UK Bird Flu Update: H5N1 Confirmed At 2nd Premises
The term influenza has its origins in 15th-century Italy, where the cause of the disease was ascribed to unfavourable astrological influences. Evolution in medical thought led to its modification to influenza del freddo, meaning "influence of the cold." The word "influenza" was first attested in English in 1743 when it was borrowed during an outbreak of the disease in Europe. Archaic terms for influenza include epidemic catarrh, grippe (from the French grippe, meaning flu; sometimes spelled "grip" or "gripe"), sweating sickness, and Spanish fever (particularly for the 1918 pandemic strain).
UK Bird Flu Update: H5N1 Confirmed At 2nd Premises
"The laboratory test results today highlight the importance of poultry keepers in the area being extremely vigilant. It is essential they practice the highest levels of biosecurity and report any suspicions of disease to their local ...
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MoH Taking Steps to Curb Bird Flu Threat
Following a bird-flu outbreak at a farm in the Eastern Province of close neighbour Saudi Arabia, the UAE government is undertaking steps to prevent the spread of the epidemic in the emirates. The Ministry of Health is constantly ...
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World Crisis scenarios for the 21st century - Bird Flu (H5N1) and ...
World Crisis scenarios for the 21st century - Bird Flu (H5N1) and other pandemic Virus concerns - (update 3). David Nabarro of UN, video interview. ‘World should prepare for bird flu pandemic’. From Bloomberg video.
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November 17 Flu Update
CIDRAP on research that says wild birds unlikely to bring bird flu to North America. (I have said before...when bird flu reaches North America, it will be in a human). Dead swan found in UK. ProMed on outbreak in Bangladesh and updates ...
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Bird flu update
It's not just farm birds that are at risk; evidence shows that commercial, wild and pet birds can also get bird flu. A new update has just reported that the strain of avian influenza on the Norfolk and Suffolk border is the H5N1 virus. ...
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November 18 Flu Update
Oregon's state vet has been to Egypt to study fighting pandemic flu. In UK, they are pushing the government to consider mass immunization. Also in UK, companies are not prepared for the bird flu. ProMed on story from yesterday that said ...
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November 16 Flu Update
ProMed on a suspected cluster in Vietnam that doesn't pan out. A Dutch transport is stopped on suspicion of transporting bird flu to UK. Article on poultry workers in Britain not receiving a bird flu vaccine....excuse me? What vaccine? ...
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November 15 Flu Update
Economist talks, as always, realistically and in an informed sense about how bird flu could effect British poultry, given the stubborn nature of animal diseases. Barbados has banned UK poultry. Workers near the outbreak in Saudi Arabia ...
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H5N1 Avian Influenza update
H5N1 Avian Influenza update.
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November 9 Bird Flu Update
Bird flu in Northern and Southern Vietnam. CIDRAP on the spread of the disease in Vietnam. I often don't do this, but I bring forward this from Wulfgang's comment. Recombinomics on what appears to be a suspect cluster in Riau. ...
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UK Bird Flu Update: H5N1 Confirmed At 2nd Premises
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.
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