Avian Flu Diary
Covering Pandemic Influenza, H1N1 `Swine Flu', H5N1 `Bird Flu' and other Emerging Infectious Diseases with an emphasis on Individual and Community preparedness.
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Feb 09, 10 03:54AM# 4334 From the `If you don’t believe it, just ask us’ Department, we get optimistic assurances today from the Indonesian government that they’ve got their bird flu problem under...
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Feb 08, 10 11:03AM# 4333 If it seems like we already did this story today, that feeling is understandable. On Friday we learned of the 95th and 96th Egyptian infection, and just this mo rning...
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Feb 08, 10 06:22AM# 4332 USA Today has an article this morning on the safety of the H1N1 flu shot in California after roughly 13 million shots have been given. And the news is good...
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Feb 08, 10 04:46AM# 4331 On Friday (see Media Report: Two More Bird Flu Cases In Egypt) we learned of two more human H5N1 infections in Egypt by way of the Arabic media. Today the WHO...
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Feb 07, 10 05:12PM# 4330 Once again I’m back with a recap of some of the stories from in and around Flublogia (and or science blogs) from the past couple of weeks. Thi s...
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Feb 07, 10 06:42AM# 4329 Given the ambivalence demonstrated by large segments of the American public over getting the pandemic flu vaccine, it probably comes as little surprise that the uptake of other vaccines...
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Feb 07, 10 06:05AM#4328 In case anyone had any doubts beforehand, the pandemic of 2009 demonstrated that NPIs (non-pharmaceutical interventions) such as school closures, hand washing, a nd...
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Feb 06, 10 05:15AM# 4327 In October of 2008 I wrote a blog entitled It's Called A News Medium Because It Is So Rarely Well Done, where I cautioned that a news media unfamiliar wit h...
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Feb 05, 10 11:46AM# 4326 The key indicators for influenza activity around the country remained roughly the same in the latest reporting period as they were in week 2 and 3. 160...
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Feb 05, 10 11:33AM# 4325 Concerns that the novel H1N1 virus could develop widespread Tamiflu (Oseltamivir) resistance - as did its seasonal cousin in 2008 & 2009 – have been the t opic...
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