Bird flu eradication project in Tangerang (The Jakarta Post)
The most famous and lethal outbreak was the so-called Spanish flu pandemic (type A influenza, H1N1 subtype), which lasted from 1918 to 1919. Older estimates say it killed 40–50 million people while current estimates say 50 million to 100 million people worldwide were killed. This pandemic has been described as "the greatest medical holocaust in history" and may have killed as many people as the Black Death. This huge death toll was caused by an extremely high infection rate of up to 50% and the extreme severity of the symptoms, suspected to be caused by cytokine storms. Indeed, symptoms in 1918 were so unusual that initially influenza was misdiagnosed as dengue, cholera, or typhoid. One observer wrote, "One of the most striking of the complications was hemorrhage from mucous membranes, especially from the nose, stomach, and intestine. Bleeding from the ears and petechial hemorrhages in the skin also occurred." The majority of deaths were from bacterial pneumonia, a secondary infection caused by influenza, but the virus also killed people directly, causing massive hemorrhages and edema in the lung.
Bird flu eradication project in Tangerang (The Jakarta Post)
TANGERANG: A project for avian influenza eradication will be piloted in both Tangerang municipality and regency as a cooperative effort between Indonesia and Singapore, an official said Sunday.
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UK Bird Flu Update: H5N1 Confirmed At 2nd Premises (Scoop.co.nz)
Laboratory test results have today confirmed H5N1 Avian Influenza in turkeys at one of the Dangerous Contact premises. These premises were confirmed as a Dangerous Contact, and placed under restriction, on 14th November. Culling was completed on 17th November.
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In Briefs (Việt Nam News)
HCM CITY — Duxton Sai Gon Hotel gave away on Thursday scholarships worth US$500 (VND8 million) each to 117 first year students studying in technology, economics and social sciences and humanities universities in HCM City.
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Foreign firm to put up luxury resorts in Palawan (Sun Star)
SINGAPORE hotel and resort developer Banyan Tree Group has announced its plan to develop and operate luxury resorts in Dinaran Island in Palawan at the cost of around US$70 million.
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Asean to promote nuclear energy (The Manila Times)
SINGAPORE: Southeast Asian leaders will promote the use of civilian nuclear power, along with other alternative energy sources, when they meet in Singapore next week, a draft statement obtained Tuesday said.
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Investor Jim Rogers planning to dump his dollar-denominated assets (International Herald Tribune)
Demand not matched by increases in supply make commodities "one of the best places to be if you want to get out of the U.S. dollars," Rogers said.
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Develop S'pore into research & education hub in cross-border diseases: Tony Tan (Straits Times)
THE next phase in Singapore's biomedical push is to reach out and work with regional countries in, for instance, the treatment of infectious diseases.
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Rogers May Move Assets Out of U.S. Dollars in Weeks (Update2) (Bloomberg.com)
Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Investor Jim Rogers said he may sell all U.S. dollar-denominated assets as early as in the coming weeks in favor of agricultural commodities.
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Asean charter ready for signing (The Manila Times)
SINGAPORE: A landmark charter to be signed by Southeast Asian leaders this month seeks to promote human rights and democracy but doubts remain over how it can bring rogue members such as Myanmar into line.
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World News Quick Take (Taipei Times)
Two Islamic militants have been freed after being held for four years for belonging to the Southeast Asian militant group Jemaah Islamiah (JI), which is linked to al-Qaeda, the government said on Friday.
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Bird flu eradication project in Tangerang (The Jakarta Post)
The etiological cause of influenza, the Orthomyxoviridae family of viruses, was first discovered in pigs by Richard Schope in 1931. This discovery was shortly followed by the isolation of the virus from humans by a group headed by Patrick Laidlaw at the Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom in 1933. However, it was not until Wendell Stanley first crystallized tobacco mosaic virus in 1935 that the non-cellular nature of viruses was appreciated.
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