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AP - Tue May 1, 12:43 AM ET A vendor selects chicken for sale at a small market in central Jakarta in this April 6, 2007 file photo. Indonesia's health minister has accused the World Health Organization of breaking its promise to assure that the country's bird flu samples would not be used commercially, dragging out a dispute about equal access to a future vaccine. Siti Fadilah Supari said late Monday, April 30, 2007, Indonesia was ready to resume the supply of specimens, but had postponed doing so after recent talks in Geneva with the world body on technical details 'ended in deadlock.' (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana, File) (INDONESIA) |
KFYR-TV Bismarck Tue, 01 May 2007 9:24 AM PDT The Fish and Wildlife Service says a whooping crane that was found dead in a field near Almont, ND, died from blunt-force trauma. (USA) |
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Reuters - Wed May 2, 2:59 AM ET Ducks are displayed in a local market in Jakarta April 7, 2007. Indonesia has delayed sending bird flu samples to the World Health Organization pending guarantees on how they are used, a senior health ministry official said on Wednesday. (Dadang Tri/Reuters) (INDONESIA) |
AFP/File - Wed May 2, 5:19 AM ET A Cambodian worker carries chickens at a market in Phnom Penh, February 2007. Cambodia will boost its bird flu awareness efforts, officials said amid fears that education campaigns are doing little to change people's behaviour around potentially sick birds.(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy) (CAMBODIA) |
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AFP/File - Wed May 2, 6:54 AM ET An Indonesian worker looks on as chickens infected with the H5N1 virus are slaughtered and burnt in Jembrana, March 2007. Indonesia will not share bird flu samples with the World Health Organisation until a dispute with the UN body is resolved in "black and white," the nation's health minister has said.(AFP/File/Sonny Tumbelaka) (INDONESIA) |
AFP - Wed May 2, 10:11 AM ET Hens stand in a pen of a Bangladeshi farm in the village of Sardaganj, on the outskirts of Dhaka, March 2007. Some 8,500 chickens have been culled in Bangladesh following the spread of bird flu in the country, an official said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Farjana K Godhuly) (BANGLADESH) |
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AFP/File - Wed May 2, 3:08 PM ET A view of Accra's main market in 2005. Ghana's agriculture minister on Wednesday reported the West African country's first case of the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus in poultry.(AFP/File/Issouf Sanogo) (GHANA) |
AP - Tue May 1, 8:09 PM ET Thailand's Health Minister Mongkol Na Songkhla, right, views the bird flu control room at the health ministry in Bangkok, Thailand in this Jan. 16, 2007 file photo. Mongkol Na Songkhla was traveling Wednesday, May 2, 2007, to Washington to explain the decision to break a patent on an AIDS drug produced by an American company, an official said. On Monday, April 30, 2007, the U.S. government included Thailand among 12 countries on an annual 'Priority Watch List' of nations where American companies face particular problems with protection of intellectual property rights. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong, File) (RESEARCH) |
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Reuters - Thu May 3, 6:20 AM ET Bangladeshi vendors display chickens in a cage at a market in Dhaka May 3, 2007. Bird flu has spread to six more farms in western Bangladesh, forcing authorities to cull thousands of fowl and destroy eggs, government officials said on Thursday. REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman (BANGLADESH) |
MAWBA eNEWS - MAY 2007 - VACCINESPages as listed below:Thailand to talk with U.S. about drug patents after being targeted for copyright violations 10Purdue licenses bird flu vaccine technology to Calif. company 11St. Jude Study Shows Effectiveness Of Peramivir In Prevention Of Mortality In Mouse Model Of Avian Influenza H5N1 Virus Infection 13-14BioTech Medics Developing Avian Bird Flu Virus Prevention Program 16Novavax Up on Bird Flu Vaccine Data 17 (Vaccines) (US) |
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5/3/2007 7:43:51 PM Health Officials Prepare For Possible Bird Flu Outbreak - Portland, ME Emergency and medical officials met in Bangor Thursday to plan for a possible Bird Flu pandemic. Over 100 people from eight counties took part. They were given a scenario where several medical workers returned to Maine from Indonesia and started developing flu-like symptoms. Within eight weeks, up to 1,500 Mainers die and neary 6,000 are hospitalized. The drill was run by the Northeastern Maine Regional Resource Center, which brings together hospitals, public health officials, county governments, schools and other organizations. (US) |
Reuters - Fri May 4, 9:30 AM ET A shop assistant in Hong Kong serves customers from Japan after the WHO lifted its SARS travel warning on the city, June 20, 2003. Face masks may do little to prevent infection during an influenza pandemic, but wearing them might help comfort people in crowds, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. (Kin Cheung/Reuters) (JAPAN) |
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Reuters - Fri May 4, 8:59 PM ET In this file photo Chicks free of the bird flu virus await purchasing at a Houston feed and farm supply store February 24, 2004. (Richard Carson/Reuters) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As many as 20 million chickens currently on U.S. farms in several states may have been fed contaminated feed, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Friday.(US) |
Fri May 4, 7:00 PM ET The fallout for leading chicken producers such as Tyson Foods (NYSE:TSN - News), Pilgrims Pride (NYSE:PPC - News) and Sanderson Farms (NasdaqGS:SAFM - News) was brutal. All reported steep losses in fiscal 2006 -- something that almost never happens -- and all suffered stock slumps. (US)
With Bird Flu Quiet, Poultry Producers Enjoy A Comeback
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AFP/File - Sun May 6, 12:33 AM ET A farmer unloads chickens at a local poultry market in northern province of Ha Tay on 07 March 2007. Officials in Vietnam on Sunday reported a bird flu outbreak on a farm in central Nghe An province, and said its entire flock had been culled as a precaution.(AFP/File) (VIETNAM) |
Reuters - Sun May 6, 12:44 AM ET Ducks are fed in Hanoi in this March 9, 2007 file photo. Bird flu has been found on a duck farm in central Vietnam, the first outbreak of the disease in more than a month, the government said on Sunday. REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad (VIETNAM) |
Avian Flu: Seeing the Big Picture
Monday, May 07, 2007 Mapping a malady virus has traveled and mutated during the past 10 years. Lines on the map are color-coded to indicate the kind of host, be it waterfowl, raptor, shorebird, or human. Credit: Courtesy Andrew Hill, Daniel Janies, Robert Guralnick, CU-Boulder, Ohio State University, and Systematic Biology. (RESEARCH) |
AFP/File - Mon May 7, 1:03 PM ET A roadside livestock vendor waits for customers sitting among his chickens in Jakarta, April 2006. Bird flu has killed a woman in Indonesia, taking the death toll in the country worst hit by the deadly virus to 75, a health ministry official said Monday.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad) (INDONESIA) |
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AP - Tue May 8, 5:26 AM ET A poultry farm worker administers medicine to a chicken at the farm where 5000 chicken were buried after they were found dead Saturday in Matigara, near Siliguri, India, Tuesday, May 8, 2007. Health officials have reportedly sent blood samples of the chicken for testing to Calcutta. The chicken, which were found dead on Saturday, may have succumbed to overcrowding and heat but bird flu is not being ruled out, according to news reports. (AP Photo/Tarun Das) (INDIA) |
AFP/File - Tue May 8, 7:20 AM ET A man (R) holds a pigeon while a girl looks on at a bird market in Jakarta, April 2007. Indonesia will urge World Health Organisation members to scrap the existing international policy on bird flu samples when the body meets later this month, a senior health official has said.(AFP/File/Adek Berry) (INDONESIA) |
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Reuters - Wed May 9, 4:23 AM ET County employees line up during a mass flu vaccination drill in San Luis Obispo, California, October 31, 2006. While many health experts see the H5N1 bird flu virus as a likely cause for an influenza pandemic, another influenza virus could just as likely mutate into a global killer, U.S. health experts said on Tuesday. (Phil Klein/Reuters) (US) |
Reuters - Tue May 8 2007 09:58:20 GMT DHAKA - Bangladesh has culled about 25,000 more chickens over the past four days as bird flu spread to eight additional farms, officials said on Tuesday. (BANGLADESH) |
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Wed May 09 2:36 AM Indonesia, which has the world's highest human death toll from H5N1 avian influenza, inaugurated an integrated bird flu centre on Wednesday as part of renewed efforts to contain a potential human outbreak of the deadly virus. (INDONESIA) |
NDTV - May 09 1:17 AM On Tuesday, six farm workers were detained after they were caught buying the dead chickens. (West Bengal) (INDIA) |
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Wednesday May 9, 10:17 PM Indonesian doctors examine blood samples from poultry workers.Indonesia is fighting an uphill battle in its fight against bird flu. (INDONESIA) |
AFP - Wed May 9, 1:38 PM ET Indonesian coordinating minister for welfare Abu Rizal Bakri(R) exchanges documents with Singaporean Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan in Jakarta. Singapore and Indonesia on Wednesday agreed to carry out a pilot project aimed at boosting Jakarta in its battle with the deadly bird flu virus.(AFP/Adek Berry) (INDONESIA) |
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AFP/File - Wed May 9, 1:39 PM ET A child holds chickens at Tabligbo market, some 70 kms north of Lome in February 2006. Togo banned poultry from neighbouring Ghana on Wednesday after a case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu was detected there, the agriculture ministry said.(AFP/File/Emile Kouton) (TOGO) |
AFP/File - Wed May 9, 12:03 PM ET A Chinese laboratory worker checks a wine sample at the Biosafety lab in Beijing in March 2007. China on Wednesday ordered strengthened controls over its food industry after a series of health scares with international repercussions laid bare lax standards.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon) The order follows the discovery by the US Food and Drug Administration that two Chinese companies added a lethal chemical to wheat gluten and rice protein which was later used in pet food that killed possibly thousands of US pets. (CHINA) |
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AP - Thu May 10, 1:03 PM ET A black cinereous vulture is thrown in the air by Thai vets as they force the bird to fly during the release of the vultures back home to Mongolia in the mountainous area in northern Thailand near the Myanmar border Thursday, May 10, 2007. Four brown and white Himalayan Griffons and a cinereous vulture were released into the wilds of Thailand after bird flu fears thwarted plans to send the young bird to nesting grounds in Mongolia. (AP Photo/Wichai Taprieu) (THAILAND) |
AFP/File - Thu May 10, 2:27 PM ET A pigeon is seen on a roof in Indonesia. The US military has begun to plan for a possible avian flu pandemic that could kill as many as three million people in the United States in as little as six weeks, a Pentagon planning document said. (AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo) (US) |
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Thursday, May. 10, 2007 An Indonesian health officer takes a blood sample from a chicken during a birdflu investigation in Jakarta.Weda / EPA Every time a country records a new human cases of avian flu, it is expected though not required to pass along virus samples from the patient to WHO-approved labs. The WHO can use the virus samples to prepare a seed strain that commercial drug vaccines utilize to manufacture vaccines. Indonesia seemed to agree to resume sharing, but a month and a half later, the WHO says it still has yet to receive any virus samples from Jakarta. (INDONESIA) |
Reuters - Wed May 9, 7:34 AM ET A Bosnian pharmacist displays Swiss drug maker Roche's Tamiflu bird flu anti-viral tablets at a pharmacy in the capital Sarajevo, in this February 18, 2006 file photo. Swiss pharmaceutical group Roche Holding said on Wednesday new data showed patients using its anti-flu drug Tamiflu rarely developed resistance to it. REUTERS/ Danilo Krstanovic (US) |
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AFP/File - Thursday, May 10, 2007 A view of Accra's main market in 2005. The TEMA Municipality within one week has recorded the third outbreak of avian influenza, otherwise known as bird flu, at a poultry farm at Adjei Kojo, near Ashaiman. (GHANA) |
Friday, May 11, 2007. 9:07am (AEST) US troops could be brought in to quell riots if a massive bird flu pandemic hits America (Reuters) (US) |
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Friday, May 11, 2007 12:18 a.m. Some 10,000 chickens were culled in Bangladesh over the last two days as bird flu spread despite veterinary and health workers' efforts to contain it, officials said on Friday. (BANGLADESH) |
AFP/File - Sat May 12, 7:30 AM ET Hens feed in a pen at a Bangladeshi home farm on the outskirts of Dhaka, March 2007. Bangladesh authorities are struggling to combat deadly bird flu as it spreads across farms in the impoverished country, with a leading expert warning the situation is "very grave."(AFP/File/Farjana K. Godhuly) (BANGLADESH) |
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Sun, 13 May 2007 06:44:01GMT Villagers wear masks at the hamlet Hau Duong which was hit by a bird flu outbreak, on the outskirts of Hanoi in this Mar 2007 file photo. A new bird flu outbreak has expanded in central Vietnam after it was first detected on a farm in Nghe An province more than a week ago, the government said on Sunday. (VIETNAM) |
12 May, 2007 A poultry farm in Siliguri, India. Import of chicken meat and eggs from India could come to a halt if it is confirmed that bird flu killed about 5,000 chicken in a poultry farm in the neighboring state of West Bengal, say livestock officials. "There will be a total ban immediately, if it is confirmed" said the Director of the Livestock Department, Tenzin Dhendup. "But as of now the import is still on. Without confirming, we do not take any action." The department has sent a veterinary doctor and a Bhutan Agriculture Food & Regulatory Authority official to Matigara in Darjeeling district where the farm is located. (INDIA) |
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AFP/File - Sun May 13, 6:08 PM ET A roadside livestock vendor waits for customers sitting among his chickens in Jakarta, in 2006. A potentially damaging dispute over bird flu research and a drive to improve the health of millions of Africans will be at the heart of the World Health Organisation's annual assembly of 193 governments starting on Monday.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad) (WHO) |
AFP - Mon May 14, 8:34 AM ET A doctor examines a man at a temporary medical centre set up for bird flu check ups in Medan. The United States has urged countries to share bird flu virus samples "without pre-conditions" as Indonesia's decision to withhold samples dominated the start of a World Health Organisation's assembly.(AFP/Rahmad ) (US) |
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AFP/File - Mon May 14, 12:25 PM ET An Indonesian livestock vendor waits for customers with his chickens for sale at a market in Jakarta. A pregnant woman in Indonesia has died of bird flu, taking the country's death toll from the virus to 76, a health ministry official confirmed Monday.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad) (INDONESIA) |
AFP - Mon May 14, 1:36 PM ET World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan attends the opening day of the annual assembly in Geneva. A damaging dispute with Indonesia over bird flu research took centre stage Monday at the World Health Organisation's assembly, which was also marred by wrangling over Taiwan's unsuccessful membership bid.(AFP/Fabrice Coffrini) (WHO) |
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Monday May 14, 07:20 PM A poultry farm worker administers medicine to a chicken at the farm where 5000 chicken were buried after they were found dead in Matigara, near Siliguri, India, The chickens, which were found dead may have succumbed to overcrowding. (AP Photo/Tarun Das) (INDIA) |
Reuters - Tue May 15, 5:09 AM ET Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari addresses the 60th World Health Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva May 15, 2007. Siti Fadillah Supari said Indonesia will resume sharing bird flu virus samples with the World Health Organization (WHO). REUTERS/Denis Balibouse (SWITZERLAND) |
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AFP/File - Tue May 15, 9:58 AM ET A man feeds pigeons at a public park in Jakarta, 11 May 2007. Indonesia's Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari has said that the country last week resumed sending H5N1 bird flu virus samples to a World Health Organisation laboratory in Tokyo, ending a five-month moratorium.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad) (INDONESIA) |
AFP/File - Tue May 15, 2:27 PM ET A nurse wears a mask at a hospital to protect against infections. Swiss health authorities Tuesday recommended that people keep a personal stock of 50 face masks at home as a precaution in case a long-feared deadly flu pandemic occurs.(AFP/File/Peter Parks) (RESEARCH) |
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Reuters - Tue May 15, 9:27 PM ET Workers in safety outfits listen to a briefing during a bird flu preparedness exercise in Singapore October 4, 2006. A new anti-viral drug to treat both bird and human flu, developed by U.S.-based BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, will be tested across Asia next month, the pharmacist involved in the trial in Hong Kong said on Monday. (Nicky Loh/Reuters) (RESEARCH) |
AP - Wed May 16, 1:39 PM ET An American robin, also known as a robin redbreast, grabs a berry in this file photo from Jan. 4, 2006, in Tyler, Texas. Birds that had been the mainstays of suburban skies - including the robins of spring, the bluebirds of happiness and especially the scavenging crows - have been decimated by West Nile Virus, a new study has found. Only the blue jay and house wrens bounced back in 2005. The research, published Thursday May 17, 2007 in the journal Nature, quantified what had been known in anecdotes by comparing 26 years of bird breeding surveys. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman-File) (US) |
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Reuters - Wednesday May 16, 6:16 PM A Bosnian pharmacist displays Swiss drug maker Roche's Tamiflu bird flu anti-viral tablets at a pharmacy in the capital Sarajevo February 18, 2006. Doctors investigating Tamiflu also found 16 cases of patients showing side effects after taking Relenza, an inhaled drug made by GlaxoSmithKline , and another influenza drug, amantadine, a report released by the Health Ministry showed. (RESEARCH) |
Wed 16 May 2007, 21:00 CDT "If you do not share the virus with us ... I would fail you," said Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, in a speech to the agency's 193 member countries. Without H5N1 samples from affected countries, Chan said that "you are tying my hands, you're muffling my ears, you're blinding my eyes." (WHO) |
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Wed, 16 May 2007 8:34 PM PDT Indonesia now joins China, Cambodia and Thailand as countries that do not need an outside laboratory to confirm their diagnoses.
The WHO has also acknowledged 15 formerly unconfirmed H5N1 avian flu cases which have occurred in Indonesia since a virus-sharing partnership with the country stalled late last year.
WHO says it has confidence in the country's capacity to accurately diagnose cases following a formal assessment of Indonesia's national testing laboratory which was carried out by a team of WHO virologists and laboratory scientists. (WHO) |
May 16, 2007 (CIDRAP News) The World Health Organization today recognized 15 H5N1 avian influenza cases from Indonesia dating back to late January, a few weeks after the country stopped sending H5N1 virus samples to the WHO as a protest against developing nations' lack of equal access to pandemic vaccines. The 15 cases now recognized by the WHO include 13 fatal ones, raising the WHO count for Indonesia to 96 cases with 76 deaths. The announcement pushes Indonesia past Vietnam, with 93 cases and 42 deaths, as the country hardest hit by avian flu and boosts the global H5N1 count to 306 cases with 185 deaths. The WHO's move came the day after Indonesia's health minister, Siti Fadilah Supari, announced at the World Health Assembly in Geneva that the country had resumed sending virus samples to the WHO. But it was not clear if there was a connection between Supari's announcement and the WHO action. In its statement today, the WHO said it had previously required external confirmation of lab results from Indonesia, but after a formal on-site assessment of the national laboratory's capacity to diagnose H5 avian flu viruses, the agency would now accept the country's results without outside confirmation. The WHO said Indonesia's national laboratory tests avian flu samples in collaboration with the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, a Jakarta-based research facility that is closely aligned with the government's research and technology ministry. (WHO) |
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Thu, 17 May 2007 Bognar Lajos, Hungary's deputy chief veterinary officer, insisted that ultimately the blame for the British outbreak must lie with Bernard Matthews (UK) |
Reuters - Thu May 17, 1:54 AM ET U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia Joseph Mussomeli (R) poses with a Cambodian performer dressed as a chicken in a warehouse in Phnom Penh during the handover ceremony of medical equipment May 17, 2007. The U.S. government donated a package of medical equipment to help control the spread of bird flu in Cambodia. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea (CAMBODIA) |
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Thu May 17, 1:54 PM ET In a file photo young house wrens wait for food as they huddle inside their nesting box, Thursday, July 17, 2003, in Raleigh, N.C. Several common species of North American birds have suffered drastic population declines since West Nile virus arrived eight years ago. The blue jay, house wren and the American robin were among the other major losers West Nile depletes American bird population, study finds - Critics say blaming losses on virus alone may be too simple (WEST NILE US) |
Globe - Thu. May 17, 2007 09:19 pm Roger Nomer Gregory Evans, director of the Institute for Biosecurity at Saint Louis University, addresses participants Thursday in a conference on pandemic preparations at Missouri Southern State University. He said people must arm themselves to deal with a pandemic and not rely on government assistance. (US) |
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Fri. May 18 2007 WHO Director-General Dr Chan with World Health Assembly President Ms Jane Halton. The 60th World Health Assembly focused on key health issues on Thursday in Geneva, Switzerland. Topics under discussion included efforts to control malaria and tuberculosis, as well as an update on public health, innovation and intellectual property. Delegates at the Health Assembly have also been addressing the threat of avian and pandemic influenza and the application of the International Health Regulations. (WHO) |
Reuters - Sat May 19, 1:45 AM ET Local husbandry officers, wearing protective suits, look at slaughtered chickens being burnt in Deli Serdang, North Sumatra province May 19, 2007. Developing countries led by Indonesia demanded a fair deal on Tuesday for providing samples of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus that drug companies use to make vaccines. REUTERS/Y.T Haryono (INDONESIA) |
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AP - Sat May 19, 9:54 AM ET A Chinese vendor looks after his live ducks at a poultry market in Nanjing, eastern China's Jiangsu province, in this November 10, 2006, file photo. Bird flu has killed 11,172 poultry in central China, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday May 19, 2007, the country's first reported outbreak in three months. (AP Photo/EyePress, FILE) (CHINA) |
Sat, 19 May 2007 10:07 AM PDT The Daily Times - Ruddy turnstones were one of the species of shorebirds studied recently at Slaughter Beach to find why their numbers have plummeted over the years. Drop in red knots well-known, but many others on decline. |
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AFP/File - Sat May 19, 4:32 PM ET Indonesia's health minister, Siti Fadilah Supari, pictured in 2006, has been elected to the World Health Organisation's executive board after a long dispute over the sharing of bird flu samples, a report said Saturday.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) (WHO) |
AP - Sun May 20, 6:37 AM ET Wang Xiaoqing, a poultry vendor, shows a quarantine certificate at a market in Taojiang county, in China's Hunan province Sunday, May 20, 2007. Bird flu has killed 11,172 poultry in central China, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday, the country's first reported outbreak of the H5N1 virus in three months. (CHINA) |
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AP - Sun May 20, 8:00 PM ET In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, two medical staff in protective gears walk on a road to the disinfected area in Yiyang, central China's Hunan Province, Sunday, May 20, 2007. Bird flu has killed 11,172 poultry in central China, the China's official news agency said Saturday, the country's first reported outbreak in three months. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Long Hongtao) (CHINA) |
AFP/File - Mon May 21, 10:33 AM ET A worker stands next to burning chickens as Indonesian authorities cull poultry infected with the H5N1 virus in Jembrana, March 2007. The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has revealed that with only a few exceptions, countries are successful in eradicating outbreaks of H5N1 flu among birds.(AFP/File/Sonny Tumbelaka) (OIE) |
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AFP/File - Mon May 21, 12:14 PM ET A Bangladeshi vendor shows his hens at his shop in Dhaka in March 2007. Bangladesh needs to step up its fight against bird flu, which is posing a "huge challenge" in the densely populated country, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said Monday.(AFP/File/Farjana G. Godhuly ) (BANGLADESH) |
Tue May 22, 2007 12:12 A.M. (Reuters) Chickens are seen in a farm in Hanoi March 9, 2007. Bird flu killed 100 ducks in the Mekong delta city of Can Tho in southern Vietnam. Tests have confirmed the H5N1 virus infected waterfowl in three northern provinces of Son La, Quang Ninh, Nam Dinh and the southern Mekong delta city of Can Tho from May 16 to May 19, the Agriculture Ministry's Animal Health Department said. (VIETNAM) |
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Mon, 21 May 2007 6:34 AM PDT New Scientist Egg spots provide means of gauging stress levels in birds Want to measure the health of a bird population without having to catch birds and run tests on them? Just count the spots on their eggs, say Santiago Merino and colleagues at the University of Alcalá in Spain. The spottier the egg, the more stressed the parent, the team has found. |
AFP/File - Tue May 22, 12:02 AM ET A duck farm in the Northern province of Ha Tay. Bird flu has struck Vietnam again with six outbreaks of the H5N1 strain since the weekend, killing almost 2,000 unvaccinated ducks, veterinary officials said on Tuesday(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) (VIETNAM) |
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Reuters - Tue May 22, 2:58 AM ET A woman transports ducks by bicycle at a roadside market 20 km (12 miles) outside Hanoi May 22, 2007. Bird flu has killed nearly 1,900 ducks in farms across Vietnam in the past week, the government said on Tuesday, bringing to five the number of provinces struck by H5N1. REUTERS/Kham (VIETNAM) |
Reuters - Tue May 22, 2:58 AM ET A woman holds a duck at a roadside market 20 km (12 miles) outside Hanoi May 22, 2007. Bird flu has killed nearly 1,900 ducks in a farms across Vietnam in the past week, the government said on Tuesday, bringing to five the number of provinces struck by H5N1. REUTERS/Kham (VIETNAM) |
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AFP/File - Tue May 22, 12:29 PM ET A chicken vendor sits at his stand at a market in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, where a case of bird flu has been detected, in 2006. Veterinary officials in neighbouring Ghana have declared the second outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in the west African country.(AFP/File/Kambou Sia) (GHANA) |
Reuters - Tue May 22, 4:27 PM ET Airmen work on a connecting hallway for a portable hospital in preparation for a national emergency like the feared bird flu pandemic in Topeka, Kansas, June 3, 2006. A survey of U.S. healthcare workers suggests that not all will be willing to be on the frontlines if there should be an outbreak of bird flu or other infectious disease. Some will opt to play it safe and stay home, according to the survey. REUTERS/Craig Sands (US) |
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AP - Tue May 22, 11:25 PM ET A Vietnamese woman selling a single chicken sits at her market stall in the town of Hoi An, Vietnam Tuesday, May 22, 2007. Vietnam on Wednesday confirmed its first human bird flu case in more than a year as the virus continues to spread through the country's poultry stocks. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder) (VIETNAM) |
AFP/File - Wed May 23, 10:40 AM ET The transmissible diseases chief at the World Health Organization David Heymann speaks during a press conference in Beijing in 2003. The WHO has adopted an interim deal on bird flu virus sample sharing, temporarily resolving a dispute that was threatening efforts to prevent a global pandemic, Heymann said.(AFP/File) (WHO) |
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AP - Wed. May 23, 2007 11:18 AM A Thai people stands on escalator past a billboard warning people to aware of the bird flu erected in downtown Bangkok, Thailand Monday, May 21, 2007. The World Health Organization (WHO) has provided US$2 million (Baht 70 million, euro 1.7 million) to Thailand as seed money to produce vaccines to battle a possible outbreak of a new strain of influenza, Thai Public Health Minister Dr. Mongkol Na Songkhla said. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) (THAILAND) |
AFP/File - Wed May 23, 11:40 AM ET Cows chew cud in a field. The response to mad-cow disease and H5N1 bird flu among farm animals has improved, thanks to common guidelines and better veterinary surveillance, the world's top agency for safety in the meat and livestock trade has said.(AFP/File/Desiree Martin) (US) |
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AFP/File - Wed May 23, 1:56 AM ET Chickens at a poultry farm on the outskirts of Islamabad, April 2006. A new outbreak of avian flu has struck three poultry farms in the Pakistani capital, killing 6,000 birds and forcing a cull, according to officials.(AFP/File/Aamir Quareshi) (PAKISTAN) |
AFP - Wed May 23, 12:09 PM ET A man feeds birds at a market in Denpasar, on Bali island. Health experts are investigating Vietnam's first suspected human bird flu case in 18 months, a WHO official said Wednesday, as Indonesia confirmed its 77th death and Pakistan reported a fresh outbreak among poultry.(AFP/Sonny Tumbelaka) (WHO) |
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AFP/File - Wed May 23, 8:22 AM ET A farmer unloads chickens at a local poultry market in northern province of Ha Tay in Vietnam, March 2007. Health experts are investigating Vietnam's first suspected human bird flu case in 18 months, a WHO official has said, as Indonesia confirmed its 77th death and Pakistan reported a fresh outbreak among poultry.(AFP/File) (WHO) |
AFP/File - Wed May 23, 3:12 PM ET Fowl vendors wait for buyers in a Lagos fowl market, February 2007. Health authorities reported Wednesday an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in Nigeria's northern state of Zamfara, the official NAN news agency said.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei) (NIGERIA) |
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AFP - Wed May 23, 12:09 PM ET A woman stands behind her bird cages at her stall at a market in Denpasar, on Bali island. Health experts are investigating Vietnam's first suspected human bird flu case in 18 months, a WHO official said Wednesday, as Indonesia confirmed its 77th death and Pakistan reported a fresh outbreak among poultry.(AFP/Sonny Tumbelaka) (WHO) |
Wed, 23 May 2007 12:04 PM PDT Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari (L) talks to journalists during news conference beside David Heymann, the World Health Organisation's (WHO) representative for avian influenza, in Jakarta March 27, 2007. At present the global vaccine production capability stands at 500 million " trivalent" doses - meaning it would protect against three types of viruses. This could be increased to 1.5 billion doses once the exact pandemic strain is known. "In a world of 6.2 billion, that's not enough vaccine," Heymann said. (WHO) |
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AFP/File - Thu May 24, 12:07 PM ET A scientist tests biological samples at an Aberdeen laboratory in 2006. Veterinary experts have found a low-risk strain of bird flu in chickens which died on a farm in north Wales.(AFP/File/Carl De Souza) (UK) |
AFP/File - Thu May 24, 12:07 PM ET A scientist examines dead swan that was infected with bird flu in 2006, at a laboratory in Aberdeen. Veterinary experts have found a low-risk strain of bird flu in chickens which died on a farm in north Wales.(AFP/File/Carl De Souza) (UK) |
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AFP/File - Thu May 24, 12:07 PM ET A warning sign on the road leading towards the Bernard Matthews factory in Holton after an outbreak of the H5N1 virus in February 2007. Two adults were last night tested for bird flu after Welsh authorities confirmed an outbreak on a remote smallholding in north Wales.(AFP/File/Leon Neal) (UK) |
AFP - Fri May 25, 12:30 PM ET A medical worker walks in front of the national institute of infectious and tropical diseases in Hanoi. Health officials in Vietnam on Friday confirmed a farmer has been infected with the deadly bird flu virus, the first human case in the country since late 2005.(AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam) (VIETNAM) |
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AFP/File - Fri May 25, 2:06 PM ET A Pakistani poultry worker feeds chickens on a farm on the outskirts of Karachi in April 2007. Pakistani authorities have found the deadly bird flu virus at two more poultry farms in the capital, bringing the number of outbreaks reported this week to five, officials said Friday.(AFP/File/Asif Hassan) (PAKISTAN) |
AFP/File - Fri, 25 May 2007 5:41 PM PDT Henk Bekedam, the World Health Organisation's representative in China, during a press conference in Beijing, June 2005. Two out of three promised virus samples from recent human cases of bird flu in China have arrived in the United States, the World Health Organization said Friday. (WHO) |
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AFP/File - Fri May 25, 7:50 PM ET Chicken are kept in a cage at a poultry shop in a local market. Four people have tested positive for bird flu linked to a low-risk strain found in chickens which died on a farm in north Wales, a senior health official said Friday.(AFP/File/Samantha Sin) (UK) |
Reuters - Sat May 26, 3:12 AM ET A man works at a poultry farm in Wuhu, east China's Anhui province, May 26, 2007. A Chinese soldier has contracted the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the latest human case in the world's most populous country, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. REUTERS/Jianan Yu (CHINA) |
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AP - Sat May 26, 3:56 PM ET Caged ducks seen at a poultry market in Loudi, southern China's Hunan province, Saturday, May 26, 2007. A 19-year-old Chinese soldier has been hospitalized with the H5N1 bird flu strain, the Chinese Health Ministry announced Saturday. (AP Photo/EyePress) (CHINA) |
AFP/WHO-HO/File - Sat May 26, 3:59 PM ET Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari delivers her speech before the World Health Organization's annual assembly on 15 May 2007. Indonesia will send bird flu samples to any country which requests them, ahead of the introduction of new World Health Organisation virus-sharing guidelines, the health minister said Saturday.(AFP/WHO-HO/File/Peter Williams) (INDONESIA) |
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AFP/File - Sun May 27, 7:28 PM ET A man in protective clothes works in one of the buildings at the Bernard Matthews turkey farm in Holton, Suffolk, England, February 2007. Public health officials probing a bird flu outbreak on a British farm said Sunday that 36 people could have been in contact with the disease.(AFP/File/Leon Neal) (UK) |
Reuters - Sun May 27, 11:25 PM ET A woman is seen transporting ducks in a bicycle at a roadside market 20 km outside Hanoi in this May 22, 2007 file photo. Bird flu has spread to another province in northern Vietnam and now nine cities and provinces have been struck by the deadly virus in less than a month, the Agriculture Ministry said. REUTERS/Kham/Files (VIETNAM) |
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AFP/Roche-HO/File - Mon May 28, 1:30 PM ET Undated handout picture from Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche shows the antiviral drug of capsules of Tamiflu at a Roche plant. A group of school pupils and teachers have been given anti-viral treatment as a precaution after a child became infected with a low-risk strain of bird flu in Wales, health officials said on Monday.(AFP/Roche-HO/File/Christopher Gmuender) (UK) |
AFP/File - Mon May 28, 1:41 PM ET A farmer unloads chickens at a local poultry market in the northern Vietnamese province of Ha Tay in March 2007. Bird flu has spread to another Vietnamese province, the 10th to be affected by the virus, authorities announced on Monday.(AFP/File) (VIETNAM) |
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AFP/File - Mon May 28, 9:42 PM ET A doctor inspects a patient at the intensive care section in the national institut of infectious and tropical diseases in Hanoi, 25 May 2007 where a farmer infected with the deadly bird flu virus is reportedly under intensive care. Researchers in Switzerland have successfully immunized mice against the H5N1 strain of bird flu using human antibodies taken from survivors of the deadly virus, according to a study released Tuesday.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) (VACCINES) |
AFP/File - Mon May 28, 9:42 PM ET A motorist transports chickens in Jakarta, 20 May 2007. Researchers in Switzerland have successfully immunized mice against the H5N1 strain of bird flu using human antibodies taken from survivors of the deadly virus, according to a study released Tuesday.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo) (VACCINES) |
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AFP/File - Sat May 26, 3:48 AM ET Farmers with animal feed in Inner Mongolia. Taiwan on Saturday accused China of preventing Taipei from being an active member of the international community after Beijing resumed its seat at the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)(AFP/File/Peter Parks) (TAIWAN) |
AFP - Tue May 29, 7:16 AM ET A flock of ducks is seen in the northern province of Ha Tay, Vietnam. An international team of scientists has isolated antibodies that could provide treatment for bird flu in humans, says a new study.(AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam) (RESEARCH) |
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AFP/Graphic - Tue May 29, 7:16 AM ET Graphic explaining how human antibodies could protect mice. An international team of scientists has isolated antibodies that could provide treatment for bird flu in humans, according to a new study.(AFP/Graphic) (RESEARCH) |
Tuesday 29 May 2007 12:53:56 PM Thailand is working on effective strategies to prevent avian influenza outbreak and respond to the continuing possibility of a bird flu pandemic. Thailand moves ahead with national bird flu response plan Studies by the World Health Organization (WHO) found that changes of the bird flu virus strain do take place and did not rule out the possibility of mutation into a form that can pass among humans in the future. (TNA)-E004 |
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Monday, 28 May 2007, 03:00 CDT Avian Influenza H5N2 Hits State - VA By Pisciotta, Marla About 25,000 turkeys were destroyed in Pendleton County because of "low pathogenically avian influenza H5N2," according to officials. "This came about due to regular surveillance performance done on every flock before it leaves the farm to be slaughtered," said Buddy Davidson, communications officer in the state Department of Agriculture. "It's routine testing," he said. "We have been on enhanced surveillance since the outbreak in 2002 in Virginia. They had to euthanize 4.5 to 5 million birds." |
Antara News - May 29 12:54 PM China gives $910,000 to Indonesian bird flu eradication program
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - China donated US$910,000 to Indonesia`s bird flu eradication program in a ceremony which was attended by Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono and Chinese Ambassador to Indonesia Lan Lijun here Tuesday. "Implementing the bird flu eradication program is not easy and cannot be done by the government alone," said Anton who received the grant from the Chinese ambassador. Making bird flu eradication in Indonesia more effective needed the participation of many parties including international agencies, Minister Anton said. |
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AFP/File - Tue May 29, 11:40 PM ET A local bird keeper places his caged bird on a hangar at a bird market in Hong Kong, January 2007. Hong Kong health officials were Wednesday testing a starling found dead with suspected bird flu, in the densly populated Mong Kok area.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke) (HONG KONG) |
Reuters - Tue May 29, 8:20 PM ET Ducks are on sale at a poultry wholesale market in Loudi, central China's Hunan province May 26, 2007.A new device can quickly detect 92 different viruses, including several strains of the feared H5N1 avian flu virus or other emerging new infections, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday. (China Daily/Reuters) (RESEARCH) |
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AFP/File - Wed May 30, 1:33 PM ET A medic injects a volunteer with the Orniflu bird flu vaccine at the Mechnikov Institute in Moscow in May 2006. A US company will soon conduct clinical trials of a bird flu vaccine in Singapore and Hong Kong, a health ministry official said here Wednesday.(AFP/File/Natalia Kolesnikova) (CLINICAL TRIALS) |
AFP/File - Wed May 30, 2:19 PM ET Ducks rest at a farm in the northern province of Ha Tay, 29 May 2007. The list of bird-flu hit areas in Vietnam has become longer with the latest outbreaks in two more northern provinces as officials said Wednesday they worry the deadly virus will not stop spreading.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) (VIETNAM) |
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AFP/File - Thu May 31, 12:42 AM ET File photo shows a man reading a poster about bird flu at a hospital in Jakarta. A 45-year-old man has died from bird flu in Indonesia, taking the death toll in the nation worst hit by the virus to 78, a health ministry official said Thursday.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo) (INDONESIA) |
AFP - Thu May 31, 5:38 AM ET A vendor brings chickens on his motorbike to a market in Jakarta. Indonesian officials have said they began distributing kits containing masks, gloves and bars of soap to fight bird flu in villages across the archipelago nation.(AFP/Jewel Samad) (INDONESIA) |
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Reuters - Thu May 31, 2:27 PM ET Bernard Vallat, head of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), addresses the audience during the Paris Anti-Avian Influenza 2007 international conference, Thursday, May 31, 2007 The spread of bird flu may be waning but the world must keep up its guard against the threat of a human influenza pandemic, which is almost certain in the longer term, senior health experts said on Thursday. (B Mathur/Reuters) (PANDEMIC) |
AP - Thu May 31 12:15 PM An animal health worker spays disinfectant on geese loaded on a motorbike at Ha Vy poultry market in Ha Tay province near Hanoi, Vietnam Tuesday Feb. 13, 2007. Bird flu has stricken one more Vietnamese province, raising the total number of affected localities nationwide to 13, according to a local veterinary agency on Thursday.(VIETNAM) |
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