Wife of Indonesian bird flu victim cleared (Straits Times)
How Does the Flu Spread? This virus gets around in little drops that spray out of an infected person's mouth and nose when he or she sneezes, coughs, or even laughs. You can catch the flu from someone who has it if you breathe in some of those tiny flu-infected drops. You can also catch the flu if those drops get on your hands and you touch your mouth or nose. No wonder people are always saying to cover your mouth when you sneeze!
Wife of Indonesian bird flu victim cleared (Straits Times)
JAKARTA - A WOMAN on the Indonesian island of Sumatra who was suspected of being infected with bird flu after her husband died of H5N1 has been cleared, a health ministry official said on Friday.
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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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Outbreak of lethal bird flu confirmed in Britain (AFP via Yahoo! Canada News)
LONDON (AFP) - 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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Q&A: why bird flu threatens free range farms (Times Online Sunday)
What is avian flu? This is a contagious disease caused by various strains of flu viruses. It is common in birds, which suffer like humans and mainly recover, especially if the virus is a low pathogenic strain.
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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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5 Minute Guide: Bird flu (Channel 4)
What happened? Bird flu was thought to only infect birds until the first human cases came to light in 1997 when the H5N1 strain infected 18 people in Hong Kong, killing six. All the territory's poultry - over one million birds - were culled, but the virus was not eradicated.
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Aussies put black line through Chinese ink (NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News)
Australia's 478 China-bound athletes have been warned not to get celebratory tattoos during next year's Beijing Olympics as they risk contracting cancer-causing hepatitis B.
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Aussies put black line through Chinese ink (Stuff)
Australia's 478 Olympic athletes have been warned not to get celebratory tattoos during the Beijing Olympic Games as they risk contracting cancer-causing hepatitis B.
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Indonesia confirms 91st bird flu death (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Indonesia confirmed Saturday that a 31-year-old man from Sumatra island who died last week was infected with bird flu, raising the toll in the worst-hit nation to 91.
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Athletes put on alert over tatts, fruit, sex workers (Sydney Morning Herald)
AUSTRALIA'S 478 Olympic athletes have been warned not to get celebratory tattoos during the Beijing Olympic Games as they risk contracting cancer-causing hepatitis B.
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Wife of Indonesian bird flu victim cleared (Straits Times)
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 4050 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.
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