In the fight against bird flu, a virus gripping many countries including Turkey, some success is being to appear and India has managed to produce an effective medicine against it.
Hetero Drugs General Manager Srinivas Reddy announced only 100,000 capsules of the medicine will be produced at the company’s Haydarabad facilities for now, but by […]
A village in southeastern Romania was quarantined on Tuesday after five chickens tested positive for an H5 variant of bird flu, said the head of the country’s National Animal Health Agency.
The virus was first detected late on Friday in quick tests in Albesti, 100km east of Bucharest, a sign that the virus was turning up […]
The World Health Organization (WTO) warned Thursday that it is too early to tell if the avian influenza in China is under control, adding that prevention and detection measures should be stepped up.
Dr. Shigeru Omi, WHO’s Western Pacific regional director, made the remark during a visit to the home of a nine-year-old boy in central […]
Two Vietnamese patients have died after developing strains of bird flu that were resistant to Tamiflu, the antiviral drug that nations around the world are stockpiling in the hope of saving lives if a global pandemic occurs.
Their deaths, which took place in January, were reported Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine. A third […]
North Korea today said its scientists had developed a method of identifying all types of bird flu viruses as the country stepped up a nationwide campaign against the deadly disease
Researchers at the cell-and-gene branch of the North’s State Academy of Sciences “solved scientific and technical problems arising in correctly identifying types ofâ€? bird flu viruses, […]
Romania has found new suspected bird flu in hens in a village 160 km (100 miles) east of Bucharest and began culling domestic fowl there, officials said on Wednesday.
The H5 type virus was confirmed last week in two villages in the Ialomita county 100 km east of the capital, indicating the disease could be spreading […]
China has begun human trials of there home grown birdfflu vaccine with over 120 people volenteering to take part aged 18 - 60 but only 6 chosen.
“After half an hour of clinical observation, the volunteers experienced no bad reaction of either the whole or part of the body,” the agency said.
The Trials will need 9 […]
Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) — Indonesia’s planned door-to-door bird-flu surveillance will begin in Jakarta tomorrow, Agriculture Minister Anton Apriantono said, bolstering the country’s efforts to curb the disease that has killed at least nine Indonesians.
Starting Dec. 22, representatives from local communities, the military and student volunteers will traverse the nation’s capital of about 9 million […]
While the avian flu epidemic hits the poultry industry of several Asian countries, India has started benefiting from the problem. India, which is free from the bird flu outbreak so far, is fast emerging as a favourite destination for sourcing poultry products. Hong Kong has already started sourcing poultry products, especially eggs from many other […]
Be Prepared There is a big posibility that this virus will be a worldwide pandemic. It is best to make up a survival kit that all members of the house know where it is kept.
It should contain:
* 3 days of non perishable food such as canned baked beans, canned fruit, crackers, pasta, rice, soup, milk […]