http://http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/worldbirdflunews.php/ News on bird flu/avian flu from around the world 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=4399AFP - Bird flu has struck two poultry flocks in northern Vietnam, a newspaper reported Sunday, after authorities warned that the killer virus could resurface strongly in the cold and wet winter months. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4399Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:56:15 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=4428 http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4428Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:16:00 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4402Reuters - A vaccine to protect against infection with the bird flu virus, the pathogen experts fear is capable of causing pandemic disease in humans, proved safe and effective in a preliminary clinical trial with children, mirroring the results of a recent trial conducted in adults, Hungarian researchers report in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4402Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:28:31 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4403Reuters - A 19-year old Cambodian man has survived the H5N1 bird flu virus which has killed seven other people in the poor Southeast Asian nation since 2005, a health ministry official said on Sunday. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4403Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:35:00 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=4426Health care workers and emergency services personnel who could have direct contact with individuals who are ill during an influenza pandemic should be protected with antiviral drugs throughout the pandemic, even before these workers are exposed or become ill themselves, according to guidance released today by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4426Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:50:00 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4406AP - Authorities in eastern China have killed more than 300,000 fowl after bird flu was discovered in chickens, the Agriculture Ministry said Tuesday. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4406Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:33:57 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=4409Reuters - Indian authorities will slaughter 200,000 chickens in the northeast state of Assam in the next two days in a culling operation to tackle the threat of bird flu, officials said. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4409Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:35:08 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=4421Vical Incorporated (Nasdaq: VICL) announced that the company's Vaxfectin(R)-formulated H5N1 pandemic influenza DNA vaccines induced T-cell responses against a matching strain of influenza virus and demonstrated cross-clade antibody responses against a different strain in a Phase 1 clinical trial. The company previously reported that the vaccines had achieved potentially protective levels of antibody responses in up to 67% of evaluable subjects in the trial's higher dose cohorts. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4421Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:00:00 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4420Intercell AG (VSE: ICLL) announced the execution of a contract modification with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The agreement commits additional funding of USD 12.5 m for Intercell's Pandemic Influenza program. Intercell is developing a Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Patch System that includes an immunostimulant patch administered in conjunction with an injected Pandemic Influenza vaccine (manufactured by Solvay Biologicals, B.V. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4420Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:00:00 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 GMT