What is the source of the Bird-Flu outbreak in Canada?

It is still not clear as to how and from where the current H7N3 virus has arrived in the “Chicken Farming” communities in the Regina region of Canada.

There are those who point the finger at the migrating birds, bringing with them the killer virus.
Most experts seem to be of the opinion however, that the horrendous [...]

Video News- Canadian Bird-Flu outbreak

Video News- Canadian avian flu outbreak via CANOE.CA
http://videos.canoe.ca/index.jsp?fr_story=FRsupt219547&rf=rss

STATEMENT BY DR. JOHN CLIFFORD ON AVIAN INFLUENZA DETECTION IN CANADA

STATEMENT BY DR. JOHN CLIFFORD ON AVIAN INFLUENZA DETECTION IN CANADA
September 27, 2007
“Today, the Canadian Food Inspection Service Agency (CFIA) confirmed that test results from samples collected at a commercial broiler breeder farm in the Saskatchewan Province were positive for a North American strain of an H7N3 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus.  The virus [...]

Bird-Flu returns to Bangladesh

Bird-Flu in Bangladesh, again.
As if Bangladesh did not have enough problems with floods, crop failure with poverty levels that can not even be imagined by the western minds, the dreaded Bird-Flu virus has decided to pay a return visit to the impoverished country.
United News of Bangladesh (UNB) reports that nearly 6,000 chickens were culled at Sahapur village [...]

Four Million French could get Flu this winter

Here is a story (via KUNA) that could have Michael Fumento, the “anti alarmist journalist” fuming away at the above mega alarmist headline from France. 
The news item sounds alarming, but apparently it also happens to be a fact!

The French daily “Liberation” quoted health sources as saying, in its edition published on Tuesday, that this years the Flu outbreak [...]

Two Indonesian Children hospitalised as suspected Bird-Flu Patients.

The province of Riau in Indonesia seems to have once again become the scene of an outbreak of the Bird Flu virus.

According to ANTARA, the premier Indonesian news agency, two children aged under five years of age, were admitted to Arifin Achmad General Hospital  on Sunday night as suspected bird flu patients.
The two children, only identified [...]

BirdFlu kills yet Another Indonesian

A 30-year-old Indonesian woman suspected of being infected with bird flu, died late Saturday in the Hasan Sadikin general hospital, in Bandung, on the island of West Java in Indonesia.

She would be the 86th Indonesian to have succumbed to the Bird-Flu virus, if the lab tests confirm that she had died as a result of the H5N1 [...]

Beating Ducks to Death in China

I guess that I am not really surprised to find that the Chinese way of humanely “culling” chickens and ducks is to bash them on the head and body with a thick stick and basically beat them to death.
The ducks should consider them selves lucky really, I recall a video showing as to how cats and [...]

Chicken Claws in China

Thanks to http://activate.us/ for the following gruesome reminder of the way chicken parts are sold in China.
With the world’s biggest poultry population and millions of backyard birds roaming free, China is at the center of the fight against bird flu.
Along with many other viruses, Bird Flu is said to have originated in China.
Here are legs, feet and [...]

Managing Pandemic Death- British Home Office

A framework for planners preparing to manage Deaths.

 That, from the British Home Office!
http://nonaiswa.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/flu_managing_deaths.pdf

Mystery of Four Cockerels Appearing out of Nowhere

BirdFlu version of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?

FOUR black and white speckled cockerels have mysteriously appeared in the front garden of a house in the ”London Colney” Parish, near St Albans, in London England.
The birds were found in Telford Road on Wednesday night, and so far no-one has come forward to claim them.
Linda Gibling, from London [...]

Bird flu Video-Don’t blame migrating birds, it’s factory farms

 
Here is another interesting presentation, this time from the Vegan point of view, with the heading “Bird flu Don’t blame migrating birds, it’s factory farms”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EohrZLI7vZA

Bird-Flu Outbreak in Vaccinated Ducks Triggers Mutation Fear

An outbreak of the dreaded Bird-Flu virus is bad enough for any country, it is specially feared in China, the land of its origin.
What makes the recent outbreak of the H5N1 virus, found in the ducks in farms near Guangzhou’s Panyu district even worse, is the fact that the infected ducks had apparently been vaccinated (or [...]

Bird-Flu goes back home to China

  Along with all kinds of other viruses, the Bird-Flu virus is said to have originated in China.

Now it seems that the deadly virus is back home, paying a visit to China’s southern city of Guangzhou.
According to information posted on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture, the city of Guangzhou has reported that a large number [...]

Bird-Flu Pandemic an alarming video, dedicated to Michael Fumento.

A frightening (and alarmist?) look at the possible future for us all, if the Bird-Flu becomes a Human Flu Pandemic from the BBC:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7443717071229476088&q=pandemic+duration:long&total=73&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=5
The above is specially selected for a Mr Michael Fumento, who writes for the Spectator.
In his recent article in the Spectator, “One Flew Over the Bird Flu’s Nest” Mr Fumento had listed many “alarmist” works related to [...]

Bird-Flu Video Cast – Of Mice and Men

A fascinating video lecture by Kanta Subbarao addressing the H5N1 virus, its origins, its development over the years and the global preparedness against a possible pandemic.

Kanta is one of those silent behind the scene warriors, fighting the never ending fight with the viruses.
Kanta did excellent work at the CDC, where her laboratory did pioneering work in [...]

Bird-Flu Video from Bali

Thanks to www.birdflubreakingnews.com for this great video news item from Bali.
Worth a look!  
The video news from nuvu.tv is in the Indonesian Bhasa, however there is a English subtitles translation on the screen.

http://www.ibctoday.com/News/ViewNewsItem.aspx?rootVideoPanelType=1&newsItemId=32291

Its Flu Pandemic Jim, but not as we know it!

        
Its Flu Pandemic Jim, but not as we know it! 
                                    The World Health Organisation (WHO) now believes that we are already in the midst of a kind of a Flu Pandemic.
It is not the full blown 1918 type pandemic though.
Not as yet.
The WHO’s assistant director for communicable diseases, David Heymann, says that the full blown Flu [...]

Bird-Flu 200 Dead and Counting….Another Three being treated in Bali

Bird-Flu 200 Dead and Counting….Another Three being treated in Bali
Indonesia, has had the largest number of human fatalities resulting from the H5N1 virus.
Indonesia is also the country where the Health Minister, Siti Fadilah Supari has delayed the development of effective vaccines by not sharing the tissue samples of its citizens who have died of the killer virus, [...]

Should it Not be called Bird-Flu anymore?

Tens of Millions of birds of all kind, as well as domestic poultry have been killed around the world because of the Bird-Flu.
These unfortunate birds were not not even suffering from the Bird-Flu virus.
They were in fact not sick at all.

Millions and millions of the birds were killed, just-in-case.
Just-in-case, they had the Bird-Flu virus, or may be [...]

Bird-Flu Rumors?

Here is a bird-flu-funny, made out of Lucy Silag’s post at the Salon.com.
Hope Lucy will forgive us for the following, but this is just the kind of a gossip conversation, concerned hens would be having these days about the dreaded Bird-Flu. 

Psst! Have you heard…?
By Lucy Silag

Bird-Flu Risk for Chicken Swinging Rabbis.

I do not belong to any fanatic anti meat eating group, but I have always believed that the ritual killing of animals known as Kosher or Halal, in which the blood of the animal is allowed to flow from a ritual cut as the creature basically bleeds to death, hung upside down, is amazingly cruel.
It is also extremely [...]

And now… Bird-Flu in Bulgaria

AFP is reporting that Bulgaria’s veterinary service confirmed Friday an outbreak of Newcastle disease in poultry in the northwest of the country, the farming ministry said in a statement.

Local veterinary authorities in the village of Kravoder sent bird samples for testing to the national lab Tuesday after 33 birds in two separate farms died with [...]

Two more Children Infected with Bird-Flu in Bali

More bad news from Indonesia with more children infected with the Bird-Flu!

Siti Fadilah Supari, The Indonesian Health Minister. 
ANTARA is reporting that another two infants from Bali, suspected of being infected with bird flu, were rushed to Sanglah Hospital, Denpasar on Friday night, bringing the number of suspected bird flu patients, who have been treated at the hospital in Bali [...]