http://http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/ukbirdflunews.php/ News on bird flu/avian flu from around the UK http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4429AFP - Health authorities in India on Saturday confirmed a fresh outbreak of deadly bird flu after thousands of chickens died, officials said. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4429Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:38:28 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4430Reuters - Health and veterinary workers culled poultry in a densely populated eastern Indian state on Saturday after a fresh outbreak of H5N1 bird flu, officials said. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4430Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:24:38 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4432A team of scientists from the US and Japan have identified a combination of three genes in the flu virus that was most likely responsible for making the 1918 flu strain so deadly that it caused the most devastating outbreak of infectious disease ever known to humankind, leaving tens of millions dead in its wake. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4432Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:00:00 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4431AFP - A Hong Kong-born infant has contracted a mild form of bird flu, the fifth case of its type in the territory, health authorities said Tuesday. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4431Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:27:32 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4386People in Jersey are being asked to help take part in a survey of wild birds as part of measures to keep an eye on possible outbreaks of avian flu. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4386Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:21:35 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4398Reuters - Bird flu has resurfaced in poultry in northern Vietnam after many months without any cases, killing ducks and chickens at two farms, a state-run newspaper reported on Sunday. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4398Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:23:22 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4400Reuters - Authorities in Bangladesh have stepped up surveillance after a fresh outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza was discovered, officials said on Wednesday. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4400Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:28:00 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4401AFP - Almost 10,000 birds have been slaughtered in Bangladesh in the past two months, an official said Wednesday, as the impoverished country faces a new outbreak of deadly avian flu. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4401Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:50:14 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4404AFP - The United Nations on Wednesday played down fears over an outbreak of bird flu in China -- saying a few cases in winter wasn't a worry. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4404Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:04:11 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4388Authorities have culled more than 370,000 birds in eastern China, as the virus resurfaces in Asia and the Middle East. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4388Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:29:47 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4418 The Ministry of Health of Cambodia has announced a new confirmed case of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. The 19-year-old male, from Kandal Province, developed symptoms on 28 November and initially sought medical attention at a local health centre on 30 November. The presence of the H5N1 virus was confirmed by the National Influenza Centre, the Institut Pasteur in Cambodia, on 11 December. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4418Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:00:00 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4407AFP - Authorities in eastern India on Tuesday confirmed a fresh outbreak of bird flu after thousands of chickens were found dead and as another state struggled to bring the virus under control. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4407Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:07:56 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4408Reuters - A 16-year-old girl died of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu on Monday, the 23rd fatality and 51st case of the disease among humans in Egypt, state news agency MENA said. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4408Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:08:21 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4419Swiss AmVac AG establishes comprehensive collaboration with the National Health Research Institutes in Taiwan to combat H5N1. H5N1/Influenza A is a flu virus known colloquially as "avian flu". "Avian flu" first occurred in Asia, and was transmitted to humans in a number of cases.AmVac's CSO Prof. Michel Klein attended the opening ceremony of the pilot plant Vaccine Centre of the National Health Research Institutes in Taiwan. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4419Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:00:00 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4410Reuters - A 19-year-old Cambodian who ate dead poultry has been confirmed with H5N1 bird flu, the country's first human case in more than 18 months, the World Health Organization (WHO) and government said on Friday. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4410Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:20:27 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4411Reuters - India is sending bird flu experts to the northeastern state of Assam and setting up isolation units to treat up to 90 people showing signs of the virus, health authorities said on Friday. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4411Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:19:30 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4396Contents Introduction I - Equitable access to therapeutic and prophylactic measures II - Isolation, quarantine, border control and social-distancing measures III- The role and obligations of health-care workers during an outbreak of pandemic influenza IV- Pandemic influenza planning and response - translational issues for governments. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4396Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:32:00 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4412AFP - Hong Kong's government confirmed Thursday that the deadly H5N1 virus was found at a poultry farm, the first outbreak on a farm here in nearly six years. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4412Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:13:40 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4413AP - Hong Kong authorities confirmed Thursday that the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu has caused an outbreak at a local chicken farm. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4413Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:19:56 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4414AFP - Smuggled fertilised eggs from China containing infected chicken embryos could be the origin of the latest bird flu outbreak at a Hong Kong poultry farm, trade representatives said Thursday. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4414Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:16:12 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4415Time.com - After culling 80,000 chickens and shutting down the poultry industry for 21 days, Hong Kong is facing its biggest bird flu outbreak in six years - and the question of what to do about it http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4415Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:50:00 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4417Reuters - Indonesia has confirmed two new cases of human bird flu, the first officially reported since September in the country which remains the hardest-hit by the deadly virus, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4417Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:31:02 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4423Antiviral drugs play a central role in current plans for managing an influenza pandemic. However, their ability to reduce symptoms and infectivity in cases, and to reduce susceptibility of individuals given antivirals prophylactically must be confirmed for the pandemic virus strain. We present a technique for estimating antiviral effectiveness from data that can gathered easily from infected households during the early stages of an influenza pandemic. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4423Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:00:00 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4433By mixing and matching a contemporary flu virus with the "Spanish flu" — a virus that killed between 20 and 50 million people 90 years ago in history's most devastating outbreak of infectious disease - researchers have identified a set of three genes that helped underpin the extraordinary virulence of the 1918 virus. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4433Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:45:00 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4378See the location of bird and human cases of the H5N1 virus - and watch the spread of the disease over time. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4378Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:15:24 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4335AFP - Thailand has confirmed a second case of bird flu in less than a week, a senior agriculture official said Thursday. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4335Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:14:06 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4346WHO 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. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4346Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:00:00 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4338AFP - 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. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4338Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:28:42 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4340Reuters - 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. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4340Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:14:38 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4322UK experts developing a testing machine for bird flu say it could save lives by cutting the time it takes to detect outbreaks. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4322Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:46:45 GMT