1 day ago by monotreme1000

The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSAB) has taken upon themselves to censor studies showing that H5N1 could become a pandemic strain with a high case fatality rate. Almost all of their rhetoric has focused on the danger of terrorists reading Science and Nature and then cooking up ...

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1 day ago by Ed Rybicki

…Elsevier’s Virology was calmly publishing another paper on a “mutant” H5N1…. The abstract: Acquisition of α2-6 sialoside receptor specificity by α2-3 specific highly-pathogenic avian influenza viruses (H5N1) is thought to be a prerequisite for efficient transmission in humans. By in vitro selection ...

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1 day ago by Crof

Via The Jakarta Post: A suspected bird flu patient dies in Bandung. Excerpt: After being isolated for more than 30 hours, a 37-year-old paperboy, SA, suspected of being infected with bird flu died on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in the isolation room of Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Bandung, West Java. The spok ...

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1 day ago by Crof

Via Indian Express.com: Northern region on bird flu alert. Excerpt: Three days after 37,000 pure-bred birds were culled at the Central Poultry Development Organisation (CPDO) of the country’s eastern region in Odisha, its northern counterpart is on high alert. The parent stock of poultry birds devel ...

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1 day ago by Crof

Via IBNLive.in.com: Bird Flu: Culling in eight wards. Excerpt: BHUBANESWAR: After the Central Poultry Development Organisation (CPDO) and OUAT, the culling operations were conducted in the wards under the impact zone demarcated for the bird flu prevention and control measures. Eight teams were fanne ...

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1 day ago by Crof

WHO has published Avian influenza – situation in Viet Nam - update. The Ministry of Health (MoH) has announced a confirmed case of human infection with avian influenza A (H5N1) virus. The case was a 26 year-old pregnant female from Soc Trang province. She developed symptoms on 23 January 2012, and w ...

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1 day ago by Crof

Via Mississippi State University: MSU researcher finds link to H5N1 bird flu. Excerpt: A Mississippi State University researcher has uncovered the first molecular evidence linking live poultry markets in China to human H5N1 avian influenza. Henry Wan, an assistant professor in systems biology at MSU ...

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1 day ago by monotreme1000

The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSAB) has been in the news recently because it has advocated, strongly, the censorship of flu research which has created an H5N1 virus which is highly lethal and highly infectious among ferrets. For a scientist, censorship is considered a violatio ...

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2 days ago by Crof

Via FluTrackers: Indonesia - West Java - Bird Flu Suspect Died In Bandung Hospital. It's a computer translation: Bandung - SA (37), a resident of Kampung Mengger Girang Village District Pasirluyu Regol suspected suspect bird flu (H5N1) died in the ICU of Hasan Sadikin Hospital at 16:35 GMT, Tuesday ...

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2 days ago by Crof

Via Green Prophet.com, an IRIN report: Egypt Launches Anti-Bird Flu Campaign. See the end of the excerpt for an interesting explanation of the spread of H5N1 in the past year: A nationwide campaign to stop the spread of H5N1 avian influenza in Egypt is to be launched by the government in a few weeks ...

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