This information has been compiled as a courstesy service by the Mekong Wetlands Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use Programme (MWBP) (www.mekongwetlands.org) from information that is publicly available. The information does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of MWBP, and the views and information expressed do not necessarily reflect those of MWBP or its partners.
Austria seeks EU crisis stock of bird flu drugs
Financial Times - London,England,UK
The European Union needs to create a common stock of antivirals to combat a possible bird flu outbreak in one or more of its 25 member states, according to the ...
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/949bf5c0-8d0a-11da-9daf-0000779e2340.html
Bird Flu Computer Database Helps Scientists Develop a Vaccine
Voice of America - USA
A computer database in the United States is helping researchers find a human vaccine for the bird flu virus -- a disease that kills domesticated fowl, but ...
http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-01-24-voa26.cfm
Biosecurity the answer to bird flu
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
As New Zealand prepares for a possible bird flu pandemic, the country's poultry and egg producers are crossing their fingers the virus will not reach our shores ...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3550228a11,00.html
Asian states slow to report bird flu-WHO official
Reuters - USA
GENEVA (Reuters) - Asian countries have taken too long to report some human cases of bird flu and this could harm efforts to contain any future pandemic, a top ...
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=20...
Scientists Say Bird Flu May Spread to Russia From Turkey, China ...
MOSNEWS - Russia
The bird flu strains that caused an outbreak of the disease among humans in Turkey do not differ much from the virus strains detected in Russia's Novosibirsk ...
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/01/24/birdfluvektor.shtml
Turkey Overcomes Bird Flu
Zaman Online - Istanbul,Turkey
By Mehmet Baki, Ankara. Patients, previously diagnosed and treated for bird flu, are one by one being discharged from the hospital. ...
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=national&alt=&hn=28997
AFGHANISTAN: UN warns of bird flu risk
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... January (IRIN) - The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned that Afghanistan is at risk from avian influenza, also known as bird flu, and has ...
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/86ad4c18649ae92fec336bdb65...
BIRD FLU: LIVE FOWL TO OFFSET FALTERING SALES
AKI - Rome,Italy
... Doctor Fadlallah Munir, who heads the Agriculture Ministry's quarantine unit, insists that the risk of bird flu spreading to Lebanon is "minimum.". ...
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Trends&loid=8.0.256445173&par=0
Dutch farmers may reject bird flu vaccination
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
AMSTERDAM, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Dutch poultry farmers may reject vaccinating the country's huge poultry population against bird flu for fear consumers would ...
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L24749860.htm
Nepal for strengthening control of avian influenza in poultry
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
... He said that the budget was mainly for planning and coordination, surveillance of human influenza, prevention and containment of avian influenza, health system ... http://www.gorkhapatra.org.np/pageloader.php?file=2006/01/24/topstories/...
FDA Issues Statement on Fraudulent, Unapproved Influenza-Related ...
Infection Control Today - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Consumers should be aware that currently there are no approved vaccines for preventing avian influenza in people nor are there any drugs approved for treating ... http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/hotnews/61h239222552016.html
AFGHANISTAN: UN warns of bird flu risk
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
KABUL, 24 January (IRIN) - The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned that Afghanistan is at risk from avian influenza, also known as bird flu ...
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/86ad4c18649ae92fec336bdb65...
