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Seattle - King County: No Ordinary Flu

# 2174. Public Health Seattle-King County has been on the forefront of pandemic education and preparedness for years. I’ve highlighted some of their efforts in the past, …
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Idaho BlogEx: July 24th Update

# 2173 This is an exercise. It is not real. The Southeastern District Health Department of Idaho continues their online pandemic exercise with the release of updated absenteeism, and fatality figures […]

Idaho BlogEx: July 24th Update

But of course the big draw to this exercise is the interaction between the SDHD and the participants in the comments. If you haven’t been keeping up, today seems like a slow bird flu news day (so far, anyway), and a good day to do so. …
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Reasonably Foreseeable Worst-Case Scenarios

# 2172. After the dust-up over the House of Lords report on the global fight against pandemic influenza, UK papers have been running background pieces on the pandemic threat. The story earlier this week was that a pandemic could claim …
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S. Korea: Cat May Have Died From Bird Flu

Kim Chul-joong, a professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Chungnam National University, said Wednesday, “We isolated the highly pathogenic strain of avian flu from the dead cat found along the Mangyeong River in Gimje and …
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No Such Thing As A `Planacea'

# 2167. plan·a·ce·a (pl n -s ). n. A mythical plan, guideline, or rule book for all emergencies, pandemics, or other crises; `A Plan for All Reasons’. The following is part of a press release regarding an article in JAMA (Journal of the …
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South Korea To Begin Year-Round Bird Flu Monitoring

SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea will start year-round monitoring for bird flu after this year’s outbreak — the country’s worst — began later than normal, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday. It said migratory and resident wild birds would …
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Vietnam: Third Province Reporting B2B Bird Flu Outbreak

Compared to this time last year, Vietnam is having a much easier time of it dealing with bird flu outbreaks. Today there are only 3 provinces reporting outbreaks, while a year ago, that number was in the teens. …
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Increased Tamiflu Resistance In Seasonal Influenza

# 2157 Roughly 6 months ago an increased number of H1N1 influenza samples with resistance to Tamiflu began showing up in Norway. These viruses carried a specific neuraminidase mutation called H274Y that results in a decreased sensitivity to oseltamivir (Tamiflu). […]

Vietnam: The amount on H5N1

Substantial erect an scoop leaving out May 28 to the Vietnam Feathers Moralize upon, ducal”Passerine acute bronchitis deterrent beggary unto take care of range.” Genius as for the thriller is to and fro the hand’s problems inwards ensuring vaccinations and deliberate ostracization …
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