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Spooked by Bird Flu, Egyptians Horde Water
| Quote From Source: | CAIRO, Feb. 25 -- Of all the panicky ways that people worldwide have sought protection from bird flu, perhaps the most striking took root among Egyptians last week. Via e-mail and through advice dispensed on crowded city streets, word went out: Don't drink the water.
Farmers, including the rooftop poultry breeders that are a Cairo fixture, had begun to dump stricken, dead chickens into the Nile River, the source of drinking water for millions of Egyptians, newspapers and satellite television reported. Taps were suddenly turned off and people rushed to stores to buy bottled water.
"I never saw anything like it," said Emad Abu Fouad, a grocer in the Bab al-Zuweila district. "People bought whole cases." No matter that the government had assured everyone that purification chemicals in public water supplies would kill the H5N1 virus that infects birds and, scientists fear, could mutate into a form that is easily transmitted among humans.
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France Fights Panic From Bird Flu Outbreak
| Quote From Source: | PARIS (AP) -- French President Jacques Chirac urged consumers not to panic Saturday, hours after the government announced the European Union's first outbreak of deadly bird flu in commercial poultry.
Chirac said chickens and eggs remained safe to eat as he munched a piece of the famously succulent chicken from the Ain region, where the lethal virus was confirmed in turkeys.
Panic among consumers is "totally unjustified," Chirac said during a visit to open the annual Paris Agriculture Fair. "The virus in question ... is automatically destroyed by cooking. So there is absolutely no danger."
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Veterinarian Philippe Giraud carries an autopsy on a swan, searching on the bird the flu virus, at a laboratory in Arras, northern France Friday Feb. 24, 2006. The bird was found dead earlier in the day in local park. ( AP Photo/Michel Spingler)
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Expect H5N1 virus in North America soon: UN
| Quote From Source: | Dr. David Nabarro said Wednesday that wild birds will likely carry the virus from West Africa across the North Atlantic into the Arctic this spring.
Migratory birds flying south for the winter will then spread the virus into the rest of North America and eventually South America, Nabarro told a briefing in New York.
"Frankly, there will be a pandemic, sooner or later," he said. "It might be due to H5N1 or to some other influenza virus and it could start any time."
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Ready or Not, Bird Flu Is Coming to America
| Quote From Source: | In a remarkable speech over the weekend, Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt recommended that Americans start storing canned tuna and powdered milk under their beds as the prospect of a deadly bird flu outbreak approaches the United States.
Ready or not, here it comes.
It is being spread much faster than first predicted from one wild flock of birds to another, an airborne delivery system that no government can stop.
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"Society just can't accept the idea that 50 percent of the population could die. And I think we have to face that possibility" says Top US Bird Flu Scientist.
| Quote From Source: | Robert G. Webster is one of the few bird flu experts confident enough to answer the key question: Will the avian flu switch from posing a terrible hazard to birds to becoming a real threat to humans?
There are "about even odds at this time for the virus to learn how to transmit human to human," he told ABC's "World News Tonight." Webster, the Rosemary Thomas Chair at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., is credited with being the first scientist to find the link between human flu and bird flu.
"I personally believe it will happen and make personal preparations," said Webster, who has stored a three-month supply of food and water at his home in case of an outbreak.
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Bird flu virus 'now in two forms'
| Quote From Source: | The H5N1 virus responsible for the current virulent strain of bird flu has evolved into two genetically distinct strains, US scientists have confirmed. They fear this could increase the risk to humans - and complicate the search for an effective vaccine.
The US team analysed more than 300 H5N1 samples taken from infected birds and people between 2003 and summer 2005.
Details were presented to the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in Atlanta.
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Schools Told to Prepare for Bird Flu
| Quote From Source: | The nation's schools, recognized incubators of respiratory diseases among children, are being told to plan for the possibility of an outbreak of bird flu.
Federal health leaders say it is not alarmist or premature for schools to make preparations, such as finding ways to teach kids even if they've all been sent home.
In North Carolina on Tuesday, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings joined Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt to encourage schools to prepare. Spellings said schools must be aware that they may have to close their buildings _ or that their schools may need to be used as makeshift hospitals, quarantine sites or vaccination centers.
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Los Alamos, UW research paints grim picture of bird flu pandemic
| Quote From Source: | Left unchecked, a global outbreak of bird flu could infect 54 percent of the U.S. population and peak in just over two months, while a less-contagious strain could affect a third of the population and peak after 117 days, a new report predicts.
Health officials are concerned that the virus that causes bird flu, H5N1, could mutate to the point it can be spread from person to person, moving rapidly around the globe in a pandemic.
The cases of the disease so far have involved people catching the virus from birds.
There is no vaccine for bird flu.
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Bird Flu hits Florida Trailer Park
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17% death rate is far less than the gloom & doom 90% I've seen in other reports.
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U.S. bird flu plan outlines worst-case scenario
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The government forecasts massive disruptions if bird flu or some other super-strain of influenza arises, with as much as 40 percent of the national work force off the job, but it doesn't foresee closing U.S. borders to fight the spread, according to a draft of the national response plan obtained Monday by The Associated Press.
An outbreak could lead the government to limit international flights, quarantine exposed travelers and otherwise restrict movement in and around the country.
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Expert says bird flu virus worst he's encountered
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A leading expert said Thursday the H5N1 virus is the worst flu virus he has ever encountered, and far too many gaps in planning and knowledge persist for the world to handle it in the event of a pandemic.
So far, most human cases have been linked to contact with infected birds, but experts fear the virus will mutate into a form that easily spreads from person to person, potentially sparking a global pandemic.
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This is the skeptic in me but it just seems like the same kind of fear-mongering that was being spread by the press about SARS. Fear sells.
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I'm sorry to say, 'fear' is being used, with great
effectivity, for control these days.
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Geeeee..ya think so???
$1 Billion Flu Contract Awarded To Five Companies I guess it does!!
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The US government has awarded $1 billion dollars' worth of contracts to five pharmaceutical companies to develop vaccines for a possible flu pandemic as well as for seasonal flu. The money is allocated to the following companies:
$298.6 million - Solvay Pharmaceuticals
$274.8 million - GlaxoSmithKline
$220.5 million - Novartis
$169.5 million - MedImmune Inc.
$41 million - DynPort Vaccine Co., with Baxter International Inc.
Mike Leavitt, US Health and Human Services Secretary, said the companies will create cell-based vaccines - these will be grown in labs in cell cultures or batches of cells. This method is faster than egg-based systems.
The companies have been given the job of finding vaccines to fight against:
-- Seasonal flu
-- Bird flu and the pandemic it may cause
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Fatality Rate in Humans Climbs to 64%
| Quote From Source: | Bird flu has killed 64 percent of those people known to be infected with the virus this year, according to World Health Organization statistics, with the number of fatalities since Jan. 1 surpassing 2005 levels.
At least 47 of 73 people known to be infected with the H5N1 strain of avian influenza are reported to have died in the first five months of this year, the WHO said on its Web site yesterday. In 2005, 41 of 95 -- or 43 percent -- died.
Since 2003, 123 of the 217 people known to be infected with bird flu have died, the WHO said on its Web site. Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, Azerbaijan and Djibouti this year joined Vietnam, Thailand, China, Indonesia and Cambodia in reporting human H5N1 cases.
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As opposed to...
Remember that from page 1 of this thread? Thats just 17%.
I put about as much faith in what the WHO says about the bird flu and SARS as I do about what the Bush administration says about energy conservation.
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Also be aware that anyone that dies from any strain of the flu will be reported to have had the bird flu. I can just see these clowns doing that. They are bored and they need to create fear for 2005/2006 since SARS failed.
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Memories of 1918 flu pandemic haunt 21st century
| Quote From Source: | As health agencies worldwide scramble to stop bird flu from becoming a pandemic that could claim millions of lives, memories of the murderous flu that swept the globe almost 100 years ago haunt the 21st century, passed on from generation to generation, or, in my case, from grandmother to granddaughter. My grandmother lived through the Great War, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, World War Two, the cultural revolution of the '60s and three decades beyond. There was little that could threaten her nerve but until the day she died, Marie Starace was afraid of two things. One was lightning. The other was "The Grip" -- the deadly flu that wreaked havoc on the Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood where she was born and raised. So vivid were her memories of the influenza pandemic of 1918-19 that whenever she saw us with open coats and throats exposed to the cold, she would gravely warn: "Button up or you'll get the grip."
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Bird Flu Explodes in Indonesia
May 31 8:15 PM US/Eastern
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JAKARTA, Indonesia
Indonesia averaged one human bird flu death every 2 1/2 days in May, putting it on pace to soon surpass Vietnam as the world's hardest-hit country.
The latest death, announced Wednesday, was a 15-year-old boy whose preliminary tests were positive for the H5N1 virus. It comes as international health officials express growing frustration that they must fight Indonesia's bureaucracy as well as the disease.
"We're tying to fix this leak in the roof, and there's a storm," World Health Organization spokesman Dick Thompson said. "The storm is that the virus is in animals almost everywhere and the lack of effective attention that's being addressed to the problem."
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Human Flu Transfers May Exceed Reports
| Quote From Source: | In the wake of a cluster of avian flu cases that killed seven members of a rural Indonesian family, it appears likely that there have been many more human-to-human infections than the authorities have previously acknowledged.
The numbers are still relatively small, and they do not mean that the virus has mutated to pass easily between people - a change that could touch off a worldwide epidemic. All the clusters of cases have been among relatives or in nurses who were in long, close contact with patients.
But the clusters - in Indonesia, Thailand, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iraq and Vietnam - paint a grimmer picture of the virus's potential to pass from human to human than is normally described by public health officials, who usually say such cases are "rare."
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this is bothersome...
| Quote From Source: | In one Vietnam cluster, not only did a young man, his teenage sister and 80-year-old grandfather test positive for A(H5N1) avian flu, but two nurses tending them developed severe pneumonia, and one tested positive.
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H5N1 Bird Flu in Michigan
| Quote From Source: | White House press secretary Tony Snow has announce a press conference of H5N1 in mute swans in Michigan. His comments indicated it was low pathogenic avian influenza and is likely to have strong relationship to the H5N1 detected in Manitoba last August. The H5N1 was part of an expanded surveillance program across southern Canada. H5 was detected across Canada and was found in 24% of young mallards tested in British Columbia.
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USDA says Michigan bird flu case no risk to humans
| Quote From Source: | The U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Interior said on Monday routine surveillance found the presence of H5 and N1 avian influenza subtypes in samples from two wild mute swans in Michigan.
But testing ruled out the possibility of it being the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain that has spread through birds in Asia, Europe and Africa.
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