Official: UAE ready to deal with bird flu emergency (People's Daily)
Typically, influenza is transmitted from infected mammals through the air by coughs or sneezes, creating aerosols containing the virus, and from infected birds through their droppings. Influenza can also be transmitted by saliva, nasal secretions, feces and blood. Infections also occur through contact with these body fluids or with contaminated surfaces.
Official: UAE ready to deal with bird flu emergency (People's Daily)
A senior official of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said that the country is ready to deal with any bird flu emergency situation after reports of an outbreak of the disease in neighboring Saudi Arabia, local newspaper Gulf News reported on ...
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Marsh UK Analyzes Threats from Latest Avian Flu Outbreak (Insurance Journal)
Marsh's London office has issued a detailed bulletin following the outbreak of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in Suffolk. The report recounts what is known about avian flu, and what the potential impa
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SANTA CRUZ / Suspected norovirus outbreak sickens 80 (San Francisco Chronicle)
More than 80 people have been sickened, and another 1,000 exposed to illness, in an outbreak of a highly contagious virus at a Santa Cruz-area hotel, public health officials said Friday. Authorities have not yet identified the cause of the outbreak but...
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Turkey price hike fears as bird flu strikes (icWales)
SHOPPERS could end up paying an extra £4 for fresh Christmas turkeys as a result of the latest bird flu outbreak, industry experts warned yesterday.
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Cleanliness Could Stunt Staph Outbreak (The Signal)
In light of the recent flu and staph outbreaks in Hart district schools, Board President Patricia Hanrion suggested at Wednesday’s board meeting that the district look into installing hand-washing stations in schools to prevent transmission of these and other illnesses.
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Kuwait News (Arab Times)
KUWAIT (Agencies): Kuwait said it was free of bird flu and that it had formed an emergency committee to counter any situation that might arise because of this virus.
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Flu-shot clinic doubles as emergency drill (Vail Daily)
EDWARDS - If there is a pandemic or other public-health emergency, Eagle County is ready. The county Health Department held a mass-vaccination exercise Saturday morning to test its ability to vaccinate a large number of people in a short amount of time.
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UK confirms lethal bird flu outbreak (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The deadly strain of H5N1 bird flu was confirmed at a turkey farm in eastern England this morning, in a fresh blow for farmers still reeling from outbreaks of foot and mouth disease and bluetongue.
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Bird flu cull extended to four more farms (Times Online)
Poultry are to be culled on four further East Anglia farms due to fears they have had “dangerous contacts” with the site of the latest bird flu outbreak, the government announced today.
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BANGLADESH: Return of the bird flu threat (IRIN)
DHAKA, 15 November 2007 (IRIN) - Avian flu has re-emerged in Bangladesh after four months, with five reported new outbreaks in poultry farms across the country since October.
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Official: UAE ready to deal with bird flu emergency (People's Daily)
The Spanish flu pandemic was truly global, spreading even to the Arctic and remote Pacific islands. The unusually severe disease killed between 2 and 20% of those infected, as opposed to the more usual flu epidemic mortality rate of 0.1%. Another unusual feature of this pandemic was that it mostly killed young adults, with 99% of pandemic influenza deaths occurring in people under 65, and more than half in young adults 20 to 40 years old. This is unusual since influenza is normally most deadly to the very young (under age 2) and the very old (over age 70). The total mortality of the 19181919 pandemic is not known, but it is estimated that 2.5% to 5% of the world's population was killed. As many as 25 million may have been killed in the first 25 weeks; in contrast, HIV/AIDS has killed 25 million in its first 25 years.
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