Idle Speculation

This is a short commentary by Larry G, the water guy as we call him at PFI. He has graciously accepted my request to contribute on the water thread at Pandemic Flu Central Forum.  As I said to Larry when I read this, I’ve been so busy focusing on the other side of the world, [...]

WHO-World seasonal flu activity

WHO – World seasonal flu activity
Comment:  Notice Australia is left out of the report.Seasonal influenza activity in the world, 2008
24 July 2008
This summary provides an updated report of seasonal influenza activity for weeks 28-29. It does not include reports of avian influenza in humans, which are available at the avian influenza page.
Seasonal influenza activity [...]

Indonesia/China sign minutes of the meeting

Indonesia, China sign minutes of the meeting
http://tinyurl.com/6e8gyd
Indonesian and China`s Health Ministers respectively Siti Fadila Supari and Chen Zhu signed Minutes of the Meeting prior to signing a Memorandum of Understanding about bilateral cooperation in the healthcare sector.
The signing function which was among others attended by Mohamad Oemar, deputy head of Indonesian representative in Beijing, took [...]

Update: Thinking the Unthinkable

For comments concerning Monotremem’s post, please see this link:
http://www.singtomeohmuse.com/viewtopic.php?t=2736&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Thinking the unthinkable in the 21st century

This is by monotreme, of PFI.

Thinking the unthinkable in the 21st century: Who would use influenza as a biological weapon?
http://tinyurl.com/5rhdue
[links at the blog (lots of them)]
There have been occasional speculations in Flublogia as to whether H5N1 could have been some how manipulated by man. When this has been discussed in Flublogia, the idea has [...]

UPDATE: Qingdao mysterious illness

At this time we still have nothing new, except that they have cancelled the sailing excerises at this time. This is from a German report:
China: excuse for blocking offence
Qingdao (AP) – The Chinese Olympic organizers have announced their closure of the Olympic coalfield undone and for any inconvenience to the national sailing associations excused.
The closure [...]

China-Quingdao mysterious outbreak.

By now, this story is all over the flu borads. As of now we have really no other source of information. We can conclude several things after picking this to death:
The orginal chineese paper states 160,000 people infected. The translation machine says 16 million. We all know that isn’t possible, and further more, it would [...]

H5N1 and The Long War Against Flu

 

H5N1 And The Long War Against Flu
by: DemFromCT
Sun Jul 13, 2008 at 10:57:51 AM EDT

cross-posted at Daily KosHere’s this month’s editorial in the prestigious international science journal Nature:
That the H5N1 strain of bird flu has not yet caused a pandemic is no cause for complacency. Preparations for the inevitable must be redoubled to mitigate the [...]

Bird Flu still threatening Indonesia

On Friday, July 11 2008
The plague of Bird Flu was Still threatening Indonesia
http://www.republika.co.id/koran_detail.asp?id=340990&kat_id=13
Earplugs — the Plague of bird flu (Avian Influenza) in Indonesia still continued to be guarded against. This deadly illness was still having the potential to develop faster than last 2005. Agriculture Minister, Anton Apriyantono, said, this illness must be guarded against, especially [...]

Bird flu strain found in Purwakata

The Bird Flu groove was Just found in Purwakarta
By editorial staff of 02/07/2008 @ 00:47
http://www.infeksi.com/newsdetail.php?lng=in&doc=2213
(that link needs to be translated in case you check it out)
Jakarta: the Penelitian Veteriner Hall (Balitvet) Bogor, West Java, found the groove (strain) the new bird flu virus in Purwakarta.
Peternakan West Java Rachmat Setiadi Section Head said, in accordance [...]