From Voice of America: The United Nations health agency says an influenza outbreak among migratory birds in Northwestern China is far worse than the government had reported. World Health Organization experts who recently visited China’s northwestern province of Qinghai told reporters that five times as many birds have died of the avian flu there as […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post, via MSNBC.com: Chinese farmers, acting with the approval and encouragement of government officials, have tried to suppress major bird flu outbreaks among chickens with an antiviral drug meant for humans, animal health experts said. International researchers now conclude that this is why the drug will no longer protect people in case […]
Read MoreFrom The Independent: International experts fear that bird flu is mutating into a strain that will cause a worldwide pandemic, killing many millions of people after the mass deaths of wild birds in China. Unconfirmed reports say that more than 100 people have also died, suggesting that the virus may have evolved to pass from […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: The Chinese government says there is no need to be alarmed. So far, the only deaths reported from the latest bird flu outbreak are 178 wild geese found on the shores of Lake Qinghai earlier this month… But if there is no reason to be alarmed, why has China rushed to shut […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua-English: SARS and bird flu will be included as occupational diseases in Hong Kong following an amendment to Hong Kong’s Employees Compensation Ordinance. The move brings the total number of occupational diseases under the law to 48 in Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s Labor Department said on Monday that the amendment provides better protection to […]
Read MoreAccording to AP report: China said Monday that a deadly strain of bird flu that killed 27 people in Asia was found in Chinese pigs last year but denied that the animals had the disease this year. （Via: Kansas.com, using a title: “China Denies Pigs Have Bird Flu Strain”) ABC News also reported on this […]
Read MoreThis is a recent report on NewScientist.com: “The bird flu that ravaged east Asian birds earlier in 2004, and killed 23 people, is a super-fit mutant that evolved in southern China, reveal scientists. It emerged in ducks and chickens over the past two years, they say. The Chinese scientists who traced the H5N1 flu virus’s […]
Read MoreHere is an online discussion about bird flu outbreak in Asia. It is about Thailand, but reminds me how the Chinese government handled the SARS information during the first six months of outbreak last year. Have those governments learned the lesson yet? Here is the discussion on the Nation. Thanks to Paul for forwarding this […]
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