Influenza News Roundup June – top news and links

These were the headline news from June 2009 about influenza whether Bird Flu (H5N1) or Swine Flu (H1N1).

30 June » Will two flus mix in Indonesia? Experts worry
Reuters – USA
H5N1 bird flu has been circulating in Asia for years and has hit Indonesia harder than any other country. Although it only rarely infects people, …

29 June » Critics say ‘mild’ a misleading term for H1N1
CTV.ca – Canada
But instead of the 60-plus per cent death rate of H5N1 avian flu — seen for years as the pandemic frontrunner — the wire was tripped by a seemingly wimpy …

28 June » It is Official Now: Swine flu is a Pandemic
Political Affairs Magazine – New York,NY,USA
After the bird flu and SARS that struck the world in 2003, the global preparations had been for a deadly bird flu variant (H5N1) originating from Southeast …

27 June » Swine flu doubters urged to rethink
Gold Coast Mail – Tweed Heads South,NSW,Australia
An avian strain named H5N1 raised the concern of a new influenza pandemic when it emerged in Asia in the 1990s, but it has not evolved to a form that …

26 June » Expert warns of dangerous mutations as H1N1 tally rises to 56
Thanh Nien Daily – Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam
Hoang Van Nam, deputy head of the Animal Health Bureau under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, said bird flu has recurred among fowl in …

25 June » Cambodia confirms first case of new flu
Reuters – USA
The minister also said she was concerned that if H1N1 got a foothold in Indonesia there was a risk it could combine with the much deadlier H5N1 bird flu …

24 June » Experts divided on treatment for birdflu patients
Reuters – USA
HONG KONG, June 23 (Reuters) – Experts on the H5N1 bird flu virus are divided on how to treat patients infected by the virus, which kills 60 percent of its …

23 June » Bird Flu Virus Could Be Controlled By Cell-Signaling Protein …
MedIndia – Chennai,India
The cell-signaling protein, interferon type 1, has the potential to reduce H5N1 influenza virus’ (bird flu virus) replication in mice, and can thus offer …

22 June » Second wave may be more severe
Chandigarh Tribune – India
Pandemics are unpredictable largely due to the highly adaptable nature of viral isolates like in the case of lethal avian flu (H5N1) and now the H1N1. …

21 June » Flu Chief Says Indonesia Not Immune From Pandemics
Jakarta Globe – Jakarta,Indonesia
“I can’t imagine what would happen if H1N1 united with H5N1 [the bird flu strain], which has higher case fatality rate,” he said. Therefore, he said, it was …

20 June » Swine Flu Economics
American Institute for Economic Research – Great Barrington,MA,USA
By way of comparison, the bird flu (H5N1) virus, to date has about a 60 percent mortality rate for the confirmed global cases. Fortunately, that virus has …

19 June » Egypt confirms new bird flu case
The FINANCIAL – Tbilisi,Georgia
The FINANCIAL — CAIRO, An 18-month-old boy has been diagnosed with bird flu in Egypt, marking the country’s 81st confirmed human avian influenza case, …

18 June » Australia raises H1N1 flu alert level
Channel News Asia – Singapore
… Senanayake said the fatality rate from H1N1 flu had been about one percent globally, much lower than the 61 percent rate from the A(H5N1) bird flu. …

17 June » Swine Flu Disease : Companies Invoved in Devloping Treatments for …
Seeking Alpha – New York,NY,USA
Depending upon the combination of the types of H and N protein, there are various subtypes of the Type A influenza virus, like H1N1 (swine flu), H5N1 (avian …

16 June » Carcasses Of Buried Birds Continue To Host Bird Flu Virus For 2 Years
MedIndia – Chennai,India
Bird flu is an H5N1 form of the influenza virus that mainly infects birds, including chicken, ducks and turkeys. Whenever any bird gets infected with the …

15 June » Experts call for close monitoring of H1N1 changes
Reuters India – Mumbai,India
… Spanish flu of 1918-1919, Asian flu of 1957 and Hong Kong flu of 1968 — as well as skirmishes against the H5N1 bird flu virus in the past 10 years. …

14 June » Egypt swine flu cases rise to 18
AFP
The country is already battling the H5N1 strain of bird flu, which has killed 27 people since it was first reported in 2006.

13 June » Majority won’t have access to antivirals in pandemic but generic …
EurekAlert (press release) – Washington,DC,USA
“At a scientific meeting in 2008 we heard that all of the people who developed bird flu in Indonesia, and did not receive antiviral treatment, died. …

12 June » WHO Raises Alert Level as Flu Spreads to 74 Countries
New York Times – United States
The WHO’s pandemic alert has been at Level 3 virtually since it was created in 2005, because a different novel virus — the H5N1 bird flu, first described in …

11 June » Op-Ed Contributor
New York Times – United States
An appropriate designation for the H5N1 avian flu: Phase pre-1, Category 5. Governments should only set up action and threat assessment systems that are …

10 June » Bird flu still present in a harmless form
Swissinfo – Switzerland
Harmless variations of bird flu are present in the Lake Constance region but deadly cases of the H5N1 strain have not been detected since 2006, …

09 June » Getting ready for flu
Irish Times – Dublin,Ireland
Ireland has a multi-level national pandemic plan, drawn up when avian flu H5N1 threatened a pandemic. Bird flu didn’t take off then, but the plan still …

08 June » Egypt quarantines university dorm over H1N1 cases
Reuters – USA
Egypt, already hard hit by the much more deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, detected its first H1N1 case last week in a 12-year-old American girl who arrived for a …

07 June » Getting tested for H1N1 flu in Singapore
ZDNet Asia – Singapore
It was the focal point for response to SARS, H5N1 “bird flu” and now H1N1 “swine flu“. Five TTSH health care workers died of SARS in 2003 as a result of …

06 June » Ten Lessons Learned from the H1N1 (Swine) Flu Outbreak
Huffington Post – New York,NY,USA
… in the fall — either in its current form or as a more virulent strain, or a different version of the flu, like the H5N1 bird flu could emerge. …

05 June » Fears of Avian Flu Said to Help US Prepare for Swine Flu
New York Times – United States
After the H5N1 avian flu emerged widely in Asia in 2003, killing about 60 percent of those infected by it, many countries took steps to head off the crisis …

04 June » WHO donates A/H1N1 influenza drugs to Nigeria
Xinhua – China
Eriki said for over five years, the WHO had been tackling the outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza in poultry and sporadic frequently fatal …

03 June » A/H1N1 virus invades all US states
Xinhua – China
Experts believe that the world’s medical community had based much of their pandemic planning on the 2004 H5N1 “bird flu” outbreak in Southeast Asia, …

02 June » Japan Flocks to Ostrich Masks to Help Fight Swine Flu Paranoia
Bloomberg – USA
In one study, a batch of chicks with H5N1 avian flu was injected with an antibody obtained from ostriches, while a second group of infected birds wasn’t. …

01 June » New Virus Spurs Experts to Rethink Definition of Pandemic
Washington Post – United States
They also assumed that, like the H5N1 bird flu virus, which is lethal in 60 percent of people who catch it, the new strain would be recognized immediately …

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