Vietnam has new human bird flu case

Reporting by Nguyen Nhat Lam and Sugita Katyal
HANOI (Reuters) – A 23-year-old man has tested positive for the deadly H5N1 virus in northern Vietnam, a state-run newspaper reported on Saturday.
The online Lao Dong newspaper (www.laodong.com.vn) quoted health officials as saying the man from Dam Ha district in the northern province of Quang Ninh, about 150 [...]

H5N1 Clade 7 Vaccine Failures Raise China Concerns

Recombinomics Commentary February 6, 2009
The Ministry of Agriculture said in a report on its website that the strain found in Jiangsu was a variant, requiring the modification of the vaccine program in the surrounding provinces of Zhejiang, Shanghai, Anhui and Shandong.
The above comments describe the Jiangsu December outbreaks which involved H5N1 closely related to clade [...]

Investigation into discovery of dead birds on Lantau

Hong Kong – A spokesman for the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department ( AFCD ) said today ( February 2 ) that following the H5 virus test results of a dead goose and two dead ducks last Saturday ( January 31 ), nine more carcasses of birds were collected at Sha Lo Wan and Sham [...]

Suspect Bird Flu Case now declared negative

A suspect bird flu [avian A/H5N1 influenza] patient who was treated for 8 days in the regional Public Hospital Gunung Jati, Cirebon City, has now been declared bird flu negative. The patient was allowed to return home after receiving results from the laboratory of the Penelitian Dan Pengembangan Kesehatan Hall of the Department of the [...]

China moves quickly on bird flu outbreak

Facts of H5N1’s spread flowing freely this time
Jan 29, 2009 04:30 AM
Bill Schiller
ASIA BUREAU
BEIJING–For 19-year-old Huang Yanqing, it was like the onset of any flu, masked by the deceptive symptoms of the common cold.
It seemed harmless at the time, a consequence of nothing more than Beijing’s wintry weather.
But for Huang it would be deadly.
Just five [...]

Bio Lab In Galveston, Texas, Raises Concerns

Much of the University of Texas medical school on the island of Galveston suffered flood damage during Hurricane Ike, except for one gleaming new building, a national biological defense laboratory that will soon house some of the most deadly diseases in the world.
 How a laboratory where scientists plan to study viruses like Ebola and Marburg [...]

WHO warns Egypt of impending disaster

9-21-08  
http://www.saveegyptfront.org/news/?c=199&a=16782
Deputy warns of catastrophe due to 300 thousand pigs amid housing  
21st September
Mohsen Radi progress (member of the parliamentary bloc of the Muslim Brotherhood) to the urgent question Engineer Amin Abaza (Minister of Agriculture) as the World Health Organization has confirmed that Egypt is on the heels of an environmental disaster;, because raising 300 pigs [...]

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 [...]