N1: Mechanical Ventilation For Patients With Lung Damage Don't Always Work As Planned (Link)
•  Studies show obesity may increase risk for swine flu (Link)

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News Reports for November 14

by: Nimbus

Fri Nov 14, 2008 at 00:10:59 AM EST