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South Korea Declares Itself Bird Flu Free
17 (Xinhua) — The South Korean government said Sunday that the country is a bird flu “clean zone” after three months without a confirmed case of the bird flu virus. “Under OIE (the World Organization for Animal Health) rules, …
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Watches? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Watches!
# 2336. As of 5am, on this 16th day of August 2008, this is the anticipated 5-day track of what is forecast to become Hurricane Fay. For now, Fay is just a tropical storm, and she has several land masses to traverse before hitting the …
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Fluing Under The Radar
# 2034 Every year hundreds of millions of people come down with respiratory infections; the so-called `flu’, and yet …
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Seven Days Without Antivirals Makes One Weak
An analysis of outbreaks in Indonesia, the country hardest hit by bird flu, affirms that quick treatment with anti-viral drugs can save lives. But local health care workers are not properly trained in diagnosing bird flu and often do …
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Singapore Financial Sector To Drill For Pandemic
Last year around this time, the United States’ Treasury Department sponsored a massive bird flu drill for the Financial sector in order to evaluate how they would perform during a pandemic crisis. The US drill turned up important …
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Editorial Decisions
I don’t try to cover every suspected bird flu case, particularly from Indonesia. I’ve learned, the hard way, that too often we never hear how they turned out. …
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FAO Reports New Strain Of H5N1 Detected In Nigeria
The FAO is working with many nations to improve this situation, and has provided technical assistance, equipment, and veterinary drugs to help combat avian flu in many of these countries. Much of what we do know about what’s going on in …
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The Veracity Drag
With the announcement this morning that the 13 suspect Bird flu cases in North Sumatra tested negative for the H5N1 virus, many veteran observers are left with a bit of a dilemma. Whether or not to …
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Indonesia: Villagers Test Negative For Bird Flu
The other `good news’, beyond the fact that this didn’t turn out to be a bird flu outbreak, is that our hard working Internet newshounds picked up on this story early, and kept us informed every step of the way. …
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Editorial: Australia Unprepared for Epidemic
IN February 2008, 10 swans in Dorset, south-west England, were found to be positive for the H5N1 avian bird flu …
Editorial: Australia Unprepared for Epidemic