Jun
20
China – the bird flu sandwich
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China has just reported yet another outbreak of bird flu. This time in a northern province. Last week a lorry driver contracted H5N1 bird flu in a town in the south of China, very close to Hong Kong, and China recently suffered an outbreak in a remote region to its East. Of course China is [...]
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13
Your cat could kill more than mice
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Research shows that cats are susceptible to H5N1 bird flu and many have died from the disease in Asia. I guess it was inevitable that the finger of suspicion would point to our feline friends – afterall they enjoy hunting and will find a dying bird easy prey. Having had a nibble at a bird [...]
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12
Indionesian Bird Flu Made Me Wobble
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I received an email from a visitor at SurvivingFlu.com today that got me thinking. The sender of the email was asking for my views about stock-piling food and provisions for when the pandemic engulfs us. It made me remember my thoughts in January of this year when I really did feel that the world was [...]
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18
Just when bird flu news was settling down into some sort of routine, along comes the news that pigs in Sumatra have tested positive for the H5N1 virus. Not humans, pigs – so why the concern? Pigs are often quoted as being the “mixing bowl” where the H5N1 bird virus can intermingle with a human [...]
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13
It’s interesting to see that several European countries are removing the bird flu restrictions they put in place a few months ago. I guess this is to be expected as the migration season has now finished so the threat of wild birds spreading avian flu into other European countries and the United States has now [...]
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8
Birds Flu – the movie
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Well I guess it’s happened sooner than I thought – a movie about a bird flu pandemic already! In the movie, the H5N1 virus is brought to the United States by a businessman from Hong Kong. The virus then follows the worst case scenario by passing from chickens to humans and then between humans, causing [...]
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3
News that an experimental vaccine is successfully protecting mice from the H5N1 bird flu virus shows how much research is being undertaken to find effective protection against this deadly disease. This research must bring other benefits too. Reading the article, we learn that the vaccine may potentially protect animals from other influenza viruses too. Of [...]
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2
No news is good news
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It is noticeable that the number of news items about bird flu is decreasing at the moment. When preparing the news today for survivingflu.com, there were really only two news items that seemed of interest to the growing numbers of people who are now visiting that site every day. This is good news, as it [...]
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27
H5N1, H7 influenza viruses
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So the United Kingdom wakes up to another bird flu story – this time a commercial flock of 35,000 chickens is found to be infected with an H7 variant of avian influenza. Suddenly these “H” and “N” letters take on a significance that very few of us realised six months ago. Even with my scientific [...]
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26
I am beginning to wonder if avian flu is predominantly a disease that affects asian countries. We read today that Hungary is removing its bird flu restrictions as no new cases have been found. Scotland, too, no longer has any avian flu restrictions, and the small outbreaks in France and Germany seem to have been [...]
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