Thursday, February 25, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
H5N1/ testing testing testing
A veterinary doctor examines a migratory ringed plover bird at wetland Gharana village in Ranbir Singh Pura, about 38 kilometers (23 miles) south of Jammu, India, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010. Three-day long bird flu surveillance is organized for migratory birds to detect the H5N1 bird flu virus.
(AP Photo/Channi Anand)Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Pandemic Information News: Doctors urged to be alert against bird flu
Pandemic Information News: Doctors urged to be alert against bird flu ........... 
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2010
Doctors urged to be alert against bird flu
Doctors urged to be alert against bird flu
A SENIOR medical officer has urged all doctors to participate in preparations and surveillance against a possible outbreak of bird flu and to provide information about the disease to the public.
A SENIOR medical officer has urged all doctors to participate in preparations and surveillance against a possible outbreak of bird flu and to provide information about the disease to the public.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Pandemic Information News: Indonesia, East Java: Ponorgo-H5N1 -75 chickens died suddenly
Pandemic Information News: Indonesia, East Java: Ponorgo-H5N1 -75 chickens died suddenly Chicken sudden death cases occurred in Kelurahan Beduri, Ponorogo District (City). Precisely in Glatik Road and Crane Road. Road Glatik recorded 45 chickens died suddenly. Chickens are dead in the morning without previous symptoms. The cranes are on the Road 30 chickens died suddenly. ''All the chicken that was immediately burned and buried,''he said.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Pandemic Information News: Cambodia: Takeo orders destruction of ducks
Pandemic Information News: Cambodia: Takeo orders destruction of ducks ............. The Takeo province Agriculture Office has ordered the farmers of domesticated ducks across the province to incinerate their birds and temporarily suspended the sale of the animals’ meat until the results tests for the H5N1 virus (also known as bird flu), come back from Phnom Penh this week following mass deaths of the fowl
Monday, February 1, 2010
Pandemic Information News: Over 10,000 ducks die in Cambodia
Pandemic Information News: Over 10,000 ducks die in Cambodia: "MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2010
Over 10,000 ducks die in Cambodia
2010-02-01 19:59
The Cambodian government said on Monday that more than 10,000 ducks have died and some 30,000 others are being sick in the country's southern province of Takeo.
Kao Phal, director of animal production department of agriculture ministry said that samples of the dead ducks being examined and the results will be known Tuesday or the day after.
He said that those dead ducks were reported happening a few days ago and now some 30,000 others are being sick."
Over 10,000 ducks die in Cambodia
2010-02-01 19:59
The Cambodian government said on Monday that more than 10,000 ducks have died and some 30,000 others are being sick in the country's southern province of Takeo.
Kao Phal, director of animal production department of agriculture ministry said that samples of the dead ducks being examined and the results will be known Tuesday or the day after.
He said that those dead ducks were reported happening a few days ago and now some 30,000 others are being sick."
Pandemic Information News: Status Report on Avian Influenza outbreak in West Bengal (01.02.2010)
Pandemic Information News: Status Report on Avian Influenza outbreak in West Bengal (01.02.2010) ...... In 3-10Km area, out of a total of 230734 population, 62355 have been covered on 31.01.2010 and 15 persons have been found with Fever/URI, but none of them has history of contact with infected poultry.
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/other/sars/news/june2504sars.html
Intranasal SARS vaccine protects monkeys
Jun 25, 2004 (CIDRAP News) – One dose of an experimental intranasal vaccine protected monkeys from the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus in a study reported this week, raising hope for a vaccine that could quickly protect healthcare workers in a SARS outbreak.
African green monkeys that received the spray vaccine showed no viral replication after they were exposed to the SARS virus, whereas the virus reproduced in unvaccinated monkeys, according to the report in The Lancet. The study was conducted by Alexander Bukreyev, PhD, Peter Collins, PhD, and colleagues at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
"This study shows that delivering the vaccine directly into the respiratory tract can effectively protect primates from SARS," said Brian R. Murphy, MD, a coauthor of the study, in an NIAID news release. Murphy is co-chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Infectious Diseases.
"With more research, we hope to develop a vaccine based on this approach that could be used to rapidly immunize first responders and other medical personnel, helping them control a potential outbreak," Murphy added.
The researchers created the vaccine by combining a piece of the SARS virus with a weakened version of human parainfluenza virus type 3 (HPIV3), which in its natural form causes respiratory diseases in young children, the NIAID said. The researchers altered the weakened virus, called BHPIV3, by adding a gene for the SARS spike protein, which protrudes from the surface of the SARS virus and enables it to attach to human cells. Using BHPIV3 made it possible to introduce the SARS spike protein directly into the respiratory tract, the NIAID said.
Four monkeys received a nasal spray containing BHPIV3 with the SARS spike protein gene (BHPIV3/SARS-S), while four other monkeys received a version of BHPIV3 containing a harmless gene in place of the SARS gene, according to the NIAID. The monkeys that received the test vaccine developed neutralizing antibodies against the SARS virus, while the control group did not.
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