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Another flu blog
It’s evidently been around since March, but my blog searches failed to find it. I’m adding it to the H5N1 Bloggers list. If anyone is aware of blogs in the hot-zone countries that deal even occasionally with H5N1, please let me know.
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FAO working to raise awareness in Egypt
Via Daily News Egypt: FAO workshop highlights importance of biosecurity in fighting avian flu. Excerpt:. Biosecurity is vital in combating avian flu, said officials from the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). …
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A new, improved Relenza?
If approved, the medicine could provide a new treatment for flu, a disease causing 250000 to 500000 deaths worldwide a year. Previous studies also showed the medicine fights the H5N1 version of bird flu, which world health officials say …
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The long loud silence out of Indonesia
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The Bali exercise
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A letter to the editor
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Thailand: Four test negative for H5N1
Deputy permanent secretary Dr Paijit Warachit said he ordered the mobile rapid diseaseinvestigation unit to collect blood samples from the four for testing against the H5N1 strain of the virus at Nakhon Sawan’s provincial Science Centre …
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Japan: 40% of workers might have to stay home in flu pandemic
Since Japan’s population is currently around 127 million, that would imply 31 million cases of H5N1 and about 635000 deaths. The estimates on attack rate and case fatality ratio are likely drawn by analogy with worldwide statistics for …
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Three books about pandemics
The Tyee has published Sick Politics, my review of three books dealing with the Spanish flu in Winnipeg, SARS in Toronto, and a future H5N1 pandemic in Canada.
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West Bengal: Burying the evidence
Via The Telegraph: Flu fear after dead birds surface. The whole story, datelined Cooch Behar:. More than 300 dead chickens in a highly decomposed state were found lying beside NH31 this morning, triggering a bird flu scare in the area. …
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