- Indonesia: More on the new Zoonosis Committee
- Ida at Bird Flu Information Corner has a report from Tempo Interaktif : Indonesia to establish animal derived infectious disease committee .
- Biocontrol in the UK: will they be singing, "Where have all the...
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- Would you like a seat Madam? - Hong Kong, China
- I gave up smoking about fifteen years ago, except for that dark period of cigar smoking a couple of years back I have remained smoke free.
- Pandemic has not yet peaked: Flu experts
- The pandemic of H1N1 swine flu has not yet peaked, a committee of experts advised the World Health Organization on Tuesday.
- Rapture Architecture: Designers Tackle the Coming Apocalypse
- We live in terrifying times: Pandemics ranging from bird flu to swine flu regularly threaten to kill millions.
- Bad facts make bad law [Effect Measure]
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- ConstanceDON'T Drink the Water; Don't Breathe the Air
- Constance DON'T DRINK THE WATER; DON'T BREATHE THE AIR by Constance Daley American Reporter Correspondent St.
- Fabio Periera: Review: Birdemic: Shock and Terror
- Years ago, Jon Lovitz lent his voice to an animated series called The Critic , in which his character, Jay Sherman, would succinctly pronounce his verdict on most of what he was tasked to watch: "It stinks." A review interested in keeping to the content of Birdemic: Shock and Terror could probably be summed up thusly.
- Experts call for bird flu control strategy
- The latest outbreak of bird flu has affected the provinces of Dien Bien and Nam Dinh in the north, Nghe An and Khanh Hoa in the central region, and Soc Trang and Ca Mau in the south, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development representative Hoang Van Nam told a meeting in Ha Noi yesterday.
- In Brief New plan to fight bird flu in Egypt
- Egypt is moving to curb the spread of avian influenza after a recent upsurge in infections, the Egyptian Health Ministry says.
- In Brief: New plan to fight bird flu in Egypt
- Egypt is moving to curb the spread of avian influenza after a recent upsurge in infections, the Egyptian Health Ministry says.
- Chilean earthquake and science [Effect Measure]
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- The almanac
- Today is Monday, March 8, the 67th day of 2010 with 298 to follow. The moon is waning.
- Indonesia: More on the new zoonosis commission
- Via The Jakarta Post : The end of an era, toward a new beginning . Excerpt: Despite a bureaucratic vacuum in commissions designated to combat the H5N1 and H1N1 influenzas, a health officials says the country remains well prepared to fight outbreaks of disease.
- Science and Technology:Research
- Handling deadly animal viruses is obviously not everyone's idea of the perfect career, but it is vital work and Australia has one of the world's leading laboratories.
- Nigeria worried about B2B H5N1
- Via This Day Online: Bird flu: FCTA deploys vet doctors to entry points . Federal Capital Territory Minister, Senator Adamu Aliero, has deployed trained veterinary doctors to man all entry points to the nationa TMs capital, in a bid to forestall the outbreak of the deadly Avian influenza flu, otherwise known as bird flu.
- Mock Study Section (more than you ever wanted to know) [Effect Measure]
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- The inspiration of Keir Hardie | Bob Holman
- Every 25 January in Scotland, Robert Burns's birthday is marked by celebrations across the country.
- Freethinker Sunday Sermonette: you think, therefore He isn't [Effect Measure]
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- Wendy Orent | What H1N1 flu taught us
- We have learned a lot from the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic. We have learned, for example, that one basic assumption about pandemics was wrong: You don't need a radical mutation in a flu virus to produce a pandemic.
This map shows the recent extent (as of April 21, 2006) to which the bird flu virus has spread to wild and domestic birds as well as humans. Map credit: www.pandemicflu.gov