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added 2006 Thu Aug 24 17:06:32 by dirtyfratboy
Researchers studying avian influenza say they have agreed to share data that were previously being kept behind closed doors — a move they hope will speed insights into the virus that threatens to spark a human pandemic.
added 2006 Mon Aug 14 20:52:39 by TimALoftis
Scientists have discovered the possible presence of bird flu in wild mute swans in Michigan %u2014 but it does not appear to be the most worrisome, highly pathogenic strain, the White House announced Monday.
added 2006 Tue Aug 8 22:48:32 by ekklesiawarrior
Governments worldwide have spent billions in recent months planning for a potential influenza pandemic: Conventional disasters, like earthquakes, are generally local and transient, while a pandemic would interrupt business in many parts of the world simultaneously, perhaps for months on end!
added 2006 Tue Aug 8 22:41:58 by ekklesiawarrior
Human-to-human transmission was suspected in Indonesia. Health officials have struggled to gather information or take blood samples from villagers, many of whom believe black magic is responsible for their neighbors' deaths.
added 2006 Tue Aug 8 17:15:04 by Fabienne
A sixteen year old boy and girl have been added to the list of deaths from bird flu in Indonesia raising the country's toll to the highest for any nation: 44 deaths. Indonesian officials are largely unwilling or unable to initiate a widespread cull of sick poultry lacking the funds to compensate farmers.
added 2006 Fri Aug 4 3:36:23 by capn_caveman
Researchers who combined a human flu virus with the H5N1 bird flu virus say that none of the hybrid viruses produced were capable of triggering a pandemic.