Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)

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NEWS SCAN: Flu death in kids, births after 1918 pandemic, ground turkey Salmonella cases, flu activity, virulent H1N1-H5N1 combo, flu from pigs, cytokine storm discovery

Sep 15, 2011

 

FLU NEWS SCAN: H1N1 self-diagnosis, avian flu in wild US ducks

Sep 14, 2011

 

US ag and food defense efforts criticized

(CIDRAP News) – Although no successful attacks on the US agriculture and food system have been reported in the past decade, the nation's efforts to defend the system came in for a barrage of criticism yesterday about a lack of coordination and various other shortcomings.

Robert Roos
 

NEWS SCAN: Lab infection probe, H5N1 in Cambodia, cholera ebb in Haiti, drug-resistant bacteria, nosocomial infections

Sep 13, 2011

 

FLU NEWS SCAN: Global flu update, H5N1 outbreaks, 4-strain flu vaccine in kids

 

NEWS SCAN: Broad-spectrum antibiotic, training for food testing, H5N1 in ducks, malaria control

Sep 7, 2011

 

FLU NEWS SCAN: H1N1 vaccine reactions, H1N1 vaccine in disabled, AAP flu vaccination guide, H5N1 in Vietnam

Sep 6, 2011

 

NEWS SCAN: CDC on H5N1 clade, avian-flu prevention in Egypt, cyclical H5N1, flu cross-protection, Southern Hemisphere H1N1 patterns, flu diagnostic kit

Sep 2, 2011

 

WHO, OIE downplay importance of new H5N1 variant

(CIDRAP News) – The World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) took pains today to downplay the significance of a new H5N1 avian influenza variant that another major international organization warned about this week.

Robert Roos
 

FAO warns of possible H5N1 resurgence in birds

(CIDRAP News) – The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) expressed renewed concern today about H5N1 avian influenza, warning of a "possible major resurgence" of bird outbreaks and saying that a vaccine-evading strain has emerged in Vietnam and China.

Robert Roos
 

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