http://flu.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for Flu en Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:39:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2022876 unknown@Netscape.com Last month Vietnam reported its first human case of H5N1 virus infection in a year and a half, a 30-year-old man in a province neighbouring Hanoi who became sick after helping slaughter chickens at a friend's wedding. Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:39:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2022876poultryWorkerinfectedwithbirdFluNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2015732 unknown@Netscape.com Four people in Britain who tested positive for a mild strain of bird flu should serve as a reminder that a virus other than the feared H5N1 strain could also provoke a flu pandemic, experts say. Tue, 29 May 2007 20:52:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/20157324peopletestPositivebirdFlubritainNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1875449 unknown@Netscape.com First came the bird flu. Now China's pigs are succumbing to a violent infection. Is a human disease next? Mon, 14 May 2007 01:09:52 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1875449chinabirdFluavianpigNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1486041 unknown@Netscape.com How can a teacher schooled in 20th-century science prepare today's high school students for stem cells, avian flu and other biological issues of the 21st century? Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:30:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1486041StemcellsavianFluBiologicalweaponsteachingScienceteacherNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1278467 unknown@Netscape.com A strain of avian flu different from the one that has infected humans in Africa and Asia was detected at a turkey farm, requiring the slaughter of 25,000 birds, state agriculture officials said Monday. Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:49:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/127846725000TurkeysSlaughteredwVafarmavianFluNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1178078 unknown@Netscape.com Indonesia insisted Tuesday that it only will resume sharing bird flu virus samples with the World Health Organization if the body stops providing them to commercial vaccine makers. Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:09:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1178078IndonesiafirmbirdFluvirusDisputeNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1108042 unknown@Netscape.com States that rely on tourism and entertainment for much of their economy would likely be the hardest hit during a severe influenza pandemic. Nevada and Hawaii are at the top of the list, according to a report released Thursday. Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:10:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1108042birdFluHurttouristAreasHardestNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1086727 unknown@Netscape.com Millions of doses of flu vaccine will expire at midnight June 30, unsold during this year's mild flu season and written off as trash. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:17:09 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1086727FluShotsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/766253 unknown@Netscape.com The nation's first vaccine against bird flu is even less effective than previously thought, according to Food and Drug Administration documents released Monday. Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:03:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/766253FDAtestsbirdFluvaccineEffectivenessNews http://web2announcer.com/go/654186 unknown@Netscape.com The United Nations health agency has reported "encouraging progress" in producing vaccine against human bird flu which, in worst case scenario, could mutate to cause pandemic with the potential of killing millions. Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:45:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/654186birdFluvaccineNews http://web2announcer.com/go/654191 unknown@Netscape.com Officials in Russia say tests have confirmed the presence of a sub-type of the H5N1 bird flu strain in poultry in two villages near Moscow. The testing of dead birds in a third area is still being carried out. "How can we not be worried," said a resident in one of the villages affected. "Of course we are worried about this case. We t Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:50:32 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/654191H5N1russianbirdFluNews http://web2announcer.com/go/625971 unknown@Netscape.com Midway through the month when influenza typically peaks, health officials were monitoring four hospitalized Nebraska children, while three North Carolina schools remained closed over widespread symptoms of the illness. And in Oklahoma, 400 students were out sick with the flu, though no schools were closed, authorities said. Still, a federal h Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:42:27 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/625971childFludeathshaveschoolsWorriedNews http://web2announcer.com/go/601853 unknown@Netscape.com Three schools closed until Monday because of an outbreak of flu-like symptoms, an official said Thursday. Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:32:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/601853FluoutbreakClosesNCschoolsystemNews http://web2announcer.com/go/523839 unknown@Netscape.com South Korean quarantine officials began slaughtering hundreds of thousands of poultry after a fresh outbreak of bird flu in a province near the South Korean capital, the agriculture ministry said Saturday. The outbreak -- the sixth in South Korea in recent months -- was caused by the H5 strain of the virus, but further tests were needed to deter Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:44:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/523839birdFluNews http://web2announcer.com/go/515862 unknown@Netscape.com The Food Standards Agency confirmed today that it was investigating the possibility that turkey meat contaminated by bird flu at a Bernard Matthews poultry farm has entered the human food chain. Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:01:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/515862SciencehealthbirdFluhumanfoodchainNews http://web2announcer.com/go/488896 unknown@Netscape.com Indonesia, the country hardest hit by bird flu, signed a preliminary deal Wednesday with U.S. drug manufacturer Baxter Healthcare Corp. to develop a human bird flu vaccine. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:58:28 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/488896IndonesiasignsbirdFluvaccinedealNews http://web2announcer.com/go/443153 unknown@Netscape.com The world should expect more bird flu outbreaks in the coming months, the U.N. official coordinating the global fight against the virus warned Sunday after Britain recorded its first case of the H5N1 strain on a commercial farm. Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:37:55 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/443153birdFluoutbreaksH5N1Dr.davidNabarroNews http://web2announcer.com/go/428567 unknown@Netscape.com LONDON, England (Reuters) -- An outbreak of bird flu on a farm run by Europe's biggest turkey manufacturer Bernard Matthews is the highly pathogenic H5N1 version of the virus which can kill humans, the European Commission said on Saturday. Government veterinary experts were called to the farm near Lowestoft in eastern England late on Thursday. P Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:54:57 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/428567birdFluH5N1englandNews http://web2announcer.com/go/404677 unknown@Netscape.com Indonesia claimed a major victory in the fight against bird flu Thursday, saying the heart of the capital had been cleared of backyard fowl and that residents elsewhere were handing in chickens for slaughter. Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:18:22 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/404677mayorLakartaclaimsbirdFluvictoryNews http://web2announcer.com/go/401848 unknown@Netscape.com Experts have called for closer study of less lethal strains of the H5N1 bird flu virus because they might be more likely candidates to spark an influenza pandemic. Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:40:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/401848ScienceDontIgnoreLessVirulentbirdFlustrainsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/400696 unknown@Netscape.com Women from ethnic communities in the hilly northern part of Laos have, for more than a decade, been encouraged to go into poultry breeding as a way of earning a living in Southeast Asia's poorest nation.However, this initiative has come up against a daunting challenge in the shape of the deadly bird-flu virus that has flared up again in many parts Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:26:21 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/400696birdFlulaosasiasoutheastNews http://web2announcer.com/go/359836 unknown@Netscape.com ORLANDO, Fla. (CAP) - While the rest of the world battles the emergence of avian flu as the possible source of the next pandemic, the United States is coming to grips with another potential danger: crocodile flu. Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:12:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/359836crocodileFluorlandoFLpandemicamericanCroctologistConventionNews http://web2announcer.com/go/343029 unknown@Netscape.com There has been much written about the threat of a bird flue pandemic. Much of it is either alarmist or inaccurate. Sun, 28 Jan 2007 06:44:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/343029diseasebirdfluFluinfluenzahealthNews http://web2announcer.com/go/235773 unknown@Netscape.com A 19-year-old Indonesian woman died of bird flu , a senior Health Ministry official said Saturday, raising the country's death toll to 62. Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:48:54 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/235773IndonesianbirdFludeathtoll62News http://web2announcer.com/go/207459 unknown@Netscape.com The virus that caused the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic which killed more people than World War One was so deadly because it triggered an uncontrolled immune system response in its victims, scientists said on Wednesday. Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:31:46 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/207459FluvirusspanishNews http://web2announcer.com/go/181974 unknown@Netscape.com From the article: "Tests have confirmed that bird flu detected in chickens in southern Japan was the virulent H5N1 strain that has been blamed for more than 160 human deaths worldwide, the Japanese Agricultural Ministry said Tuesday. About 4,000 chickens died last week at a farm in Kiyotake town in Miyazaki state. Earlier test results Saturday only confirmed the bird flu strain was an H5 virus but not which one." Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:54:49 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/181974birdFluavianchickenjapanH5N1News http://web2announcer.com/go/114150 unknown@Netscape.com South Korean officials said Thursday that the bird flu virus had been transmitted to a human during a recent outbreak among poultry, but the person showed no symptoms of disease. Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:39:35 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/114150NewsbirdFlutransmittedhuman http://web2announcer.com/go/73379 unknown@Netscape.com A new formulation of an inhalable flu vaccine that can be stored refrigerated instead of frozen won federal approval, its manufacturer said Monday. Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:11:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/73379FluvaccineinhalablefederalapprovalNews http://web2announcer.com/go/77130 unknown@Netscape.com The number of people that could die in a flu pandemic that matches the 1918-20 outbreak will be "very scary" and far higher than the 62 million deaths forecast by a recent study, an adviser to the White House said on Monday. Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:19:28 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/77130FlubushpandemicveryscaryNews http://web2announcer.com/go/63217 unknown@Netscape.com A new recombinant H5N1 vaccine virus has been developed in China and is available for researchers and companies that want to develop or produce the H5N1 vaccine for human use, an official with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:09:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/63217chinahealthbirdFluvaccineNews http://web2announcer.com/go/5886 unknown@Netscape.com Dynavax Technologies Corp., a biopharmaceutical company specializing in treatments for allergies, infectious and chronic inflammatory diseases, said Monday preclinical data indicates its flu vaccine confers immunity to "widely divergent" strains of the flu and has potential to be a universal flu vaccine. Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:43:55 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/5886Health & FitnessFludynavaxinfluenzaH5N1avianNews http://web2announcer.com/go/4717 unknown@Netscape.com Biologists have uncovered subtle variations in the structure of a key flu virus enzyme, a finding that might lead to better anti-flu drugs. The discovery, published this week in Nature1, is particularly important because some flu viruses are becoming resistant to all currently available drugs. Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:57:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/4717ScienceFluenzymesdrugNews