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Jan 03, 2008

Jan 03, 2008

Israel among countries reporting new H5N1 outbreaks

Jan 03, 2008

(CIDRAP News) – Animal health officials in Israel today notified the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) of an H5 avian influenza outbreak at a site near Haifa, and media outlets are reporting that final tests have confirmed the virus is the lethal H5N1subtype.
Jan 03, 2008

WHO: initial analysis of Pakistani H5N1 suggests no dangerous mutations

Lisa Schnirring
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Jan 03, 2008

(CIDRAP News) – An official from the World Health Organization (WHO) today shared results of initial genetic sequencing tests on H5N1 avian influenza samples from a man who died of the disease in Pakistan that suggest the strain doesn't have the capacity for widespread transmission.

Jan 10, 2008

Jan 10, 2008

H5N1 hits mute swans at British tourist site

Jan 10, 2008

(CIDRAP News) – Animal health officials in the United Kingdom today announced that samples from three mute swans found dead at a swan sanctuary in Dorset County on England's southwest coast tested positive for H5N1 avian influenza.

Jan 11, 2008

Jan 11, 2008

Woman's illness raises Indonesia's H5N1 total to 117

Jan 11, 2008

(CIDRAP News) – Indonesia's health ministry announced that a 16-year-old girl from West Java province is hospitalized with H5N1 avian influenza, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported today. This development follows new media revelations about details relating to recently confirmed H5N1 patients in China and Pakistan.
Jan 11, 2008

OIE chief's downplaying of pandemic risk draws fire

Robert Roos
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Jan 11, 2008

(CIDRAP News) – Disease experts and preparedness advocates reacted negatively today to comments by the head of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) suggesting that the risk of an influenza pandemic posed by the H5N1 avian flu virus is minimal.

Jan 14, 2008

Jan 14, 2008

Study refines view of H5N1 virus's binding preferences

Robert Roos
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Jan 14, 2008

(CIDRAP News) – A research report published last week says that the factors governing whether H5N1 avian influenza viruses can invade human cells are more complex than previously thought and have to do with the particular shape of the cell-surface sugar molecules to which viruses attach.
Jan 14, 2008

Indonesia reports its first H5N1 death of 2008

Jan 14, 2008

(CIDRAP News) – An official from Indonesia's health ministry said today that a 32-year-old woman who lived near Jakarta died of H5N1 avian influenza, according to news reports.

Jan 15, 2008

Jan 15, 2008

H5N1 strikes poultry in India again

Jan 15, 2008

(CIDRAP News) – A state agriculture minister in India today confirmed that a disease outbreak involving 35,000 recent poultry deaths in West Bengal state was caused by the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus.

Anisur Rahaman, West Bengal's minister for animal resources, told Reuters, "The outbreak is of the deadly H5N1 strain and it has been confirmed to us in a central government notification today."

Jan 16, 2008

Jan 16, 2008

OIE chief says H5N1 still has pandemic potential

Jan 16, 2008

(CIDRAP News) – Dr. Bernard Vallat, head of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), believes the H5N1 avian influenza virus still has the potential to cause a human flu pandemic, the OIE said today in an effort to clarify news reports of comments Vallat made last week.
Jan 16, 2008

Exposure source unclear in 25% of human H5N1 cases

Jan 16, 2008

(CIDRAP News) – In at least 25% of human infections with the H5N1 avian influenza virus, just how the person was exposed to the virus remains a mystery, according to a report by an expert panel set up by the World Health Organization (WHO).

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