The degree of success a person will achieve depends on the skill he/she has to communicate.
Just the other day a friend told me, “Don’t send me text messages on the phone. I prefer you call.” I took a note of that. I have another friend, who says, “Any time you want to ‘talk’ to me, [...]

Last month was a busy month!
While media interest wanes somewhat on the issue of H5N1 Avian or Bird Influenza, the last month was actually a busy month. It was also a very sad month for the families who lost lives due to the virus. And for many people, the economic toll of having to cull [...]

What sprang to mind however was the real danger of an H5N1 virus mutating to a human virus and spreading from human to human to human … It could happen so fast, and is so invisible (until it strikes) that it really is a bit scary.

UNITED NATIONS — Experts suspect the current spread of bird flu in Asia, Africa and Europe is mainly a result of trade in infected live birds rather than transmission through wild birds, the U.N. official coordinating the global fight against avian influenza said Friday.
Example: the outbreak in Nigeria was caused by the import of [...]

And this should be a good New Year …
This New Year has brought with it a heavy toll as far as Bird Flu is concerned. More deaths in Indonesia with the alarm bells sounding as to another possible cluster (human to human transmittion but on a small or confined area).
Japan, Nigeria and of course Vietnam [...]

Officials in southern Vietnam have confirmed that the recent bird flu outbreak is the lethal H5N1 strain.
And, experts say a fresh outbreak of avian influenza in Nigeria is more widespread than thought.
Meanwhile, the University of Maryland School of Medicine will begin testing its cell-based bird flu vaccine in January in preparation for a possible [...]

Are youth more susceptible?
A set of activities identified in the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) new Global pandemic influenza action plan to increase vaccine supply requires immediate and sustained action and funding, if the world is to be prepared for an influenza pandemic to which there would be almost universal susceptibility.
A report on last winters cases [...]