WHO meets to end impasse over avian-flu vaccines (The Globe and Mail)
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.
WHO meets to end impasse over avian-flu vaccines (The Globe and Mail)
Many are skeptical the meeting will solve lingering stalemate
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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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WHO trying to break Indonesian virus sharing logjam (CTV.ca)
World Health Organization member countries will take another crack this week at resolving a dispute over avian influenza virus sharing that threatens both how the world monitors for potential flu pandemics and the way flu vaccine, seasonal and pandemic, is made.
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WHO officials meet in Indonesian virus-sharing logjam (CBC)
World Health Organization member countries are meeting this week in another attempt to resolve a dispute with Indonesia over avian influenza virus sharing that affects the way the world monitors potential flu pandemics and how flu vaccines are made.
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Infected turkeys 'have deadly avian flu strain' (Times Online Sunday)
Initial tests at the Veterinary Laboratories Agency suggest that free-range turkeys on a Suffolk farm are infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu which is potentially dangerous to humans.
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U.S. Sends Ships, Relief Supplies To Bangladesh (Scoop.co.nz)
The United States is sending naval ships and $2.1 million in emergency relief supplies to Bangladesh to help the victims of Cyclone Sidr, which ravaged the country's southern coast.
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ASIA: IRIN-ASIA Weekly round-up 150 for 12 – 18 November 2007 (AlertNet)
Source: IRIN CONTENTS: AFGHANISTAN: Insecurity stops food aid to a Daykundi district AFGHANISTAN: Six million schoolchildren to receive landmine coaching AFGHANISTAN: Fifth least developed country in the world
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Flu Jab (Times Online)
So far the latest bird flu outbreak is a crisis only for the farmers whose birds are being culled near Diss. Some discerning buyers may have to source their turkeys elsewhere, but outside the “restricted” zone set up round Redgrave Park the picture is less bleak: farmers and government can derive some comfort from Gressingham Foods' prompt reporting of the outbreak on Sunday and Suffolk County ...
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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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County urges preparation for flu pandemic (The Olympian)
Up to one-third of Thurston County office, hospital, government and other workers could be out for eight to 12 weeks in the event of a pandemic flu outbreak, county health officials said Tuesday.
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WHO meets to end impasse over avian-flu vaccines (The Globe and Mail)
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