Year of the Rat will soon be upon us

Posted on December 31, 2007 by birdflunewsflash

According to the Chinese Zodiac, the Year of 2008 is a Year of the Rat, which begins on February 7, 2008 and ends on January 25, 2009.

First in the cycle of 12 Animal signs, Rat Year begins the sequence and recurs every twelfth year.

Year of the Rat  February 7, 2008 - January 25, 2009

With the current [...]

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Portugese Hunters lose out to Bird-Flu.

Posted on December 23, 2007 by birdflunewsflash

Thousands of partridges which were being stocked in preparation for shooting by Portuguese hunters, will now be killed due to an out break of H5de, a subtype of the bird flu virus.

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According to Carlos Agrela Pinheiro, the director general of Veterinary affairs, the H5de strain of the virus was found in the towns of Lourinha and Mafra.

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free Tamiflu for all visitors to Indonesia?

Posted on December 21, 2007 by birdflunewsflash

You have to hand it to the Indonesians for their chutzpah, in launching the new Visit Indonesia 2008 tourism campaign, at the same time as we hear about at least five Indonesians apparently infected with the deadly bird flu virus.

The campaign slogan, inaugurated by Indonesian Tourism Minister Jero Wacik last week, is also plastered on [...]

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Bird-Flu Mutates to Mix with Swine-Flu

Posted on December 19, 2007 by birdflunewsflash

Researchers have identified a new strain of swine influenza—H2N3—which is a mutated virus gene, composed of avian and swine influenza genes.
H2N3 which belongs to the group of H2 influenza viruses that last infected humans during the 1957 pandemic.

The research team at Agricultural Research Service, studied an unknown pathogen that in 2006 infected two groups [...]

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Bird Flu may be “Hushed Up” in Pakistan - Health Minister!

Posted on December 18, 2007 by birdflunewsflash

Here is an amazing statement by the current “caretaker Health Minister” of the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, as reported in the news item below, via Daily times: 
NWFP caretaker Health Minister Syed Kamal Shah told Daily Times that so far around six to seven cases of the disease had been reported in the province.
He [...]

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“Crack” Bird Flu expert Team in Pakistan!

Posted on December 16, 2007 by birdflunewsflash

I hear that a “Crack team of Bird Flu experts” has left for Pakistan to investigate the Bird-Flu outbreak over there.
Not sure if that was a real story or a spoof.
If true, then where is this team going?
Will they be checking in to the North West Frontier Hilton?
Or may be they are going to talk to [...]

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Senator John McCain of the Bird-flu reporters?

Posted on December 16, 2007 by birdflunewsflash

Peter Cordingley the WHO Asia-Pacific spokesman has said that prompt notification was helping keep the virus in check after Pakistan announced its first human death and Burma (Myanmar) revealed its first human case.

      Peter Cordingley
“People have learned that hiding cases just makes things worse,” Cordingley told AFP.
Peter Cordingley also included China in his praise.
So Burma, China [...]

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Bird Flu in Pakistan - The real story.

Posted on December 15, 2007 by birdflunewsflash

I have been watching with amused admiration, the energy and the effort spent by all of the Flu news/blog folks, on the Pakistani H5N1 outbreak.
To begin with, even at the best of times, it is very unlikely that any reliable news would be able to seep out of even the main cities of Pakistan, let [...]

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British Lords to look in to the spread of infectious diseases

Posted on December 11, 2007 by birdflunewsflash

The British Lords have now decided to examine the effectiveness of action by intergovernmental organisations, to control the spread of infectious diseases.
Their Lordships are to examine how cross-border policy issues are being addressed through UK membership of intergovernmental bodies.

The Committee, which is chaired by Lord Soley, has chosen for its first inquiry to examine how [...]

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BirdFlu NewsFlashes Dec 11, 2007

Posted on December 11, 2007 by birdflunewsflash

Additional Bird Flu Victim Tissue Samples For Indonesia
There is yet another human death resulting from the Bird Flu virus in Indonesia.
A 28-year-old woman from the outskirts of the Indonesian capital has been confirmed as dying of bird flu, raising the toll in the nation worst affected by H5N1 to 92, the health ministry said Tuesday.
The [...]

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More Human Bird Flu Tissue Samples For Indonesia

Posted on December 11, 2007 by birdflunewsflash

There is yet another human death resulting from the Bird Flu virus in Indonesia.
A 28-year-old woman from the outskirts of the Indonesian capital has been confirmed as dying of bird flu, raising the toll in the nation worst affected by H5N1 to 92, the health ministry said Tuesday.
The victim, named Mutiah, lived in the satellite [...]

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Bidflu NewsFlashes Dec 10, 2007

Posted on December 10, 2007 by birdflunewsflash

Bidflu NewsFlashes Dec 10, 2007
New outbreak of avian flu
Poland has announced the fourth outbreak of avian flu, this time in the central region of the country. Polish veterinary officials are in the midst of culling over one hundred thousand chickens.
H5N1 has hit the heart of Poland’s poultry region. 52 large farms and several hundred smaller [...]

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It was Not Human to Human H5N1 after all. Phew……

Posted on December 10, 2007 by birdflunewsflash

The Chinese Officials have confirmed that the bird flu virus that killed a man and infected his father in Jiangsu Province was a “poultry-originated virus” and cannot spread from person to person, Mao Qun’an, spokesman of the Ministry of Health, said in a press conference this morning.
The H5N1 virus has not mutated according to the [...]

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Revalutionary new tool aginst the Bird Flu Virus.

Posted on December 10, 2007 by birdflunewsflash

A revalutionary new tool aginst the Bird Flu Virus.
Researcher tests water for evidence of bird flu
I believe that Todd M. Lickfett, a CMU graduate assistant has come up with a truly new idea in the fight against the Bird-Flu virus.
Like all good ideas, it is a simple one.
Lickfett believes he can greatly widen the scope [...]

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Bird Flu mixed with Ebola would be the ultimate Nightmare!

Posted on December 6, 2007 by birdflunewsflash

The term Recombinant DNA is normally used for DNA that has been created artificially.
DNA from two or more sources is incorporated into a single recombinant molecule via the combination or insertion of one or more DNA strands, thereby combining DNA sequences which would not normally occur together.
However, recombination is also an important mechanism in virus evolution, [...]

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Impact of Bird-Flu on the Map of Europe

Posted on December 5, 2007 by birdflunewsflash

The Impact of Bird-Flu on the Map of Europe

                                                               “Bird Flu Map”
 Thanks for the above to “Addshots”
Sources:
http://addshots.blogspot.com/2007/12/bbc-world-maps.html
www.birdflubreakingnews.com
                                                                  

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STRANGE ABSENCE of BIRD-FLU from IRAN and NORTH KOREA.

Posted on December 4, 2007 by birdflunewsflash

Even though almost all the countries neighbouring the Islamic republic of Iran and also that of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea the DPRK have reported several outbreaks of the H5N1 virus, Iran and North Korea have not had a single case of the killer virus reported any where.
What is the secret that has provided protection from [...]

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