More Bird Flu for Indonesia!

More Bird Flu for Indonesia!
71 people (the highest number in the world) have now been killed by the Bird Flu virus in Indonesia. 
Why has Indonesia been specially selected by God for all this trouble?

Bird-Flu a valuable asset for Indonesia?

Indonesia WILL and then it will NOT and then it WILL and then…..
The Indonesians believe that they need to extract as much out of their ”asset”- the bird flu that has been ravaging their country- as they can.
So they have been holding back on the tissue samples of the recent victims of the H5N1 virus in their country from [...]

Bird-Flu in Bangladesh Fast Food????

I guess that it is not really surprising that some people in Bangladesh would try and make a quick Taka (a buck to you) by selling poultry that is said to be infected with the Bird Flu virus.
The Weekly Blitz from Bangladesh reports that  some unscrupulous businessmen and poultry farm owners are selling Bird Flu infected Chickens to various [...]

Bird-Flu Panic in Tripura

The state of Tripura is in the north east corner of India.
It’s Himalayan range of mountains are covered with vast forests and many unexplored areas.
Tripura is blessed with some of the most beautiful scenery in the world. 
However, I guess as a karmic balance to all the above, Tripura also shares a border with Bangladesh.
So not only is Tripura on the migrating [...]

Bird Flu better than no Chickens!

For the really poor people in Bangladesh, having their poultry, in most cases their only source of income destroyed is no better than actually getting the bird flu.
Says Rashida Bagum a small backyard chicken farmer in Gazipur, north of the capital Dhaka, “with the Bird Flu there is a chance that God willing we may survive the [...]

More Human Bird Flu in Indonesia!

More bad news for Indonesia!
It seems that there is another person infected with the H5N1 virus.
A resident of Mojokerto, in East Java, 39-year-old Wetono Hadi is currently isolated at RSUD Dr Soetomo Surabaya.
Teguh Syilvaranto — the Vice Director of Dr. Soetomo Hospital — said that the patient made contact with birds and they are investigating [...]

“Super Strain” of Bird Flu from Chicken & Turkey Factory Farms???

Recently, there was the disastrous Barnard Matthews turkey factory farm episode, which resulted in the first Bird Flu outbreak in the British domestic poultry.
Now there is an increasing concern around the world about the link between the Bird Flu and other viruses and factory farming of poultry.
It is said that there is a strong possibility that these [...]

Is Tamiflu killing Japanese teenagers?

In Japan, Tamiflu is taken far more often than in any other country.
Japanese doctors prescribed the drug 24.5 million times between 2001 and 2005,compared to just 6.5 million prescriptions in the U.S.
Now,  there is a major concern in that country, that Tamiflu could be killing those who take it, specially if it is taken by [...]

Whats in a number? A lot if you have the Bird Flu!

Bird Flu is all about letters & numbers.
The familiar H5N1 is in fact really a flu which should only be effecting birds, but seems to also grab a few humans every now and then.
If and when the H5N1 virus does mutate in to a human version of the virus (and starts the dreaded human pandemic) we will [...]

Advantage Bird Flu!

In the continuing battle between the human race and the viruses, the Bird Flu virus has made its latest move.
A strain of the H5N1 virus has now been found to be resistant to one of the current drugs used against it.
According to a news item Via Reuters, the scientists have found that a strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus circulating [...]

Vaccine no protection from BIRD FLU!

There have always been many objections to the practice of mass vaccination of poultry against H5N1 and other viruses, including the fact that vaccination can mask the onset of infection in poultry.
Now it seems that even the idea of some kind of a perceived protection from the H5N1virus is not true, as reported by Caroline Lovell, writing for the [...]

WHO and the Ancient Bird Flu news.

All over the media today, we have the news about the Egyptian boy infected by the H5N1 virus bringing the tally of infected Egyptians to 26.
The above is not a rumor but a statement from the Egyptian Health Ministry:
2-year-old boy becomes Egypt’s 26th case with deadly bird flu strain
A two-year old Egyptian boy contracted [...]

Turkish Boy Dies Of Bird Flu AGAIN!

 Jan Tincher, who is apparently a Master Neuro-Linguistic Programmer writes a blog about AVIAN BIRD FLU.
Yesterday, the blog had the following headline:
Sunday, March 18, 2007Avian Bird Flu – wcco.com –
Turkish Youths Die Of Bird Flu —Health Officials Fear Case Point To Possible Pandemic–
A Turkish teenager whose brother died of bird flu also succumbed to the [...]

No Bird Flu in Myanmar! Just heat stroke, respiratory disease, enteritis, pigeon pox, injury, food poison.

From the ”New Light Of Myanmar”, the official news source of the military government of Myanmar we have the following denial of the presence of the Bird Flu virus in the country.
It is trying to go a bit further in its PR efforts than similar dictatorships on the planet.
They are not making a simple declaration of “Myanmar is Bird [...]

A ten-year-old Egyptian girl down with bird flu

Via Reuters
A ten-year-old Egyptian girl has tested positive for bird flu, becoming the 25th human case from that country.
Full article: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L14640528.htm

Fear of Pandemic Flu, brings people together!

Should we be grateful for the Bird Flu?
It seems that some good things may result from the expected Pandemic.
Kamala Hayman writing for the Stff.co.nz says that the threat of a deadly flu pandemic has resulted in a large increase in neighbourhood support groups in New Zealand.About 170 new groups were set up last year, taking the total to [...]

Great Chinese fill-out-the-form defence against the Bird Flu!

Came across this really interesting blog from Jared Beard, an expat living in Hong Kong, who has to frequently travel to the mainland China.
It tells of the Great Chinese Bbureaucratic Defence against the Bird Flu.
Apparently, foreigners entering China have to complete a form declaring that they do not have the Bird Flu!
Only foreigners have to do this.
Chinese citizens [...]

Brit Wildfowlers fight the Bird Flu!

Bernard Matthews the Brit Turkey Factory “farmer”  has launched an ad campaign to rebuild his reputation and that of his brand, after the bird flu outbreak at his Turkey Factory.
He can certainly afford to do this as the British tax payer has just been forced to pay him almost £700,000- for er.. compensation for er… having had to [...]

Supari Proves to be a Tough Nut! Will not share Bird Flu samples!!

Indonesian health minister Siti Fadilah Supari Is refusing to share the H5N1 virus samples, before there is a “material transfer agreement with the WHO”.
She said that Indonesian Government is worried that large drug companies will use the Indonesian H5N1 strain samples, sent by WHO affiliated laboratories to confirm human infections, to make vaccines that will ultimately be unaffordable for [...]

Cats, Tigers and the Bird Flu

Bird Flu, is not only for the birds.
The H5N1 virus has been found in pigs, cats, dogs, rodents and even tigers.
Over 83 tigers have recently died or have been destroyed at a Thai zoo in an outbreak of bird flu.The tigers had started dying of Bird Flu, at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in central Chonburi province in Thailand after eating raw chicken carcasses.
Wild [...]

Obama & the Bird-Flu-Investment “smell Test”!

Following my previous post on this sad situation, here is a good article from Richard Bradley in New York:
http://richardbradley.net/2007/03/is-obama-honest.html

Senator Obama and the Bird-Flu Drug Company?

Oh on Senator Obama!
Not you too!!
We were all hoping that you would be totally beyond even the slightest chance of getting involved in any unethical goings on.
It is not only that you must be beyond reproach but also that you are perceived by all to be so.
The investment in two speculative and relatively obscure companies, (including a Bird [...]

China denies being the original source of the deadly Bird Flu!

The Malaysian National News Agency BERNAMA reports, that  the China’s southern Guangdong province has rejected findings of a research done by an American team, from the University of California Irvine, that the province is the source of the deadly H5N1 avian flu.
The American researchers from the University of California Irvine made the claim in a report on [...]

Ausi Scientists quarantined, but not infected with Bird Flu

The two Australian lab technicians exposed to bird flu, at CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Moolap, will have to stay away from family and friends and be kept in quarantine, for the duration of the incubation danger period.
The Australian government science research body went into damage control yesterday, saying the incident was due to human error [...]

Australian Scientists Exposed to deadly bird flu Virus

THREE scientists have been exposed to bird flu in a safety suit bungle at Geelong’s animal health laboratory, in the State of Victoria in Australia.
The CSIRO scientists had infected live ducks with the H5N1 strain of bird flu before killing them to assess the impact of the virus.
Almost as if this was the result of [...]

Madonna’s Pheasants and Bird Flu?

Last year, the singing super star Madonna got in to trouble with the British media when it was found that she was importing pheasants from France, to release for shooting on her estate on the Wiltshire/Dorset border in southern England.
But the material girl is not the only guilty party, in fact far from it. It [...]

Second death from Bird Flu In Laos.

Almost immediately after the first human death from the Bird Flu virus in Laos, a second fatality has just been announced!
“The patient passed away at approximately 14:30 today,” the WHO said in statement issued jointly with the Laos health ministry.
 See full news item here:
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/261954/1/.html