Deadly H5N1 bird flu hits second turkey farm (Britain)
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.
Deadly H5N1 bird flu hits second turkey farm (Britain)
The new farm is operated by the same company that runs Redgrave Park Farm, where the first bird flu case was discovered last week. Defra had already ordered four precautionary culls - including at the new infected site - because ...
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Deadly H5N1 bird flu hits second turkey farm
... been slaughtered at the new infected premises, Hill Meadow Farm, on the Norfolk-Suffolk border. The new farm is operated by the same company that runs Redgrave Park Farm, where the first bird flu case was discovered last week. ...
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Bird flu 'may have hit second farm'
The site is within a 3km protection zone established around Redgrave Park Farm where the deadly H5N1 virus was first discovered on Sunday. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/15/nflu415.xml.
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Bird flu hits Ghana
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported the first outbreak of bird flu in Ghana.The highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu has been discovered at a chicken farm 20 km east of the capital Accra.Some of Ghana’s neighbors have ...
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Should You Be Concerned about H5N1 Bird Flu?
... detection of H5N1 bird flu in East Anglia (UK), you’d be forgiven for wondering how this affects you and what you should do about it. Perhaps a little history would help. First of all, where do you think H5N1 was first discovered? ...
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Arab Media: Bird Flu Outbreak Expands In Saudi Arabia
... field teams working day since the discovery of the first case, consisting of veterinary doctors and technicians who specialized survey on the search for suspected cases might be emergency any farm farms surrounding areas discovered. ...
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Current News: Medicine and Health
Bird flu culling round over in Britain from PhysOrg.com Officials have completed a cull aimed at stopping a bird flu outbreak in eastern England from spreading, Britain's environment ministry said Sunday. ...
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Virulent bird flu, a renewable hydrogen fuel source and a melting ...
from BBC News Online: The type of bird flu found in turkeys on a Suffolk farm is the virulent H5N1 strain, according to government vets. The virus was discovered on Sunday at Redgrave Park Farm near Diss, where all 6500 birds, ...
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Bird flu 'may have hit second farm'
The site is within a 3km protection zone established around Redgrave Park Farm where the deadly H5N1 virus was first discovered on Sunday. A precautionary cull had already been ordered at Grove Farm because it is owned by the same firm ...
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A Bird-Flu Pandemic Could Start Tomorrow
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Bradford_Frank] Bradford Frank Bird flu is a disease caused by a specific type of avian (bird) influenza virus, the so-called H5N1 virus. This virus was first discovered in birds in China in 1997 and ...
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Deadly H5N1 bird flu hits second turkey farm (Britain)
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