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<<Advancing Bird Flu-H5N1...Now following MERS and Ebola approaching PANDEMICS>>>

 
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The CDC has just released a fact sheet on the novel coronavirus that the above story relates to.

This is what they know so far.

In the News
Novel (New) Coronavirus in the Arabian Peninsula
This information is current as of today, December 20, 2012 at 14:43 EST

Updated: December 20, 2012

What Is the Current Situation?
In recent months, a new (or novel) coronavirus has been identified in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Jordan. Public health authorities around the world are increasing monitoring of respiratory illnesses and collaborating to learn more about the new coronavirus and the disease in humans.

The risk of the new coronavirus for travelers is thought to be low. CDC recommends that travelers to countries on the Arabian Peninsula or neighboring countries monitor their health and see a doctor right away if symptoms such as cough, breathing difficulties, and fever develop. Countries on and near the Arabian Peninsula are Bahrain, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestinian territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Yemen.

What Is a Coronavirus?
Coronaviruses are a cause of the common cold. A coronavirus also was the cause of the severe respiratory illness called SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). SARS caused a global epidemic in 2003, but there has not been any known case of SARS since 2004. This new coronavirus is not similar to the coronavirus that caused SARS.

What Is Known About This New Coronavirus?
Little is known about this new coronavirus. For example, it is not yet known how this virus is spread. What is known is that this virus is different from any other that has been previously found in humans. Symptoms of this new virus appear to be fever, cough, and breathing difficulties.

How Can Travelers Protect Themselves?
Although little is known at this time about how this virus is spread, taking these everyday actions can help prevent the spread of germs and protect against colds, flu, and other illness:

•Wash your hands often with soap and water. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
•Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth. Germs spread this way.
•Avoid close contact with sick people.
•There is no vaccine for this new coronavirus, but there are shots available to protect you from other illnesses. Be sure you are up to date with all of your shots, and see your healthcare provider at least 4 to 6 weeks if possible before travel to get any additional shots. Visit CDC’s Coronavirus website for more information about this situation and Travelers' Health website for more information on healthy travel.
•This new coronavirus causes a respiratory infection that may be confused with influenza. It is therefore especially important to get a flu vaccine as this will help your doctor look for other causes for your illness should you develop any flu-like symptoms.
•If you are sick
&#9702;Cover your mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze, and throw the tissue in the trash.
&#9702;Avoid contact with other people to keep from infecting them.
Additional Information:
•CDC Novel Coronavirus
•WHO Novel Coronavirus Infection - update
•ECDC: Novel Coronavirus update to risk assessment
•Severe Respiratory Illness Associated with a Novel Coronavirus — Saudi Arabia and Qatar, 2012 MMWR October 4, 2012/61 (Early Release); 1-2.


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Any death from H1N1 swine flu is terrible.

But when its an infant its tragic.

I cant imagine the deapth of dispair that this poor baby's parents must be feeling.

Baby dies of swine flu, toll touches 35.

A one-and-a-half-year-old baby from Lonavala died due to swine flu (H1N1 virus) at Ruby Hall Clinic here on Thursday. While the swine flu toll has gone up to 35 since April this year, this is the first death in the paediatric age group, Dr S T Pardeshi, acting health chief of Pune Municipal Corporation said.

The family stays in Kusgaon Budruk in Lonavala. The child had cold and cough since November 25, it was only on December 7 that the girl was taken to the local doctor for treatment. She, however, was breathless and did not respond to the treatment following which she was shifted to Bhide Hospital at Navi Peth on December 9.


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Back to the ongoing difficulties that Indonesia is experiencing with H5N1 outbreaks around their region.

Here is a case of a person being infected with H5N1.

Fortunately for himself, this patient must have been very aware of some of the risks he was living with as he seems to have reported for treatment very early , which will hopefully have a good outcome for him.

First Bird Flu Patients Referred to Hospital
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-A resident 0SEMARANG Bergas, Semarang regency, M (52), suspected of contracting bird flu virus. Currently, he is in intensive care in the isolation room Room Vincent's Hospital (RS) Elisabeth Semarang. This case stems from seven chickens recently purchased by M on the market suddenly died. Shortly thereafter, he was suffering from flu. Because worry, M took the initiative to check into the hospital. M has been undergoing treatment since Monday (17/12) and at Elisabeth.


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There is a fresh report of H1N1 swine flu being active in the Middle East, where it is being reported that three people have succumed to this flu.

Three Palestinians were killed during the last week of influenza (A) H1N1 in the West Bank, said today the Palestinian Ministry of Health. "There were three deaths in the past week, and more than 50 people infected with the virus," he told AFP Ramlawi Assad, Director General of Health Services for the West Bank. He said that the deaths occurred in the cities of Jenin, Qalqilya and Tulkarm, by relativizing their impact.

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Whenever referring to H5N1 researchers, I frequently dub them as our real heroes.

Well if anyone ever doubted that title, this next story shoud have doubters shiverring their opinions to fresh beliefs.

Who would do this work?

As always we are eternally greatful for these selfless acts for our ultimate benefit.

Scientists examine Alaska ducks in frigid Fairbanks river for avian flu clues
Suzanna Caldwell | Dec 18, 2012


Bad news for birds: Avian malaria exists as far north as Fairbanks

Avian cholera could spread into Arctic, scientists warn

FAIRBANKS -- Chilly weather isn't enough to keep ducks out of open areas of the Chena River, which means it's not enough to keep scientists out either.

Despite temperatures in the Interior Alaska city of 30,000 dipping toward 40-below zero Saturday, scientists waded into the slushy Chena River, nets in tow, collecting a handful of mallard ducks and bringing them back to a makeshift lab in downtown Fairbanks.


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It would seem that KFC are having a bit of a trying time at present in the Eastern regions.

We recently reported where KFC were linked with illegal imports of chicken meat for outlets in Kathmandu, and now we have this report of accusations of further illegal practices that are also linked to this international mega-Co.

Whilst in both these cases there has been an association with KFC, neither have so far been shown to be at the hands of KFC and I think that it is fair to point out that a company with the massive through put that KFC has, and the fact that they no doubt would be one of the largest consumers of chicken products, the temptation for others to do wrong in an attempt to supply such a lucrative consumer of product would be more than sufficient motivation for others to do wrong for personal gain.

At the same time leaving KFC as an innocent bystander, being slandered by their innocient association simply by being a lucrative market for wrong doers.

KFC chicken under investigation in China


Fast food giant KFC's Chinese subsidiary has vowed to cooperate with authorities investigating claims by state television that its chicken suppliers had injected banned substances and growth hormones in its poultry.

State television CCTV said that a commercial chicken producer called Liu He Zhi Tuan had been feeding antiviral drugs and growth hormones to its chickens. The chickens were then supplied to KFC and McDonalds, without any kind of quality checks.


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Well thats it from me for today folks.

Looks like we'll all be here tomorrow.

And so will our fight against H5N1.

So, in light of that news, I guess you will all be hearing from me again soon.

And I will be looking forward to hearing from all of you, so please join in.

cheers to you all.

arkay
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wishing you and all a warm happy christms and a rest new yearhfyour a smile_kisssmile_hear
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To everyone who has either contributed to this thread or taken the time read and follow it, let me take this opportunity to offer you all the very best of wishes for this approaching Christmas and New Year season.

We have travelled and shared much, it has been a very beneficial and helpful journey.

One for me especially.

I have made new friends.

I have learnt so much and looking back can say, that no matter what the future brings me, my chances of living a longer and healthier life have been significantly improved as a direct result of the presence of this thread and the information that it has shared with me.

To you all, please allow me to offer my humblest grattitude for what you have given to me.

I can never fully appreciate nor ever appropriately repay that debt of grattitude.

I hope the same can be felt by you all too.

So now I wish you all a happy safe and peaceful Christmas.

May the New Year bring with it harmony, peace, genuine love to share and an inner calm and happiness, a better life than before.

These are my wishes for you all.

cheers,

arkay.
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Hi All hi

Can you believe this year is almost over?

Despite the unpleasant subject matter I have enjoyed this thread and the respectful interaction between everyone. I find it amazing and a credit to ARKAY that this thread has remained so level-headed.

Wishing everyone a very happy christmas and stay safe.

EMBRACE THE INSANITY



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So OP, I take it from your interest in Bi rd Flu that you think it WILL be a major plague and take out millions of people? If so, what do you think the time before it hits U.s.?
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Hi, telling it straight.

Firstly, welcome to our thread, all are welcome here and are invited to take an active part.

All that is requestd is that posts are relevant for the most and that a level of decency is observed.

Outside that any level of participation is simply left to each persons individual choice.

As to your questions.

In the main, what I personally believe I hope never comes into play here, having said that, I do believe that H5N1 does indeed have the very real potential to do massive damage to the worlds population.

So far it has been more good luck than good management that has probably held this monster at bay to date, but it does have just a couple more mutations to go to become H2H transmissible.

There has been recent evidence of it making various genetic shifts in different regions around the world and sooner or later it is likely to make those genetic shifts that will bring it closer to H2H transmission, this is more or less inevitable.

Hopefully though, our excellent researchers around the world are very much on it as far as learning and understanding all there is to know about this bug, in order to be able to fight it.

I do believe that we have an even better than odds on chance against this bug, even today.

Its places like this that people can come to and source lots of helpful information and to learn of the many things that they can individually do in order to protect themselves as much as possible from these kinds of infections.

Simple little things like good handwashing practices, caughing or sneezing into the crook of your elbow.

Common sense things, like staying home and away from other people when you are sick, and when it is necessary to go out into places where there are sick people around then wearing appropriate face masks are all simple and practicle things that people can and indeed should do when these or any type of contagous bugs are circulating.

If everyone observed just these few simple things then the risk factor of contracting any type of contagous infection would probably be halved straight away.

So anyway, I hope that I have been able to answer your questions adequately.

If I can help more please feel free to ask as Im certain that some helpful answer will be forthcoming.

cheers

arkay
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To everyone who has either contributed to this thread or taken the time read and follow it, let me take this opportunity to offer you all the very best of wishes for this approaching Christmas and New Year season.

We have travelled and shared much, it has been a very beneficial and helpful journey.

One for me especially.

I have made new friends.

I have learnt so much and looking back can say, that no matter what the future brings me, my chances of living a longer and healthier life have been significantly improved as a direct result of the presence of this thread and the information that it has shared with me.

To you all, please allow me to offer my humblest grattitude for what you have given to me.

I can never fully appreciate nor ever appropriately repay that debt of grattitude.

I hope the same can be felt by you all too.

So now I wish you all a happy safe and peaceful Christmas.

May the New Year bring with it harmony, peace, genuine love to share and an inner calm and happiness, a better life than before.

These are my wishes for you all.

cheers,

arkay.
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Hope you don't mind, but I've been lurking this thread since the beginning on my only personal watch pin.
I read, The Hot Zone, because of this thread last month.
Frankly, this thread scares the hell out of me. H5N1 to go H2H after a couple more mutations?
Good Lord! That idea is frightening.
The back of that book gave an ominous warning.
It's only a matter of when, not if one of these monsters goes airborne and takes out a significant portion of the Earth's population.
Thanks for this thread. Please keep it going.

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During the middle ages, the attacking army would take dead plague bodies, and load them on a catapult, and then shoot them over the walls of the castle under siege.


First bio-warfare......to my knowledge.



Have a nice weekend and new year Arkay.



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Hi Klaxon,

its good to hear from you and that you find value in what we attempt to do here.

Unfortunately, what you have grasped is almost inevidible, H5N1 will in all liklyhood sooner or later become H2H transmissible.

Its the nature of viruses to always seek better hosts and to do that they naturally evolve and mutate to "experiment" in their search to find ever getter opportunities for larger host pools and humanity for them would be the prize of all prizes.

This of course is not a consious action, simply it is what all organisms on this planet do, its their innate will to miltiply and survive.

They, viral collonies, will and do benefit from these characheristics and though the thought of a successful evolution buy say H5N1 to find easy human hosts seems on the surface of it to be highly damaging to the human population, which it certainly is, humanity will benefit from such an attack as well.

Though it is hard to see against the horrific background that would ensue.

Those survivors would be, in elovutionary terms, better examples of the human form than those that perished.

I know how awful and inhuman it is to make those observations, but when all is said and done this is why we, humanity are at the top of the food chain.

It has been the result of hundreds of generations of trial and tribulation and those who have survived have been better adaptions of the species and always more capable than those that were eliminated, its a cold study but an accurate one.

There is a slightly better outlook here as well, and that is that we as a society have become so sophisticated that today we employ all manner of tools to assist us in maintaining our position at the top of the food chain, and that would imply that the threat of a H5N1 pandemic has already put our researchers on the path to find ways to beat this threat BEFORE it becomes that menace.

Here we have a massive advantage that we have learnt to use to defend ourselves with.

It is in this specialized arena that I place my faith that we can and will find ways to annul these threats before they are able to develop into the highly dangerous set of evolutionary organisms that will pose that threat to us.

Fortunately because we can perceive a threat before it can actually become one, we have the opportunity to use our intelligence and time to learn, using tools to defend ourselves against even the worst organisms that exist around us, and that is why I have faith in humanity.

Its probably to a degree why I expend so much energy participating in what role I can play in the bigger picture by communicating and assisting in some way to help others to have some knowledge and therefore defenses too.

We are all a small part of the whole, and one way or another we all connect and have a reason for being here.

This might be a bit of a heady type of way of looking at the picture as a whole, but take away all the emotion and strip everything away and more or less this is what is left to observe.

Humanity as a whole is a single organism when viewed from the perspective of group dynamics, I think.

We do work as a single entity to defend and protect the greater.

We have even learned to protect the weaker amongst us.

Those that in nature would perish, so indeed we really have evolved to a highter level and now we stand unique amongst all other life forms on this planet,we are the only species that ensures the protection of the weaker amongst us, perhaps because we are now so individually diversified that even those physical weaker can and do contrbute to the overall strength in other ways, such as providing interlectual strengths.

For whatever reason, humanity values all life amongst us and sees reason to include all in our evolutionary journey, which every day leaves all other lifeformes slightly further away from us than the day before.

As a race, we are going somewhere, there has to be a reason for our constant progress, even when there doesent appear to be any significant driving forces to keep us constantly pushing forward.

That constant push must exist for some reason and simply that we dont understand what that reason might be today, doesent remove motivatation.

Time will tell.

Anyway, please tag along for the ride, we hope that you will learn something helpfull and you are always welcome here.

cheers

arkay
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During the middle ages, the attacking army would take dead plague bodies, and load them on a catapult, and then shoot them over the walls of the castle under siege.


First bio-warfare......to my knowledge.



Have a nice weekend and new year Arkay.



David
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Hi David,

I hope you have had an enjoyable Christmas, and of course I hope your new year brings with it a year for happiness, health, love and prosperity in all its forms.

Excellent to see you here and keeping the thread alive, good work.

Regarding your comment on using infected bodies as a form of Bio-warefare.

I heard in the last couple of years that some waring people in Africa had resorted to using this tactis with ebola infected people against their enemies.

Disgusting and abhorrent acts against other humans.

War certainly brings out the worst in us.

Also a very risky tactic.

Those who handled the infected bodies would be a high risk themselves without knowledge and the correct protective clothing to carry out such an act.

And with that comes the probability that the whole exercise could easily backfire and actually do more damage to the instigating camp than to those for whom it was intended.

In exactly the same way, one must wonder at what Baxter thought they were doing when they contaminated so much vaccine with H5N1.

Certainly they would have began a pandemic, but these things cannot be aimed like a conventional weapon, they do not descriminate and everyone is equally exposed.

There are only two senarios that may have been at play when they did this.

The first is that they had a vaccine available for immediate use, which is likely as they were releasing a specific clade of H5N1 and could reasonably be expected to have used the same virus to develop an specific vaccine for the specific strain of the virus.

The other would be a senario where those that were privvy to the knowledge, also had the opportunity to avail themselves of long term isolation facilities, thereby being in a position of comfort knowing that they were safe no matter how the pandemic affected the wider population.

Again examples of humanities darker sides.

Might I also add that with every day now, in this new age of instant communication, we are witnessing a new world where those type of actions are becoming ever more difficult for evil self focused groups to operate against us all.

This is also one reason why we must oppose all and any attempts to censor the internet.

The only reason anyone could want to do such a thing would be to restrict and retard those freedoms in order to facilitate wrong doings.

Honest free use of the internet has NO need for censorship, only disshonest and evil actions require secrecy and dark corners from where they can operate.
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Extremely well written Arkay. Thanks so much.

Take Care


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It had been my intention to have a rest over this season break.

I have however, been keeping a casual eye in things and today I have found this somewhat alarming news that demands that it is posted.

It is news of an outbreak of H1N1 swine flu, on the West Bank, where it has claimed the lives of 9 Palastinens and has infected a further 187 victims.

These numbers are quite alarming and the largest we have witnessed since this thread commenced.

The Palestinien Authorities have given assurances that they have the supplies and manpower to deal with this situation and we can only hope that their assurances are well founded, as with this sort of infection rates in such a short time period, could signal an out of control outbreak, so lets hope not.

We will be watching this closely.

PA says 187 cases of H1N1 influenza strain recorded, but it has resources to deal with spread of virus; Israel monitoring situation. An outbreak of swine flu has claimed the lives of nine Palestinians in the West Bank, the office of Palestinian Authority Prime Minster Salam Fayyad said Saturday. The PA said that 187 cases of the H1N1 influenza strain had been recorded since the start of the winter season, the majority of which were in the northern West Bank.

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New Years Eve.

Well folks, we are at the end of another year, with a fresh and hopefully better year to come.

This has been an immensley rewarding journey for me and I have all of you wonderful people to thank for making my time here as rewarding as you all have.

So on that note please let me offer thanks to you all and also my best wishes for the coming year.

May you all find peace, good health, love and intimacy in your lives and a deeper and more rewarding time as each new day passes.

I hope that you all remain safe and that what lies ahead is positive and beneficial to you all.

Dont forget to enjoy your lives.

Cheers,

arkay

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Avian flu virus learns to fly without wings

'...Potentially fatal bird flu viruses can spread on the wind, a hitherto suspected but unproven route of transmission...'


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Bump for Arkay, hope he is getting some Peace.

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Hi MzTreeChick,

thank you for your wishes.

I certainly hope that you and yours had an enjoyable holiday season.

Ive enjoyed my break, but now I feel that things should get back on track as there are a few things happening around the place.

General news would indicate that the flu season is well and truely in full swing in the Northern Hemisphere as we were expecting.

I have become conscious of the fact that mainly because of this thread, there are many MSM persons using this thread for their own stories and sensationalizing those stories making some outlandish claims, such as claims of deaths from the flu, without any qualifications and a later lack of subsequent reportings via the CDC and the WHO, etc.

Truely calous reporting showing the degraded state of mainstream reporting today.

As a consequence of this I will be making very careful decisions as to exactly what does get posted here as I dont want this thread to spawn increased and inappropriate scuttlebut on influenza just for the entertainment or worse still the profitting of what is supposed to be a credible source of HELPFUL information which we share here.

This is no place for lazy pelagerizers to scrape up their grubby stories just to fill their weekly colunm quotas.

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In more recent times we have been watching Indonesia and the way they have been addressing their management of the appearance of the new clade of H5N1 that has caused numerous outbreaks of H5N1 in their territories, the last I read they had issues with this virus in over 30 of their districts, leaving only 2 districts unaffected to date.

Now we see that even Bali, a very popular tourist destination is being severely affected with new outbreaks that are affecting their commercial duck farms.

What has been a constant vexing problem is the fact that for reasons best known to themselves, the authorities seem to have a very relaxed attitude to the threat of H5N1 and they definately appear to not fully understand the real facts associated with this killer bug.

I have previously said on more that one occasion that if H5N1 ever attained H2H transmissibility, it will almost certainly emerge from this region because of the lax attitudes of the authorities there.

Hundreds of ducks in Takmung village, Klungkung regency, Bali, have died suddenly, with avian flu suspected as the cause. I Wayan Sudia, a duck breeder in Takmung village, said he had lost hundreds of his ducks. “Laboratory reports show my ducks were infected by bird flu,”

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Many times I have said that migration of birds can and does account for significant spread of viruses all around the globe over vast distances.

This next article clearly demonstrates this fact with the detection of a rare form of avian influenza in Siberia, being found in a Teal duck from Australia.

This clearly demonstrates how our best efforts to contain an outbreak of H5N1 when it becomes H2H transmissible, will always be highly limited by these natural occurring annual migrations that will always tend to negate any attempts to hold this bug to any specific region, and regrettably these factors will in all probability significantly contribute to a pandemic result.

Influenza A (H15N4) Virus Isolation in Western Siberia, Russia
Mariya V. Sivaya,b, Tatiana Baranovichc, Vasiliy Y. Marchenkoa, Kirill A. Sharshova, Elena A. Govorkovac, Aleksander M. Shestopalova,b and Richard J. Webbyc,#
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aState Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology “Vector”, Novosibirsk Region, Koltsovo, Russia
bNovosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
cDepartment of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105-2794
ABSTRACT
The rarely identified influenza A viruses of H15 hemagglutinin subtype have been isolated exclusively in Australia. Here we report the isolation of an H15N4 influenza A virus (A/teal/Chany/7119/2008) in Western Siberia, Russia. Phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that the internal genes of the A/teal/Chany/7119/2008 belong to the Eurasian clade, and that the H15 and N4 genes were introduced into the gene pool of circulating endemic avian influenza viruses through reassortment events.


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Nepal continues to be having difficulties with continuing outbreaks of H5N1 in their poultry flocks.

Bird flu detected in Nuwakot


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NUWAKOT: Bird flu has been detected in Chaughada VDC in Nuwakot district.

According to chairman of the Bird Flu Control District Technical Committee and Chief District Officer, Jeevan Prasad Oli, the sample taken from a dead chicken at local Dhruba Rai's house in Chaughala VDC Ward No. 1 confirmed the presence of the H5N1 virus that causes bird flu.

A team of doctors from the capital has reached Chaughada to kill the fowls and other birds infected by bird flu. Similarly, a team including the veterinary doctors and other technicians reached the villages for preventing the spread of the disease in the area.

CDO Oli said the bird flu virus was reported to be transmitted to the local fowls from two broiler chickens brought to the village from Kathmandu.


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Over the last few weeks there have been many stories circulating in several areas including here on GLP, that have been quite concerned with people and the effectiveness of flu vaccines that they have been getting or avoiding and the experiences that have flowed from that.

Now the CDC is also seeing this trend and are attempting to quantify these anecdotal experiences into data that can be assessed for pactical measurement of these apparent affects.

Its good to see the CDC coming forward to do this work as it has been them who have been highly active in promoting influenza vaccinations and the sheer number of adverse stories needs careful assessment for real information.

It will be interresting to watch this and to see if the CDC will pander to Big Pharma, or if they will find any supporting evidence that might provide information that might not be in full support of Big Pharma, as it does seem that there are too many adverse stories for there to be nothing to them.

We shall see.

CDC update addresses flu after vaccination, pregnancy vaccine safety
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently updated two of its flu resources aimed at consumers, addressing questions about flu infections in vaccinated people and adding new information about vaccine safety in pregnant women. The CDC said it has received reports of people who got sick with confirmed flu infections despite vaccination, but so far it's not possible to say if the infections are occurring more often than in past flu seasons. It reviewed several reasons why immunized people could still get sick, including exposure before immunity from the vaccine builds up, differences in circulating strains, and efficacy that can vary. The CDC said it was watching the situation closely and will provide more information, including an interim vaccine effectiveness estimate, as the information becomes available.


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Jordan appear to have significantly lifted their game from a perspective of what their authorities seem to be doing with their public health.

Here we see that their Health Minister seems to be taking more interest in actually administrating his portfolio with news of H1N1 swine flu outbreaks and successful treatments of virtually all cases to date and reporting no deaths from Swine flu.

This is a good result for Jordan, lets hope that all concerned maintain their excellent work and astute execution of their duties.

49 H1N1 cases recorded in Jordan

Amman, Jan. 3 (Petra) -- Minister of Health Abdul Latif Wreikat on Thursday said that 49 cases of H1N1 were recorded in the Kingdom during the winter season.

He added that 46 cases recovered and three are still receiving treatment at hospital. Wreikat affirmed that no deaths were caused by the swine flu in Jordan and that the health authorities are still following preventive measures.


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see a later post today on this criminal Official.

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Best wishes Arkay.


Lots of stuff going around in this country.


Take Care.......David
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Norway appears to have an active outbreak of H1N1 swine flu that is causing concern for their health officials.

Norway faces possible H1N1 outbreak

As more patients are positive for the analysis of H1N1 virus infection in major cities of Norway, doctors fear that this country is facing a possible outbreak of influenza H1N1 endemic.

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1/1/2013 5:09:06 / agency Xinhua

As more patients are positive for the analysis of H1N1 virus infection in major cities of Norway, doctors fear that this country is facing a possible outbreak of influenza H1N1 endemic.

Up to 84 cases of H1N1 flu have been recorded so far by the Akershus University Hospital, east of Oslo, told reporters Berdal Jan Erik, a doctor of infectious diseases section of the hospital.

"We are facing an epidemic. Now I think it really has begun to increase. Seems we are in the peak or in the middle of this epidemic," said Berdal.


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Best wishes Arkay.


Lots of stuff going around in this country.


Take Care.......David
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Hi David.

Yes, Ive read lots, but some of the usual press is a bit too sensationalist for me to be concerned with, too much unquallified junk.

Having said that its easy to see that the US really is having a big flu season.

On a positive side I have noticed lots of talk of preventative measures being aired regularly, and it does look like the message is finally getting through to people that if you are sick then stay home and also to avoid people who are ill.

That and the usual mention of good personal hygene practices like frequent hand washing and coughing into the crook of your elbow, people are catching on so maybe in the future we might witness a reduction in infection rates as people adopt these measures more and more.

Lets hops so.

I hope you are managing to dodge the bullets in your piece of turf and that you remain healthy.

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