Trains and Boats and Planes, will bring Bird-Flu…directly to you

Trains and boats and planes are passing by …
The trains and the boats and planes will bring Bird-Flu….
Will bring Bird-Flu… Bring it directly to you….
Let me take you back in time. Back to the year 1918.Life moved at a much more leisurely pace back then.
The fastest way to travel across the Atlantic was [...]

India Bird-Flu Outbreak – Is it Over or Is It Not?

It was with a big sigh of relief that all of us heard that the bird flu epidemic had officially been declared over in India.

That was back on the 14th of August.
The official notification was celebrated with almost ritual chicken parties and the local media had a great time publicizing the people enjoying their chicken [...]

Bird-Flu threat to Moon Festival celebrations.

The Chinese Moon Festival, (also known as the Mid-autumn Festival) which is normally celebrated on the 15th of the 8th lunar month, is is one of the most important traditional events for the Chinese.
It is as important for the Chinese, as Christmas and Thanksgiving is for the people in the West
The Moon festival is famous for, among [...]

Steep rise in the Bird-Flu Infection and Fatality Rate curve.

The World Health Organisation graph below, with the steep growth curve showing the slow but steady growth, in the Bird-Flu Infection and Fatality Rate since 2004, presents an alarming picture.

Bali to Censor News about the current Bird-Flu outbreak.

It seems that the powers-that-be in Bali, are heading towards media censorship as far as any news related to the Bird-Flu outbreak is concerned.

Anak Agung Bagus Netra, the spokesman for the Bali Administration said on Tuesday that Governor Dewa Beratha had ordered all information regarding bird flu be delivered only by the public relations department.
He [...]

“STAGE 4″ Alert in the WHO Pandemic flu preparedness plan?

We are supposed to be at “STAGE 3″ of Current phase of alert in the WHO global influenza preparedness plan!
However, we could even be at ”Stage 4″ alert, if the news about the confirmation of the human to human infection of the H5N1 from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is true.
Experts at WHO and elsewhere believe that [...]

We are a Step Closer to a Human Pandemic Flu….

We are a Step Closer to a Human Pandemic Flu…. now that Avian flu can spread between humans
The mutation of the current Bird-Flu virus in to a virus that can cause Human to human infection has been the greatest fear for all who have been following this potentially killer virus.

There have been reports of several “clusters” [...]

India wants its women to be Aware of Bird-Flu.

India had one of the first women Prime Ministers in the world.
In India’s ancient history of more than 10,000 years, women have been known to be in powerful and vitally important positions in society.
Yet it is a fact that most of the women in India today, are not educated and are not able to fully develop their potential.
The Government [...]

160,000 Geese Gassed to death in Germany following Bird-Flu Scare.

German health officials launched the largest ever massacre of poultry following the latest outbreak of the Bird-Flu in that country.
160,000 geese were slaughtered over the weekend, after the deadly bird-flu virus was found in a poultry farm near the Bavarian city of Erlangen.

The cull was ordered after 400 geese were found dead.  
A team of eight [...]

A Bird-Flu Funny

Now that the thankfully brief British outbreak of the foot and mouth virus is over, we can think about the funny side of things.   
Here is a Bird-Flu Funny:

Sources:
www.birdflubreakingnews.com 
Best-Bird-Flu-Blogs – Tigana’s Blog

Little “Ni Putu” Fights the Bird-Flu while Indonesian Politicians “Haggle” with the WHO.

Another suspected case of human infection with bird flu virus was discovered Friday in Bali, which has been battling the fatal disease since last week.

 

The one-and-a-half-year-old infant, Ni Putu Aprilia Dewi, is being treated at Sanglah Hospital in Denpasar.

 
So, yet another Indonesian child gets the Bird-Flu.
 
I wish this would stop!
 
During all this time the [...]

Brit Bird-Flu Victims to be stored in Tents, hired from a Marquee hire firm

The Brits are preparing for a possible Pandemic.
You know, just in case and all that….

The problem is that local Governments of the Counties of Great Britain have failed to finalise arrangements for an emergency morgues in case of an emergency situation such as a Pandemic.
The county of Lancashire’s dead could be stored in a tent [...]

Third Bird-Flu Death in Bali, as Tourist Arrive in Record Numbers!

The Third Balinese Victim of the deadly Bird-Flu virus.
So soon after the death of the 29-year-old Ni Luh Putu Sri Windani and her Her five-year-old daughter Dian, Bali has yet another human victim of the Bird-Flu virus.
A 28-year-old woman died of suspected bird flu today after undergoing treatment for 36 hours at the Sanglah Hospital in Denpasar, [...]

Why are so many Children Succumbing to the H5N1 Bird Flu?

There may not be a global pandemic of the Flu virus, but it seems that almost every other day, there is yet another human infected with the Bird-Flu virus!
What is more, majority of the victims seem to be young children or teenagers!
Why is that?
Now there is yet another child being treated for suspected bird flu in Indonesia.

There [...]

Generous Offer from Bird-Flu inflicted Indonesia!

The government of Indonesia has generously agreed to send a bird flu virus sample that has killed a woman in Bali to the World Health Organization (WHO).

A sample of the bird flu virus that killed a woman on Bali has been sent to a World Health Organisation laboratory to allay fears that it has [...]

THIRD Indonesian victim of the Bird-Flu in less than a week.

While The Indonesian Government led by Siti Fadilah Supari, the Indonesian Health Minister is endlessly haggling with the world community for its “biological assets” ( the tissue samples from its citizens who have died of the Bird-Flu) the deadly virus keeps on adding to its toll of human fatalities in that unfortunate country.
 

Siti Fadilah Supari
Indonesian [...]

India “Surrounded” by Countries with Bird-Flu.

Mr Naresh Dayal, the Federal Health Secretary in the Government of India, worries about  the possibility of the Bird-Flu virus mutating in to a human to human virus.
“Worldwide, human-to-human transmission is feared. We have to be able to tackle that if, God forbid, it starts,” he said in an interview with Reuters.
Mr Dayal was very concerned about [...]

Bird-Flu kills Two in Bali-a Neighbour is Hospitalised

Ni Luh Putu Sri Windiani, a 29 year old Indonesian woman and her five-year-old daughter Dian have died of bird flu, on the tourist island of Bali, a Health Ministry official confirmed today, bringing the nation’s toll to 83.

The latest Bird-Flu related deaths could be a problem for Bali, the last remaining Hindu region of Indonesia, which [...]

Scientists Create “artificial” Human Bird-Flu Virus!

Scientists have mutated a protein of the H5N1 virus to identify changes which could make the virus capable of passing between humans.
Even an artificial Bird-Flu virus, which could infect humans easily, is really scary at this time.
What with all the goings on at the Pirbright Research laboratory, in Surrey, England, which is said to be linked to [...]

Back-to-the-Future for Bird-Flu Vaccines

The problem with all of the currently produced vaccines for the H5N1 virus is, that they may not protect us when we need them the most.
There is no guaranty, that the vaccines in production now, would provide any protection what so ever against the Pandemic Flu virus, if and when there is one.
Influenza viruses constantly [...]

“Virus Research Laboratories could become a target for bio terrorists”

No one seems to be owning up as a source of the recent Foot and Mouth outbreak in the UK.
The Official Rreport published on Tuesday in the UK however, suggests that it is very likely that the Laboratory researching the Foot and Mouth virus near the location of the outbreak is the source of the current outbreak.

What [...]

Weird Australian Flu, Kills yet another Child.

It is not Bird-Flu as we know it.
Nor is it the “Normal Flu” as we know it.
A strange kind of Flu has been killing people (mostly children) in Australia.
Health authorities have confirmed that a five-year-old boy from Melbourne’s south-east had the flu when he died yesterday.
Ethan Ioannou, who was found by his mother yesterday morning [...]

Much More Bird-Flu in Indonesia, than we know of!

While the Government of Indonesia is busy ”negotiating” with the World Health Organisation for its “National Assests” (the tissue samples of its citizens who have died from the H5N1 virus), the Bird-Flu virus is raging all over the unfortunate country, killing millions of birds, some mammals and more humans than any where else.

Siti Fadilah Supari
Indonesian [...]

Another person dies of H5N1, in a “Bird-Flu-Free” Province of Vietnam

 Vietnamese boy dies of bird flu  
 07/08/2007  The National Department of Preventative Health announced Tuesday, that Thanh Hoa province’s 15-year-old Cao Trong Toan died en route to Hanoi from the northern province for emergency treatment. 
On the 19th of last month, the patient’s family bought 20 geese to raise at home.Three days later all the geese had died [...]

Indonesia compromising global efforts against Bird-Flu pandemic” WHO

Indonesia has the dubious honour of being the country with the largest number of human fatalities resulting from the H5N1 virus.

Siti Fadilah Supari
Indonesian Health Minister
Laboratories in various part of the world are working hard to develop one or more vaccines against the current strain of the Bird-Flu virus which has shown itself to be fatal not [...]

150 wild birds died of H5N1 in Germany in the past few weeks.

The Bavarian mountains, lakes and forests in the South of Germany, including the famous Black Forest, is one of the most beautiful regions of Europe.

This is also the area in Germany, where the Bird-Flu virus has been found in its domestic poultry as well as in its wild bird population.
Last week, three ducks were found dead near Speichersee, a [...]

Mystery Death In Uzbekistan, Food Poisoning or Bird-Flu?

People of Uzbekistan love a wedding.
The wedding parties, with a whole lot of eating, drinking and merry making, can last for days.

The guests at a party held recently in the town of Asaka, in Andijan Region however, are anything but happy.
It seems that a dish prepared from chicken drumsticks at a wedding party in Asaka [...]