May News 2013

May 31

 

China 
• China H7N9 emergency response program ends (Link) 
• Chinese CDC experts: do not advocate live poultry markets open (translated) (Link) 
• China reports 38th H7N9 death (Link)

Italy 
• First infected in Italy Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Link) 
• Italy announces first case of Sars-like coronavirus  (Link)

Jordan 
• CDC to test samples from Jordan for MERS-CoV (Link)

Morocco 
• ProMED: MERS-CoV - Eastern Mediterranean (14): Morocco ex UAE, RFI (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• Saudi MOH: Overview of the Novel Coronavirus (Link) 
• Who tweets on MERS fatalities (Link) 
• Transparency urged in coronavirus cases (Link)

United States 
• CA: Flu Shots, Preventive Treatment More Likely For Californians With 'Medical Home' (Link)

Research 
• No benefit of double dose antiviral drug for severe influenza (Link)

General 
• MERS cases likely all over, found in Saudi because country tests: official  (Link) 
• WHO: MERS-CoV summary and literature update - as of 31 May 2013 (Link) 
• AP Video: Fauci - New Virus Not Yet a 'threat to the world' (youtube) (Link)

Commentary 
• (New country) Recombinomics: Morocco MERS-CoV Case ex-Middle East (Link) 
• Recombinomics: Another Hospital MERS-CoV Cluster In Eastern KSA (Link) 
• Recombinomics: French MERS-CoV Sequences Identical To England2 (Link) 
• Helen Branswell (Link)

 

May 30

 

Australia 
• Flu, gastro to spread winter blues (Link)

China 
• Hong Kong: Update on number of suspected human cases of avian influenza A(H7) notified (Link) 
• Confirmed cases of H7N9 bird flu drug resistance: study (Link)

Jordan 
• People were newly infected Corona, Saudi Arabia and suspicion of the existence of 124 cases in Jordan (translated) (Link)

Russia 
• Experts are asked to Primorye not to travel to China (translated) (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• Branswell: Saudis investigating possible second hospital outbreak of MERS cases (Link) 
• MERS Coronavirus: Tracking the Outbreak (Link) 
• Saudi Arabia reports 3 more coronavirus deaths (Link) 
• New England Journal of Medicine: Family Cluster of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infections (Link) 
• CNN Video: Killer coronavirus in the Middle East (Link) 
• Saudi MOH: Saudi Arabia reports 3 more coronavirus fatalities (Link)

Research 
• Evolution in the blink of an eye (Link) 
• How big data helps fight flu (Link) 
• Gene Therapy ... Against the Flu? (Link) 
• Gene Therapy May Protect Against Flu Pandemics (Link) 
• Novel Coronavirus: 5 Things To Know About the SARS-Like Infection (Link) 
• New flu vaccine from Penn shows promise (Link) 
• Scientists Develop Therapy That Someday Might Protect Public Against Flu Pandemics (Link) 
• Gene therapy gives mice broad protection to pandemic flu strains, including 1918 flu (Link)

General 
• Middle East Coronavirus Called 'Threat To The Entire World' (Link) 
• Video: The Who Says New Virus is Major Threat to World Health (Link) 
• Experts Call For Increased Monitoring Of Drug Resistant Bird Flu (Link)

Commentary 
• Recombinomics: More MERS-CoV Cases and Deaths In Eastern KSA (Link) 
• Laurie Garrett: Why a Saudi Virus Is Spreading Alarm (Link) 
• Maggie Fox: Family 'cluster' shows MERS virus follows odd pattern (Link)

 

 

 

 

May 29

 

China 
• Two die after h7n9 bird flu virus develops drug resistance (Link) 
• More businesses cancel meetings in China over bird flu fears (Link) 
• Additional human case of avian influenza A(H7N9) in Beijing verified with NHFPC (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• Five new cases of coronavirus in Saudi Arabia (translated) (Link)

United States 
• CNBC Video: Bird Flu Fears Hit Wall St. (Link)

Commentary 
• Recombinomics: Emergence of H7N9 R292K Tamiflu Resistance (Link)

May 28

 

China 
• Beijing to test for H7N9 in flu monitoring system (Link) 
• Hundreds of people infected with H7N9 as virus continues to spread - Is a real flu pandemic on the horizon? (Link) 
• Beijing reports 2nd H7N9 infection (Link) 
• Beijing: City people infected with H7N9 avian influenza into the routine monitoring strategy effective proactive monitoring found the city the second case of human infection with H7N9 avian influenza (translated) (Link)

France 
• French victim of MERS dies (Link) 
• Coronavirus: "no new situation with regard to the epidemic," despite the death of a patient (Touraine) (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• ProMED: MERS-CoV - Eastern Mediterranean (11): Saudi Arabia, new death (Link) 
•  Five new Coronavirus cases in Saudi Arabia (Link)

United States 
• Morgan Stanley Said to Move Asia Hedge-Fund Event to New York (Link)

Venezuela 
• H1N1 flu outbreak kills 17 in Venezuela (Link)

Research 
• H7N9 bird flu drug resistance concern (Link)

General 
• ProMED: Influenza (33): WHO global update (Link) 
• MERS: a treatment & difference from flu (Link) 
• New Tools to Hunt New Viruses (Link)

Commentary 
• Helen Branswell: Study warns drug resistance develops easily with new H7N9 bird flu (Link) 
• UN health chief urges global cooperation to tackle novel coronavirus threat (Link) 
• Laurie Garrett's series of blogs on the World Health Assembly: The Survival of "Global Health" - Part One: WHO's Margaret Chan Sets the Stage (Link) 
• Laurie Garrett: The Survival of "Global Health" - Part Two: The Future of Global Health Funding (Link) 
• Laurie Garrett's: The Survival of "Global Health" - Part Three: Why the World is so Wealthy, But Your Life Feels Otherwise: Significance for Global Health (Link) 
• Laurie Garrett: The Survival of "Global Health" - Part Four: The New Global Health Architecture Does Not Match Its Emerging Mission (Link) 
• Laurie Garrett: The Survival of "Global Health" - Part Five: The Global Food Supply (Link) 
• Laurie Garrett: The Survival of "Global Health" - Part Seven: Patents and Potential Pandemics (Link)

May 27

 

Australia 
• Australia exports bird flu test kits to Asia (Link)

Bahrain 
• Bahrain on high alert for new virus (Link)

China 
• No new H7N9 cases' in China for second week (Link) 
• Past week sees no new H7N9 cases, 1 death (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• Coronavirus: new death in Saudi Arabia (translated) (Link) 
• Repercussions Corona .. Qassim isolate 4 suspected cases (Link)

United States 
• Battling the lethal H7N9 virus: a look inside the lab where vaccine is being developed  (Link) 
• US invokes emergency act to keep H7N9 flu at bay (May 8, 2013) (Link)

Venezuela 
• Nationwide alert for H1N1 virus (translated) (Link)

General 
• World not ready for mass flu outbreak: WHO (Link)

Commentary 
• A Most Dangerous Race (Link) 
• Branswell tweet (Link)

May 26

 

Australia 
• Test hope for bird flu strain (Link

China 
• CIDRAP: Experts mull H7N9 bird market findings, assess rapid tests (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• Saudi death toll from coronavirus reaches 18 (Link)

Venezuela 
• Venezuela registers at least 3 deaths from swine flu (Link)

Research 
• New bird flu may be capable of human to human spread: study (Link)

Commentary 
• Garrett: The Survival of "Global Health" - Part Seven: Patents and Potential Pandemics (Link)

May 25

 

China 
• Hong Kong: Update on number of suspected human cases of avian influenza A(H7) notified (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• Four more suspected MERS cases? (Link) 
• WHO to help KSA probe coronavirus before Haj (Link) 
• Saudi to send animal samples to US in coronavirus probe (Link)

Research 
• H7N9 bird flu and swine flu can 'combine and mutate' (Link)

Commentary 
• Penalizing the physician behind a virus discovery (Link)

 

May 24

 

 

China 
• No H7N9 virus found in poultry farms: MOA (Link)

France 
• Novel coronavirus: always steady and serious condition for two French patients (translated)  (Link)

Netherlands 
• No restrictions for public health research into MERS coronavirus (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• Who to help Saudis probe coronavirus before Haj (Link) 
• Saudi to send animal samples to US in coronavirus probe (Link) 
• MOH Statement Related to the Updates of the Novel Coronavirus Infection (Link)

Taiwan 
• Taiwan's 1st H7N9 bird flu patient recovers (Link)

United States 
• AL: Alabama mystery illness determined to be flu, cold or pneumonia (Link)

Research 
• Bird flu virus is capable of human spread (Link) 
• CIDRAP: Study of H7N9 cases shows extent of severe disease (Link) 
• UPDATE 1-New bird flu strain may be capable of spreading from human to human-study (Link) 
• Study Identifies Risks of Human Spread of H7N9 Bird Flu (Link) 
• Low Population Immunity Predicted If New Bird Flu Virus H7N9 Escalates Into A Human Pandemic (Link) 
• 2009 H1N1 swine flu deadliest for those age 65 and younger (Link) 
• World Health Organization: Coronavirus research stalled by scientific red tape (Link)

General 
• Scientists-worry-about-new-bird-flu-s-potential-mutate (Link)

Commentary 
• Declan Butler - Nature: New avian flu readily transmits in key animal model (Link) 
• Helen Branswell: H7N9 virus closer to being human transmissible than other bird flu viruses  (Link)

May 23

 

 

China 
• Hong Kong: Two additional overseas cases of Severe Respiratory Disease associated with Novel Coronavirus closely monitored by DH (Link) 
• Hong Kong: H7N9 bird flu found to spread through the air (Link)

Netherlands 
• Dutch Scientists Defend Patenting of Saudi Coronavirus (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• CIDRAP: New MERS-CoV case reported as puzzles persist (Link) 
• 22 deaths worldwide from coronavirus, WHO reports Latest fatal case involves a 63-year-old man with an underlying medical condition (Link) 
• Saudi Confirms another Death from MERS Coronavirus (Link) 
• Expat dies of coronavirus infection in Qassim  (Link)

United States 
• AL: Ala. mystery illness cases climb to 10  (Link) 
• AL: Health officials working to determine cause of mysterious illness in southeast Alabama (article & video) (Link) 
• CIDRAP: Alabama officials probe respiratory illness cluster (Link)

Research 
• Scientists worry about bird flu's potential to mutate (Link) 
• Scientists make new H7N9 claim (Link) 
• Researchers suggest boosting body's natural flu killers (Link) 
• New flu vaccine may protect against many strains with a single jab (Link) 
• Universal flu jab 'edges closer' (Link) 
• Novel coronavirus infection - update (Middle East respiratory syndrome- coronavirus) (Link)

General 
• Can flu cause mental illness? (Link) 
• WHO: Probe into deadly coronavirus delayed by sample dispute (Link)

Commentary 
• Recombinomics: H7 G228S Raises H7N9 Pandemic Concerns (Link) 
• Michael Coston - Avian Flu Diary: Update: cleared of H7N9 and MERS (Link)

 

May 22

 

 

Cambodia 
• H5N1 case confirmed by WHO (Link)

China 
• Hong Kong: Update on number of suspected human cases of avian influenza A(H7) notified  (Link) 
• H7N9 bird flu in China appears under control (Link) 
• H7N9 Flu: Most Patients Needed Intensive Care  (Link)

Colombia 
• Cluster of fatal respiratory tract infections: ProMED-mail RFI (translated) (Link)

India 
• Respiratory disease & multi-organ failure cases on the rise (Link)

North Korea 
• North Korea culls nearly 1,65,000 birds to limit bird flu outbreak (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• Coronavirus claims new life in Saudi Arabia  (Link)

Tunisia 
• MERS-CoV - Eastern Mediterranean (07): Tunisia ex Saudi Arabia/Qatar, fatal, WHO (Link)

United States 
• AL: Mysterious illness kills 2 in southeast Alabama (Link) 
• AL: Latest: Two Dead, Five Sick From Unknown Illness (Link) 
• CIDRAP: Alabama officials probe respiratory illness cluster (Link)

Vietnam 
• Estimates reveal low population immunity to new bird flu virus H7N9 in humans (Link)

Venezuela 
• Authorities report 125 cases of influenza west Venezuela Authorities (Link)

Research 
• As MERS spreads, frustration at lack of info grows (Link) 
• Better Flu Vaccine Made from Self-Assembling Sculptures (Link) 
• Nature: 'Universal' flu vaccine effective in animals; Self-assembling nanoparticles could make updating seasonal vaccines easier (Link)

General 
• CIDRAP: WHO expert concerned guest workers could spread coronavirus  (Link) 
• WHO subdued over Middle Eastern nations' handling of coronavirus (Link) 
• World not ready for mass flu outbreak, says WHO (Link) 
• 22 Pandemic Books to Read Before the H7N9 Virus Kills Us All(Link)

Commentary 
• Branswell: Canadian expert says Saudi coronavirus outbreak 'complex' but report pending (Link) 
• The Survival of "Global Health" - Part One: WHO's Margaret Chan Sets the Stage (Link)

 

May 21

 

 

China 
• Officials eat poultry to restore confidence (Link) 
• No new bird flu cases in China for a week (Link) 
• Guangzhou suspends poultry export to Hong Kong (Link)

North Korea 
• DPRK strives to prevent spread of bird flu (H5N1) virus (Link) 
• North Korea Culls Birds in Effort to Contain Flu (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• Health minister briefs HRC on new coronavirus (Link)

Spain 
• Bird flu virus detected in exploration of Catalonia (translated) (Link)

Tunisia 
• Tunisian dies from new Sars-like coronavirus after Saudi visit (Link)

United Kingdom 
• Tamiflu drug bill 'shocking waste of taxpayers' money' (Link)

United States 
• AL: Mysterious respiratory illness strikes 7 in Alabama; 2 dead (Link)

Vietnam 
• Low Population Immunity to New Bird Flu Virus H7N9 in Humans (Link)

Research 
• Computer model predicts when viruses become infectious (Link)

General 
• CIDRAP: Coronavirus cases, deaths reported in Tunisia, Saudi Arabia (Link) 
• Nobel laureate downplays flu pandemic 'shock-horror scenarios' (Link) 
• In Geneva, a sit-down chat with WHO's coronavirus expert (Link)

Commentary 
• Helen Branswell: Tweet on Tunisian cases (Link) 
• Jennifer Yang's Twitter page (Link)

May 20

 

 

Canada 
• Saudi coronavirus work stymied at Canadian lab (Link)

China 
• H7N9 Found In Poultry Sample In China (Link) 
• Hong Kong: Update on number of suspected human cases of avian influenza A(H7) notified (Link)

Micronesia 
• Man dies of flu-like illness (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• Onset of summer may kill coronavirus, say experts (Link) 
• PROMED: MERS-CoV - Eastern Mediterranean (05) - Tunisia ex Saudi Arabia/Qatar, fatal, RFI (Link) 
• Saudi coronavirus death toll at 16 (new death) (Link) 
• Saudi coronavirus death toll at 16 (Link)

Tunisia 
• Tunisian dies of coronavirus - ministry (Link) 
• PROMED: MERS-CoV - Eastern Mediterranean (05) - Tunisia ex Saudi Arabia/Qatar, fatal, RFI (Link)

United States 
• WI: Wisconsin bill would ban mandatory flu shots (Link)

General 
• American Society for Microbiology Pandemic Panel - livestreamed (Link) 
• Coronavirus: do not call more NCoV but MERS-CoV (translated) (Link) 
• World Health Organization Annual Meeting: New Flu, Coronavirus Urgent Priorities (Link) 
• WHO Director-General addresses the Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly (Link)

Commentary 
• Recombinomics: Fatal MERS-CoV Confirmed In Tunisia ex-KSA/Qatar (Link)

 

May 19

 

 

China 
• H7N9 epidemic is still uncertainty (translated) (Link) 
• Poultry farms may be H7N9 source, study finds (Link) 
• Bird Flu Death Toll Rises as Virus Dissipates  (Link) 
• More provinces end H7N9 emergency response  (Link) 
• H7N9 case has drug- and non-resistant strains (Link) 
• H (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• Saudi Arabia lift (raises?) the state of emergency as a result of suspicion of the situation Coruna in Riyadh (translated) (Link) 
• Coronavirus tests for EP (Eastern Province?} pilgrims urged (Link) 
• H (Link)

 

General 
• Respiratory Viruses Threaten to Cause Global Outbreaks (Link) 
• Novel coronavirus infection - update (Link)

Commentary 
• Michael Coston - Avian Flu Diary: WHO - Updated Guidance On nCoV (MERS-CoV) Surveillance Recommendations (Link) 
• Helen Branswell: WHO warns Saudi coronavirus may be spreading (Link) 
• H (Link)

May 18

 

 

China 
• Some Chinese provinces step down H7N9 emergency levels (Link) 
• H7N9 more likely to transmit among humans than other bird flu (Link)

Germany 
• H7N7 avian flu outbreak prompts poultry culling in Germany (Link)

Indonesia 
• No H7N9 Bird Flu Infections (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• WHO airs concern about coronavirus transmission (Link) 
• (1 new case) ProMED: MERS-CoV - Eastern Mediterranean: Saudi Arabia, new case, RFI  (Link)

United States 
• US flu activity continues to decline (Link)

Research 
• Only 7 rigorous studies identified on non-antiviral interventions during 2009 pandemic (Link)

May 17

 

 

China 
• H7N9 avian influenza patient recovered and was discharged  (Link) 
• Epidemiological Link Between Exposure To Poultry And All Influenza A(H7N9) Confirmed Cases (Link) 
• Hong Kong: Two additional overseas cases of Severe Respiratory Disease associated with Novel Coronavirus closely monitored by DH (Link) 
• Hong Kong: Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection has received two suspected H7 infection cases (Link) 
• Shanghai to reopen poultry market (Link) 
• Another H7N9-hit Chinese province ends emergency response (Link) 
• Avian Flu Diary: Sandman On H7N9 Risk Communications: Candor, but No Push to Prepare  (Link) 
• CIDRAP: New reports yield clues about H7N9 detection, links to poultry (Link) 
• (4 new deaths) Bird flu death toll rises in China  (Link) 
• H7N9 case has drug- and non-resistant strains  (Link)

North Korea 
• Bird flu leads to suspension of Shanghai-North Korea flights (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• CIDRAP: Saudi Arabia assigns more labs to coronavirus probe (Link) 
• Saudi Arabia: Coronavirus tests for sick Umrah pilgrims (Link) 
•  Saudi MOH: "The death of a child" raise the number of victims of "Corona" to 16 (translate) (Link) 
• WHO: Novel coronavirus summary and literature update - as of 17 May 2013 (Link) 
• Saudi health minister denies shutting schools due to Coronavirus (Link)

Singapore 
• Singapore's first H1N1 flu vaccine has reached the first phase of clinical trials (Link)

General 
• Does Twitter know if you're getting a flu shot? (Link) 
• ECDC Update: UPDATED RAPID RISK ASSESSMENT Severe respiratory disease associated with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS - CoV) (Link)

Commentary 
• Recombinomics: MERS-CoV Fatal Infections In Children In Eastern KSA (Link) 
• Helen Branswell: Superspreaders could turn new coronavirus into a SARS-like event: experts (Link)

May 16

 

China

• Hong Kong: Four additional overseas cases of Severe Respiratory Disease associated with Novel Coronavirus closely monitored by DH (Link) 
• H5N1 outbreak in Tibet? (Link) 
• Tibet reports bird flu outbreak (Link) 
• China bird flu devastates Shanghai family (Link) 
• Higher temperatures curb bird flu (Link) 
• Warmer weather may be curbing spread of bird flu in China (Link) 
• Bird flu leaves China in the cold as tourism demand drops (Link) 
• Guangzhou halts exports from poultry farm to HK after bird flu found nearby (Link) 
• H (Link)

Nepal 
• Second bird flu (H5N1) outbreak in capital (Link)

Sauid Arabia 
• First proof of patient-to-nurse infection of coronavirus: WHO (Link) 
• WHO reports first patient-to-nurse spread of new SARS-like virus (Link) 
• Coronavirus: degradation of the health of the second patient (Link) 
• Saudi Arabia expands labs to track deadly coronavirus (Link) 
• H (Link)

Research 
• A threat from flu viruses in birds, pigs (Link) 
• Novartis produces a vaccine in less than a week (Link) 
• Cochrane researchers continue to face challenges over access to data on flu drugs (Link) 
• Flu poses more risk for Guillain-Barre Syndrome than flu vaccine (Link) 
• Internet speeds flu vaccine, study finds (Link) 
• Immunization with SARS Coronavirus Vaccines Leads to Pulmonary Immunopathology on Challenge with the SARS Virus (Link) 
• H (Link)

General 
• H1N1 In Elephant Seals: First Instance In Any Marine Mammal (Link) 
• Bird flu outbreaks in Mexico (H7N3) and Tibet (H5N1) (Link) 
• Which Way Will This Bird Flu Fly? (Link) 
• H (Link)

 

May 15

 

 

China 
• Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, four H7N9 infected recovered and were discharged (translated) (Link) 
• Hunan first case of H7N9 patients died (translated) (Link) 
• H7N9 avian influenza is one impetus dead (translated) (Link) 
• No New Cases Of Bird Flu, Despite Three More Deaths In China (Link) 
• H7N9 bird flu kills one in central China (Link) 
• H (Link) 
• H (Link)

France 
• Coronavirus: still threatened patient (translated)(Link) 
• Coronavirus: you fear an epidemic in France?  (Link) 
• H (Link)

Kuwait 
• Strict 'Guidelines' On Viruses Issued (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• Saudi ministry: Six new coronavirus cases detected (Link) 
• CIDRAP: Evidence for close-contact spread of coronavirus grows (Link) 
• CIDRAP: Six new Saudi coronavirus cases include 2 health workers (Link) 
• Experts hired as 6 new coronavirus cases detected (Link) 
• WHO: Novel coronavirus infection - update (Link)

Sri Lanka 
• Sri Lanka stops meat imports after WHO bird flu warning (Link)

Research 
• Evidence of host adaptation of avian-origin influenza A virus (Link) 
• Inside the lab racing to make vaccine for deadly flu (Link) 
• Synthetic Biology Could Speed Flu Vaccine Production (Link) 
• Measures Necessary To Prevent Possible Bird Flu Pandemic (Link) 
• AACC: New Test for H7N9 Bird Flu in China May Help Slow Outbreak, Prevent Pandemic (Link)

General 
• Novel Coronavirus Might Spread Between Humans, Says World Health Organization (Link)

Commentary 
• Helen Branswell: Canada's national lab has sample of new coronavirus Novel coronavirus (Link) 
• Michael Coston - Avian Flu Diary: Saudi nCoV: On The Outside Looking In (Link)

May 14

 

 

China 
• 1 Child Dead, Over 60 Infected With H1N1 Flu in South China (Link) 
• China reports three new bird flu deaths, toll hits 35 (Link) 
• China, New Cases On The Rise (Link)

Nepal 
• Bird flu in Pokhara (Link)

North Korea 
• North Korean Duck Farm Hit By H5N1 Avian Influenza (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• New diseases could spark global outbreak (Link) 
• Saudi Arabia confirms four new cases of deadly SARS-like virus (Link)

Vietnam 
• Vietnam province says bird flu epidemic is over (Link)

Research 
• Influenza Virus Genome Even More Adaptable Than Thought (Link) 
• New strains of Hong Kong flu could cause pandemic (Link) 
• A New Vaccine To Protect Against Multiple Strains of H7N9 Bird Flu Virus (Link)

General 
• What to know about the new bird flu virus (Link) 
• Coronavirus: always state "concern" for the two French patients  (translated)(Link)

Commentary 
• Declan Butler: Avian flu update: lull in new H7N9 cases (Link) 
• Michael Coston - Avian Flu Diary: 2 new corona virus cases among Health care workers (Link) 
• Michael Coston - Avian Flu Diary: (Link)

May 13

 

 

China 
• Hong Kong: Fever patient with travel history tested negative for novel coronavirus (Link) 
• China reports 3 new H7N9 deaths (Link) 
• Tibet: H5N1 bird flu reported in Tibet (Link)   
• Three more deaths from bird flu in China as toll reaches 35 (Link) 
• H (Link) 
• H (Link)

France 
• Coronavirus: WHO invites French to remain calm (translated) (Link)

Indonesia 
• Warning on Indonesia bird flu (H7N9) risk (Link) 
• A Resident Sukoharjo Tested Positive for Bird Flu (H5N1) (translated) (Link)

Japan 
• China bird flu can still pose threat: expert (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• New SARS-like virus can probably pass person-to-person (Link) 
• Panic grips Saudis amid fears of SARS-like virus (Link)

Singapore 
• 11 investigated for H7N9, 24 for novel coronavirus; none positive (Link)

United States 
• Bird flu: US safe from two new viruses - so far (Link) 
• Chinese bird flu concerns health officials, but they're not worried about it reaching Indiana (Link)

General 
• 2 new diseases - 1 related to SARS and 1 new bird flu - could both spark global outbreaks (Link)

Commentary 
• Recombinomics: MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV Similarities Raise Concerns (Link)

May 12

 

 

Australia 
• Queensland claims world first on bird flu (Link)

China 
• Shanghai: 14th death in city from bird flu (Link)

France 
•  Second case of deadly SARS-like virus in France (Link) 
• Coronavirus: increased vigilance after a second case in France (Link) 
• Coronavirus: people in contact with patients monitored (Link) 
• Another coronavirus case confirmed in France  (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• Two more people die of SARS-like virus in Saudi Arabia (Link) 
• Rumors, grief and questions: A virus ravages a Saudi family (Link) 
• Saudi Death Toll Reaches 15 Since Coronavirus Outbreak in 2012 (Link) 
• Three more suspected nCoV cases in Saudi Arabia (Link)

Thailand 
•  Coronavirus warning for flu sufferers (Link)

United States 
• US safe from two new viruses - so far (Link)

General 
• WHO: New SARS-like virus can probably spread person to person (Link) 
• WHO Press Statement Related to the Novel Coronavirus Situation (Link) 
• Evidence grows for human to human transmission of deadly new coronavirus (Link) 
• WHO sounds warning on coronavirus strain (Link)

Commentary 
• Recombinomics: MERS-CoV Transmission In France Confirmed (Link) 
• CIDRAP: Experts offer dim view of potential vaccine response to H7N9 (Link)

May 11

 

 

China 
• Hong Kong: Update on number of suspected human cases of avian influenza A(H7) notified to CHP  (Link) 
• 14th death in city from bird flu (Link) 
• China sets out new plan to deal with bird flu outbreak (Link)

France 
• Coronavirus: a new suspect  (Link) 
• France Extends Coronavirus Infection Testing to Another Person (Link) 
• Coronavirus: both still worrying, the results of tests expected (Link) 
• Coronavirus: a fifth suspected case detected (Link) 
• What is known about the new SARS Coronavirus close? (Link)

Sri Lanka 
• Ministry warns of Influenza A and B virus outbreak (Link)

Thailand 
• Coronavirus warning for flu sufferers (Link)

United States 
• CDC: This year's flu season a bad year for pediatric deaths (Link)

Research 
• Flu strains circulating in pigs and birds show pandemic potential (Link)

General 
• Bird flu decline may be better containment or seasonal (Link) 
• New Test for H7N9 Bird Flu in China May Help Slow Outbreak, Prevent Pandemic (Link to press release) 
• Branswell & Koopman Tweets re: nCoV testing (Link)

Commentary 
• Recombinomics: WHO Cites Hospital Linked MERS-CoV Clusters (Link)

May 10 

 

 

Canada 
• Canada not planning H7N9 bird flu vaccine studies; will watch US results: PHAC (Link)

China 
• H7N9 lead to lack of raw materials for down product; prices increase 23% (Link) 
• H7N9 patient from Fujian is discharged (Link) 
• Fujian found no live poultry H7N9 avian influenza virus  (Link) 
• Flu outbreak kills one in S China (Link) 
• China steps up H7N9 flu monitoring (Link) 
• Shanghai terminates contingency for bird flu (Link) 
• WHO update May 10 (Link)

France 
• France Probes 3 Suspected Cases of SARS-Like Virus (Link) 
• Suspected new coronavirus case in France, Saudis report two more (Link) 
•  Virus similar to SARS: three French contaminated? (Link)

Ireland 
• Possible bird flu link to swan deaths (Link)

Malaysia 
• Malaysian govt urged to stop chicken imports from China  (Link)

Mexico 
• Mexico slaughters 55,000 chickens to contain bird flu (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• Confusion over number of coronavirus patients  (Link) 
• KSA: Confusion over number of coronavirus patients (Link)

Taiwan 
• The first case of H7N9 influenza in Taiwan (Link)

Research 
• Potential flu pandemic lurks (Link) 
• Threat Of Flu Pandemic Is Real, Say MIT Researchers (Link) 
• Bird flu expert working on vaccine that protects against multiple strains (Link) 
• Small interventions to prevent spread of bird flu (Link) 
• JAMA: Major Challenges in Providing an Effective and Timely Pandemic Vaccine for Influenza A(H7N9) (Link)

General 
• The Next Contagion: Closer Than You Think (Link)

Commentary 
• Recombinomics: MERS-CoV Cluster In France Raises Pandemic Concerns (Link) 
• (1 new suspect) MERS-CoV Cluster In France Increases To Four (Link) 
• The Next Pandemic: Not if, but When (Link)

 

China 
• Hong Kong: Additional overseas case of Severe Respiratory Disease associated with Novel Coronavirus closely monitored by DH (Link) 
• Another death in China raises H7N9 fatalities to 32 (Link) 
• China reports one more bird flu death, toll rises to 32 (Link) 
• Town With No Fowl Shows Consequences of China's Bird Flu Threat (Link) 
• Human spillover dangers grow as flu in pigs rises (Link) 
• Province of Guangdong 1st chicken sample positive for H7N9 (Link)

France 
• WHO voices coronavirus concern; France has first case (Link) 
• WHO: Novel coronavirus infection - update (Link) 
• (2 suspect CoV cases) Two people in France ill after contact with coronavirus victim (Link) 
• Virus similar to SARS: fear of contamination from a neighboring room and a doctor (translated) (Link)

Mexico 
• Mexico sacrificed 55 thousand chickens by avian influenza (translated) (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• WHO experts to visit Saudi hospital where coronavirus spread (Link)

Vietnam 
• Vietnam bird flu (H5N1) undetected in swallows (translated) (Link)

Research 
• Flu in pregnancy 'may raise bipolar risk for baby' (Link) 
• Flu during pregnancy may trigger bipolar disorder in offspring (Link)

General 
• (WHO) Budget Cuts Worry Bird Flu Experts (Link) 
• WHO additional info: Novel coronavirus summary and literature update - as of 8 May 2013 (Link) 
• Euroserveillance: Preliminary Inference On The Age-Specific Seriousness Of Human Disease Caused By Avian Influenza A(H7N9) Infections In China, March To April 2013 (Link)

Commentary 
• Helen Branswell: Saudis bring in outside help on coronavirus, including Toronto SARS expert  (Link) 
• (2 new CoV cases) Helen Branswell: Saudis find two more coronavirus cases; brings cluster to 15, 7 fatal (Link)

 

May 8

 

 

China 
• Hong Kong: Additional overseas case of Severe Respiratory Disease associated with Novel Coronavirus closely monitored by DH (Link) 
• Another death in China raises H7N9 fatalities to 32 (Link) 
• China reports one more bird flu death, toll rises to 32 (Link) 
• Town With No Fowl Shows Consequences of China's Bird Flu Threat (Link) 
• Human spillover dangers grow as flu in pigs rises (Link) 
• Province of Guangdong 1st chicken sample positive for H7N9 (Link)

France 
• WHO voices coronavirus concern; France has first case (Link) 
• WHO: Novel coronavirus infection - update (Link) 
• (2 suspect CoV cases) Two people in France ill after contact with coronavirus victim (Link) 
• Virus similar to SARS: fear of contamination from a neighboring room and a doctor (translated) (Link)

Mexico 
• Mexico sacrificed 55 thousand chickens by avian influenza (translated) (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• WHO experts to visit Saudi hospital where coronavirus spread (Link)

Vietnam 
• Vietnam bird flu (H5N1) undetected in swallows (translated) (Link)

Research 
• Flu in pregnancy 'may raise bipolar risk for baby' (Link) 
• Flu during pregnancy may trigger bipolar disorder in offspring (Link)

General 
• (WHO) Budget Cuts Worry Bird Flu Experts (Link) 
• WHO additional info: Novel coronavirus summary and literature update - as of 8 May 2013 (Link) 
• Euroserveillance: Preliminary Inference On The Age-Specific Seriousness Of Human Disease Caused By Avian Influenza A(H7N9) Infections In China, March To April 2013 (Link)

Commentary 
• Helen Branswell: Saudis bring in outside help on coronavirus, including Toronto SARS expert  (Link) 
• (2 new CoV cases) Helen Branswell: Saudis find two more coronavirus cases; brings cluster to 15, 7 fatal (Link)

May 7

 

 

Canada 
• Public Health Agency of Canada: Public Health Notice: H7N9 avian flu in China (Link)

China 
• (4 new deaths) China reports four more bird flu deaths, toll rises to 31 (Link) 
• Additional lookback case of human infection of avian influenza A(H7N9) verified by NHFPC  (Link) 
• Hong Kong: Three overseas cases of Severe Respiratory Disease [in Saudi Arabia] associated with Novel Coronavirus closely monitored by DHS  (Link) 
• China Reports 4 New Bird Flu Deaths (Link) 
• Bird flu test paper in clinical trial (Link) 
• Mapping The Risks Of H7N9 Bird Flu Infection (Link) 
• H (Link) 
• H (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• Virus's Toll in Saudi Arabia Raises Fears of Faster Spread (Link) 
• H (Link) 
• H (Link)

United Kingdom 
• Editorial - National approach to public health is needed (Link)

United States 
• With 31 deaths reported [in China], CDC issues calm on H7N9 bird flu spread (Link)

Vietnam 
• ProMED: Influenza - MBDS region: Viet Nam (Link)

Research 
• 'Basic disinfectant could halt bird flu spread' (Link) 
• H (Link)

General 
• International Group Settles on Name for New Coronavirus (Link) 
• WHO: Infection prevention and control during health care for probable or confirmed cases of novel coronavirus (nCoV) infection (Link)

Commentary 
• A Confusing Coronavirus Picture In Saudi Arabia (Link)

May 6

 

 

China 
• Hong Kong: HKU scientists look to take the lead on bird flu (Link) 
• The poultry trading or spread of H7N9 (Link) 
• (New case) Infection count in Fujian up to five (Link) 
• Scientist: Poultry trade may be spreading deadly bird flu (Link) 
• China reports 2 new H7N9 cases (Link) 
• Infection count in Fujian up to five (Link) 
• Diseased pork sold in several provinces (Link) 
• Country reported a total of 129 cases of confirmed cases of the H7N9 avian flu killed 31 people (translated) (Link) 
• Shandong's second case of human infection of H7N9 avian influenza patients were cured and discharged (translated) (Link)

Grenada 
• Health Authorities Keep Close Eye On New Strain Of Avian Flu (Link)

India 
• Undiagnosed disease, poultry - India: (AP) RFI (Link)

Japan 
• Countermeasures against H7N9 enforced (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• (3 New cases) Coronavirus: 3 new Saudi cases from same area as recent outbreak (Link) 
• Coronavirus claims one more life in Al-Ahsa  (Link) 
• (2 new deaths) SARS-like virus kills two more in Saudi Arabia (Link) 
• MOH confirms 7th coronavirus death in Al-Ahsa  (Link)

United States 
• California, Arizona see spike in valley fever cases as worsening drought kicks up dust (Link)

Vietnam 
• Lao Cai province: Vietnam province reports 5 cases of swine flu (Link)

General 
• Original Avian influenza: Xinyi ribavirin concern four susceptible populations (translated) (Link)

Commentary 
• Recombinomics: Beta2c Coronavirus Cluster In Al-Ahsa Hospital Grows (Link) 
• Helen Branswell: Study suggests flu shots safe for children with inflammatory bowel disease  (Link) 
• Dr Angus Nicoll: H7N9 likely to spread, says Europe's top flu expert (Link)

May 5

 

China 
• China Cracks Down on Internet Bird Flu Rumors (Link) 
• Shanghai: Payment offer for poultry sellers  (Link) 
• 5 samples test positive for H7N9 in E China  (Link) 
• Fears for man-made bird flu bug (Link) 
• H7N9 'a mix of four flu strains' (Link) 
• Dongguan, Guangdong chicken samples confirmed as infected with the H7N9 subtype of avian influenza virus (translated) (Link) 
• Fujian new case of human infection of H7N9 avian influenza confirmed cases (translated) (Link) 
• Shanghai new human infection with the H7N9 avian flu cases in two patients recovered and were discharged (translated) (Link) 
• Fujian new case of human infection of H7N9 avian influenza confirmed cases (translated) (Link) 
• Fuqing new cases of H7N9 avian influenza first patient in critical condition (translated) (Link) 
• Infographic from Shanghai Daily - Battling Bird Flu (Link) 
• WHO: Novel coronavirus infection - update (Link) 

 

 

Colombia 
• Unknown virus shot ARI (translated) (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• Saudi victims of SARS-like virus didn't travel: doctor (Link) 
• Corona snatched Sheikh Mohamed Al Bin ... And two of his sons in 'intensive care' (translated)(Link) 
• H (Link)

Research 
• Obese people more at risk from flu, Wayne State study in Detroit finds (Link) 
• China rapid in response to bird flu (Link)

Commentary 
• Recombinomics: H7N9 Cluster In Fuzhou Fujian Province Grows (Link) 

 

May 4

 

 

China 
• Chinese Scientists Face Ethical Scrutiny After Creating New Strains Of Potentially Deadly Bird Flu (Link) 
• Risks of H7N9 Infection Mapped (Link) 
• No new H7N9 cases as clinical, treatment details emerge (Link) 
• (New case) H7N9: A new case in Fujian (Link)

Egypt 
• FAO paints bleak picture of H5N1 control efforts (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• CIDRAP: Three more Saudi coronavirus cases raise worries  (Link) 
• Coronavirus: three new cases in Saudi (translated) (Link)

General 
• Recombinomics: Map of coronavirus cases (Link)

Commentary 
• Recombinomics: More Suspect Beta2c Coronavirus Fatalities In Al-Ahsa (Link) 
• World braces as new virus brings 'Flupocalypse' ever closer (Link) 
• Beta2c Coronavirus Familial Cluster In Al-Ahsa (Link)

 

May 3

 

 

China 
• Bird Flu Eases as China Shuts Poultry Markets (Link) 
• Rat meat sold as mutton in China (Link) 
• H7N9 patient saved from death bed (Link) 
• EID Journal: Avian Influenza A(H7N9) Virus Infections, Shanghai, China (Link) 
• Confirmed 128 cases of human infection of H7N9 avian influenza cases 27 died (translated) (Link) 
• 1 H7N9 patient discharged (Shanghai) (Link)

Russia 
• Russians Should Not Visit China - Top Public Health Official (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• MOH confirms 5 coronavirus deaths in Al-Hasa (Link) 
• 5 coronavirus deaths revealed in Saudi Arabia  (Link) 
• WHO: 3 additional nCoV cases (Link) 
• Pro-Med posting on nCoV cases (Link) 
• Saudi Arabia reports 3 new coronavirus cases, from same area as 7 recent cases (Link)

Taiwan 
• Taiwanese H7N9 patient's health improving: physician (Link)

United Kingdom 
• Wary of concern avian flu influenza patients returned from China in the United Kingdom (Link)

United States 
• U.S. Customs seizes 20 raw Chinese Silkie chickens at Dulles airport (Link)

Research 
• US: Aurora company creates first H7N9 avian influenza vaccine (Link) 
• CIDRAP: H7N9 gene tree study yields new clues on mixing, timing (Link) 
• New SARS-like virus may have a 'weak spot' (Link) 
• 'Appalling irresponsibility': Scientists create bird flu virus that could kill millions  (Link) 
• Scientists Create Hybrid, Air-Transmissible Bird Flu Strains Following a moratorium on "dangerous" flu research, new studies reshuffle the molecular mechanisms that allow bird flu to infect humans (Link) 
• Recent studies warn surveillance of bird flu strains is needed (Link) 
• New WHO document: Vaccine response to the avian influenza A(H7N9) outbreak - step 1: development and distribution of candidate vaccine viruses (Link) 
• Single Gene Swap Helps Bird Flu Virus Switch Hosts (Link)

General 
• Bird Flu: H7N9 Infection Risk Mapped (Link) 
• Q&A: H7N9 bird flu (Link)

Commentary 
•  Maryn McKenna: New Diseases And National Transparency: Who Is Measuring Up? (Link) 
• Laurie Garett & Helen Branswell tweet: https://twitter.com/HelenBrans... (Link)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

April News 2013

April 30

 

 

China
• Fujian new case of human infection of H7N9 avian influenza confirmed cases  (Link)
• One H7N9 case reported in SE China (Link)
• CIDRAP: H7N9 found in China's Hunan province as outbreak grows to 126 (Link)
• Update on number of suspected human cases of avian influenza A(H7) notified (Link)
• Shanghai Reports 13th H7N9 Bird Flu Death, Tops Among Chinese Cities (Link)
• Ya'an suspect now H7N9 epidemic people said that after the earthquake, "flu everywhere" (Link) Original article (Link)
• H7N9 human-to-human transmission? The mainland experts strange changed to cited questioned (Link) Original article (Link)
• ProMED: Avian influenza (48): China, zoonotic LPAI H7N9, animal, OIE (Link)
• Dongguan chicken samples suspected H7 subtypes of avian influenza virus infection positive (translated) (Link)

India
• Bengal: Government sounds swine flu alert in Bengal (Link)

Indonesia
• Indonesia Anticipates Avian Flu Virus Spread (H5N1) (translated) (Link)

Nepal
• Bird flu reappears in Jhapa (H5N1) (Link)

Taiwan
• Is the H7N9 epidemic a reason to ban Chinese tourists? (Link
• Taiwan's first case of H7N9 contact 139 asymptomatic lift tube (Link) Original article (Link)

United Kingdom
• Every child to be vaccinated against flu and every pensioner against shingles (Link)

United States
• Health Care Coalition: Review Of U.S. Pandemic Preparedness Needed With New Bird Flu Outbreak  (Link)
• Determination and Declaration Regarding Emergency Use of in Vitro Diagnostics for Detection of the Avian Influenza A (H7N9) Virus (Link)

Research
• CIDRAP: Study - 13% of hospitalized flu patients had influenza C (Link)
• Mapping Disease (Link)
• Australia: Scientists Infect Chicks in Race to Halt Bird Flu Spread (Link)

General
• We're Not Prepared For China's Deadly Bird Flu (Link)
• More than 100 countries still not using global outbreak surveillance regulations  (Link)
• WHO Reports Six Human H5N1 Avian Influenza Cases During Past Six Weeks (Link)

Commentary
• Recombinomics: Genetic Data supports sustained H2H H7N9 Zaozhuang Shandong Cluster Raises Concerns (Link)
• Crawford Kilian - Crofsblog: H7N9: Are we in for the duration?  (Link)
• Recombinomics: Evidence For Sustained H7N9 Human Transmission (Link) 

 

April 29

 

 

China
• China H7N9 Bird Flu Cases Rise By Five; Four Provinces Report Illnesses In One Day (Link)
• Hong Kong tightens bird flu defenses (Link)
• 4-year-old whose father has bird flu also infected (Link)
• (New death) Shanghai reports latest bird flu death (Link)
• Why is China a hot zone for the deadliest strains of bird flu? (Link)
• China reports 24th death from H7N9 bird flu (Link)
• Chinese Premier urges caution on bird flu (Link)
• Four-year-old child of bird-flu infected man also develops H7N9 virus (Video & Article) (Link)
• 'Do not worry about new avian flu virus' (translated) (Link)
• WHO: Human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus - update (Link)

Taiwan
• Taiwan Expands China Travel Advisory To 10th City And Province As H7N9 Bird Flu Spreads (Link)
• Travel to China hit hard by H7N9 fears: industry (Link)
• Poultry firm owners suffering from flu to notify hospital of profession (Link)
• Taiwan's first case of H7N9 bird flu, the medical community is concerned about the development of the epidemic (translated) (Link)

Research
• H7N9 Carries Genes from Rare H9N2, H7N3, H4N9, H11N9 Bird Flu Viruses (Link)
• Flu and bacteria: Better prognosis for this Potentially fatal combination (Link)

General
• WHO reports six human H5N1 avian influenza cases during past six weeks (Link)

Commentary
•  H7N9 Zaozhuang Shandong Cluster Raises Concerns (Link)
• Laurie Garrett: At what stage is the spread of the H7N9 virus considered an epidemic? (Link)
• Mike Coston - Avian Flu Diary: H7N9: CFR Considerations (Link)
• Mike Coston - Avian Flu Diary: Risk Analysis of H7N9 by China is very troubling (Link) 

April 28

 

 

China
• H7N9 close to key mutation (Link)
• China warns of rising bird flu death toll (Link)
• China Premier Asks to Stay on High Alert on H7N9 Bird Flu (Link)
• Fears in Hong Kong and Guangdong as H7N9 virus hits Hunan (Link)
• (New case) China Reports 124 H7N9 Bird Flu Cases, 23 Fatal Ones (Link)
• (2 new cases)Three more H7N9 cases reported in China (Link)
• Be ready to face any situation due to new bird flu: Li China reported three new cases today, taking the total to 124 (Link)
• Chinese premier urges vigilance against bird flu, says efforts have been effective (Link)
• (New case) More H7N9 cases reported in China (Link)
 

United States
• US health leader warns of human-to-human H7N9 bird flu strain (Link)

General
• Here's What Happens When You Get Bird Flu (Link)

Commentary
• Recombinomics: H7N9 Q226L Spread In Poultry and Humans (Link)
• Recombinomics: H7N9 L226I Spread Raises Pandemic Concerns (Link)
• Video Interview with Malik Peiris: Could H7N9 Become the World's Next Flu Pandemic? (Link)

Special Feature
• Greg Dworkin (DemFromCT): Another bird flu to watch for... H7N9 in China (Link) 

 

April 27

 

 

China
• H7N9 cases expand the scope of 117 confirmed cases (translated) (Link)
• China bird flu cases rise to 119 (Link)
• (2 new cases in new province) China reports new bird flu case in Hunan province (Link)
• The nation altogether diagnoses the H7N9 bird flu case of illness 121 people to die 23 people (translated) (Link)
• Six more H7N9 bird flu cases reported in China (Link)
• Hong Kong: Influenza A cases of Siu Lam Hospital (Link)

Mexico
• Avian influenza detected in Tlaxcala (Link)

Nepal
• Bird flu in Rupandehi (H5N1) (Link)

Taiwan
• Taiwan warns against underestimating H7N9 bird flu (Link)
• Cruise (ship) arrived in Keelung mainland tourists high temperature (Link)

United Kingdom
• Bird 'flu on Bernard Matthews farm confirmed as H9 strain (Link)

United States
• CDC: H7N9 Update; CDC Pandemic Preparedness Activities Progress (Link)

Vietnam
• Various measures to fight bird flu (H5N1) (Link)

Research
• Isolation and characterization of H7N9 viruses from live poultry markets-Implication of the source of current H7N9 infection in humans (Link)
• Mutation makes H5N1 flu lose its grip (Link)

General
• Eurosurveillance: H7N9 Virus-Host Interactions & Age Shift (blog)  (Link)

Commentary
• Recombinomics: H7N9 Spread To Fujian Province (Link)
• Jeff Nesbit: It's Time to Worry About the New Chinese Bird Flu (Link)
• Peter Curzon: Comment - How serious is the new bird flu threat? (Link)
• Crawford Kilian: Crofsblogs - How weird is H7N9? (Link)
• Crawford Kilian: Crofsblogs - Ministry of Agriculture: 46 avian influenza positive samples found no pigs infected (translated) (Link) 

 

April 26

 

 

China
• (New cases) China reports three new H7N9 cases (Link)
• (New case & new province) First H7N9 bird flu case confirmed in Fujian (Link)
• China finds new bird flu case in eastern Fujian province (Link)
• H7N9 bird flu spreads to southern China (Link)
• Hong Kong: More checks for bird flu at border (Link)
• Chinese Poultry Feather Removal Machines May Be Spreading H7N9 Bird Flu (Link)
• Say ah! Children undergo check-ups in district campaign against bird flu (Link)
• Bird flu more difficult to detect this time around (Link)
• China warns on bird flu; case reported in Taiwan (Link)
• (2 new cases?) Six more H7N9 bird flu cases reported in China (Link)
• No H7N9 virus found in poultry farm samples: ministry (Link)
• China's bird flu outbreak: 3 good signs, 3 bad signs and 3 very bad signs (Link)

Malaysia
• All imports of chicken products from China frozen, for now (Link)

United States
• CDC joins the bird flu fight (NBC News Video) (Link)
•  Kansas: New strain of bird flu poses pandemic threat (Link)

Vietnam
• WHO: Human H5N1 case in Vietnam (Link)

Research
• New Bird Flu Study Clears Up Key Question, But Raises Others (Link)
• Health Experts Call Novel H7N9 Bird Flu 'Unusually Dangerous' As It Spreads Beyond China (Link)
• Lab-Altered H5N1 Flu More Infectious to Humans than Birds (Link)
• CIDRAP: Study: Lab-derived H5N1 virus component binds to human receptors (Link)
• H7N9 more lethal than SARS: medical expert (Link)

General
• WHO: Novel coronavirus summary and literature update - as of 24 April 2013 (Link)
• How Much Should We Fear H7N9? (Link)
• American Academy of Microbiology: FAQ: INFLUENZA, APRIL 2013 (Link)
• Changes in and shortcomings of control strategies, drug stockpiles, and vaccine development during outbreaks of avian influenza A H5N1, H1N1, and H7N9 among humans (Link)

Commentary
• Editorial: China deserves credit (Link) 

 

April 25

 

 

Australia
• Doctors on alert over new bird flu (Link)

China
• (New province) First suspected bird flu case reported in Jiangxi Province (Link)
• H7N9 bird flu still spreading in China, worrying WHO (Link)
• A Hospital Employee Broke The H7N9 Bird Flu News Over China's Twitter (Link)
• (New case) Henan confirmed four cases of human infection with H7N9 avian influenza (translated) (Link)
• CIDRAP:  Report: Most H7N9 patients had underlying conditions, animal exposure (Link)
• Preliminary Report: Epidemiology of the Avian Influenza A (H7N9) Outbreak in China (Link)
• h7n9 avian influenza Latest news: the 110 deaths 23 people, Taiwan is now the first  (Link)
•  One source of China bird flu virus found (Link)
• Jiangxi today found the first case of human infection with the H7N9 avian influenza suspected cases (translated) (Link)
• Chinese Bird flu deaths are likely to rise, H7N9 is one of the most lethal ever (Link)
• China bird flu spurs drive for universal vaccine (Video) (Link)
• (New case) Jiangxi discovered in the 25th case of human infection confirmed cases of H7N9 avian influenza (translated) (Link)
• Timeline of the Shaghai family cluster (Chart) (Link)
• Date of onset of Illness in 82 cases (H7N9) (Graph) (Link)
• H7N9 southward Jiangxi explosion cases (translated) (Link)

Indonesia
• Disnak Jatim Target Free Bird Flu in 2019 (translated) (Link)

Nepal
• Bird flu in Bhairahawa (Link)

New Zealand
• Killer Chinese bird flu could threaten NZ - expert (Link)

Sri Lanka
• Pathogen infected the ICU of Sri Lanka's main maternity hospital is Influenza-A (Link)
• Infection closes the ICU of Sri Lanka's main maternity hospital (Link)

Taiwan
• Containment begins as H7N9 spreads to Taiwan (Link)
• Taiwan watching travellers from China closely after 1st H7N9 bird flu case surfaces on island  (Link)
• H7N9 patient 'serious, but stable' (Link)
• 3 hospital staff show symptoms after H7N9 contact (Link)

United States
• Congress Prepares $100 Million Bipartisan Flu Tax (Link)

Research
• H7N9 Bird Flu: Lancet Study Confirms Poultry as Source (Link)
• New Study Offers Insight On Pandemic Flu (Link)
• New bird flu: What the first 82 cases reveal (Link)

General
• As Bird Flu Spreads to Taiwan, Other Nations Act to Prepare (Link)
• Some Asian govts tighten airport controls on bird flu fears (Link)
• New bird flu strain: 5 things to know (Link)
• WHO: Volume 4, Issue 2, April to June 2013 (Link)
• Laurie Garret: Tweet on why daily number of H7N9 cases isn't rising: (Link) 

 

April 24

 

 

China
• The Big One? (Laurie Garrett) (Link)
• WHO: Human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus in China - update (Link)
• WHO: Bird-to-human infections easier with new flu (Link)
• China to strengthen quake area H7N9 monitoring (Link)
• WHO says new bird strain is "one of most lethal" flu viruses (Link)
• New bird flu strain 'more easily caught by humans' than 2003 outbreak (Link)
• H7N9 outbreak occurred is likely to continue to expand (translated) (Link)
• WHO: International H7N9 assessment team completes mission to China (Link)
• WHO: Bird flu 'an unusually dangerous virus for humans' (NBC News Video) (Link)
• Joint press conference on the China-WHO Joint Mission on H7N9 Assessment (Link)
• First suspected bird flu case reported in Jiangxi Province (Link)
•  Xinhua Insight: Challenges and hope loom in H7N9 fight (Link)

Japan
• H7N9 defense measures prepared (Link)

Taiwan
• Taiwan Confirms First Case Of New Bird Flu Outside China (Link)
• China's Bird Flu Jumps The Border As First Case Confirmed In Taiwan (Link)
• Taiwan CDC Press Release (Link)
• 3 hospital staff show symptoms after H7N9 contact (Link)
• H7N9 Bird Flu Spreads Beyond Mainland China As Taiwan Reports First Case (Link)
• Bird Flu Crosses Strait to Taiwan (Link)
• More labs to study samples of suspected avian flu cases (Link)
• CIDRAP: Taiwan reports first H7N9 case outside of China (Link)
•  Bird Flu Seen Beyond Mainland, in Taiwan  (Link)

United States
• Travelers advised to use precaution, amid concern over 'lethal' bird flu strain (Link)

Vietnam
• Dak Lak province culls H5N1-positive poultry (Link)
• NPR podcast: Deadly Strain Of Bird Flu Is 'Most Lethal' Flu Virus Yet (Link)

Research
• Mutant Bird Flu Virus Evolves to Show Pandemic Characteristics (Link)

General
• Mapping the H7N9 avian flu outbreaks (Link)
• New Bird Flu Spreads: What You Need To Know (Link)

Commentary
• Recombinomics: H7N9 Taiwan Case Ex-Suzhou Jiangsu (Link) 

 

April 23

 

 

Australia
• Australia closely watching Chinese bird flu outbreak (Link)

Canada
• Canada urges poultry producers to practice biosecurity to prevent bird flu transmission (Link)

China
• No evidence of human-to-human transmission: H7N9 experts panel (Link)
• New Avian-Flu Strain Puzzles Health Group (Link)
• Heilongjiang Province:  Male youth small cold drags virus pneumonia doctor: The high fever ultra two days must go see a doctor (translated) (Link)
• Shandong reports first bird flu case (Link)
• (2 new cases & 1 new death) Zhejiang reports 2 new H7N9 cases, another death (Link)
• (1 new case) E China's Anhui Province reports new H7N9 case (Link)
• Bird Flu Fears Arise in China (Video) (Link)
• Top Chinese officials discuss moves on bird flu (Link)
• China says new bird flu case found in northeast as death toll rises (Link)
• China bird flu death toll rises to 22 (Link)
• Deadly new bird flu baffles China (Link)
• Bird flu fears raised as around 100 may have been infected by H7N9 but not detected (Link)
• Jiangsu Zhenjiang first case of human infection of H7N9 pregnant women transferred to the general ward (translated) (Link)
• Anti H7N9 Taichung, Department of health without warning exercises (translated) (Link)
• China confirms 108 H7N9 cases, 22 deaths  (Link)
• Zhoukou City of human infection with H7N9 in patients with avian influenza is today cured and discharged (Link)

Mexico
• Report more cases of influenza (translated) (Link)

Nepal
• New bird flu cases detected in Chitwan (Link)

New Zealand
• NZ airports not screening China travellers for bird flu (Link)

Qatar
• Qatar closely monitoring bird flu cases in China: official (Link)

Uganda
• Government to screen all travellers as bird flu kills 20 in China (Link)

Research
• Researchers: Elderly more at risk from H7N9 (Link)
• Flu shots boosted by exercise April 23, 2013  (Link)

General
• What's in a flu virus' name? (Link)
• Bloomberg: Tracking the avian flu outbreak (Link) 

 

April 22

 

 

China
• Stop mainland China chicken imports, says Hong Kong vet (Link)
• How Chinese bird flu infects humans still mystery (Link)
• WHO probes bird flu outbreak in Shanghai (Link)
• (H7N9 Watch) 90-120 cases undetected (Link)
• H7N9 Cases May Be Double Known Figure, Hong Kong Researchers Say (Link)
• Pandemic fear as China confirms 102 H7N9 bird flu cases while death toll rises to 20 (Link)
• (3 new cases, new province) New bird flu case found in Shandong (Link)
• New bird flu case found in northeast (Link)
• National reports 104 cases of H7N9 avian influenza 21 people died and 13 rehabilitation (translated) (Link)
• (1 new death) China confirms 104 H7N9 cases, 21 deaths (Link)
• Bird flu brings windfall for businesses (Link)
• Man infected with new strain of bird flu (Link)
• Influenza expert: New bird flu not spreading in 'sustained' way between people in China (Link)
• No 'sustained' human-to-human transmission of bird flu, WHO says (Link)
• Bird flu possibly transmitting from human-to-human, officials say (Link)
• Shangdong: China says new bird flu case found in northeast (Link)
• Woman gatecrashes Shanghai press conference for answers on dad with H7N9 (Link)

Germany
• Bird flu found in German turkeys (Link)

Taiwan
• The terrestrial summer vacation came to Taiwan must prove that H7N9 is not dyed (translated) (Link)

Vietnam
• Delta breeders braced for bird flu (H5N1) (Link)

Research
• CDC Stacks - research library (Link)

General
• TWiV 229: Partly cloudy with a high of H7N9 (Podcast) (Link)
• CIDRAP: Cases of H7N9 Influenza in China by Week of Onset 4/19/13 (Graph) (Link)
• Western Pacific Surveillance and Response (WHO): Human infections with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus in China: preliminary assessments of the age and sex distribution (Link)
• How long do cold and flu germs live? The Mayo Clinic answers (Link)

Commentary
• Recombinomics: H7N9 Human PB2 Changes Raise Pandemic Concerns (Link) 

April 21

 

 

China
• Bird flu outbreak is spreading fear in China (Link)
• 1.5 million people affected by China quake (Link)
• People changing daily habits (Link)
• (5 new cases & 2 new deaths) H7N9 Bird Flu Cases In China Top 100; Deaths Reach 20 (Link)
• (1 new case & 1 new death) China confirms 102 H7N9 cases, 21 deaths (Linkand Link)
• Experts probe human-to-human spread of China bird flu (Link)
• WHO: Human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus in China - update (Link)
• China confirms 102 H7N9 cases, 20 deaths (Link)
• China has confirmed 102 cases of H7N9 cases officially known as the strengthening of joint control defense (translated) (Link)
•  If the H7N9 outbreak in Hong Kong public hospitals adopt measures to isolate cases (translated) (Link)
• 3 more local H7N9 flu patients recover (Link)
• Network transmission Taiyuan confirmed case of H7N9 avian influenza Health Department City false information (translated) (Link)
• China bird flu cases now at 102  (Link)
• 4-year-old bird flu 'carrier' worries China (Link)
 

Germany
• Avian influenza (42): Germany (NI) turkey, H7, LPAI (Link)

Mongolia
• Inner Mongolia to start the port three early warning response to the H7N9 avian flu (translated) (Link)

Nepal
• Another bird flu outbreak in Chitwan, 55,000 chickens culled (H5N1) (Link)

Thailand
• Temperature reading to spot H7N9 flu virus 'unnecessary' (Link)

Research
• Treatment for New, Deadly Coronavirus Shows Promise (Link) 

 

April 20

 

 

Bangladesh
• WHO test confirms [H5N1] bird flu death in Bangladesh (Link)

Canada
• Nova Scotia: N.S. doctors urged to watch for new bird flu strain (Link)

China
• H7N9 Bird Flu Cases In China Rise By Four To 91; Half Have Had No Contact With Poultry  (Link)
• Jiangsu cases of H7N9 avian influenza patients healed after 4 days when the cold treatment (Link)
• Officials Fear That H7N9 Bird Flu Is Spreading From Person To Person (Link)
• (1 new case) Shanghai reports another H7N9 case (Link)
• (4 new cases & 1 new death) Another bird flu death in China as number of infected grows to 95 (Link)
• H7N9 Bird Flu Cases In China Rise By Five To 96; Deaths Increase To 18 (Link)
• China cooperating with international organizations on H7N9: premier (Link)
• Lu 96 cases of H7N9 confirmed 18 dead (translated) (Link)

Nepal
• Bird flu hits two places in Chitwan (Link)

Taiwan
• H7N9 wild virus strain from China arrives in Taiwan (Link)

United States
• MN: Minnesota issues health alert for new H7N9 flu strain (Link)

Vietnam
• In face of bird flu H7N9, Vietnam starts temperature screenings at airports (Link)

Research
• CIDRAP: H7N9 mystery - Why does age profile tilt older? (Link)
• H7N9 flu transmission studied (Link)

General
• H7N9 influenza: What you should know now (Link)

Commentary
• Scott McPherson: Why the Chinese are experimenting with Peramavir (Link)
• Recombinomics: H7N9 Zhejiang Chicken Sequence (Link)
• Shane Granger: Random Analytics - Avian Influenza A(H7N9) Virus (Updated AM 21 Apr 2013) (Link) 

 

April 19

 

 

China
• Fears rise in China about bird flu passing between humans (Link)
• Zhejiang H7N9 patient discharged from hospital (Link)
• WHO: No evidence new China bird flu spreads easily though few close contacts (Link)
• H7N9 spread to the the the mainland seven provinces WHO experts arrived in China (translated) (Link)
• Many bird flu patients had no contact with poultry, WHO says (Link)
• China's Actions in Flu Cases Draw Critics (Link)
• (3 new cases) 3 new H7N9 cases reported in E China (Link)
• Pre-empting pandemics: An ounce of prevention  (Link)
• U.N. probes China bird flu clusters (Link)
• Mystery of Chinese bird flu grows (Link)
• H7N9 flu transmission studied (Link) WHO transcript (Link)

Taiwan
• Taiwan Warily Eyes Spread Of H7N9 In Mainland China (Link)
• Taiwan to receive H7N9 virus strain (Link)
• Taiwan denies that the H7N9 epidemic (Link)

United States
• CIDRAP: CDC offers antiviral guidance for possible H7N9 cases (Link)
• U.S. Hospitals Told to Be on Lookout for H7N9 Bird Flu (Link)
• CDC: U.S. Hospitals Should Be Vigilant For Bird Flu (Link)
• Brace for bird flu in United States, CDC tells doctors (Link)

Vietnam
• Vietnam province culls swifts found inflicted with bird flu (Link)

Research
• H7N9 Bird Flu: Could Animals Other than Birds Harbor the Virus? (Link)
• Gene data show China bird flu mutated "under the radar" (Link)
• New bird flu spread quietly, study suggests (Link)

General
• Richard Knox: With Bird Flu, 'Right Now, Anything Is Possible' (Link)
• Transcript of media briefing by Dr Michael O'Leary, WHO Representative in China (Link)
• Lancet article: From SARS to H7N9: will history repeat itself? (Link)

Commentary
• CDC fights China's bird flu (Link)
• Recombinomics: PB2 D701N in H7N9 Zhejiang Critical Case (Link) 

 

April 18

 

 

China
• (2 new cases) China confirms 84 H7N9 cases, 17 deaths (Link)
• Henan province: One new case of H7N9 avian flu reported in China (Link)
• Shanghai case among 5 new infections (Link)
• One new case of H7N9 avian flu reported in China Central China's Henan Province's (Link)
• Henan new case of human infection of H7N9 avian influenza confirmed cases of severe illness (translated) (Link)
• H7N9 human transmission possible but 'highly sporadic', says health expert (Link)
• Investigators Look Beyond Birds for Origin of H7N9 Flu Strain (Link)
• Fears of human-to-human transmission of bird flu grips China (Link)
• China reports four new H7N9 cases (Link)
• How China's bird flu infects humans remains unclear (Link)
• No sign of human flu transmission (Link)
• Mainland, Taiwan share H7N9 virus strain (Link)
• Experts stumped by bird flu infections (Link)
• Chinese Government Suspects Human-to-Human Transmission of H7N9 Bird Flu (Link)
• Chinese Government Suspects Human-to-Human Transmission of H7N9 Bird Flu (Link)
• Hong Kong: Bird flu warnings ahead of 'golden week' holiday invasion (Link)
• New strain of avian flu in China is deadlier to humans than birds, researchers report (Link)
 

Nepal
• Bird flu confirmed in Kailali village  (Link)

United Kingdom
• Bird flu discovered at UK poultry farm (Link)

United States
• GA: Pandemic preparations ongoing locally (Link)
• New H7N9 bird flu strain worries scientists. Media? Not so much (Link)

General
• Coming, ready or not (Link)

Commentary
• Helen Branswell: Few positives tests in poultry and pigs beg the question - Where is H7N9 flu? (Link)
• Press Conference with Feng Zijian and other officials (translated) (Link)
• Helen Branswell: Researcher devise drug cocktail for coronavirus (Link) 

 

April 17

 

 

China
• China's bird flu death toll rises to 16, govt warns of spread (Link)
• Xinhua: Death toll hits 16 in China bird flu outbreak  (Link)
• Hubei Province detected nearly 4,000 people found no cases of infection of H7N9 (Link)
• (New case) Hunan informed case of human infection of H7N9 - retrospective case (translated) (Link)
• CIDRAP: China reports 14 more H7N9 infections, 2 fatal (Link)
• 40% Of Chinese Sick With H7N9 Bird Flu Had No Contact With Poultry -- Report (Link)
• WHO says no poultry contact in some China bird flu cases (Link)
• (New case) Shanghai reports 1 new H7N9 case (Link)
• Bozhou in Anhui case of human infection of H7N9 avian influenza cases transferred to the general ward (translated) (Link)
• Henan province: Sudden Animal Deaths in Central Chinese Village (Link)
• Hundreds of pigs, dogs die in Chinese city (Link)
• China's new total to 82 (Link)
• (4 New cases) Zhejiang 4 new cases (Link)
• China has confirmed 82 cases of H7N9 avian influenza (translated) (Link)
• Zhejiang new cases of human infection of H7N9 avian influenza cases serious condition (translated) (Link)
• China reports another spate of bird flu (Link)
•  Latest WHO update: Human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus in China - update (Link)
• H7N9 still confined to live poultry markets: authorities (Link)
• Source Remains A Mystery (Link)
• Shanghai son three two confirmed H7N9 (translated) (Link)
• With Tamiflu within 48 hours of onset (translated) (Link)
• The national guard Planning Commission: do not rule out H7N9 may be limited "human-to-human transmission." (translated) (Link)
• Effective human-to-human transmission of the outbreak limited human-to-human transmission (translated) (Link)
• The source of infection] live poultry were slaughtered and sold in high-risk factors (translated) (Link)

Egypt
• Man dies of bird flu (Link)

United Kingdom
• Suffolk: Bird flu scare at poultry farm (Link)
• Bird flu found at Bernard Matthews farm in Suffolk (Link)
• Clampdown at Bernard Matthews farm in bird flu scare (Link)

Research
•  Why Experts Are Worried About the New Bird Flu (Link)

Commentary
• Recombinomics: H7N9 Minhang Confirmed Cluster Grows To Six (Link)
• Helen Branswell: Twitter comments (Link)
• Dave Roberts: Controversies in Hospital Infection Prevention" Wherein we ponder vexing issues in infection prevention and control, inside and outside the hospital (Link) 

 

April 16

 

 

China
• Hong Kong: Lack of symptoms in bird flu boy worries diseases expert (Link)
• Echoes of SARS in bird flu panic (Link)
• China's poultry sector records losses of over $1.6bn (Link)
• Zhong Nanshan calls for enhanced H7N9 screening (Link)
• H7N9 found in more poultry samples in China (Link)
• (8 new cases) H7N9 Bird Flu Illnesses In China Climb By Eight To 71 Cases (Jiangsu province & Zhejiang province) (Link)
• (6 new cases) Details on the new cases. Looking for details on the deaths (translated) (Link)
• Beijing fears over 4-year-old bird flu 'carrier' (Link)
• A new openness as new bird flu virus spreads in China ( Article & Video) (Link)
• Bird Flu H7N9 Spreads Throughout China, Evidence It May Pass Person-To-Person (Link)
• World experts to help China with bird flu probe (Link)
• China says eight bird flu victims in 'critical condition' (Link)
• OIE warns over detecting bird flu in China  (Link)
• China's bird flu investigation to include world scientists World Health Organization helping with probe (Link)
• Standardization of the influenza A(H7N9) virus terminology (Link)
• Inspection and quarantine measures strengthened at BCPs in Shenzhen and Hong Kong (Link)
• Rural H7N9 victims to be reimbursed for treatment (Link)
• China confirms 77 H7N9 cases, 16 deaths (Link)
• Patient 8: How One Man Died Of Bird Flu In 20 Days (Link)

Egypt
• Egyptian dies of bird flu, raising death toll to 3 in 2013 (Link)

India
• Gujarat: Surge in swine flu cases boosts vaccine, syrup sales (Link)

Taiwan
• Taiwan to ban killing of live poultry in markets (Link)

Research
• Genetic code used to speed progress on bird flu vaccine (Link)
• Analysis: New China bird flu a moving target (Link)

General
• When to Worry, Really, About China's Bird Flu (Link)
• CDC: Interim Guidance for Infection Control Within Healthcare Settings When Caring for Patients with Confirmed, Probable, or Cases Under Investigation of Avian Influenza A(H7N9) Virus Infection (Link)

Commentary
• Declan Butler: H7N9 bird flu poised to spread (Link)
• Michael Coston - Avian Flu Diary: H7N9: The Experts Speak (Link)
• Helen Branswell: Ill-Advised: Researchers Agree Puzzling New Bird Flu Should Be Taken Seriously (Link)
• Recombinomics: H7N9 Minhang Familial Cluster of Three Confirmed? (Link) 

 

April 15

 

China
• Beijing found one cases of human infection with the H7N9 avian flu virus carriers  (Link)
• Bird flu spreads across China coastline (Link)
• China media urge eating poultry despite bird flu (Link)
• Bird Flu Surge in China Spurs H7N9 Pandemic Vaccine Preparations (Link)
• New bird flu case in Beijing adds unknowns to spread of virus (Link)
• The Beijing first case of H7N9 bird flu Shortly or will be discharged (Link)
• Flu Experts invited to China (translated) (Link)
• Shanghai: no new human cases of infection today (translated) (Link)
• Jiangsu, one case of H7N9 avian influenza in critically ill patients transferred to the general ward (translated) (Link)
• (2 new cases & 1 new death) China says bird flu death toll rises to 14 (Link)
• Beijing bird flu case asymptomatic (Link)
• 3 Mainland H7N9 cases reported (Link)
• Hospital refuses to give resident bird flu test (Link)
• Hong Kong expert warns new bird flu virus could become a pandemic (Link) 

 

United States
• AR: Arkansas' Worst Flu Season in Decades (Link)

Research
• Analysis - Gene swapping makes new China bird flu a moving target (Link)
• Genetic code used to speed progress on bird flu vaccine (Link)

General
• Epidemiological update of 15 April: avian influenza A(H7N9) virus in China (Link)
• Symptom-Free Bird Flu Case Suggests Wider H7N9 Spread (Link)

Commentary
• Recombinomics: Asymptomatic Beijing H7N9 Raises Pandemic Concerns  (Link)
• Recombinomics: Beijing H7N9 Cluster Raises Pandemic Concerns (Link) 

 

April 14

 

 

China
• China says new bird flu cases found in central China (Link and Link)
• H7N9 Bird Flu Cases Rise To 51 In China As Spread Into New Areas Continues (Link)
• China WHO chief expected Beijing flu case (Link)
• Henan morning confirmed two cases of H7N9 cases (translated) (Link)
• (4 new cases) Zhejiang additional four cases of human infection with the H7N9 avian flu cases on the 14th (translated) (Link)
• (2 new deaths) China H7N9 bird flu area spreads, two new deaths (Link)
• China Bird-Flu Death Toll Rises to 13 as H7N9 Virus Spreads (Link)
• 507 Beijing fowl killed on H7N9 alert (Link)
• Bird flu vaccine 'many months' away (Link)
• Neighboring City Of Tianjin Linked To Beijing's 1st H7N9 Bird Flu Case -- Report (Link)
• Beijing: Avian influenza in children mother unwell hospital check (translated) (Link)
• China H7N9 bird flu area spreads, two new deaths (Link)
• Henan (Province) 2 7760 chickens infected with the H7N9 avian influenza harmless treatment (translated) (Link)
• China Said to Invite Four Flu Experts as Disease Outbreak Widens (Link)
• The H7N9 Bird Flu is Highly Virulent, Mutates Fast, Research Suggests (Link)
• Beijing's 1st H7N9 patient came in contact with Tianjin chickens  (Link)
• Crofsblogs: Another case in Beijing? (Link)
• (1st confirmed asymptomatic case): H7N9, Beijing: An asymptomatic boy infected with birdflu virus  (Link)

Russia
• Russia imposes passenger control on border over avian flu (Link)
• Russia Ready to Step Up Fight Against China Bird Flu (Link)

Taiwan
• Specimens from Chinese tourist with fever sent for H7N9 testing (Link)

United States
• WI: Concern growing over new bird flu  (Link)

Research
• China: Experts study possible spread of virus by migratory birds (Link)
• Scientists Race To Stay Ahead Of New Bird Flu Virus (Link)

General
• ABC News Video: Bird Flu in China Spreads Hundreds of Miles From Outbreak Point (Link)
• New strain of bird flu will spread, says health expert (Link)
• It started with a cough: Deadly China bird flu outbreak raises fears of pandemic (Link)

Commentary
• Recombinomics: Two H7N9 Cases Reported In Henan Province (Link)
• Helen Branswell: WHO Tweet (Link)
 

April 13

 

China

• (New case) Beijing city reports first human case of H7N9 bird flu (Link)
• Hong Kong: Update on number of suspected human cases of Influenza A (H7) notified to CHP (Link)
• Beijing Confirms Child's H7N9 Case, First in North China (Link)
• Beijing: Avian Flu Virus Confirmed in Beijing for First Time (Link)
• Jiangsu Province reports two new cases of H7N9 infection (Link)
• (2 new cases) Jiangsu new confirmed cases of human infection with the H7N9 avian influenza in two cases were in critical condition (Link)
• Deadly flu traced to specific birds (Link)
• (Family cluster) Shanghai confirms same home to two cases of human infection with H7N9 (Link)
• Beijing girl with H7N9 infection in stable condition (Link)
• Beijing to make the deployment for the avian flu epidemic comprehensively strengthen the prevention and control (translated) (Link)
• (3 more cases, confirmation of family cluster)  Six more human cases of Influenza A (H7N9) verified by NHFPC (Link)
• 6 Mainland H7N9 cases reported (Link)
• Jiangsu offers reimbursement for H7N9 treatment - Updated  (Link)
• H7N9 Avian Influenza: Virus Widens Geographic Reach in China (article & video) (Link)
• Shanghai reports one more H7N9 infection (Link)
• The Beijing H7N9 avian flu in children home sold live poultry purchased from Tianjin (Link)
• No virus found in dumped carcasses (Link)
• (2 new cases in a new province) Henan Province, found two cases of human infection with confirmed cases of the H7N9 avian flu (translated) (Link)
• China says new bird flu cases found in central China (Link and Link)

India
• Countering swine flu : Unauthorised Korean vaccine administered (Link)

Kazakhstan
• Swine and avian flu vaccines developed in Kazakhstan (Link)

Taiwan
• Taiwan hospitals brace for H7N9 bird flu fight (Link)
• Taiwan Preps for Worst (Link)
• All suspected H7N9 cases cleared: command center (Link)

United States
• ABC Video: Preventing Bird Flu From Entering the United States (Link)

Vietnam
• Vietnam Says It Will Draw on SARS Experience in H7N9 Fight (Link)

Research
• New bird flu well-adapted to infect people (Link)
• CIDRAP: H7N9 genetic analysis raises concern over pandemic potential (Link)

General
• Science Daily: Could New Flu Spark Global Flu Pandemic? New Bird Flu Strain Seen Adapting to Mammals, Humans (Link)
• WHO Risk Assessment: Human Infections with influenza A(H7N9) virus (Link)

Commentary
• SCMP Editorial: Hong Kong should reconsider ban on live poultry stalls (Link) 

 

April 12

 

 

China
• 5 more H7N9 cases reported, some recover (Link)
• Report on 3 in China Who Died From Bird Flu Points to Severity of Strain  (Link)
• ProMED: Avian influenza (02): China, LPAI H7N9, duck, RFI (Link)
• (2 new cases & 1 new death) City newly diagnosed two cases of human infection with the H7N9 avian influenza (Link)
• China's Bird Flu Could Spread South, Hong Kong (Link)
• H7N9 infected birds will migrate to Pearl River Delta, says microbiologist (Link)
• All provincial regions can test for H7N9 (Link)
• Chinese officials begin chicken cull in Zhejiang province (Link)
• Quarantine ended for H7N9 patient in E China  (Link)
• China reports new bird flu death, infections (Link)
• Death toll in China's bird flu rises to 11 (Link)
• (3 new cases) China reports 5 new H7N9 cases, total 43 (Link)
• H (Link)

Indonesia
• Indonesia restricts import of China poultry (Link)

Japan
• Japan government gets new anti-flu powers (Link)
• Japan decides to put anti-new flu law into effect on Sat (Link)

Taiwan
• H7N9 will not peter out anytime soon (Link)

Uganda
• Uganda on bird flu alert (Link)

United States
• As New Flu Cases Rise In China, U.S. Steps Up Its Response (Link)
• WI: Milwaukee Health Department issues bird flu bulletin as fears of potential pandemic grow (Link)

Vietnam
• Bird flu hits nest farm in Vietnam (Link)

Research
• H7N9 flu 'may pose a serious human health risk,' scientists write (Link)
• Beijing Brambling, Zhejiang Duck Spawn Deadly Flu, Study Finds (Link)
• New bird flu strain seen adapting to mammals, humans (Link)

General
• The grim mechanics behind how bird flu kills (Link)
• International SOS to Host Webinar on Managing Risks Associated with H7N9 Bird Flu in China  (Link)
• WHO investigating suspected human-to-human bird flu infection in China (Link)

Commentary
• WHO Threatens H7N9 Reporting Delays (Link) 

 

April 11

 

 

China
• 2 H7N9 patients in recovering in Shanghai (Link)
• Hong Kong: Update on number of suspected human cases of Influenza A (H7) notified to CHP (Link)
• Chinese doctors publish first H7N9 case report (Link)
• Nanjing, Jiangsu Province: 'Residents in China ordered to cull birds' (Link)
• (New cases) China Two new cases on H7N9 confirmed as China's response shows new openness (Link)
• Two new H7N9 bird flu cases in Jiangsu Province (Link)
• Shanghai new three patients with confirmed cases of the H7N9 avian flu which deaths (translated) (Link)
• (New cases)Shanghai new three patients with confirmed cases of the H7N9 avian flu which deaths (translated) (Link)
• Shanghai today, three cases of new confirmed cases of human infection with the H7N9 avian influenza (translated) (Link)
• (New death) China reports 10th bird flu death, five new cases (Link)
• China bird flu scare: 'My family and I don't dare to eat anything these days' (Link)
• China's Bird Flu Deaths Rise to 10 as Web Users Held for Rumors (Link)
• Bird Flu Causing Suffocation Shows Severe Spectrum of New Virus (Link)
• Bird flu gives Chinese business a cold (Link)
 

Germany
•  "Unusual" cases (translated) (Link)

India
• First swine flu case reported in West Bengal after three years (Link)
• Gujarat Govt Slammed Over High Swine Flu Death Toll (Link)

Indonesia
• Analysis: China's bird flu impact - Nothing to sneeze at (Link)

Thailand
• Thailand stocks up antiviral drugs against bird flu (Link)

Vietnam
• Health ministry guides H7N9 bird flu treatment  (Link)

United States
• TX: New H7N9 Bird Flu Has Health Officials Worried About Skimpy Resources (Link)

Research
• Tamiflu-Resistance Gene in H7N9 Bird Flu Spurs Drug Tests (Link)

General
• Influ-Venn-Za: Who can catch which flu? (Link)
• Bird flu poses "exceptional situation", says animal health agency OIE (Link)
• New bird flu death worries UN about spread beyond China (Link)
• New China bird flu death sparks spread fears  (Link)

Commentary
• Recombinomics: Confirmed H7N9 Cases Increase To 33 (Link) 

 

April 10

 

 

China
• China Cracks Down on Spreading H7N9 Rumors (Link)
• China detains 3 for spreading bird flu rumors (Link)
• Shanghai stifled flu 'rumours' in early days, says report (Link)
• (New cases) Nine people were killed, confirmed 31 cases of H7N9 cases (translated) (Link)
• First H7N9 patient discharged from hospital (Link)
• Three more human cases of Influenza A (H7N9) verified by NHFPC (Link)
• (New cases) Two more H7N9 infection cases reported in Shanghai (Link)
• H7N9 'less infectious than SARS' (Link)
• Hong Kong: Fatal case with travel history to KSA tests negative for novel coronavirus (Link)
• H7N9 test reagents distributed nationwide (Link)
• H7N9 found in more poultry samples in China  (Link)
• China claims first recovery from bird flu (Link)
• Pigs to be tested for virus (Link)
• Authorities deny delay in H7N9 reports (Link)
• Delay in Reporting China's Avian Flu Outbreak Is Questioned (Link)
• H (Link)
• H (Link)

Japan
• Japan ramps up defences as fears of H7N9 grow  (Link)

Nepal
• Bird flu detected in two more places in Nepal  (Link)

South Africa
• New bird-flu outbreak on Western Cape ostrich farm (Link)

Taiwan
• Mainland, Taiwan work jointly on H7N9 (Link)

Vietnam
•  H7N9 virus more virulent than H5N1, ministry says (Link)
• H7N9 virus more virulent than H5N1, ministry says (Link)

Research
• H7N9 bird flu may mutate 8 times faster than regular flu, study finds (Link)
• China bird flu may be two mutations from a pandemic (Link)
• H7N9 vaccine expected ready within 7 months: ministries (Link)

General
• Information is Beautiful: who can catch which flu? (Link)
• Nature's Bioterrorist Agents (Link)

Commentary
• Recombinomics: H7N9 Causes CDC Activation of Emergency Operations Center (Link)
• Recombinomics: Ninth H7N9 Death Raises Concerns (Link) 

 

April 9

 

 

Cambodia
• Cambodia fights surge in bird flu deaths (Link)

China
• Bird flu spreads in China, but no human transmission found (Link)
• H7N9 Bird Flu Cases Reach 24, Deaths At 7 In China; Chicken's Off Menus (Link)
• China to vaccinate up to 90,000 carrier pigeons in wake of new strain of bird flu (Link)
• No H7N9 epidemic among poultry: expert (Link)
• Guangdong Province: Fund set up for H7N9 treatment (Link)
• Jiangsu Province: Eight dead in H7N9 bird flu in China (Link)
• H7N9 suspected to be hybrid of local and Korean fowl (Link)
• H7N9 rumored to have hit Beijing as warnings censored (Link)
• Jiangsu Province: Avian Flu H7N9 - IBTimes Reports Back From Four Cities With Bird Flu Outbreaks (Link)
• (New cases) Shanghai & Zhejiang Province: 4 new H7N9 cases in E. China (Link)
• Boy's flu recovery shows benefit of early detection (Link)
• (New Death) China death toll now nine  (Link)
• 9 dead of H7N9 bird flu in China (Link)
• H (Link)
• H (Link)

Indonesia
• Kulonprogo Residents Urged to Beware New Bird Flu (translated) (Link)

South Africa
• New avian flu in W Cape (H7N1) (Link)

Taiwan
• More suspected cases of avian influenza reported (Link)
• Taiwan, China won't cooperate on H7N9 vaccine: official (Link)

Vietnam
• Vietnam confirms 1st H5N1 bird flu death in a year (Link)

United States
•  CDC: Too early to predict future of H7N9 outbreak (Link)

Research
• Origins and evolutionary genomics of the novel 2013 avian-origin H7N9 influenza A virus in China: Early findings (Link)
• UW researcher prepares to study new Chinese bird flu strain (Link)

General
• No H7N9 virus found outside China, WHO says (Link)
• H5N1 bird flu virus kills 9 in Vietnam and Cambodia (Link)
• 'Everything possible is being done' to tackle new flu virus, says UN health agency (Link)

Commentary
• Michael Coston - Avian Flu Diary: China Reports 8th H7N9 Fatality (Link)
• Maggie Severns - Mother Jones: The Latest Bird Flu Freakout, Explained (Link)
• Declan Butler: Urgent search for flu source (Link)
• Michael Martina and Kate Kelland: Analysis - Public doubt on bird flu a ghost of China's past (Link) 

 

April 8

 

 

Bangladesh
• Bangladesh reports 7th H5N1 case (1st fatality) (Link)

China
• Three new cases bring China's H7N9 tally to 21, with 6 dead  (Link)
• China confirms 21 cases of H7N9 infection (Link)
• Shanghai boy infected with H7N9 flu 'basically recovered' (Link)
• One more H7N9 virus death in Shanghai (Link)
• China's bird flu death toll rises as WHO may send team (Link)
• Hong Kong - statement from the Secty for Food and Health (Link)
• Three human cases of Influenza A (H7N9) in Shanghai and Jiangsu verified by NHFPC (Link)
• No Proof So Far of Human Transmission in China Flu Outbreak (Link)
• New Bird Flu Is a U.S. Conspiracy, Chinese Military Official Says (Link)
• Chinese officials urge calm as seventh bird flu victim dies (Link)
• No proof bird flu spreading among humans (Link)
• H7N9-infected boy recovers in Shanghai (Link)
• China paper says farm sector raises bird flu risk (Link)
• Hong Kong to launch fast bird flu test (Link)
• Hong Kong: All seven locals test negative for H7N9 (Link)
• H (Link)

Nepal
• Bird flu detected in Jhapa (Link)

Taiwan
• Suspected H7N9 cases reported in Taiwan region (Link)

Vietnam
• Vietnam prepares to launch bird flu vaccine (Link)
• Vietnam steps up temperature checks to fight new bird flu threat (Link)

Research
• Analysis: Deadly New Bird Flu Virus Vindicates Controversial Research (Link)
• New Coronavirus Reveals Some Of It's Secrets (subscription required) (Link)

General
• China to update countries on H7N9 bird flu (Link)
• WHO talks with China on sending bird flu team  (Link)
• Bird flu no reason to panic: WHO (Link)
• Asia braces for spill-over of new bird flu strain (Link)
• GSAID: Avian Influenza A H7N9 emerging human cases around Shanghai, China (Link)
• Strong biosecurity measures required in response to influenza A(H7N9) virus (Link)
• H (Link)

Commentary
• Branswell: China confirms seven bird flu deaths among 24 infections (Link)
• ProMedMail Commentary: Avian Influenza, Human (31): China (Zhejiang) H7N9, Market Quail, Unconfirmed (Link) 

April

Australia

 

• New South Wales: State told to prepare for 'serious' flu season (Link)

China
• Shanghai reports 2 more H7N9 cases (Link)
• Hong Kong on standby for H7N9 outbreak as Shanghai confirms two new cases (Link)
• Shanghai: Killer bird flu has mutated and may now spread around globe, scientists warn (Link)
• China approves anti-flu injection with H7N9 potential (Link)
• Jiangsu province: Dead sparrows in Nanjing not infected with H7N9 (Link)
• Anhui membership dye H7N9 patients still in the rescue any time of danger (Link)
• Hangzhou patients improved after discontinuation of antibiotics not tested virus quail  (Link)
• Shanghai reports two more H7N9 cases  (Link) (Cases 19 & 20)
• Cooped up with death (Link)
• New deadly bird flu virus infects at least 20 in China (link)
• Another H7N9 Case Reported in East China (Link) (Case 21)
• Number of bird flu cases rises to 20 in China (Link)
• Migratory birds may have carried H7N9 into China: expert (Link)
• Dead sparrows not infected with H7N9 (Link)
• Zhejiang: Hangzhou discloses H7N9 testing details (Link)
• Zhenjiang admitted to one case of severe pneumonia cases (new suspect?) (translated) (Link) 

 

Taiwan
• Airlines told not to refuse fevered fliers (Link)
• Taiwan on high alert against bird flu (Link)
• Six suspected cases of H7N9 influenza found in Taiwan (Link)

United States
• Will CDC's Bird Flu Vaccine Work if Virus Mutates? (Link)

General
• New strain of bird flu is deadly - NBC News Report Video (Link)
• New bird flu said to have hallmarks of airborne killer (Link)

General
• WHO Update (Link)

Commentary
• Recombinomics: Field Experiment On H7N9 Human Adaptation (Link)
• Recombinomics:  Shanghai Avian H7N9 Distinct From Human (Link)
• Recombinomics:  (Link) 

 

April 6

 

Australia 
• Australia keeps close eye on bird flu outbreak (Link)

Canada 
• British Columbia: Chinese bird flu outbreak monitored by B.C. health officials (Link)

China 
• Shanghai closes three public markets to stem spread of bird flu virus (Link) 
• Zhejiang Province: Hangzhou suspends live poultry trade due to H7N9 (Link) 
• China steps up response to bird flu cases (Link) 
• Zhejiang Province: Second China City Halts Live Poultry Trade as H7N9 Virus Found (Link) 
• Zhejiang Province: Quails test positive for H7N9 (Link) 
• Shanghai: Dead fish found in a lake in Shanghai- Sijing Tong drift number of dead fish stretches nearly a hundred meters to the cause of death is unknown (translated) (Link) 
• Shanghai: (New cases) Number of cases of bird flu in China rises to 18 (Link) 
• Zhejiang Province: Bird flu cases found in second Chinese city (Link) 
• Fears grow as bird flu toll mounts (Link) 
• China approves anti-flu drug with H7N9 potential (Link) 
• China closes poultry sale in third city after bird flu outbreak  (Link) 
• Shanghai: Two new bird flu cases emerge in China amid poultry crackdown (Link) 
• Chinese H7N9 Bird Flu Strain Found In Chickens, Poultry Markets Closed, Culled As Epidemic Concerns Spread (Link) 
• China approves anti-flu drug with H7N9 potential - Updated (Link) 
• Shanghai reports 2 more cases of H7N9 bird flu virus (Link) 

 

 

Indonesia
• Action on China Avian Flu Urged (Link)

Israel
• Israel's Health Ministry prepares for new, fatal bird flu from China (Link)

Taiwan
• Taiwan prepares for bird flu outbreak - Video  (Link)
• Taipei designates Heping hospital as H7N9 center (Link)

United States
• U.S. issues advisory to doctors to help identify bird flu (Link)
• U.S. watchful, wary as China fights new bird flu strain (Link)

General
• No sign of sustained transmission of H7N9 virus in China, says WHO (Link)
• WHO, UN issue bird flu warnings (Link)
• How Animals May Cause the Next Big One (Book Review) (Link)
• WHO: Human infection with influenza A(H7N9) virus in China - update (Link)

Commentary
• Recombinomics: H7 Q226I In H7N9 In Hangzhou (Link)
• Cause for Concern Beyond China? Laurie Garrett on the H7N9 Flu (Link) 

April 5

 

China
• (New death) More deaths in China from new bird flu; U.S., Japan on guard (Link)
• WHO: Human infection with influenza A(H7N9) virus in China (Link) to Apr 4 update
• Shanghai begins culling poultry; one contact shows flu symptoms  (Link)
• China reports sixth bird flu death  (Link)
• China's bird flu death toll rises to 6 (Link)
• China slaughters birds as bird flu death toll mounts to six (Link)
• Sixth death from H7N9 bird flu reported (Link)
• China reports more H7N9 cases, deaths; virus may be in pigeons (Link)
• Hong Kong: HK woman tests negative for Sars-like virus (Link)
• Hong Kong reports first suspected case of H7N9 (Link)
• Two more H7N9 bird flu cases confirmed (Link)
• Shanghai to suspend live poultry markets after H7N9 detected (Link)
• China (Yunnan): Thai tourist not die of new bird flu (Link)
• China culls birds as flu deaths mount; airline shares fall  (Link)• China braces for new bird flu epidemic after 6 deaths, closes Shanghai market (Link)
• More samples tested H7N9 positive in Shanghai  (Link) OIE Report (Link)
• Mapping China's Bird Flu Outbreak:See how H7N9 is spreading (Link)
• New Bird Flu Seen Having Some Markers of Airborne Killer (Link)
• Human toll in China bird-flu outbreak reaches 6 (Link)
• With 6 human deaths from avian flu, China culls 20,000 birds (Link)
• Ban on poultry sales as H7N9 cases hit 16 (Link)
• China's avian flu toll rises to 6 (Link)
• Don't panic over new bird flu outbreak, CDC cautions (Link)
• Death toll from new avian flu in China increases to 6 (Link)
• China's bird flu outbreak: What you need to know about H7N9 (Link)
• Shanghai tests show H7N9 bird flu in chickens  (Link)
• Hong Kong government tightens surveillance on bird flu risk areas (Link)
• Rising Pneumonia Cases in Shanghai Amid Bird Flu Fears (Link)
• Laurie Garrett - Twitter Photo: Nanjing - birds falling from the sky??? (Link)

United States
• U.S. Developing Bird Flu Vaccine as Death Toll in China Rises to 5 (Link)
• White House tracking bird flu outbreak in China (Link)
• CDC preparing bird flu vaccine (Link)
• U.S. issues advisory to doctors to help identify bird flu (Link)

General
• H7N9 bird flu strain has worrying traits (Link)
• World experts debate case for new bird flu vaccine (Link)
• Deadly, however it moves (Link)
• Helen Branswell: Health leaders lay out their concerns about the new bird flu  (Link)
• Dutch create deadly new bird flu virus (Link)
• Expert 'cautiously worried' over China's H7N9 bird flu strain  (Link)
• New serology test might help solve novel coronavirus puzzles (Link)
• Timeline of H7N9 cases (Link) to Virology Down Under
• WHO: Human infection with influenza A(H7N9) virus in China - Apr. 5 (Link)
• Just how bad is the new flu strain? (Link)

Commentary
• Recombinomics: H7N9 Avian Swine Human Adaptation (Link)
• Recombinomics: H7 Q226I In H7N9 In Hangzhou (Link) 

 

April 4

 

Cambodia
• Cambodia reports 10th bird flu case this year (Link)

China
• China mobilizes to fight new bird flu; Japan, Hong Kong on guard (Link)
• China briefs WHO on new bird flu (Link)
• China accused of H7N9 bird flu cover-up on social media (Link)
• Beijing will not 'exclude possibility' of H7N9 infections (Link)
• Bird-Flu Cover-Up? Chinese Social Media Out Possible Cases of Deadly Disease (Link)
• 'Eat only vegetables and fish,' retail boss' letter to staff about bird flu goes viral (Link)
• 10th H7N9 infection case confirmed in China  (Link)
• Hong Kong bird flu team heads to Shanghai as tenth person infected with H7N9 (Link)
• Mutating China Bird Flu Takes Fourth Life (Link)
• China reports 5th death from H7N9 bird flu  (Link)
• Bird flu: New strain causes fifth death among 14 confirmed cases in China (Link)
• China reports fifth bird flu death as authorities tighten control (Link)
• The Shanghai one 4 year old of H7N9 bird flu patient is being restored to health (translated) (Link)
• Fifth bird flu death reported in China, according to Chinese media (Link)
• Shanghai begins poultry slaughter after H7N9 bird flu found at market (Link)
• Map Shows The Spread Of Deadly New Bird Flu Strain Terrifying Everyone In China (Link) 

 

 

United States
• Hawaii officials on the lookout for killer strain of bird flu (Link)

General
• Scientists say new China bird flu strain likely a silent threat (Link)
• WHO update: Human infection with influenza A(H7N9) in China (Link)
• Experts debate threat of new bird flu strain  (Link)

Commentary
• Recombinomics: Q226L Signals Recent H7N9 Human Adaptation (Link)
• Mike Coston: China, Songjiang District- Possible Positive Bird Sample (Link)
• Branswell: Health leaders lay out their concerns about the new bird flu (Link) 

 

April 3

 

China 
• The world's first human-to-human transmission of H7N9 avian flu in Anhui dead a crisis now (translated) (Link) 
• China: Little known about H7N9 bird flu (Link) 
• Shanghai boosts checks after bird flu deaths (Link) 
• Bird flu deaths 'no connection' with pigs (Link) 
• New Bird Flu Strain Kills 2 in Shanghai (Link) 
• No bird flu virus found in dead pigs (Link) 
• China strengthens checks after H7N9 deaths (Link)

• Shanghai activates emergency action plan (Link) 
• 4 more rare bird flu cases, new steps taken (Link) 
• WHO: FAQs on human infection with A(H7N9) avian influenza virus (Link) 
• WHO: H7N9 avian influenza human infections in China (Link)

 

Taiwan 
• Chinese visitors barred from visits to poultry farms: COA (Link)

United Arab  Emirates 
• Test for coronavirus available in Abu Dhabi (Link)

Vietnam 
• China Bird Flu Cases Prompt Precautions (Link)

General 
• New bird flu strain not transmitted between people, WHO says (Link) 

• CIDRAP: H5N1 cases dropped in 2012, but fatality rate rose (Link)
 

Commentary 
• Recombinomics: All Three H7N9 China Cases Have PB2 E627K (Link) 
• Recombinomics: Suspect Shanghai H7N9 Familial Cluster (Link) 
• Recombinomics: All Three H7N9 China Cases Have N9 Deletion (Link)

• Helen Branswell: H7N9 Flu Virus May Have Adapted To Mammals (Link) 
• Didi Kirsten Tatlow - Views From Asia: In China, Bird Flu Jitters Are Back (Link) 
• Adam Minter - The Ticker: Bird Flu Mystery Recalls Chinese SARS Coverup (Link)

 

March 25

 

Bangladesh 
• DLS boss in the dark about bird flu onslaught in poultry sector? (Link)

Canada 
• Manitoba: Winnipeg's National Microbiology Laboratory prepares for next big outbreak (Link)

China

• Hong Kong: Girl checked for Novel coronavirus (Link) 
• Hong Kong: Youngster sets off killer virus scare (Link)

India 
• Madhya Pradesh: Swine flu death toll rises to 12 in Indore, three others critical (Link)

• Maharashtra: Two more succumb to swine flu (Link) 
• Maharashtra: Health measures stepped up in Pune for rising H1N1 cases (Link)

Pakistan 
• Not swine flu: Doctors blame seasonal flu for five deaths (Link)

• Brother of swine flu patient tested positive (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
• Patient released after coronavirus treatment  (Link)

Sri Lanka 
• Hospitals to screen all ME arrivals for coronavirus (Link)

• WHO: Novel coronavirus infection - update (Link)

United Kingdom 
• Birmingham grandad is UK's second Coronavirus victim (Link)

United States

• CDC: Novel (New) Coronavirus in the Arabian Peninsula and United Kingdom (Link)

• SD: Flu claims another life in South Dakota; brings total number of deaths this season to 36 (Link) 

• TX: Galveston: Virus vial missing from Galveston lab (Link)

 

• CDC: U.S. influenza down but hanging on (Link) 
• Flu took a heavy toll on children this season (Link) 
• 105 US kids died of flu; most didn't get vaccine (Link)

General

• Coronavirus: how the lessons of Sars could save us today (Link) 
• At Large: Pneumonia after the flu is nothing to take lightly (Link) 
• How data stopped SARS (Link)

• Flu Complications: Pneumonia Due to Influenza (Link)

Commentary 
• Recombinomics: Most Mild Beta2c Coronavirus Cases In Jeddah KSA (Link)

• Recombinomics: Another Confirmed Riyadh Beta2c Coronavirus Cluster (Link) 
• Recombinomics: UK Beta2c Coronavirus Index Case Dies (Link)

• Michael Coston: Saudi Arabia: `Mild' NCoV Case With Contact Hx With Case #15 - WHO (Link) 
• Helen Barnswell: Saudi Arabia - New coronavirus case confirmed in Saudi Arabia (Link) 
• Recombinomics: UK Beta2c Coronavirus Index Case Dies (Link)

 

March 5

 

Cambodia 
• Cambodian PM urges citizens to jointly prevent bird flu outbreaks (Link)

• Spike in bird flu deaths worries health officials (Link)

Cyprus 
• Turkish Cypriot doctors probe 'swine flu' death (Link)

India 
• Gujarat: 8 cases of swine flu in Gandhinagar (Link) 
• Delhi: 39 fresh cases of swine flu reported in Delhi (Link)

• Gujarat: Gujarat to find out ecological factors related to swine flu spread (Link) 
• Haryana: Haryana taking steps to check spread of swine flu; toll 38 (Link) 
• Gujarat: Three more test swine flu positive in Jamnagar (Link) 
• India's swine flu epidemic raging 261 people were killed and 2329 people (translated) (Link)

Indonesia 
• Bird Flu Vaccine Kementan Release March 19 (translated) (Link)

• Mukomuko Does Not Have Bird Flu Medicine Stock (translated) (Link)

Mexico 
• Bird Flu Outbreak In Mexico: Over Two Million Birds Killed (Link)

• Vaccination against bird flu spread (translated) (Link)

Singapore 
• SARS-like virus has low chance of spreading in S'pore: MOH (Link)

Thailand 
• Bird flu alert nationwide (Link)

Taiwan 
• Publicly funded H5N1 vaccine available for high-risk people (Link)

United States 
• Healthcare Union drops flu shot lawsuit (Link) 
• FL: Flu may have led to doctor's death (Link) 
• IN: Flu season not winding down quickly (Link)

• CIDRAP: US flu activity ebbs further as influenza B surges (Link)

Research 
• New research could be key to stopping spread of killer diseases (Link) 
• Emerging Epidemics: Anne Rimoin Hunts Monkeypox in the Congo River Basin [Video] (Link)

• Ever-changing flu outwits scientists searching for vaccine (Link)

General 
• We Are Not Safe From Bird Flu as Long as Factory Farms Exist (Link) 
• Twitter becomes a tool for tracking flu epidemics and other public health issues (Link) 
• Modern day flu feels like the Civil War soldiers' ague (Link) 
• Novel Coronavirus CRF Version 1.2 (Link)

Commentary 
• Helen Branswell: Countries must stop stigmatizing countries that report new diseases: WHO's Chan (Link)

February News 2013

Feb.26.

 

Argentina 
• Carmen de Areco / Ni hantavirus or flu, a fungus? (translated) (Link)

 

Cambodia 
• Cambodia reports 9th bird flu case (Link)

• Hong Kong: Health chief tells of quicker tests in wake of SARS (Link) 
• Hong Kong:  'While I battled Sars, Dad died in ward above' Doctor says being infected with virus, while personal tragedy hit, made him a better medic (Link) 
• Doctors confident Hong Kong is prepared if Sars strikes again (Link)

• CIDRAP: H5N1 strikes poultry in three more Cambodian villages (Link)

China 
• China alert for bird flu from Cambodia (Link)

• Second bird flu death in China (Link) 
• Bird flu kills 2nd victim in China (Link) 
• Hong Kong: SFH on new novel coronavirus (Link) 
• Hong Kong: Fever patient tested negative for novel coronavirus (Link)

• Rajasthan: Woman dies of Swine Flu in Kota (Link) 
• Rajasthan: Chilika guest tests positive for bird flu (Link) 
• Orissa: Chilika guest tests positive for bird flu (Link) 
• Delhi: 34 new swine flu cases (Link) 
• Haryana: Haryana swine flu toll rises to 37 (Link)

India 
• Odisha: Bird flu outbreak in Chilka lake (Link)

• Rajasthan: No deaths due to swine flu reported from state (Link) 
• Delhi: 45 more swine flu cases in Delhi, total now 759 (Link) 
• Avian influenza: ADRI collects fresh samples to be tested (Link)

• 19 swine flu cases reported in Himachal (Link) 
• Gujarat: Swine flu claims three more lives (Link)

Indonesia 
• Hundreds of Ducks in Bantul Death Due to Bird Flu Confirmed  (Link)

Mexico 
• Millions of chickens slaughtered in Mexico over bird flu (Link)

Nepal 
• Siberian birds responsible for bird flu: DoLS (Link)

 

UK 
• Scotland: Second swine flu case in Dumfries and Galloway (Link) 
• Scotland: Swine flu mum's fury: NHS fobbed me off for two weeks (Link) 
• Scotland: Dumfries and Galloway swine flu toddler 'fit to go home'  (Link)

• Scotland: Swine flu Sanquhar mum critical (Link) 
• Scotland: Swine flu confirmed in region (Link)

• HPA Tracking SARS-like Virus-infected Man's Co-Passengers (Link)

US 
• 5 Questions: USD prof tackles flu deaths (Link) 
• New rules on mutant bird flu research stir debate (Link)

• How Effective is the Flu Vaccine? (Link)

Saudi Arabia 
•  Saudi Arabia records third new coronavirus fatality (Link)

• New Saudi case takes coronavirus death toll to seven (Link)

Vietnam

 

• H5N1 in poultry (Quang Nam) (Link)

Research 
• CIDRAP: Scientists identify new flu antiviral candidate (Link)

Commentary 
• Recombinomics: UK 2013 Beta Coronavirus Cluster Sequence (Link)

 

General 
• Comparison on severity between novel CoV, SARS-CoV premature: scientist (Link) 
• WHO: Recommended composition of influenza virus vaccines for use in the 2013-14 northern hemisphere influenza season (Link)

 

Feb.17

 

 

China 
• Guizhou: Bird Flu Death In China Sparks Fear Of Human-Transmitted H5N1 Strain (Link) 
• Guizhou: 110 released from bird flu quarantine (Link)

• 71 released from quarantine over bird flu fears (Link)

• The Guizhou investigation of avian flu (translated) (Link) 
• Bird Flu Death In China Sparks Fear Of Human-Transmitted H5N1 Strain (Link)

Egypt 
• WHO confirms human H5N1 case (no details) (Link)

 

Germany

• Germany discovers bird flu case on poultry farm (Link)
• Bird Flu Reported In German Poultry Farm (Link) 
• Ducks slaughtered after bird flu found at German farm (Link)

India

• Swine flu claims 1 more life in capital, 47 fresh cases (Link) 
• Uttar Pradesh: Varanasi hospitals prepare for swine flu (Link) 
• Nip in air brings swine flu scare in India (Link)
• 4 swine flu deaths in Himachal Pradesh so far, 7 test positive (Link) 
• Rajasthan swine flu update: Three dead, 10 more test positive (Link) 
• Delhi: 60 new cases of swine flu, total number of cases takes to 420 (Link)

• Delhi: Two more die of swine flu, total cases reach 301 (Link) 
• Delhi: Swine flu kills two in Delhi, 59 new cases recorded on weekend (Link)

Indonesia

• Bird Flu Patient Discharged (Translated) (Link) 
• Patient Suspect Bird Flu Treated in Hospital Elisabeth (translated) (Link)
• Origin Bangli Negative Boy Bird Flu (translated) (Link)

Kuwait 
• Six in Kuwait diagnosed with swine flu (Link)

Mexico

 • Suspicious of Avian Flu in Five Breeders Farms (Link) 
• Bachoco flu outbreak reported in Guanajuato (translated) (Link)
• Mexican bird flu outbreak hits 582,000 chickens (Link) 
• Mexico to slaughter a half million chickens over bird flu (Link)

Nepal 
• Nepal reports five recent H5N1 outbreaks (Link)

• Bird flu on rise, farmers resist vets (Link)

Thailand 
• Safeguard the nation's health (Link)

United Kingdom

• 'Third family member' contracts Sars-like virus (Link) 
• Health Protection Agency: Third case of novel coronavirus infection identified in family cluster (Link)
• New virus hits 12 globally with new British case (Link) 
• UK Officials Confirm Fourth Person Has Contracted Novel Coronavirus (Link) 
• WHO: Contamination in the UK by the new SARS coronavirus close (translated) (Link) 
• New Coronavirus Has Gained The Ability To Jump From Human To Human (Link)

• New SARS-like Virus Infects 12 Globally with British Case (Link) 
• Coronavirus spreads to third family member (Link) 
• Coronavirus: SARS-Like Virus Hits 12 Globally With New British Case (Link) 
• Third novel coronavirus infection reported in UK family (Link) 
• Is the new coronavirus the next SARS? (Link)

United States 
• CIDRAP: CDC - Flu activity continues to slow (Link)

Research 
• Mayo Clinic researcher works to understand the flu (Link)

• NIH warns sequester could threaten flu vaccines, cancer research (Link)

• US: Virus Discovered in 2001 Hospitalizes Kids at Same Rate as Flu (Link) 
• Euro studies show flu vaccine working best against type B (Link)

 

Commentary 
• Recombinomics: Indonesia Issues Beta Coronavirus Umrah Alert (Link)

 

• Recombinomics: Beta Coronavirus H2H Transmission In Riyadh Cluster (Link) 
• Recombinomics: Beta Coronavirus H2H Transmission In Jordan (Link) 
• Recombinomics: Beta Coronavirus Umrah Link Raises Concerns (Link) 
• First Person: The Flu Season Cost My Family $600 (Link)

Feb 6

Argentina 

• Swine flu: a nurse died (translated) (Link)

Austria 
• Wave of influenza at its peak (Link)

Bangladesh 
• Bangladesh Reports Another HPAI Outbreak (Link)

Cambodia 
• ProMED: Avian influenza, human (04): Cambodia, 6th case, fatal (Link) 
• Cambodia Reports Sixth Case Of Human Bird Flu Of 2013 (Link)

• Bird flu claims fifth Cambodian victim this year (Link) 
• Bird flu deaths reach five in Cambodia (Link) 
•  Girl is Cambodia's 5th bird flu fatality this year (Link) 
• Sixth New Human Case of Avian Influenza H5N1 in Cambodia in 2013 (Link)

China 
• Hong Kong: Hong Kong bans eggs from Cambodia (Link)

Greece 
• Flu kills four in Greece (Link)

India 
• Gujarat: Swine flu alert in city hospitals (Link) 
• Madhya Pradesh: MP govt calls for alertness about swine flu (Link) 
• Rajasthan: Swine flu - 91 dead across country this year, Rajasthan worst hit (Link) 
• Delhi: 4 more swine flu cases in Delhi, count 64 (Link) 
• Uttarakhand on high alert in view of swine flu outbreak (Link) 
• Punjab & Haryana: H1N1 toll - 43 deaths in 38 days (Link) 
• Gujarat: One dies of suspected swine flu, 5 more test positive (Link)

• Haryana & Punjab: Two more doctors from GMCH-32 test positive for swine flu (Link) 
• Delhi: Three deaths in a month, hospitals on swine flu alert (Link) 
• Fresh cases of swine flu emerge in Delhi (Link)

• Delhi: Swine flu is back - Three deaths, 57 cases reported (Link) 
• Haryana & Punjab: Five test positive for swine flu, 2 docs from GMCH-32 (Link) 
• Haryana & Punjab: H1N1 overpowers doctors (Link) 
• Swine flu kills 95 in north India since January 1 (Link)

 

Indonesia 
• Padang, West Sumatra: Dr. M. Djamil Suspect Hospitalized Patients Suspected Bird Flu (translated) (Link)

• Diskes Anticipation of Bird Flu (translated) (Link)

Israel 
• Doctors find three newborns with swine flu virus (Link)

Nepal 
• Bird Flu Scare (Link)

Sweden 
• Swine flu claims another two lives in Sweden (Link)

Thailand 
• Reactive AI controls Thailand (Link)

 

United States 
• Flu season killing record number of older Americans, CDC says (Link)

• AL: Fighting The Flu (Link) 
• KS: State's death toll from flu is near 700  (Link) 
• NY:  State wants health workers who skip flu shots to wear masks (Link) 
• WA: Doctor: Getting fever again after the flu can mean trouble (Link)

• CA: Flu-Related Deaths Rise to 30 in San Diego (Link) 
• NY: 7 Healthcast: Video game may convince kids to get flu shots (Link) 
• WA: Healthy 23-year-old woman dies from flu-related complications (Link)

 

Vietnam 
• Bird flu recurs, urgent warning released (Link)

Research 
• Assessment of Serosurveys for H5N1 (Lin

• Study: Flu shot may not work as well for seniors (Link) 
• Fight school flu: Take the survey (Link)

 

General 
• Doctor warns - never give aspirin to children to relieve flu symptoms (Link)

• Laser beams help flu monitoring, UGA research shows (Link) 
• Study: Spread of HPAI Through Smallholder Ducks in Asia (Link) 
• CIDRAP: Review finds little evidence of missed H5N1 infections (Link)

 

• Groomer Requiring Flu Shots For Dogs (Link)

 

Commentary 
• Carl Zimmer: The Future Evolution of Bird Flu (Link) 
• Recombinomics: New York Reports Sixth Pediatric Flu Death (Link)

 

Argentina 
• Remain hospitalized patients infected with a rare virus (translated) (Link)

•  Concern at a hospital in Carmen de Areco by a virus which affected 11 people (translated) (Link)

Canada 

•  Infected salmon declared fit for human consumption by Canadian Food Inspection Agency (Link)

 

Cambodia 
• CIDRAP: WHO confirms 5 recent H5N1 cases in Cambodia (Link)

• Cambodia Reports HPAI in Kong Pisei District  (Link)

China 

•  Hong Kong: Black-headed Gull Tests Positive for H5N1 Virus  (Link)

India 
• Karnataka: Swine flu detected in Bhatkal; Woman dies at Manipal (Link) 
• Punjab: Swine flu 'under control' in Punjab (Link) 
• Punjab: Two more get swine flu (Link) 
• Rajasthan: Death rate among swine flu patients on a high (Link) 
• Gujarat: Swine flu claims two lives in Gujarat (Link)

• Karnataka: Woman dies of H1N1 (Link)

• Punjab & Haryana: Four more test positive for swine flu, total rises to 18 (Link)

Israel 
• Health official: Panic over swine flu justified (Link)

• Hospitals Struggle to Cope with Rising Swine Flu in Israel (Link) 
• 2 swine flu patients hospitalized in serious condition (Link)

Indonesia 

• Golkar Refuses Funding for Bird Flu Vaccine Plant (Link) 
• Thousands Rooster Tails in Polewali Mandar Esophageal Dead Bird Flu (Link)

Nepal 
• Tarai districts at high risk of bird flu (Link)

Taiwan 

• Taiwan lifts ban on Saskatchewan poultry (Link)

Tunisia 
• Swine Flu Claims First Tunisian Victim in 2013 (Link)

United States 

• Washington, DC: Scenes from the Illiad: Flu outbreak causes epic tales of woe across Washington region (Link)

• MS: North Mississippi child is state's 1st pediatric flu death of season (Link) 
• Flu Still Flexing Its Muscle in Western States  (Link) 
• Flu attacking elderly at historically high rates  (Link)

• Flu epidemic waning nationwide, CDC says (Link) 
• IL: Hospital flu masks raise questions (Link)

Research 
• CIDRAP: Study - Airborne flu viruses may play big role in transmission (Link) 
• The PB2, PA, HA, NP, and NS genes of a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus A/whooper swan/Mongolia/3/2005 (H5N1) are responsible for pathogenicity in ducks (Link)

• How to better prepare for pandemic (Link) 
• US: Volunteers wanted for bird flu vaccine trial (Link) 
• Flu Patients Can Emit Virus Up To 6 Feet Away, Study Finds (Link) 
• Will climate change mean worse flu seasons?  (Link)

General 
• UN agency warns of new global bird flu threat (Link) 
• Why Our Health Depends on Treating Animals Better (Link)

• "The Virus Planet": Earth's Invisible World Would Reach Out 100-Million Light Years (Link)

• Pandemic risk may impact capital reserves: RMS (Link) 
• Flu Season: The Health Dangers Of OTC Medications (Link)

Commentary 
• Recombinomics: US Pediatric Flu Deaths Increase To 62 (Link) 
• Recombinomics: First US 2013 H3N2 Sequence Has T128A (Link)

• Recombinomics: US Week 4 Pneumonia & Influenza Death (Link)

 

• Recombinomics: US Week 4 Pneumonia & Influenza  Death Rate At 9.4% (Link) 
• Recombinomics: 8 US Pediatric Flu Deaths In Week 4 FluView (Link)

India

• Rajasthan: Swine flu claims 39 lives since December (Link)

• Haryana and Punjab: Two die due to swine flu in Chandigarh (Link) 

• Karnataka: Bio-security gate to keep birds safe from flu (Link) 

 

Indonesia
• 90 Percent Poultry in Bird Flu Tasikmalaya (translated) (Link) 

• Regions warned of new strain of bird flu (Link)
• C. Java to distribute new bird flu vaccines in Feb (Link)
• New bird flu strain may be bioterrorism, says BIN (Link) 

 

Israel
• Swine flu rears its head in Israel (Link) 

 

Mexico
• Bird flu confirmed in Mexico (Link) 

• ProMED: Avian influenza (02): Mexico (AG) high path H7N3, poultry, OIE (Link) 

 

United States
• America is totally sick right now: Flu, whooping cough and 'winter vomiting disease' (Link)
• Doctors Recommend Flu Shot for Children With Egg Allergies (Link)
• As Flu Rages, Caregiving Suffers (Link)
• Flu cases down in some areas; child deaths up (Link)
• USA needs more effective flu shots, experts say (Link)
• Flu reaches epidemic level in US (Link)
• IL: 27 flu deaths reported in Illinois (Link)
• MA: Rising Number of Flu Cases Raises Public-Health Concern (Link)
• MA: Two more flu deaths confirmed, including child (Link)
• Flu In NYC Reaches Epidemic Levels With 'Severe' Strain Of AH3N2; Officials Recommend Flu Shot (Link)
• Cuomo Declares Public Health Emergency Over Flu Outbreak (Link)

• Deaths increase, misery mounts as flu sweeps nation (Link)
• US Experiences Worst Flu Season in 10 Years (Link)
• US faces shortages of flu vaccine, Tamiflu treatment (Link)
• Questions and Answers: Flu season hits U.S. (Link)
• MA: Medical offices in area flooded with requests for flu vaccines (Link)
• NM: Flu Spreading Across New Mexico (Link)
• NY & NJ: Flu spreading in N.Y., N.J., but it is under control (Link)
• OK: Flu Outbreak Causes Oklahoma School District to Cancel Classes (Link)
• OR: Is the worst of the flu season about to be over? (Link)
• SC: 22 have died from flu in South Carolina (Link) 

• Flu picks up steam across the U.S.: Severe flu kills 18 children this season (Link)
• NYT: Flu Widespread, Leading a Range of Winter's Ills (Link)
• FL: Worst-in-years flu season spreading in Florida (Link)
• NY: 'Severe' Strain Of Flu Reaches Epidemic Proportions In New York City (Link) 

 

General
• Your top 10 flu questions answered (Link) 

• CIDRAP: WHO to convene Jan 14-15 meeting on novel coronavirus (Link)
• Acetaminophen overdose a danger during flu season (Link)
• Is it flu or just a cold? Diagnosis can be difficult (Link) 

• Going Viral (Link)
• Why the Flu Is So Dangerous This Year, and Why It Could Get Worse (Link) 

 

Research
• Who is most susceptible to the flu virus? (Link) 

• Bird flu research at UW-Madison idle as researchers await guidelines (Link) 

 

Commentary
• Recombinomics: US Week 1 P&I Death Rate Crosses Epidemic Threshold (Link)
• Editorial: The 2012-13 viruses are spreading rapidly (Link)
• Current Flu Vaccine About 60 Percent Effective, Marshfield Clinic, Lead Researcher Commentary (Link) 

 

Cambodia
• CIDRAP: H5N1 found in 20% of environmental samples from Cambodian bird markets (Link)

China
• Shaanxi - A stream of cases over 20 schools must be closed (translated) (Link)

India
• Rajasthan: State seeks NCDC help to contain swine flu (Link)

Indonesia
• The Komnas Zoonosis Denies Bird Flu Bioterrorism (translated) (Link)

Jordan
•  Swine flu kills second Jordanian in week (Link)

Palenstine
• Official: Swine flu death toll rises to 15 in West Bank (Link)

 

United States
• Flu Epidemic: Officials, Drug Stores Say Call Ahead Before Getting Vaccine (Link)
• Flu Season 2013 - Low Vaccine Supply (Video) (Link)
• CA: San Francisco Flu Leaves Residents Worried As Doctors Urge Vaccinations (Link)
• MA: Flu Is Here - 5 Things Parents Must Do (Link)
• MI: Wyandotte Hospital Tackles Flu Myths v Facts (Link)
• NY: ProMED - Avian influenza (H5N1:low path) - USA: (NY) poultry, RFI (Link) (Link)
• NY: New York City parents scrambling to find flu shots in stock (Link)

 

Research
• CIDRAP: DARPA grant supports flu evolution study (Massachusetts) (Link)
• Flu shot flaws leave experts queasy (Link)

General
• Phooey On Flu (Video) (Link) 

                                        

January 15,2013

 

Bhutan
• CIDRAP: H5N1 hits backyard flocks in Bhutan (Link)

Canada
• Ontario: Bug hits hard (Link)

• 7 die from flu-related complications in Thunder Bay (Link) 

India
• Swine flu : 19 confirmed cases in Punjab; 7 in Ludhiana (Link)

• Hindus Enter River Ganges In Maha Kumbh Mela, Worlds Largest Religious Festival (Link)
• Forest dept scanner on migratory birds to detect bird flu cases during Kumbh (Link) 

 

Indonesia
• Set Special Status Bird Flu Outbreak in National (translated) (Link)

• New Avian Flu Not Bioterrorism, Commission Secretary Says (Link)
• Discover Bird Flu Vaccine Falls On Ducks (translated) (Link) 

 

Mexico
• Two highly pathogenic bird flu outbreaks hit Mexican egg farms (Link)

• Vaccination Underway after New Bird Flu Outbreaks (Link) 

 

United States
• Flu Epidemic Waning but Could Still Make Comeback (Link)
• Flu Season: 47 States Report Widespread Outbreaks Dr. Richard Besser discusses headlines from the record-breaking flu season (Video) (Link)
• CA: The flu is fast headed our way: 5 ways to fight (Link)
• IL: Massive Flu Outbreak Overwhelms Chicago Hospitals (Video) (Link)
• MA: City Under Flu Crisis: 48 Hours in Boston's Massive Flu Outbreak (Link)
• MA: Boston firms boost efforts to fight flu outbreak (Link)
• NJ: Hospitals Block Visitors With Flu Symptoms From Entering (Video) (Link)
• NJ: Doctor: Don't skip the flu shot, or you might get those around you sick (Link)
• VA: Inova restricts hospital visits over flu fears (Link)

• A Snapshot of Influenza Activity in All 50 States (Link)
• CO: Flu's impact is felt in city (Link)
• MA: Thousands line up to get flu vaccine in Boston (Link)
• MA: Socioeconomic factors hindering vaccination effort (Link) 

 

Research
• CIDRAP: Canada - Modeling study finds low pandemic risk from variant H3N2 (Link)
• Tensions linger over discovery of coronavirus  (Link)

• Nature: Tensions linger over discovery of coronavirus (Link) 

 

General
• The Flu, Explained (Link)
• Cold And Flu Prevention: 10 Natural Ways To Boost Your Immune System (Link)
• Flu Prevention: Why Are Adults Still Sneezing Into Their Hands? (Link)
• Hand sanitizer spread faster than the flu America seems to have maxed out on the germ-fighting gel (Link)

• ProMED: Novel coronavirus (HCoV-EMC), bats and pigs (translated) (Link)
• An influenza primer, updated for 2012/13 (Link) 

 

Commentary
• Recombinomics: Reported US Pediatric Flu Deaths Increase To 38 (Link) 

• Helen Branswell:  Flu studies suggest vaccine 'match' not super predictor of effectiveness  (Link)
• David Zich, Special to CNN: How the holidays spread the flu (Link)
• Washington Post Editorial: A bad flu season (Link)
• Editorial: Take this N.J. flu season seriously (New Jersey) (Link) 

 

January 20, 2013

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• KCUS - Of the 13 infected with the H1N1 virus, seven in a hospital (translated) (Link)

Czech Republic
• Influenza epidemic in the Czech Republic has claimed 24 lives part of the hospital moratorium visits (translated) (Link)

India
• Punjab: 6-month-old baby dies of swine flu (Link)

Indonesia
• Central Java: Bird Flu Virus Mutation Caution (translated) (Link) 

Palestine
• First fatality in Gaza as swine flu toll rises to 21 (Link) 

United States
• CDC: Manufacturers making more flu vaccine (Link)
• CDC: Flu activity continues to be high across the United States (Link)
• NJ: Tracking the flu: RWJ University Hospital-Hamilton saw early spike (Link)
• NY: Flu outbreak prompts hospitals to test tents (Link)

• Flu season taking high toll on elderly (Link)
• More Flu Medications Made Available as Epidemic Continues (Link)
• Sundance, Inauguration Organizers Brace for Flu (Link)
• Flu Epidemic Moving West (Link)
• CA: 'Immunize, immunize!': Doctors counter doubts about flu vaccines (Link)
• CA: Two Riverside County deaths may be connected to flu (Link)
• CA: Third O.C. flu death reported (Link)
• MA: Flu cases dip for 2d week in Massachusetts (Link)
• NY: While flu numbers appear to have lessened, not necessarily the case (Link)
• OK: Flu shuts down two Oklahoma school districts (Link)
• TX: Houston Hospital Workers Take Mandatory Flu Shots in Stride (Link) 

 

General
• As flu rates rise, ER docs must decide (Link)

Commentary
• Recombinomics: US Week 2 P&I Death Rate Spike Raises Concerns (Link) 

• Recombinomics: US Flu Hospitalization Rates Raise Concerns (Link) 

• How to avoid the flu (Link)
• Fight the flu: Tips for students (Link)
• Running Doc: Get the flu shot, especially if you exercise, and get it quick! (Link)
• Flu season leads to drug overdoses (Link) 

Research
• D222G H1N1 mutation linked to severe disease, post-infection origin (Link)
• Flu virus 'knows when to attack' (Link)
• Insight: U.S. government investment gives flu vaccines a shot in the arm (Link)
• A Worm's Ovary Cells Become A Flu Vaccine Machine (Link) 

 

January 27, 2013

Cambodia

• Two Cambodians die from bird flu: WHO (Link)

• Bird flu claims two victims in Cambodia (Link)
• Cambodia reports 3 new bird flu cases, 2 fatal (Link) 

 

China
• Beijing reports 5 A/H1N1 flu deaths, outbreak unlikely (Link) 

Mexico
• ProMED: Avian influenza: Mexico (JA) high path H7N3 susp, poultry, RFI (Link)

Uganda
• ProMED: Undiagnosed fatalities - Uganda: (MD), RFI (Link)

United States
• Flu season rolls on, with some declines (Link)
• CDC: Elderly have two types of flu shot (Link)
• Risk To All Ages: Roughly 100 Kids Die Of The Flu Each Year (Link)
• Flu Activity Up and Down, Still Epidemic (Link)
• CA:  9-year-old girl who died from flu was healthy (Link)

• CIDRAP: CDC sees mixed flu picture, remaining threat for seniors (Link)
• Burt Reynolds in intensive care with flu (Link)
• Flu, weather drain blood donation supplies (Link)
• More Evidence of a Severe Flu Season (Link)
• CDC sees mixed flu picture, remaining threat for seniors (Link)
• IN: Indiana dealing with deadliest flu season in years (Link)
• MD: Intensity of Flu-Like Illnesses Still High in Maryland (Link)
• MI: U-M epidemiologist on preventing flu, norovirus in her own home: 'Impossible' (Link)
• OH: Scourge of flu remains strong;  Multifaceted system measures prevalence (Link)
• TX: Flu keeps thousands of Dallas County schoolchildren home sick (Link)
• WA: With latest death, five flu-related deaths in county (Link) 

Research
• Swine flu pandemic infected at least one in five Indians: Study (Link)
• CIDRAP: Study puts global 2009 pandemic H1N1 infection rate at 24% (Link)
• The Bird Flu Experiments (Link)

• CIDRAP: NIH panel supports stronger safeguards for H5N1 research (Link)
• DARPA produces 10 million flu vaccine doses in one month (Link)
• Man flu does exist as men suffer more from high temperatures when ill: scientist (Link) 

• U.S. researchers tracking flu through Twitter (Link) 

General
• ProMED: Influenza (10): European region update (Link)
• Got the flu? Stay home from work (Link)
• Why Google Flu Trends Will Not Replace the CDC Anytime Soon (Link)

• Flu Forecasts Go Real-Time (Link)
• Home remedies to survive the flu (Link)
• Do you have a plan for flu season? (Link) 

• CIDRAP: Study puts global 2009 pandemic H1N1 infection rate at 24% (Link)
• Tips to care for your kids when they get the flu (Link)
• Young Kids and the Flu: Prevention And Treatment (Link) 

Commentary
• Recombinomics: Reporting Delays In US Pediatric Flu Deaths (Link) 

• Recombinomics: US Pediatric Flu Deaths Increase To Fifty (Link)
• Recombinomics: US Cities With Week 3 P&I Death Rates Greater Than 10% (Link) 

 

 

April 2012 News

 

 

CIDRAP: WHO reports progress on H1N1 pandemic mortality estimates

 

April 26, 2012

 

 

May 15, 2012

 

Egypt's Real Crisis: The Dual Epidemics Quietly Ravaging Public Health

By Laurie Garrett & Steven A. Cook

May 14 2012, 7:01 AM ET Comment

A combination of avian flu and foot and mouth disease risk destroying the protein supply, eroding public trust, and further destabilizing the Arab world's most populous country.

Lost in the recent political jockeying and protest violence leading up to Egypt's May 23 presidential elections is the unfolding public health disaster there. Avian flu and foot and mouth disease are running rampant, killing people and livestock as well as inflating the price of food. It's a serious health and economic issue, but it has potentially much larger implications for Egypt, and this little-discussed crisis is beginning to resemble those that occur in failed states.

The Egyptian state, which was not particularly well-prepared for public emergencies even before the February 2011 revolution brought it into near-chaos, has little capacity to cope with the outbreaks threatening not only Egypt, but also Sudan, Israel, the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Jordan. Egypt's public health infrastructure barely functions. The sort of social service that groups like the Muslim Brotherhood have provided over many years, it falls far short of what is needed to combat the current crisis. Cairo does not have the money to throw at the problem, having burned through more than half of its foreign currency reserves in the 15 months since Mubarak's fall.

Ground zero for Egypt's public health emergency is Libya, where last year, in the midst of civil war, foot and mouth disease swept through the country, killing more than 10 percent of its sheep and cattle. Smugglers subsequently brought infected sheep across the Libyan border, setting off a foot and mouth disease (FMD) wildfire that Egyptian officials have been unable to slow.

Within four weeks, FMD killed thousands of cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats, camels, and other livestock across Egypt. In March, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization declared a "catastrophe," warning that the epidemic in Egypt was threatening human food supplies for all of the Middle East and North Africa. The particular viral strain responsible for the epidemic, officially called SAT2, is a new one, against which standard FMD vaccines are useless. SAT2 was first found in Sudan in 1977, when it was also thought to have been eliminated. It appears to have resurfaced there in 2010, spread to Libya, then Egypt, and now the Palestinian Territory. Consequently, public and veterinary health officials in Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and elsewhere around the region are on high alert.

For Egypt, which is reeling from the economic repercussions of last year's revolt against the Mubarak regime and ongoing political instability, the FMD epidemic is a serious blow. The loss of thousands of cattle, buffalo, and camels has resulted in a significant spike in the price of meat from Egypt's remaining livestock, which leaves a relatively poor population with only one unaffected source of protein: chickens. Yet Egypt is also in the sixth year of avian influenza H5N1 epidemic. Despite vaccination and control efforts, the deadly H5N1 virus, which swept into Egypt from Asia, persists. Given the popularity of home-raised chickens in the country, where many households, rural and urban, possess flocks, controlling the infection would be a daunting undertaking for any government. Millions of the animals are estimated to have either died from infection or been killed off by veterinary authorities, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, in failed control efforts. The World Health Organization now ranks Egypt second in the world, after Indonesia, in human cases of the avian flu, which thus far hasreportedly killed 60 Egyptians and infected about 100 more. Recently, a strain of the virus has spread to Egyptian ducks; this new strain carries mutations that are thought to play a role in enabling transmission between mammals. This is a particularly worrisome development because some Egyptians have caught the flu from their animals, but not yet passed it onto other people. Once the virus begins to spread between humans, an epidemic becomes far, far more likely.

There are only two well-established methods for controlling these viral animal diseases: through mass vaccination of more than 90% of all vulnerable animals, or via quarantine and culling measures that identify and slaughter all FMD-infected herds and H5N1-contaminated flocks. In either case, governance is the key. These are big, difficult undertakings, and they require public trust in the state. Poor farmers are far less likely to cooperate with such a program, which asks them to risk, their livliehood, with faith that government will provide adequate compensation for culled animals.

In Egypt, where the military's ability to exert its authority has diminished over time, the transitional civilian cabinet is ineffective, and a variety of political forces jockey for advantage as the presidential election draws near, the government looks increasingly unable to deal with the FMD crisis, and people are furious about it. When more than 7,000 cattle died in March, protesters took the streets to demonstrate al Gharbiyya governorate. Unable to get help from the state or compensation for dead animals, impoverished famers dumped animal carcasses into water systems and canals, and on the doorsteps of local officials. By late April, the animal death toll topped 20,000, as the infection spread to the Red Sea and South Sinai governorates as well as the Palestinian territories. When local veterinary experts tried to impose quarantines on infected herds, camel drivers threatened to block Egypt's main highways, insisting on the right to use their beasts regardless of contamination concerns.

In early April, the Egyptian government announced it would buy $1.8 million worth of a vaccine manufactured to treat the specific strain of FMD threatening Egypt's livestock. The first stocks arrived at the end of April. Though vaccinations have begun, it is unclear when they will become widely available. Even if a mass vaccination of Egypt's hoofed livestock could be accomplished, despite the uncertainty of Egypt's politics and limited capacities of its sprawling bureaucracy, it will -- like all vaccines -- take two weeks before the benefits of immunization take effect. Under the best-case scenario, control of FMD would not be realized until June or July. As for bird flu, it's doubtful that Egypt could stop the viral spread of the disease, portending more human cases and deaths.

Observers have spent a lot of time and effort trying to understand Egypt's post-Mubarak trajectory, but this path will be much more than just the twists and turns of Egyptian politics. Public health is a critical factor for the country's transition and its future. Even if presidential elections are smooth, if the military hands power to civilians with no problems, and if Egyptians get down to the hard work of writing a constitution, uncontrolled foot and mouth disease and avian flu -- along with their attendant economic and human costs -- could risk everything. If the international community wants to help guide the Arab world's most populous country through its post-Mubarak crisis, addressing the country's twin epidemics would be a particularly high-impact way to do it. Absent a global response, Egypt will likely experience continued political instability and violence, and potentially widespread malnutrition that would surely affect Libya, Sudan, Gaza, Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, and beyond. Endless debates about the Muslim Brotherhood's commitment to democratic change or the military's intentions are interesting, but not as important as a coordinated international effort to pull Egypt back from the public health brink.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/05/egypts-real-crisis-the-dual-epidemics-quietely-ravaging-public-health/257072/

 

Brazil
• Outbreak kills two and leaves ten with symptoms in prison in Minas Gerais (translated)  (Link)

Canada
• British Columbia: B.C. Leads Canada With Flu Vaccine Rates (Link)

• Quebec gets an 'F' on flu report card (Link)

• Ontario: Free flu shot program missing under 2s; 'vaccine fatigue' may be to blame (Link)

India
• Pneumonia on the rise, docs advice healthy diet (Link)

• Tamil Nadu: Three more A(H1N1) cases reported in city (Link)

Ireland
• Flu deaths nursing home criticised (Link)

Malaysia
• Fever, flu hit Thomas Cup squad members (Link)

Nepal
• Around 200 villagers fall sick in Myagdi (Link)

New Zealand
• More Kiwis get flu vaccination (Link)

Norway
• In Norwegian study, 40% had antibodies to H3N2 variant (Link)

Republic of Ireland
• Report into flu deaths published (Link)

South Africa
• H5N2 strikes another South African ostrich farm (Link)
• Year-long ostrich culling ends this week (Link)

Taiwan
• COA confirms bird flu cause of chicken deaths (Link)
• Taiwan reports 12th outbreak of N5N2 bird flu this year (Link)

• Outbreak of H5N2 bird flu confirmed in Taiwan (Link)
• Deadly H5N2 bird flu outbreak confirmed in southern Taiwan (Link)

United States
• ACIP explains new vaccine evidence-grading system (Link)

• US Virgin Islands: Doctors report surge in flu cases (Link)

 

General
• Flu activity at low levels in US, worldwide (Link)

• Science journal could give recipe for deadly avian flu virus (Link)
• ProMED: Influenza (09): Africa update, WHO  (Link)

• Social Networks Influence Flu Shot Decision among College Students (Link)

Commentary
• Integrated approach to fight diseases (Link)

Research
• Study profiles 2009 H1N1 neurologic complications (Link)

• Virus 'barcodes' offer rapid detection of mutated strains (Link)

 

May 21, 2012

 

 

May 27, 2012

 

Med residents lacked PPE knowledge, worked while ill in pandemic, study finds

A study of doctors in training during the height of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic found gaps in personal protective equipment (PPE) knowledge and guidance and that some worked when they were sick.

The study (Snip) was prompted by a cluster of influenza-like illnesses in internal medicine residents in June 2009, which led to a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) investigation. At the time, flu activity in Utah, the state where the medical school was located, was widespread. The investigators visited the medical school and four affiliated hospitals in September 2009 and conducted an electronic survey of residents about their PPE practices. Researchers also explored records of doctors' contacts with sick patients, peers, community members, and family members and reviewed PPE recommendations that were in place at the time.

Of 210 residents, 88 (42%) completed the survey. Thirteen reported flulike illness during the time period, and among 8 who sought medical care, 5 had lab-confirmed influenza A. (Snip) 85% said they had been exposed to the pandemic virus in a variety of settings, and 10 said they had worked while ill.

A cluster of 8 illnesses occurred after an internal medicine residency program dinner. Many of those who worked while sick cited professional obligations to patients and coworkers. From 13% to 88% said they knew PPE recommendations (Snip) three hospitals deviated from interim federal PPE guidance, partly because of a shortage of N95 respirators.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/swineflu/news/may2512fluscan.html

 

Cook Islands
• Cook Islands school reopens after flu outbreak (Link)

 

https://www.que.es/ultimas-noticias/sociedad/201205252107-salvador-registra-casos-gripe-descarta-efe.html

 

 

Philippines
• Experts warn public of complacency vs flu (Link)

 

United States
• FL: Dozens report flu-like symptoms in Collier County (Link)

 

Research
• CIDRAP: Study - 2009 H1N1 infection induces longer-lasting immune response than vaccine (Link)
• CIDRAP: US - Baylor group announces SARS vaccine grant (Link)
• CIDRAP: Study suggests avian flu infections in migratory-bird handlers are rare (Link)

 

General
• CIDRAP: As flu activity tails off, attention turns to Southern Hemisphere (Link)

Commentary
• Recombinomics: PAHO Silence on H1N1pdm09 Tamiflu Resistance in Mexico (Link)

July 31, 2012

New bird flu virus killing US baby seals

 

July 30, 2012 ·

 

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A new kind of bird flu has been causing deadly pneumonia in baby seals off the northeastern US coast and could pose a risk to humans, according to US research released Tuesday.

The new strain has been named avian H3N8, and is blamed for the deaths of 162 seals along the US coastlines last year, said the study in mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

Most of the dead seals were younger than six months of age.

While there have been no known human cases to date, scientists at Columbia University in New York urged caution, given the history of bird flu and its ability to evolve into forms that can infect people, like H5N1.

“Our findings reinforce the importance of wildlife surveillance in predicting and preventing pandemics,” said W. Ian Lipkin, professor of epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

“HIV/AIDS, SARS, West Nile, Nipah and influenza are all examples of emerging infectious diseases that originated in animals,” Lipkin added.

“Any outbreak of disease in domestic animals or wildlife, while an immediate threat to wildlife conservation, must also be considered potentially hazardous to humans.”

Scientists sequenced the full genome of the new strain and found it originated from a bird flu virus that had been circulating in North American waterfowl since 2002.

Over time, the virus gained the ability to infect mammals by latching on to receptors in their respiratory tracts.

Wildlife experts first grew alarmed in September 2011 when an increasing number of seals from the coasts of Maine to Massachusetts began developing pneumonia and skin lesions.

A total of 162 dead or dying seals were recovered over the next three months, the researchers said.

Early research on the mutations in the strain “suggest enhanced virulence and transmission in mammals,” though further study is needed, the authors said.

The bird flu that most people know about, H5N1, remains relatively rare but has killed about half of the people it has infected since the first outbreak in Hong Kong in 1997.

The World Health Organization has tallied 606 human cases of bird flu since 2003 and 357 deaths, according to a June report.

The so-called swine flu, or H1N1, broke out in Mexico in 2009. The H1N1 virus spread into a global pandemic that claimed the lives of 17,000 people.

 

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/07/new-bird-flu-virus-killing-us-baby-seals/

 

Australia
• New South Wales: Worst of the flu yet to come (Link)
• Victoria: Hospital flu risk to patients (Link)

• New South Wales: Flu warning (Link)
• Queensland: Flu hits town (Link)
• Western Australia: GP shortage blamed for flu rush (Link)
• Flu Season Causing Worries in Queensland (Link)
• Flu season spreads through Southeastern Australia (Link)

• Western Australia: Flu crisis swamps Perth hospitals (Link)
• Victoria: Dangerous flu season upon us (Link)
• Queensland: Doctors warn of influenza outbreak (Link)

• Queensland: Flu season sees Coast on pneumonia alert (Link)
• New South Wales: Spike in north coast flu cases (Link)

Cambodia
• Cambodia illness due to mix of diseases (Link)

Canada
• Swine flu shots may be linked to increase in rare neurological syndrome: Quebec study (Link)

China
• Hong Kong: Bird flu expert urges tighter imports grip (Link)

Indonesia
• Source of Bird Flu Virus is Still Mysterious (translated) (Link)

Mexico
• Mexico to Vaccinate 1M Chickens Against Bird Flu (Link)
• Mexico Kills 2.5 Million Birds to Contain Bird Flu (Link)

India
• Maharashtra: Seven test positive for H1N1, count up to 95 this year (Link)
• Kerala: 12 new cases of swine flu reported in Kerala (Link)

• Bird Flu is Back in a Stronger Avataar (Link)

• Maharashtra: First swine flu death in Pune this month (Link)
• Maharashtra: Two new cases of swine flu detected in Mumbai (Link)

New Zealand
• Sick Cantabs told to stay home (Link)

• Influenza badly affecting workforces (Link)

•  Flu cases in Taranaki above national average  (Link) 

Philippines
• Lawmakers want to institutionalize emergency plan for influenza pandemic (Link)

South Africa
• 8000 ostriches slaughtered (Link)

• 8000 ostriches face slaughter after flu outbreak (Link)

United States
• CA: Canine influenza found in San Diego County; shelter dog tests positive for disease (Link)

• CIDRAP: Study - H1N1 flu in pigs and people at Ohio county fair identical (Link)

Research
• SDSU Finds 'Game Changer' in Fighting Flu (Link)
• Canada: MD oversees trials for universal flu shot (Link)

• Chicken vaccines combine to create deadly virus (Link)
• Study reveals most dangerous zoonoses (Link)

• CIDRAP: Study flags drop in antivirals for hospitalized flu patients (Link)
• H5N1 Virus Could Evolve Quickly (Link)

General
• Officials Kill Millions Of Birds Due To Flu Outbreak (Link)

Commentary
• Analysis - Bird flu vaccine now? More than a shot in the dark (Link)

 

June 2012 News

June 5, 2012

 

Australia
• New flu strain set to hit Aust this winter  (Link)
• Flu season sets in (Link)
• Vaccinate against new flu strain (Link)

• Sidney: Flu cases double as experts urge vaccinations (Link)
• Warning On New Strain Of Flu (Link)

• Macarthur region urged to avoid spreading flu (Link)

 

Bangladesh
• Govt to vaccinate poultry birds (Link)

China
• Guangdong boy in Hong Kong has bird flu (Link)
• CIDRAP: Hong Kong H5 infection raises alert level  (Link)
• Bird flu alert in Hong Kong after toddler confirmed to have virus (Link)
• Hong Kong sees first human bird flu case in 18 months (Link)
• Guangdong on alert after Hong Kong bird flu case (Link)
• Hospital Authority enhanced surveillance programme for patient with influenza symptom (Link)

• Boy confirmed with bird flu in Hong Kong (Link)
• Boy with bird flu treated in HK as contacts traced (Link)
• Bird flu boy spends 5 days in ward after wrong call (Link)
• Hong Kong: Flu kills 36 in 2 weeks, more than last winter (Link)

• Hong Kong: Brain worries ease for tot with bird flu (Link)
• H5N1 bird flu (in poultry) reported in NW China  (Link)

• CIDRAP: H5N1 strikes farm in northern China (Link)
• Hong Kong: Cluster of Influenza A cases in Kowloon Hospital (Link)

Cambodia
• CIDRAP: H5N1 investigation (Link)

 

Egypt
• WHO confirms 1 human H5N1 case (Link)

 

Gambia
• Sub-regional trans-boundary animal diseases confab underway (Link)

India
• Madhya Pradesh: Another swine flu suspect admitted (Link)
• Maharashtra: Nagpur Municipal Corporation workshop on swine flu updates for health workers (Link)

Russia
• Avian Influenza found at large poultry facility in Russia (Link)

Sri Lanka
• Suspected Swine flu kills one (Link)

• Respiratory disease identified as Influenza A (H1N1 pdm) (Link)
• Four nurses diagnosed with Swine flu (Link)
•  Swine flu alert in Sri Lanka after hospital staffers infected (Link)

 

Thailand
• HHS Support Results in International Influenza Vaccine Milestone (Link)

United Kingdom
• Global Warning (Link)

United States
• Flu vaccine estimates lower than originally estimated (Link)

• TX: New toolkit demonstrates use of data-driven science to plan for future pandemics (Link)

Vietnam
• Vietnam H5N1 market study finds risky practices (Link)

Research
• Computer-designed proteins programmed to disarm variety of flu viruses  (Link)

• UK: New study shows why swine flu virus develops drug resistance (Link)

General
• Medline Introduces U.S. Health Care Industry's First Antiviral Face Mask That Inactivates Flu Viruses (Link)

Commentary
• Recombinomics: Clade 2.3.2.1 H5N1 Guangdong China Case (Link)

• Recombinomics: Avian Genes In Clade 2.3.2.1 H5N1 Guangdong China Isolate (Link)

 

 

August news 2012

 

 

• New flu virus, apparently linked to swine, has officials wary

full article

https://www.indystar.com/article/20120813/NEWS/208140320/New-flu-virus-apparently-linked-swine-has-officials-wary?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CIndianapolis%20News

Flu viruses are shifty characters. They routinely recombine their genetic code, making them extremely nimble. One change may improve a virus's ability to jump species. Another may make it more likely to cause severe illness. That is why health officials are paying such close attention to this summer's variant influenza A outbreak, which has sickened at least 138 people in Indiana and more than 160 nationwide.

 

Mexico
• Mexico Vaccinates 80 Million Birds Against Flu Virus (Link)

Netherlands
• Netherlands flags LPAI: 31,870 birds destroyed (Link)

India
• Maharashtra: Swine flu claims first victim this season (Link)

Indonesia
• Indonesia Reports 9th Bird Flu Death This Year (Link)

United States
• KY: Confirmed Cases of Seasonal Flu In Boyd County, Ky. (Link)
• MI: First case of swine flu in Michigan confirmed in Washtenaw County child (Link)
• OH: New swine flu hits 66 Ohio cases (Link)

• MN: U study raises new worries about flu at fairs (Link)
• New flu virus, apparently linked to swine, has officials wary (Link)
• IN: 23 residents test positive for new influenza virus (Link)
• OH: Ohio Swine Flu Cases Rises To 54 (Link)
• OR: Swine flu showing up at fairs, prompting extra precautions locally (Link)

• MN: Minnesota State Fair: Veterinarians will monitor pigs for new flu (Link)

Vietnam
• Farmers brace for bird flu (Link)

Research
• CIDRAP: US - Study finds flu in healthy-looking pigs at state fairs (Link)

General
• South Asia: Hot spot for cross-border disease (Link)

• US: National Pork Board Clarifies How Influenza is Named (Link)

Commentary
• Recombinomics: H3N2v Ohio Cases Increase to 66 in 17 Counties (Link)
• Recombinomics: Hospitalized Ohio H3N2v Cases Raise Concerns (Link)
• Recombinomics: H3N2v Jumps from Gallia Ohio to Mason County West Virginia (Link)

• Recombinomics: Sustained Efficient Human Community Spread of H3N2v (Link)
• Recombinomics: CDC Cites Recent Human H3N2v (Link)
• Recombinomics: CDC Ignores NA Lineage Change in All 2012 H3N2v Cases (Link)
• Recombinomics: H3N2v Ohio Cases Increase to 47 in 11 Counties (Link)

• Recombinomics: CDC H3N2v Testing Bias Raises Pandemic Concerns (Link)
• Recombinomics: California H3N2v Health Alert - PCR Testing of All ILI Cases (Link)