China urges intensified supervision on A/H1N1 flu in animals

www.chinaview.cn 2009-11-28 09:43:42

 
BEIJING, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) — China’s Ministry of Agriculture has called for intensified monitoring and investigation of A/H1N1 flu in animals after two samples from sick dogs were tested positive for the virus.
    The veterinary clinic of College of Veterinary Medicine at the China Agricultural University reported Wednesday that two out of 52 [...]

Outbreak of H1N1 in pigs in Riau Province, Indonesia:

OIE Report:

Information received on
26/11/2009
from
Dr Tjeppy D. Soedjana, Director General, Direction General of Livestock, Ministry of Agriculture, Jakarta, Indonesia
Summary Report type
Immediate notification
 
Start date
27/08/2009
Date of first confirmation of the event
15/09/2009
Report date
26/11/2009
Date submitted to OIE
26/11/2009
Reason for notification
Emerging disease
Morbidity
1 scale05
Mortality
0 scale05
Zoonotic impact
No
Causal agent
Pandemic influenza A/H1N1 virus
New outbreaks
Outbreak 1 PT Indotirta Suaka, Bulan Island, Batam, KEPULAUAN RIAU
Date [...]

Recombinomics: H1N1 Re-infections Raise Pandemic Concerns

Recombinomics Commentary 02:30
November 25, 2009
Dr. Debra Parsons, a pediatrician at Kid Care West in Cross Lanes, was met with reactions of doubt from local health officials last month when she said two flu tests had come back positive for H1N1, or swine flu.
Parsons first came down with the virus, complete with all the telltale symptoms, [...]

Genetic mutation of H1N1 flu found in China

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-11-26 02:47
BEIJING: Genetic mutation had been detected in eight A/H1N1 flu cases on the Chinese mainland, an official with the Chinese National Influenza Center said here Wednesday.
Shu Yuelong, director of the center, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Health, said in an interview that the mutated virus was not resistant to drugs and [...]

Science paper renews possibility of lab link

Dr. Adrian Gibbs, Australian Virologist, on Bloomberg TV
PETER’S NEW YORK, Tuesday, November 24, 2009–A just-released scientific paper spells out the hypothesis, first suggested in the weeks following the initial outbreak of swine flu in humans in the Spring of 2009, that the flu emerged from a laboratory.
The peer-reviewed paper, published today in the Journal of [...]

Ukraine: Same receptor as 1918 Spanish flu pandemic found in Ukraine virus

D225G Swine flu mutation – Same receptor as 1918 Spanish flu pandemic found in Ukraine virus
According to analysis of genetic testing done by the World Health Organization, the Ukraine flu virus is an H1N1 mutation that is similar to the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic. The two flu virus outbreaks both have changes in the receptor [...]

Recombinomics: Evidence on H1N1 D225G in Lung Cases in Norway and Ukraine

Evidence on H1N1 D225G in Lung Cases in Norway and Ukraine
Recombinomics Commentary 11:29
November 21, 2009
The WHO said the mutation does not appear to spread and the public health significance of the finding is unclear.
“Although further investigation is under way, no evidence currently suggests that these mutations are leading to an unusual increase in the number [...]

Ukraine: In Ukraine, H1N1 pandemic sets off panic and politicking

Fear pervades nation where government is mistrusted, health system is weak
 
By Philip P. Pan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, November 21, 2009
 

KIEV, UKRAINE — One night at the height of the panic over what people here call the California flu, as 24-hour news stations tracked a rising death toll and politicians speculated about a mystery lung [...]

Differentiation of two distinct clusters among currently circulating influenza A(H1N1)v viruses, March-September 2009

 Analysis of all complete genome sequences of the pandemic influenza A(H1N1)v virus available as of 10 September 2009 revealed that two closely related but distinct clusters were circulating in most of the affected countries at the same time. The characteristic differences are located in genes encoding the two surface proteins – haemagglutinin and neuraminidase – [...]

Ukraine: Second wave of A/H1N1 flu in Ukraine could come in late 2009-early 2010

Yesterday at 11:32 | Interfax-Ukraine
Ukraine’s Deputy Chief Sanitary Doctor Liudmyla Mukharska has forecast that a second wave of the A/H1N1 flu in the country could come in December 2009 or January 2010, while a third one could be seen in next autumn.
She said this at a teleconference on fighting the epidemic of flu and acute [...]