Thursday 13 11 08
AFP - Thailand has confirmed a second case of bird flu in less than a week, a senior agriculture official said Thursday.
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Thursday 13 11 08 WHO and CDC have stated that the predictive accuracy of their annual formulations for human influenza vaccines is "suboptimal" -- often correct less than 50% of the time, especially for seniors. Perhaps in part because we are not yet accurate in our predictions of upcoming influenza strains, approximately 36,000 people die each year of flu in the United States alone. |
Thursday 06 11 08
AFP - The deadly H5N1 flu virus disarms the human immune system by hiding bits of genetic material that would normally trigger an infection alarm, according to a study published Thursday.
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Sunday 26 10 08 Reuters - Compensation for farmers affected by bird flu helps the early detection of new outbreaks, the U.N's avian influenza chief said on Sunday, but refrained from criticizing countries like Egypt that lack such programs. |
Thursday 14 08 08 UK experts developing a testing machine for bird flu say it could save lives by cutting the time it takes to detect outbreaks. |
Friday 08 08 08 A farmer whose business was at the centre of a bird flu outbreak is fined £4,000 for breaching regulations. |
Monday 28 07 08 Reuters - An outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus
has been found in two Nigerian poultry markets, the first
discovery in almost 10 months in Africa's most populous nation,
the agriculture ministry said on Monday. |
Wednesday 23 07 08
AFP - Bird flu chiefs from across Southeast Asia have agreed to assess the ability of their governments to respond to a deadly human pandemic of the virus, an Indonesian official said Wednesday.
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Tuesday 22 07 08
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.
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Tuesday 08 07 08 A surveillance zone and the remaining control area restrictions following an outbreak of bird flu in Oxfordshire are lifted. |