Cold raises bird-flu fears (The Nation)
The first significant step towards preventing influenza was the development in 1944 of a killed-virus vaccine for influenza by Thomas Francis, Jr.. This built on work by Frank Macfarlane Burnet, who showed that the virus lost virulence when it was cultured in fertilized hen's eggs. Application of this observation by Francis allowed his group of researchers at the University of Michigan to develop the first flu vaccine, with support from the U.S. Army. The Army was deeply involved in this research due to its experience of influenza in World War I, when thousands of troops were killed by the virus in a matter of months.
Cold raises bird-flu fears (The Nation)
With the arrival of winter, the Public Health Ministry is worried about the possible outbreak of bird flu.
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Culls in Saudi bird flu outbreak (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Saudia Arabia's agriculture ministry confirmed Friday that the entire stock of three poultry farms outside the capital had been culled due to an outbreak of bird flu, the official SPA news agency said.
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Culls in Saudi bird flu outbreak (Middle East Times)
Chicken sit in a farm in April 2007. Saudia Arabia's agriculture ministry confirmed Friday that the entire stock of three poultry farms outside the capital had been culled due to an outbreak of bird flu, the official SPA news agency said.
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Bird flu claims tens of thousands of Saudi chickens (The Daily Star Lebannon)
Around 90,000 chickens died at two farms in Saudi Arabia following a bird flu outbreak, Agriculture Minister Fahd Balghnaim was quoted as saying Friday. Balghnaim did not confirm that bird flu was the cause of death. But the deaths occurred one day after his ministry announced that 50,000 birds were culled at a poultry farm in Al-Kharj.
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Bird flu detected at farm in Saudi Arabia (Borneo Bulletin)
RIYADH (AFP) - The lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected at a poultry farm in Saudi Arabia and 50,000 birds have been culled, the agriculture ministry announced on Wednesday.
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Cull widens in bird flu outbreak (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Poultry on four more sites in Suffolk were being culled Wednesday in a bid to stop an outbreak of the potentially lethal H5N1 Asian strain of bird flu from spreading.
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British poultry cull widens following bird flu outbreak (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Poultry on four more sites in eastern England were being culled Wednesday in a bid to stop an outbreak of the potentially lethal H5N1 Asian strain of bird flu from spreading.
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Outbreak of lethal bird flu confirmed in Britain (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Veterinary authorities confirmed an outbreak of the potentially lethal Asian strain of bird flu in eastern England on Tuesday, in a new blow to the British farming industry.
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Bird flu in England is 'lethal strain' (Pretoria News)
London - Veterinary authorities confirmed on Tuesday an outbreak of the potentially lethal Asian strain of bird flu in eastern England, in a new blow to the British farming industry.
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Bird Flu Found Again in Ducks in Vietnam (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Dozens of ducks died from bird flu in southern Vietnam, the second outbreak discovered this week, a government report released Friday said.
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Cold raises bird-flu fears (The Nation)
The symptoms of human influenza were clearly described by Hippocrates roughly 2400 years ago. Since then, the virus has caused numerous pandemics. Historical data on influenza are difficult to interpret, because the symptoms can be similar to those of other diseases, such as diphtheria, pneumonic plague, typhoid fever, dengue, or typhus. The first convincing record of an influenza pandemic was of an outbreak in 1580, which began in Asia and spread to Europe via Africa. In Rome over 8,000 people were killed, and several Spanish cities were almost wiped out. Pandemics continued sporadically throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, with the pandemic of 1830–1833 being particularly widespread; it infected approximately a quarter of the people exposed.
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