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AFP/File - Sun Apr 1, 2:59 AM ET Ducks fly down to a pond at a private farm in Phu Xuyen district, Vietnam, March 2007. Bird flu has struck two poultry farms in Vietnam's far south, killing 65 ducks and forcing the slaughter of 20 more, according to state media and veterinary officials.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) (VIETNAM) |
AFP/File - Sun Apr 1, 4:34 AM ET Chickens are sold at a market in Alexandria in February 2006. A four-old-girl has become the 32nd case of bird flu reported in Egypt, the fifth child afflicted in the North African country during the past week.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki) (EGYPT) |
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AFP/File - Mon Apr 2, 1:56 AM ET A poultry farm on the outskirts of Yangon. Military-run Myanmar slaughtered thousands of fowl last week amid fears the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus was spreading in the nation's biggest city, Yangon(AFP/File/Khin Muang Win) (MYANMAR) |
AFP/File - Mon Apr 2, 2:31 AM ET Jean-Pierre Garnier, the head of GlaxoSmithKline, Europe's biggest drug maker, will meet with the World Health Organisation's director-general on Friday to discuss ways to provide vaccinations against the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, the company's head said in an interview published Monday(AFP/File/Odd Andersen) (WHO) |
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AFP/Jiji Press/HO/File - Mon Apr 2, 4:06 AM ET File photo shows a health official entering a poultry house to dispose of birds in Takahashi city, Japan. Over 1,000 experts from Southeast Asia, Japan and the World Health Organisation took part Monday in an exercise to sharpen response to any future bird flu pandemic.(AFP/Jiji Press/HO/File) (JAPAN) |
AP - Mon Apr 2, 3:51 AM ET Paul Cox, WHO (World Health Organization) Pandemic Prepared Officer, briefs reporters in Manila, Philippines Monday April 2, 2007 on the ongoing drill to test WHO's ability to respond on the first signs of a human bird flu pandemic. The exercise known as Panstop 2007, which involves ASEAN, WHO and Japanese Government, conducts a mock scenario in which bird flu vaccine Tamiflu and personal protective equipment will be swiftly dispatched from an ASEAN country to a Southeast Asian country where signs of a pandemic strain are emerging. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez) (PHILIPPINES) |
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Reuters - Mon Apr 2, 6:42 PM ET A volunteer helping to slaughter birds to stem a flare-up of bird flu in south Jakarta, January 21, 2007. The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu may spread from Indonesia, Egypt and Nigeria to other countries as it continues to circulate in Africa and Asia, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Monday. (Supri/Reuters) (FAO) |
Reuters - Mon Apr 2, 10:58 AM ET Turkeys are seen at a poultry farm in a file photo. Turkeys at a farm in West Virginia have tested positive for what government officials believe is a low-pathogenic strain of the bird flu virus, the U.S. Agriculture Department said late on Sunday. (Darren Staples/Reuters) (US) |
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AFP/File - Mon Apr 2, 2:08 PM ET Chickens are displayed for sale in 2006. Bird flu is on the decline around the world, the UN food agency said, while warning that the potentially deadly disease is still spreading where containment is inadequate.(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy) (UN) |
AFP/File - Mon Apr 2, 4:52 PM ET A man in protective clothes works in one of the buildings at the Bernard Matthews turkey farm in England, seen here in February 2007. The firm which owns a poultry processing plant hit by an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus in February will not face prosecution, Britain's food watchdog said.(AFP/File/Leon Neal) (UK) |
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Singapore's PM Lee Hsien Loong (L) and WHO Director-General Margaret Chan (WHO) |
AFP/File - Tue Apr 3, 11:00 PM ET A man carries chickens to sell at a chicken run in Jakarta, 14 March 2007. Bird flu has killed another Indonesian, taking the nation's death toll to 72, the highest number of casualties of any country, a health official said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo) (INDONESIA) |
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AFP - Wed Apr 4, 12:27 PM ET Two Bangladeshi workers are treated in a hospital in Kuwait City after showing symptoms of being infected with the bird flu virus. Preliminary tests for bird flu were positive on four Bangladeshi workers who had been culling infected chickens in Kuwait, a medical source said on Wednesday, but they have not been officially confirmed.(AFP/Yasser al-Zayyat) (KUWAIT) |
AFP/File - Wed Apr 4, 2:46 PM ET A doctor vaccinates a child against meningitis in Limoges, France, March 2007. The World Health Organisation will look at ways of stockpiling vaccines to help poorer nations, including any future vaccines against bird flu, its director general said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Antoine Parat) (FRANCE) |
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Reuters - Thu Apr 5, 9:46 AM ET Kuwait's Minister of Health, Maasouma al-Mubarak, holds a lab report stating that four foreign workers that were tested for the bird flu virus were not infected April 5,2007. The workers were part of teams culling birds in the southern region of Wafra near the Saudi border, where the H5N1 deadly strain had been found on chicken farms, and were admitted to hospital on fears of bird flu infection on Tuesday, a Health Ministry official said. REUTERS/Stephanie McGehee (KUWAIT) |
April 05, 2007 13:25 EST Russia bans W. Va. poultry for bird flu Turkeys are seen at a poultry farm in a file photo. (RUSSIA) |
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AFP/File - Thu Apr 5, 12:58 PM ET An official collects the chickens for destruction in Turkey, seen here in 2006. Turkey has defeated a bird flu outbreak in the southeast and the country is now free of the disease, Agriculture Minister Mehdi Eker said.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer) (TURKEY) |
AFP/File - Fri Apr 6, 1:34 AM ET A man (R) holds a pigeon while a girl looks on at a bird market in Jakarta, 04 April 2007. Bird flu has killed a teenage girl in Indonesia, taking the death toll in the country worst hit by the deadly virus to 73, an official said Friday.(AFP/File/Adek Berry) (INDONESIA) |
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AFP/File - Fri Apr 6, 2:22 AM ET A Cambodian girl offers rice for home-raised chickens in Phnom Penh, April 2006. A 13-year-old girl has died of bird flu in Cambodia, the country's seventh fatality from the H5N1 virus, the health ministry and the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Friday.(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy) (CAMBODIA) |
AFP/Graphic - Fri Apr 6, 6:58 AM ET Graphic showing the worldwide bird flu toll. Teenage girls in Cambodia and Indonesia have died of bird flu as the virus continues to stalk across Asia, the region hardest-hit since the disease emerged in 2003, health officials said.(AFP/Graphic) (CAMBODIA) |
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AFP/File - Fri Apr 6, 7:18 AM ET Birds sit in front of a mosque minaret in Giza, Egypt. The official MENA news agency has revealed that a two-year-old Egyptian girl has been diagnosed with bird flu, the 33rd human case of the disease reported in the country.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki) (EGYPT) |
AFP/File - Fri Apr 6, 12:34 PM ET World Health Organisation headquarters, in Geneva, Switzerland. The World Health Organisation on Friday urged countries to join forces to tackle the growing number of cross-border threats to public health, including avian influenza and HIV/AIDS.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini) (WHO) |
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Reuters - Sat Apr 7, 1:11 AM ET A vendor pulls ducks on a cart in a local market in Jakarta April 7, 2007. A 29-year-old Indonesian man from Central Java province has died of bird flu, a health ministry official said on Saturday, taking the human death toll from the virus in the country to 74. REUTERS/Dadang Tri (INDONESIA) |
Reuters - Sun Apr 8, 12:46 PM ET A woman sells birds and ducks at a market in Cairo April 8, 3007. The Egyptian health ministry has confirmed that a 15-year-old girl living in Cairo has become the 34th person in Egypt to be diagnosed with bird flu, the official Middle East News Agency reported on Sunday. REUTERS/Nasser Nuri (EGYPT) |
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Sun April 08 2007 10:50:18 AM BDT Fisheries and Livestock Adviser CS Karim visits bird flu affected poultry farms in Narayanganj yesterday. PHOTO: Focus Bangla (BANGLADESH) |
AFP/File - Mon Apr 9, 1:03 AM ET A food vendor arranges roasted ducks for sale at a market in Phnom Penh, 06 April 2007. Cambodia on Monday kicked off a week-long bird flu awareness blitz following the country's seventh death from the H5N1 virus.(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy) (CAMBODIA) |
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AFP/File - Mon Apr 9, 1:09 PM ET Pakistani poultry workers are feeding chickens inside a poultry farm in 2006. Pakistani authorities Monday reported two new cases of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in commercial poultry farms in the country, officials said.(AFP/File/Farooq Naeem) (PAKISTAN) |
AFP/File - Wed Apr 11, 1:21 PM ET An Egyptian man sells chicken in a street market in Cairo in February 2006. A teenage girl from Cairo has died of bird flu, the health ministry announced on Wednesday, bringing to 14 the number of Egyptians who have succumbed to the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus.(AFP/File/Cris Bouroncle) (EGYPT) |
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AP - Wed Apr 11, 12:05 PM ET Egyptian pigeon fanciers call for their pigeons at their pigeon coop in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, April 11, 2007. An Egyptian teenage girl has died of bird flu, apparently contracting the disease merely by buying a chicken at a market, a World Health Organization spokesman said Wednesday bringing to 14 the number of Egyptians to have succumbed to the H5N1 virus since it first appeared in Egypt last year. (AP Photo/Mohamed al Sehety) (EGYPT) |
Reuters 11 Apr 2007 11:56:35 GMT "The avian virus has been detected in three more farms in southern Noakhali, northern Gaibandha and western Jessore districts," said a spokesman of the ministry's livestock department. (BANGLADESH) |
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Reuters - Wed Apr 11, 8:54 AM ET A caterpillar moves on the blade of a leaf in the northeastern Indian city of Siliguri November 7, 2006. A flu vaccine grown in caterpillar cells instead of the usual risky and uncertain method based on chicken eggs is not only safe but effective in people, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday. (Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters) (USA) |
AFP - Thu Apr 12, 10:52 PM ET A researcher displays a bottle of M-Compound, a kind of liquid to help cells grow, at National Health Research Institute (NHRI) in Chunan, northern Taiwan. Taiwanese scientists are preparing to mass produce a bird flu vaccine developed using a novel cell-based technology to battle any possible epidemic of the deadly H5N1 virus.(AFP/Sam Yeh) (RESEARCH) |
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AFP/File - Fri Apr 13, 1:45 PM ET A Kuwaiti health worker decontaminates a chicken coop in Kabad, south of Kuwait City, in March 2007 as part of measures to compact an outbreak of bird flu. Sales of chicken in Kuwait have dropped by around 40 percent since an outbreak of bird flu was announced in February, the official KUNA news agency said on Friday.(AFP/File/Yasser al-Zayyat) (KUWAIT) |
AFP/File - Sat Apr 14, 3:24 AM ET A market in Phnom Penh. Cambodia on Saturday confirmed a new outbreak of bird flu among poultry a little more than a week after a 13-year-old girl died of the deadly H5N1 virus(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy) (CAMBODIA) |
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AFP/File - Sun Apr 15, 2:38 PM ET An Egyptian man sells chicken in a street market in Cairo in February 2006. Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif on Sunday allocated 240 million pounds (42 million dollars) to the ministries of health and agriculture to help combat bird flu, the official MENA news agency said.(AFP/File/Cris Bouroncle) (EGYPT) |
Monday, 16 April 2007, 11:03 GMT 12:03 UK The outbreak at the farm happened in February, the Centre for Food Safety in Hong Kong will not allow imports from Bernard Matthews.(HONG KONG) |
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Monday April 16, 2:00 a.m. Bangladesh poultry farm workers look on in Gajipur, the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, March. 28, 2007. Thousands of chickens were slaughtered after bird flu H5N1 virus was detected in the country.(AP Photo/Pavel Rahman) (BANGLADESH) |
Nations Online The arrows represent the movement of the H5N1 virus into the three distinct regions represented in the genome study. The green, pink and yellow arrows depict the three strains of avian flu that have emerged independently in the West. The orange arrows show the likely source of all the avian influenza strains, which is in China. From there it has moved south into Vietnam and west into central Asia and Russia. (CHINA) |
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AFP - Mon Apr 16, 2:51 PM ET US and Indonesian scientists have joined forces in a bid to halt the high number of bird flu deaths in the archipelago nation, a US official said.(AFP/Walter Astrada) (INDONESIA) |
Reuters - Tue Apr 17, 1:55 PM ET A day-old chick sticks its head out of a bin at the Wadi Hatcheries in Sadat City March 8, 2007. U.S. health officials on Tuesday approved a Sanofi-Aventis vaccine to prevent bird flu in humans. REUTERS/Tara Todras-Whitehill (VACCINES) |
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Reuters - Tue Apr 17, 3:53 PM ET A health worker injects a chicken with the bird flu vaccine inside a poultry farm in Yichang, central China's Hubei province, in this November 8, 2006 file photo. China has not shared any human H5N1 bird flu samples with WHO-accredited laboratories for over a year, sparking renewed fears that it may be frustrating efforts to track changes in the virus and find ways to fight it. (China Daily/Reuters) (CHINA) |
4/18/2007 Bird flu takes a worse turn
The spread of the disease among local poultry birds creates special challenges. But the same can be addressed through widespread publicities to make people aware about the needs of culling infected birds and practicing safe methods while handling these birds. The media should be fully and extensively utilised to this end. |
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AP 04/18/07 8:41 AM PT By Andrew Bridges The FDA on Tuesday approved a vaccine for H5N1 influenza, or bird flu. With an effectiveness level of 45 percent, the series of injections is considered a stopgap measure rather than a complete solution. However, the government already plans to buy and stockpile enough of the vaccine for 20 million people, including emergency and health care workers. (VACCINES) |
AFP - Thu Apr 19, 4:01 AM ET A chicken vendor waits for customers at the market in Yangon, 5 April 2007. Authorities in the country have confirmed five outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus across Yangon since February 28, and have killed nearly 45,000 birds in an attempt to contain the disease.(AFP/Khin Maung) |
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Wed, 18 Apr 2007 9:07 AM PDT Farms in yellow are expected to produce fewer than one new infection if infected, while farms in red are expected to produce more than one new infection if infected. There are 913 farms in the high-risk area in the centre, 61 in the south. (Credit: Image courtesy of Public Library of Science) |
Reuters - Thu Apr 19, 9:20 AM ET The avian flu-affected Bernard Matthews poultry farm is seen from behind a police cordon at Holton near Halesworth in eastern England in this February 3, 2007 file photograph. Turkey producer Bernard Matthews will receive nearly 600,000 pounds ($1.20 million) in compensation after a bird flu outbreak forced it to slaughter thousands of turkeys, the government said on April 19, 2007. Photograph taken February 3, 2007. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor/Files (UK) |
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Reuters - Thu Apr 19, 9:28 AM ET An aerial view shows a lorry being washed at the avian flu-affected Bernard Matthews poultry farm at Holton near Halesworth in eastern England in this February 3, 2007 file photograph. Turkey producer Bernard Matthews will receive nearly 600,000 pounds ($1.20 million) in compensation after a bird flu outbreak forced it to slaughter thousands of turkeys, the government said on April 19, 2007. Photograph taken February 3, 2007. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor/Files (UK) |
Thu, 19 Apr 2007 2:18 AM PDT Defra has published the final epidemiology report into the outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza in Suffolk, confirmed in February. (UK) |
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AP - Thu Apr 19, 5:50 PM ET A whooping crane searches for food at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge near Rockport, Texas, on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2006. A Fish and Wildlife Service official in North Dakota said on Wednesday, Apr. 18, 2007, that a whooping crane found dead in a farmer's field was a 'senior citizen' with a colorful past that helped with studies of the rare birds. (AP Photo/Ron Heflin) (US) |
AFP/File - Fri Apr 20, 3:07 AM ET The factory building at the Bernard Matthews turkey farm in Holton, February 2007. Opposition politicians hit out Thursday at a compensation award of nearly 600,000 pounds to Bernard Matthews, at the centre of a bird flu outbreak.(AFP/File/Leon Neal) (UK) |
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AFP/File - Fri Apr 20, 1:53 AM ET Henk Bekedam, the World Health Organisation's (WHO) representative in China, during a press conference in Beijing, June 2005. Henk Bekedam confirmed that China will send bird flu virus samples to the WHO, in response to WHO complaints that Beijing was not sharing them.(AFP/File/Peter Parks) (CHINA) |
Reuters - Fri Apr 20, 5:44 AM ET Ducklings are displayed for sale at a poultry market in Yingtan, central China's Jiangxi province, April 20, 2007. China has agreed to share human bird flu samples, the World Health Organisation said on Friday, following complaints that its reluctance to send the samples could frustrate global efforts to fight the virus. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA) |
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Reuters - Fri Apr 20, 9:55 AM ET Health workers help residents vaccinate their birds against bird flu, as arranged by the local authorities, in Bejing, March 31, 2006. China has agreed to share human bird flu samples, the WHO said on Friday, following complaints that its reluctance to send the samples could frustrate global efforts to fight the virus. (Reinhard Krause/Reuters) (CHINA) |
Reuters - Fri Apr 20, 1:18 PM ET A warehouse manager takes a carton of Tamiflu, which contains the antiviral drug oseltamivir, for packing at a pharmaceuticals storage facility in Singapore, March 21, 2007. Bird flu patients who get early treatment with the antiviral drug Tamiflu have the best chances of surviving while using steroids can do more harm than good, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. (Nicky Loh/Reuters) (SINGAPORE) |
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Apr 20, 2007 (CIDRAP News) Faced with the reality that an effective vaccine is not likely to be available for at least the first several months of an influenza pandemic, some corporations are buying antiviral medications for their employees both to protect them and to improve the chances that the company could keep providing vital products and services through a pandemic. (VACCINES) |
Reuters 22 Apr 2007 12:53:49 Kuwait said on Sunday it has found a new case of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in the south of the Gulf Arab state near the Saudi border. A parrot is seen at a Kuwaiti shop for birds in Kuwait City on 25 October. (KUWAIT) |
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Importation of cheap poultry products from countries where the avian influenza has been reported poses a risk of introducing bird flu into Kenya, a workshop was told. (AFRICA) |
Arroyo said Manila Bay is one of the most important coastal wetlands, hosting more water birds than any other area in the Philippines. She said the lagoons of Parañaque and Las Piñas support combined populations of the globally threatened Chinese egret and the Philippine duck along with 27 species of other rare and uncommon water birds. (PHILIPPINES) |
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AFP/File - Tue Apr 24, 7:36 AM ET An Indonesian doctor treats a patient who is under observation for the bird flu virus at a Jakarta hospital in 2005. The World Health Organisation (WHO) said a global bird flu pandemic could infect one billion people and kill between two and seven million of them.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo) (INDONESIA) |
States Prepare for possible bird-flu pandemicCoalition asks state lawmakers to prepare now for possible bird-flu pandemic FL 78 TALLAHASSEE A coalition of first responders and public health experts on Monday issued a plea to state legislators for money to prepare against a bird flu pandemic. G&FC Checking Ducks for Avian Influenza - Arkansas 79 Commission biologists are trapping ducks and shorebirds around the state and collecting samples from the birds for avian influenza testing. AGFC has completed the collection of shorebird samples and is making progress toward its goal of more than 300 ducks, including mallards, green-winged teal, shovelers and pintails. Quarantine Plans In Case Of Bird Flu - Iowa 79 DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) The search is on in the Des Moines area for a quarantine site in case of a bird-flu epidemic. Health officials want to set up alternative housing for people who couldn't or wouldn't stay home. Possible locations include Veterans Memorial Auditorium, hotels and vacant public-housing units. The issue was talked about at a monthly meeting of about 30 leaders, mainly from health care and law-enforcement agencies. Polk County has joined other Iowa counties in passing an ordinance giving officials the power to order people into quarantine if need be. Health Director Terri Henkels says she hopes to have detailed response plans finished by late summer. Bird flu coming, panelists predict - PA 80 Experts attending a pandemic-influenza workshop in Lebanon County last night said it's not a question of whether an epidemic will occur in Pennsylvania, but rather when it will happen. She said local officials can be prepared by planning for voluntary quarantine and individual infection-control measures. She said those involved in such planning should include local government agencies, EMA, public-health agencies, colleges, public schools, hospitals, businesses, faith-based organizations, voluntary agencies and individual citizens. Bird Flu May Lead to $200 Billion in Losses Worldwide 81 |
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AFP/File - Wed Apr 25, 8:51 AM ET A man holds up doves at a poultry market in Jakarta, 04 April 2007. The World Health Organisation has said that six developing countries -- including Indonesia -- would receive financial grants to produce flu vaccine locally in order to bolster global protection against a threatened pandemic.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo) (INDONESIA) |
AFP/File - Thu Apr 26, 1:44 PM ET A box of Tamiflu anti-flu virus medicine. Swiss pharmaceutical group Roche said Thursday it would trim production of the frontline bird flu drug Tamiflu unless demand picked up, but warned that the world was still not ready for a pandemic.(AFP/File/Philippe Huguen) (RESEARCH) |
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Reuters - Fri Apr 27, 4:56 AM ET A boy plays on chicken cages at a poultry market in Kunming, southwestern China's Kunming province April 27, 2007. China needs more money and more help to improve its health services to fight bird flu, an official said on Thursday, while the WHO said the threat of a pandemic remained a real possibility. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA) |
AP Thursday, 26-Apr-2007 A vendor boils fresh slaughtered chickens in Jakarta in this Friday, April 6, 2007 file photo. Bird flu has largely flown off the radar of the Western world, but people are still dying from it nearly every week in Indonesia. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) (INDONESIA) |
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China and World Bank kicks off bird flu prevention project 87 Apr 27, 2007 03:52 GMT Shanghai. The Chinese government and the World Bank have launched a $2.5 million avian and human influenza prevention project with the aim to reduce outbreaks in high-risk bird flu areas, a World Bank official said today in Beijing. Li Li, an external affairs officer with the World Bank's Beijing office, confirmed the bank had granted China $2,650,000 for its Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) Prevention and Human Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Project. The project will last two years and is the first avian and human influenza prevention and control project the Chinese government has launched in conjunction with the World Bank.
Lawmakers budget no money next year for Tamiflu stockpiles - FL 88 Friday, April 27, 2007 Lawmakers finalizing next year's state budget have included no money to buy stockpiles of the drug Tamiflu, an antiviral being used globally to treat bird flu, a coalition of drugmakers, emergency workers and physicians warned Friday.
Coalition: 'Zero dollars' invites bird flu outbreak - FL 92 April 28, 2007 A coalition of public health experts and physicians on Friday called upon the Florida Legislature to provide $37 million in funding to purchase and stockpile antiviral drugs that might help save lives in a bird flu pandemic. "In many ways, purchasing antivirals is only part of the solution," said Dr. John Sinnott, a director of the Division of Infectious Disease at the University of South Florida's College of Medicine. |
Friday, April 27, 2007 9:05 PM EDT Wildlife technician Julie King prepares to examine an ailing California brown pelican at the LA Oiled Bird Care & Education Center in Los Angeles' San Pedro district Thursday, April 26, 2007. An outbreak of domoic acid off the coast of California is killing thousands of animals and affecting more species of birds than ever before, according to the International Bird Rescue Research Center. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon) The Associated Press (Bird Rescue) |
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Friday, April 27, 2007 The World Health Organization is considering building a stockpile of up to 60 million human vaccine for bird flu. NDTV Correspondent (VACCINES) |
Sat 28 Apr 2007 A TEAM of vets from zoos and wildlife attractions around the world will be discussing how to deal with the threat of bird flu when they meet at Edinburgh Zoo next month. (ZOOS) |
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Indonesia says sharing of bird flu samples delayed Indonesia has delayed sharing of bird flu samples with the World Health Organisation despite an agreement last month because details are still being worked out, a health official said on Thursday. Indonesia, which has the highest human death toll from bird flu, agreed at an international meeting last month to resume sending virus samples to the WHO. (INDONESIA) |
Sun Apr 29, 2007 4:09 AM (AP Photo/Reed Saxon) Wildlife biologist Susan Kaveggia, right, and wildlife technician Julie King prepare to examine an ailing California brown pelican at the LA Oiled Bird Care & Education Center in Los Angeles' San Pedro district Thursday, April 26, 2007. An outbreak of domoic acid off the coast of California is killing thousands of animals and affecting more species of birds than ever before, according to the International Bird Rescue Research Center. (Bird Rescue) |
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Sunday, April 29, 2007 Spencer Ainlsey/Journal file A young robin enjoys a few minutes in a Town of Poughkeepsie bird bath in September during a morning sunrise. Loss of forests, wetlands harms some species. (Bird Rescue) |
April 30, 2007 The research team has tracked the spread avian flu around the globe over time by specific host groups of birds, mammals and insects.Credit: CU-Boulder, Ohio State University. The team also used the supermap to visualize the spread of H5N1 in various parts of the world by specific orders of birds and mammals, including waterfowl, domestic fowl, shorebirds, raptors, songbirds, hoofed mammals and carnivores. (RESEARCH) |
