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 victim, named Mutiah, lived in the satellite city of Tangerang, just west of Jakarta, where three other bird flu deaths have been reported since October.
Mutiah, who sold ornamental plants has died here with officials suspecting she may be the nation’s 92nd bird flu death, an official from the agriculture ministry said Tuesday.
Two laboratory tests on the woman, who died on Monday at a hospital in Jakarta, showed that she was infected with the highly pathogenic virus, a statement from the ministry’s bird flu information centre said.
Unkind people in Indonesia are (no doubt maliciously) suggesting that the Indonesian Health Minister, Siti Supari is now boasting the largest amount of tissue samples in the world, from the Bird Flu victims, in the Indonesian Bird flu Human Tissue Bank.
http://www.antara.co.id/en/arc/2007/12/11/indonesian-plant-seller-suspected-of-bird-flu-death-ministry/
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gGA9CiE7_wp_PvqOkvdQhNtDEeyA
http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/administration/afp-news.html?id=071211174315.xz87pds3&cat=null
Bird Flu case suspected at South Korea Poultry Farm.
Here we go again!
Even though its neighbour is protected from the Bird Flu virus due to the devine powers of its dear leader, South Korea has no such protection and has once again succumbed to the killer virus.
A report today Tuesday, from Reuters (Yonhap news agency) tells us that ducks at a poultry farm tested positive for an antibody to a bird flu virus.
There was no information on which strain of bird flu, at the farm in Paju, around 24.85 miles north of Seoul, had been identified. Results of further testing should be known in about two weeks, a local official told Yonhap news agency.
South Korea’s agriculture ministry was unable immediately to confirm the Yonhap report.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUKSEO9157220071211
Bird flu outbreak reported from farm in Russia’s Rostov region
A total of 35,000 chickens have died of flu at the Gulyai-Borisovskaya farm since December 5. The farm had 500,000 chickens. Lab tests confirmed it was the bird flu.
Marina Abramchenko, a spokeswoman for the local emergencies ministry said Tuesday.
Marina Abramchenko said the birds started dying November 29 from the lethal H5N1 virus at the farm, which holds some 500,000 birds, adding that quarantine restrictions have been introduced in the area.
“We have received the preliminary results of analysis,” Abramchenko said adding that the results showed traces of the H5N1 virus.
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=12169841&PageNum=0
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20071211/91905749.html
How to find the cheapest Christmas turkey in UK?
No. It is not by calling Barnard Matthews for one of his “Turkey Specials”.
It is suggested by “This is Money” (Part of the Daily Mail group) that even though the availability of organic birds in the UK has been hit, elsewhere the predictions that the price of a turkey would soar have failed to materialise.
After the recent bird flu outbreaks in the UK, there were fears that the cost of Christmas lunch could rocket this year – with Waitrose announcing it would have no organic turkeys this year. But while the availability of organic birds has been hit, elsewhere predictions that the price of a turkey would soar have failed to materialise.
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/consumer/article.html?in_article_id=427456&in_page_id=5
British Lords to look in to the spread of infectious diseases
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 Labour peer Lord Soley, Chairman of the new Committee, said:
“Infectious diseases are no respecters of national frontiers. Much good work to prevent or control them is being done by a range of intergovernmental organisations of which the UK is a member.
“Our Committee wishes to assess how effective these efforts are proving to be and how well coordinated they are. We also want to see what intergovernmental preparations are being made to cope with emerging diseases.
“We will be focusing initially on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis and Avian Influenza, all of them actual or potential killers on a large scale.
Of course with the recent accusations of “Money for titles” leveled at the British Government, added to the practice of the ex Prime Minister Blair of “stuffing the House of Lords with his labour cronies”, the Noble House of Lords is considered by some, to be not as NOBLE as it once was!
http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/lords_press_notices/pn101207igo.cfm
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