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Quote: from power24 on 11:49 pm on Feb. 2, 2004
Really whisper?.because the world press arent reporting that death at the moment? How many more people have died from the flu which arent being reported by the world press?
I think he's referring to a chicken, not a person.
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Posted on: 11:53 am on Feb. 2, 2004
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Ronnie Raygun
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Quote: from Basil Bush on 2:04 pm on Feb. 1, 2004
Quote: from Ronnie Reagan on 8:31 pm on Feb. 1, 2004
I keep searching for WHO websites but all I get are Roger Daltrey links. Who's Next.
try; http://www.who.int/en/ 
just a poor attempt at humor, BB.
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Posted on: 5:42 am on Feb. 3, 2004
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Hermanolobo
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Germany tests two women for bird flu
Luke Harding in Berlin and John Aglionby, south-east Asia correspondent
Tuesday February 3, 2004
The Guardian
German health officials were examining two women last night suspected of having contracted the deadly bird flu disease.
If confirmed, the infections would be the first in Europe and the latest in an outbreak which has so far killed 12 people and spread across 10 Asian countries.
Last night, however, Germany's main public health institute urged caution and said it was unlikely but not impossible the women had contracted the killer virus.
The ambulance service in the northern port city of Hamburg confirmed it had taken a female holidaymaker, who had just returned to Germany from Thailand, to the Bernhard Nocht institute for tropical medicine for checks. The woman's companion had also been admitted to hospital, it added.
The woman complained of nausea, dizziness and fever soon after flying back from Thailand on Saturday, the hospital said.
Last night its director, Bernhard Fleischer, said it was too soon to say whether the woman had bird flu. "There are many reasons to have a fever when you come back from Asia," he pointed out. Results from tests on the women would be known later today, he added.
Last night a spokeswoman for Germany's main public health institute, the Robert Koch institute in Berlin, said it was "very unlikely" the woman had the disease. She added, however: "Unlikely does not mean impossible."
The new suspected cases in Germany came as it emerged that two more people, one in Thailand and one in Vietnam, had died from bird flu, bringing the known death toll to 12.
The UN said yesterday that the virus was still out of control, especially in Thailand, Vietnam and China, with the Chinese now reporting cases in chickens in the remote north-western Xinjiang province.
So far there are at least 18 people in Thailand suspected of having bird flu, 10 of whom have died. Three UN organisations, the World Health Organisation, the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Organisation for Animal Health, are meeting in Bangkok today to discuss the progress in fighting the virus.
The FAO estimates some 45 million birds have died or been culled across the 10 infected Asian countries, although data from individual governments suggest the figure could be much higher.
The WHO expressed cautious optimism yesterday, suggesting the current H5N1 strain of bird flu was unlikely to jump to humans on a large scale.
"The initial information we have is it is a purely avian virus," said Bjorn Melgaard, WHO representative in Thailand. "It's not very efficient in terms of infecting humans." However, he warned of the potential remained for it to mutate into a more deadly strain.
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Posted on: 7:18 am on Feb. 3, 2004
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Hermanolobo
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What are the risks in Britain?
James Meikle
Saturday January 24, 2004
The Guardian
Should we be worried about catching avian flu by eating Thai chicken?
The government's food standards agency says this is not considered a risk and there is no food safety reason to remove Thai chicken from shops.
What about handling chicken meat, in shops for instance?
The risk at present is deemed very low. The only raw chicken still on sale dates from before the reported outbreak in Thailand. All imports of raw meat from January 1 are now banned. The WHO says the virus can survive indefinitely in frozen material. Officials are also nervous of uncooked leftovers being fed to poultry here and spreading the disease.
So how do people catch avian flu?
By close contact with birds, especially on farms and live animal markets.
Can it spread between humans?
There is no evidence that this latest flu has. But the potential is there. Birds, animals and humans can turn into gene "mixing vessels" transmogrifying strains from different types of flu virus into a virulent person-to-person disease threatening global pandemics.
Culling Hong Kong's entire poultry population in 1997 probably averted a pandemic, but six people died and 12 others fell ill. In the Netherlands last year a vet died and 83 other people fell ill as flocks were culled.
Is there a vaccine?
Trials have been conducted against similar avian flus. The government's Health Protection Agency is assisting the WHO in developing vaccines
Can we still travel to Thailand?
There are no plans yet to advise against it but this could change if person-to-person transmission occurs.
Would the health authorities spot avian flu if it arrived in this country?
They are confident they would.
BANGKOK, Feb. 3 (Xinhuanet) -- An Official of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday that it is no need to warn travelers against going to Thailand despite a German woman was suspectedly infected by bird flu in the Kingdom, the Bangkokbizanews.net reported.
Li Zhongwu, a director of the WHO, said that under this circumstance, it is no need to issue any warning against travelling to Thailand right now or prevent tourists from travelling to the Kingdom, even though Thailand was suffering fromthe bird flu outbreak.
However, he advised tourists not to go to chicken farms or markets selling poultry.
The German health authorities are examining a woman, who returned from Thailand on Jan. 31 and had shown symptoms of fatal bird flu.
The patient had been taken to the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Li said, adding that the woman couldbe Europe's first case of the illness, which has killed at least 12 people in Asia.
Another woman who was travelling with the patient is also underobservation, the report said. Enditem
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Posted on: 7:21 am on Feb. 3, 2004
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Hermanolobo
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10,000 birds die mysteriously in China, drop like "rain" from sky
Published on Feb 5, 2004
BEIJING, Feb 5 (AFP) - More than 10,000 birds died mysteriously in eastern China's Jiangsu province, dropping like rain from the sky, state media reported Thursday.
Farmers and other witnesses in Sangongdian village in Taizhou city saw flocks of bramble finch suddenly fall from the sky Tuesday, the Beijing Youth Daily said.
Most of the birds were dead when they hit the ground and some were injured, it said. The birds look like sparrows and are small in size.
Officials from the local centre for disease prevention and control rushed to the scene. Samples from the birds were taken to a laboratory in nearby Nanjing city for testing to determine the cause of death.
Experts from the Jiangsu province agriculture department said that because the birds died while in flight, the cause of death may have been contamination in their food, water or environment.
They did not immediately say whether there was any connection with the spreading bird flu outbreak in Asia. China said Thursday 56,417 birds in the country had been infected with bird flu and 49,236 of them had died.
China, the world's second-largest producer and fifth-largest exporter of chicken meat, has reported five confirmed cases and 18 suspected cases of the avian flu.
The flu has been reported in nine other Asian countries and blamed for 17 deaths, in Vietnam and Thailand.
Source :- The Nation
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Posted on: 4:25 am on Feb. 5, 2004
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power24
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It looks like pigs may also be a source of the flu. Virologists in the UK are getting anxious about this news as pigs are potential mixing bowls for different strains of the virus and may increase the liklihood of the virus jumping to a human-human strain.
U.N.: Vietnam Pigs Test for Bird Flu Virus
HANOI, Vietnam - Tests conducted on pigs in Vietnam have been positive for the bird flu virus infecting millions of poultry, the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization said Friday.
Anton Rychener, Hanoi representative for the U.N. agency, said the pigs were tested recently in and around Hanoi. He did not specify how many were sampled and which lab did the testing.
Test results on blood samples taken from the pigs have not been completed, Rychener said.
"Nasal swabs taken from pigs have been positive for H5N1," Rychener said. "It continues to be under investigation and is of concern. We'll be bringing in an expert."
Rychener's comments came after Vietnamese officials said Thursday that tests done on samples taken from 179 pigs by Hong Kong laboratories showed they did not have the bird flu.
"The tests of the pig samples came in negative for H5N1 strain of the bird flu," said Nguyen Ngoc Nhien, deputy director of the Institute for Animal Health in Hanoi.
A total of 179 samples taken from pigs in bird flu-affected areas in the northern provinces of Ha Tay and Thai Binh, along with Haiphong city, were sent to World Health Organization's labs in Hong Kong last week, he said.
So far, officials believe that the bird flu is contracted through direct contact with infected birds. There has been little evidence of human to human transmission, though one case in Vietnam is under investigation.
Health officials have warned that if the bird flu virus combines with a human influenza virus, the result could create a more lethal strain that can be passed from human to human.
Experts have said it's possible that the virus has jumped to humans through another mammal, such as pigs.
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Posted on: 4:13 am on Feb. 6, 2004
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Thousands of Thais feast on free chicken and eggs
Published on Feb 7, 2004 (The Nation).
BANGKOK, Feb 7 (AFP) - Thousands of Thais massed in Bangkok's historic quarter Saturday to feast on tonnes of free chicken and eggs cooked up in a stunt aimed at shoring up consumer confidence in the flu-hit poultry sector.
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra led an array of government ministers attending "Eat Chicken" day at the Sanam Luang field in the capital, where he whipped up a northern Thai egg dish for the crowd.
"Taste it, taste it," the apron-wearing premier urged his wife Pojamarn, who enjoyed a mouthful of the deep-fried eggs along with him.
Thaksin also added the final nine eggs to a 10,000-egg pot of khai phalo, a syrupy stew of eggs and Chinese herbs that organisers said was the world's largest ever, and tucked into a steaming bowl.
Hundreds of booths set up by the government as well as international and local fast-food outlets gave cooking demonstrations and handed out tonnes of chicken along with tens of thousands of eggs.
"No, I am not afraid since the food was cooked, so I don't see any problem," one man munching on a piece of deep-fried chicken told local television, which estimated that more than 10,000 flocked to the fair.
A huge concert featuring Thai pop stars, including Thongchai McIntyre -- whose nickname is coincidentally Bird -- will top the day's entertainment. Thaksin, whose government is accused of initially covering up the outbreak which has killed five here, earlier urged Thais to take part in events being staged across the kingdom to woo them back to eating chicken and eggs.
"Today I would like to invite Thais across the country who do not have any engagements to join the chicken feast," he said in his weekly radio address.
"We want to tell the whole world that Thais are confident in Thai cooked chicken," Thaksin said, as he repeated his pledge to pay three million baht (76,000 dollars) to anyone dying from eating cooked chicken or eggs.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that the avian influenza virus is destroyed in poultry or eggs that are cooked at 75 degrees Celsius (167 Fahrenheit). The H5N1 virus, which has also killed 13 people in Vietnam, is believed to be spread through direct contact with live birds.
Nirun Phitakwatchara, the renegade senator who revealed to the Thai public that the outbreak had occurred a day before officials confirmed its presence on January 23, condemned the stunt.
"The government should come up with other measures to effectively help suffering poor farmers... and allocating a higher budget for academics and experts to study the virus outbreak," he told AFP.
"The government is helping rich people but ignoring the poor farmers who are suffering," he said, adding that consumers were not in a risk group but farmers instead required education and honesty about the disease.
Thaksin was mocked last month when he ate chicken at a televised lunch, three days before the virus was officially detected, in a publicity stunt designed to assure consumers that the kingdom was clear of bird flu.
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Posted on: 7:59 am on Feb. 7, 2004
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That's one wicked looking cat on the page.
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Posted on: 6:48 pm on Feb. 20, 2004
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Hermanolobo
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New Bird Flu Case Discovered in Thailand
By UAMDAO NOIKORN
Associated Press Writer
11th March 2004.
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) --A new case of bird flu has been discovered in
Thailand, and more than 100 chickens were found dead in Japan, where
initial tests came up negative for the disease, authorities said
Thursday.
In Thailand, Deputy Agriculture Minister Newin Chidchob said a
laboratory test confirmed the presence of bird flu in a poultry sample
taken in Chiang Rai province, 420 miles north of Bangkok.
The results were dated Feb. 26. Newin did not say how many samples
were taken or why it took so long to announce the results.
Thailand declared itself free of bird flu on Monday, saying no active
cases had been reported in poultry since Feb. 25. It was not
immediately clear if the government would rescind that announcement or
postpone plans to resume chicken breeding in affected areas next
month.
On Wednesday, two Thai newspapers said the virus may have reappeared,
citing laboratory tests and farmers' accounts, causing Newin to order
an investigation by the Livestock Department.
The government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra denied for weeks
that bird flu was spreading in the country before acknowledging an
outbreak on Jan 23.
The disease has killed at least seven people in Thailand who had close
contact with chickens and devastated the country's poultry industry.
More than 30 million chickens in Thailand have died of the disease or
been culled in an effort to stop its spread.
Newin said Thursday that farmers in Chiang Rai had reported the dying
chickens to the livestock department, and were dissatisfied when its
tests showed negative for the virus.
The samples were then sent to Kasetsart University, the country's
leading agricultural research institute, which confirmed the chickens
had the virulent H5N1 strain of the disease, which has hit 10 Asian
countries.
Newin said he was skeptical about the source of the new outbreak,
citing several unconfirmed reports of farmers having infected their
own chickens to gain compensation. He said the matter would be
investigated.
In Japan, authorities in the southern state of Fukuoka were
investigating the possibility of a new case after a poultry farm there
reported that 126 chickens had died overnight.
Initial tests on some of the animals were all negative, the state said
in a brief statement. Kyodo News service quoted unnamed officials as
saying they suspected the birds may have died of heat stroke.
The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization on Thursday warned affected
countries not to restock flocks too quickly to avoid the disease
flaring up again.
``In the battle against the disease, there are definitely some
improvements,'' the Rome-based group said in a statement quoting its
Animal Health Service chief, Joseph Domenech. ``But we fear that the
virus may continue to circulate in the environment even without an
outbreak or any clinical signs in animals.''
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