News Blackout could continue for awhile longer

This blackout is going to put me out of a blog! LOL
Seriously though, I hate news blackouts. You know BF hasn’t gone away, you know people are still getting infected, but you don’t know  WHAT is going on. Newhounds are frantically searching in corners to find news, and it just isn’t there. I’ve seen a [...]

Flu News Network Forum

Flu News Network has a new forum. It’s just nicely been set up so come on over and join us in pan flu discussion. This forum was started to put the grassroots back into the movement of pandemic awareness and community. It is my intent to make this as much like home as possible, and [...]

Unstable Clade 7 H5N1 In China Raises Concerns

Recombinomics Commentary 10:34
March 30, 2009
A recent clade 7 HA sequence from a chicken in Vietnam, A/chicken/Vietnam/NCVD-03/2008 was released at Genbank under the title, “Characterization of a highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 sublineage in poultry seized at ports of entry into Vietnam”. It was proposed as a vaccine target in the recent WHO update because it [...]

Govt sets up more labs to test human samples

Govt sets up more labs to test human samples for bird flu
31 Mar 2009, 0000 hrs IST, Kounteya Sinha, TNN
NEW DELHI: Precariously positioned between countries that have reported H5N1 bird flu virus infection in humans, India is now on a major drive to
step up its diagnostic capabilities for detection of human infection with Avian Influenza.
While [...]

NZ helps Tokelau cope with flu-like outbreak

Posted at 06:33 on 30 March, 2009 UTC
New Zealand health authorities are working with Tokelau’s officials to manage an influenza-like outbreak affecting more than one in every ten people on the country’s three atolls.
Tokelau has about 1500 residents spread over three atolls, and around 150 people heve reported ill with influenza.
The New Zealand ministry of [...]

Singapore Flu Tewaskan 18 Children in China

by Editor 29/03/2009 @ 23:08
Beijing: Outbreak hand, foot, and mouth – is prevalent in the Indonesia-called “flu
Singapore “- the 41 thousand killed five Chinese and 18 of them.
This flu – which indicated the heat at night-plus the nodule nodule around the hand, foot, and mouth sores and the like sariawan in the mouth – usually [...]

Flu epidemic killing bonobos in Congo sanctuary

Six bonobos, a species of chimpanzee, have died from a flu epidemic in a month at the Lola Ya Bonobo in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Ten more have contracted the flu.
“There is no fever. Antibiotics don’t do anything. The bonobos have severe respiratory infections and then they can’t breath for 3 days then [...]

Researchers uncover link between host gene and influenza response

[Date: 2009-03-27]
Humans in recent history have succumbed to a number of severe pandemics triggered by the influenza virus. Intensive research has focused on the virulence and evolution of the virus, but information about how specific genes or genetic profiles in humans contribute to their susceptibility or resistance to the resulting illness is limited. Enter a [...]

Egypt: The first fatal H5N1 Case in 2009

28/03/09
45 days old “Basmallah” Mohamed Rabi’” died yesterday in the Fayoum general hospital because of H5N1, the baby girl could not be rescued especially that she was admitted to the hospital 24 hours before her death. The poor baby had a very weak immunity system compared to the virus. It could not resist it  
Already [...]

CIDRAP: US flu activity continues to recede

US influenza activity continued its slow fade during the third week in March, as 24 states still reported widespread cases, compared with 30 states the week before, (Snip) Nineteen states reported regional activity. Three more children died of flu-related causes, one each in Kentucky, New York, and West Virginia, bringing the seasonal total to 35, [...]