Thousands of birds culled in India after 24 cases of bird flu reported

www.chinaview.cn 2009-02-26 17:27:36
NEW DELHI, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) — The Indian government has culled more than 8,000 birds in the east India’s Darjeeling area after 24cases of bird flu have been reported recently, government officials said on Thursday. The bird flu outbreak took place in Punding Forest of Darjeeling area, the Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying [...]

Students in detention: bird flu suspects

goggle translated
Students in detention »fevers» Beni Suef on suspicion of being b «avian flu»
  Omar Sheikh wrote 2-19-2009
Detained fevers Beni Suef hospital, the day before yesterday, Muhammad Azim «18 years» Albranqp students from the village, of the Center for Bba, on suspicion of being infected with bird flu, after the emergence of symptoms similar to [...]

Japan has flu plan to block entry, spread of virus

The Associated Press
Thursday, February 12, 2009
TOKYO: Japan’s plan for any future influenza pandemic calls for shutting down airports, closing schools and organizing mass cremations of the dead in hopes of keeping the virus off its shores or at least containing it.
The government plan estimates that a new human flu virus could infect a quarter [...]

Panasonic to fly home workers’ families over bird flu fears

TOKYO (AFP) – Panasonic Corp. has ordered Japanese employees in some foreign countries to send their families home to Japan in preparation for a possible bird flu pandemic, a spokesman said Tuesday.
Family members of Japanese employees in parts of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Russia, former Soviet states and Latin America will fly back [...]

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 [...]

SDF planes to fly home Japanese stranded in event of flu pandemic

The Yomiuri Shimbun
(Feb. 4, 2009)
The Defense Ministry has drafted an action plan that will allow government aircraft to bring home stranded Japanese following the overseas outbreak of a new type of pandemic influenza, it has been learned.
The plan calls for the dispatch of Self-Defense Force’s aircraft, including chartered government jets, if an outbreak of influenza [...]

Cilendek, Indonesia

two related deaths and there is a team taking samples of blood from symptomatic people in the radius of 1 km of these deaths in Cilendek: After the Death of casualties Suspect Bird Flu in Cilendek Department of Health took the Sample of Residents’ Blood 31-01-2009 15:08 WIB
Bogor – After the death two related Nurul [...]

National Flu Alert and School Closings in Japan

Recombinomics Commentary January 30, 2009
The rapidly increasing number of patients, and Japan is still calling for wearing masks. the number of flu patients has doubled in the last week
Diseases Control Division, said County, this winter, took measures to close down schools and school classes let out by a group of influenza infection (primary and [...]

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 [...]