Influenza, or flu, and air pollution are significant public health risks that impact nations around the world with large economic consequences. The authors of this paper show that increased levels of air pollution significantly increase the rate of hospitalisation for people with flu. In addition, they find that protection afforded …
Woman's Death Lifts Egypt Bird Flu Toll To 22 EGYPT: April 14, 2008 CAIRO - An Egyptian woman died of bird flu on Friday, the 22nd fatality and the 49th case of the disease among humans in Egypt, the state news agency MENA said. Wala Ahmed Abdel Galil, 30, from …
Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will meet the top US health official on Monday to discuss the bird flu crisis that has killed 107 people here, his spokesman said. US Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt is in Indonesia on a one-day visit, the president's spokesman said. "He …
Breeders yesterday said retail prices of poultry will go up further unless farmers now move to restart farming at an increased pace. The warning came amid a slow recovery in the demand for poultry following the decline in bird flu spread. But many farmers remain reluctant in resuming farming with …
More than 12,000 eggs, 42.5 kg of dressed chicken, three live birds and 61 feather brooms were seized and destroyed by Bhutan Agriculture and Food Regulatory Authority (BAFRA) since the ban on the import of poultry and related products from India was imposed on January 16 this year. All the …
Tripura Animal Resource Development Department (ARDD) has sent the first consignment of blood and dead bird samples to Belgachhia testing laboratory in Kolkata today following sudden death of about 3,000 birds, including poultry fowl during the past week in the villages of Kamalpur bordering Bangladesh in North Tripura. ARDD Director …
Vietnam has started clinical trials for developing a human vaccine for the H5N1 virus, researchers said in the country that has recorded 52 deaths from bird flu. Eleven volunteers, all researchers, received their second dosage of the trial vaccine on Thursday inside spotlessly-clean medical rooms of a company run by …
Bird Flu's Spread Around The Globe UK: April 3, 2008 LONDON - The World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed on Wednesday that two Indonesians, an 11 year-old female and a 15-year-old male, have died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu. The outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu began in …
Two more persons have died of bird flu in Indonesia, bringing the death toll in the country worst hit by the virus to 107, said the Health Ministry on Monday. One of the victims was a 15-year-old boy and the second was a 12-year-old girl, said Ministry official Lily Sulistyowati …
bird Flu resurfaces: Pakistan confirmed a new outbreak of bird flu at a farm outside the southern city of Karachi on February 24. This is the fourth outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Karachi in February, but was limited only to fowl. Authorities have sent health teams to …
With the latest outbreak of bird flu in Jalpaiguri, a district of bordering Bangladesh, the Central government on Friday reviewed the situation at a high-level meeting here on Friday. Union Cabinet Secretary B.K. Chaturvedi convened a meeting with West Bengal Chief Secretary Amit Kiran Deb here to discuss the situation …
Ducks, rice and human beings, and not chickens are the "most significant factors' behind persistent outbreaks of bird flu, a new study has claimed. The study released by United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) found ducks, rice and people not chickens to be the "most significant factors' in the …
The highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus that emerged in southern China in the mid-1990s has in recent years evolved into the first HPAI panzootic. A central question is to understand the factors favoring the continuing reoccurrence of the virus. The abundance of domestic ducks, in particular free-grazing ducks …
The highly pathogenic avian influenza could reach new areas in the state after the state animal husbandry department officials received reports that poultry owners of the notified areas in Malda have transported their poultry products by taking advantage of slow culling operations during Holi. Officials said though nearly 45,000 chickens …
The death of 800 chickens over the past five days in a State poultry farm in West Bengal's Malda district has led to fears of a fresh outbreak of bird flu in the region. Reports on the samples sent for testing in the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory in Bhopal …
Experts at a seminar yesterday said bird flu is a national crisis but we can tackle it by taking preventive measures. They said cooked chicken and boiled eggs are safe to eat. Prof Khwaja Nazimuddin, secretary general of APB, presided over the seminar organised by Association of Physicians of Bangladesh …
A pigeon lover in Dinhata lost 30 birds from his collection of over 200 in the past two days, sending officials of the animal resources development (ARD) department scurrying to his residence at Kharija-Baniadaha to collect samples. "We have culled the rest of the pigeons and burnt the boxes in …
bird flu is spreading in Bangladesh despite efforts to control it. By February 19, the H5NI virus outbreaks had been reported in 43 out of 64 districts. The nation's poultry industry, one of the world's largest, is now confronted with its greatest challenge since large-scale poultry farming was introduced in …
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) today initiated a survey in the various markets and poultry shops of the city to determine whether there are any cases of avian influenza. A total of 13 markets were surveyed today by the city civic body. This drive by the civic officials comes after …
Top scientists commissioned by Hong Kong's health authorities to probe a recent influenza outbreak here have not found an especially virulent form of virus from children who died after coming down with flu, the head of the expert team said Thursday. Yuen Kwok-yung told reporters the common flu virus was …
The Hong Kong government on Thursday closed all elementary schools and preschools in the territory a week early for Easter holidays after three children died amid an influenza outbreak, but insisted there was no sign that SARS or bird flu were involved. The abrupt closing of the schools, announced late …
