Nepal: Smuggling of chicken on rise

Sarlahi, Jan 31 – Though the government has banned the import of fowls and fowl products from India after the detection of bird flu, a large number of chickens and eggs are being imported to Sarlahi from India daily.
They are being imported via Sangrampur and Parsa entry point of the district, it is said. 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 [...]

Quarantine spreads in Abbotsford bird flu scare

METRO VANCOUVER — One more Abbotsford-area farm has been placed under quarantine and more could be flagged in the coming days as the Canadian Food Inspection Agency continues to monitor an outbreak of avian flu.
Twenty-three farms were initially under quarantine because they are within a three-kilometre radius of E & H farms on Lefeuvre [...]

CDC weekly seasonal influenza data

CDC Weekly Seasonal Influenza Data
Week 2, ending January 17, 2009

GOOGLE REPORTS FLU SEARCHES, LOCATIONS TO FEDS

GOOGLE REPORTS FLU SEARCHES TO FEDS
Tue Nov 11 2008 15:34:50 ET
We know how you’re feeling, we know if you’re sick…. We’ll report it to the goverment…
GOOGLE will launch a new tool that will help U.S. federal officials track sickness. ‘Flu Trends’ uses search terms that people put into the search giant to figure out [...]

Prepardness Archieves

This is a great site. Lots of info for yourself and to pass along to family and friends.
http://www.simplyprepared.com/preparedness_archives.htm
I don’t know if it’s just me getting loopy, but I seem to have noticed “flu and pandemic flu” being mentioned more in the media here lately. Anybody else?

Flu vaccine to the lungs

The Flu vaccine to the Lebih Efektif lungs
By editorial staff of 08/10/2008 @ 23:31
http://www.infeksi.com/newsdetail.php?lng=in&doc=2519

Hong Kong – gave the flu vaccine in the lungs routinely through the needle suntik will trigger the response was stronger body immunity. This matter was expressed by a study, recently. Some people not too many hoped in giving of the vaccine [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Waiting for a pandemic will wear you out!

This is in response to medclinican’s diary on the fluwiki. It’s been awhile since he’s posted. He’s concerned people are giving up, therefore will be unprepared when a pandemic happens.
“Thank you Medclinician.
It’s has been awhile.Yes, I agree with your assessment:” In fact, many serious and devoted posters have gone back to their normal family [...]