http://www.flupandemicalert.com Bird flu pandemic news and alerts. Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:08:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Fears a couple that just returned from Bangladesh could have avian flu are inaccurate, according to a Toronto hospital. The elderly couple was admitted to Toronto East General Hospital Tuesday night after complaining of flu-like symptoms and apparently isolated. However speculation that they could be suffering from a human form of the H5N1 virus is unfounded, the ... http://www.flupandemicalert.com/2008/03/19/toronto-bird-flu-fears-puts-couple-in-isolation/ Efforts to contain bird flu are failing in Indonesia, increasing the possibility that the virus may mutate into a deadlier form, the leading U.N. veterinary health body warned. The H5N1 bird flu virus is entrenched in 31 of the countrys 33 provinces and will cause more human deaths, the U.N. Food ... http://www.flupandemicalert.com/2008/03/19/indonesia-rampant-bird-flu-raises-pandemic-risks/ The USA's flu epidemic continued to grow last week, with cases mounting in every state and a dozen new deaths among children, the government's leading flu expert said Friday. Altogether 22 children have died of flu so far, with widespread flu activity reported in 49 states, up from 44 last week, ... http://www.flupandemicalert.com/2008/02/24/us-flu-epidemic-rises/ Vietnam's Preventive Medicine and Environment Department has said some people hospitalized recently are suspected of having contracted bird flu, local newspaper Youth reported on Friday. Specimens from the people, including a seven-year-old child from northern Hai Duong province, are being tested for bird flu virus strain H5N1. The child is under ... http://www.flupandemicalert.com/2008/02/24/some-vietnamese-suspectedly-infected-with-bird-flu/ A week after lifting the ban on the sale of poultry products, the state government on Monday suddenly issued an alert on the spread of bird flu among human beings. The health department has asked health officials to keep a watch on possible human contraction of the H5N1 virus. "We will ... http://www.flupandemicalert.com/2008/02/24/bird-flu-alert-for-human-infections-raised-in-india/ An epidemic of avian influenza in West Bengal, India has the Indian "government in panic mode", according to the Times of India Web site. And with good reason: 15 million of West Bengal's 80 million people are crammed into its capital city, Kolkata (Calcutta), which is a petri dish of poverty, ... http://www.flupandemicalert.com/2008/01/30/india-influenza-outbreak-portends-pandemic/ The government has been carrying out allout efforts to resist the bird flu throughout the country. A number of steps have already been taken to face the probable menace. Sources said monitoring cell has been opened at the office of the Deputy Commissioner in each district. Special task force has been formed. ... http://www.flupandemicalert.com/2008/01/30/bird-flu-bangledesh-considers-red-alert/ The Indian state of West Bengal, battling the country’s worst outbreak of deadly bird flu, appealed on Saturday to the federal government to send “all possible help to defeat” the virus. The call by state animal resources minister Anisur Rahaman came as authorities struggled to stop the disease spreading beyond the ... http://www.flupandemicalert.com/2008/01/27/bird-flu-india-asks-for-all-possible-help/ Last year, for the first time since avian flu emerged as a global threat, the number of human cases was down from the year before. As the illness receded, the scary headlines with their warnings of a pandemic that could kill 150 million people all but vanished. But avian flu has ... http://www.flupandemicalert.com/2008/01/23/pandemic-bird-flu-warnings-not-in-the-news-but-its-still-a-threat/ Vaccines and drugs will not be enough to slow or prevent a pandemic of influenza, according to a U.S. government report released on Tuesday. The report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office confirms what most experts have been stressing for years -- that the pharmaceutical industry cannot be relied on alone ... http://www.flupandemicalert.com/2008/01/23/vaccines-and-drugs-will-not-be-enought-to-stop-flu-pandemic/