Pandemic flu fears go viral - The Australian
LAST week government biosecurity officers donned full protective clothing and proceeded to dispatch all 25,000 ducks on two free-range farms in Victoria. Why? Bird flu. Next week, about 50 invited experts will gather in Geneva for a confidential conclave ...
Update: Influenza A (H3N2)v Transmission and Guidelines - Medscape News
pdm09 virus (formerly called swine-origin influenza A [H3N2] and pandemic influenza A [H1N1] 2009 viruses, respectively [Box]). The 12 cases occurred in five states (Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia), and 11 were in children.
When Flu Pandemics Hit, Closing Schools Can Slow Spread - NPR News
Everyone knows that when your kids get the flu, they stay home from school. But what does it take to justify closing the school down entirely? That's a question we should probably answer before the next big pandemic hits. At one point during the ...
Flu may not have killed most in 1918 pandemic - Dose.ca
WASHINGTON — Strep infections and not the flu virus itself may have killed most people during the 1918 influenza pandemic, which suggests some of the most dire predictions about a new pandemic may be exaggerated, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
FLU NEWS SCAN: Procrastination on research oversight, pandemic ethics, H5N1 in Vietnam - Centre For Infectious Disease Research and Policy
The controversy over lab-created H5N1 viruses and reassortants with increased transmissibility in ferrets shows that recommendations made in 2004 by the National Academy of Sciences on oversight of potentially dangerous biological research have ...
Pandemic Influenza Table Top Exercise Kicks Off in Elmina, Ghana - Global Security
Feb 8, 2012 — Approximately 120 civilian and military representatives from five African nations and the United States came together in Elmina, Ghana on February 6, 2012 for a weeklong exercise to assess the current capability of the Ghanaian government ...
Lab flu may not aid vaccines - Nature.com
Now that laboratory studies have yielded a glimpse of H5N1 flu viruses that might spread rapidly in humans and cause a devastating pandemic, vaccine makers will be better prepared if one develops. Or will they? It is an appealing argument, and one that ...
THE GREAT GOVERNMENT SWINE FLU CONSPIRACY - American Reporter
which developed the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza protection. Testing of the vaccines on human subjects is being done at eight major U.S. universities and hospitals, all of which received federal funding. The federal government is also providing ...
Flu pandemics slowed by school closures - CBC
Closing schools works to slow the spread of flu during pandemics, a study of infection patterns in Alberta suggests. The study in Tuesday's issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine analyzed data on H1N1 infections in the province during the 2009 pandemic.
Effects of School Closure on Incidence of Pandemic Influenza in Alberta, Canada - Annals of Internal Medicine
Background: Control of pandemic influenza by social-distancing measures, such as school closures, is a controversial aspect of pandemic planning. However, investigations of the extent to which these measures actually affect the progression of a pandemic ...
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