- Indonesia: Cull goes on in East Jakarta
- Via BeritaJakarta.com: Thousands of poultry culled in East Jakarta . Excerpt: East Jakarta Municipal Administration is very serious to protect its citizens from the threat of the H5N1 virus of bird flu.
- Bird flu vaccine production still lags: Study
- Drug companies would need four years to meet global demand for bird flu vaccines if a pandemic broke out today, but new technology could significantly boost production by 2014, a study says.
- 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.
- Def Jux Releases Camu Tao's Posthumous Debut And EL-P-Aided EP
- Camu Tao's posthumous debut album, King Of Hearts , will be released on August 17 via Definitive Jux.
- M.I.A.
- The cluttered cover of M.I.A.'s third album speaks volumes. She's always gone for sensory overload in terms of aesthetic and message, but what are we to make of bad Photoshop? In the fickle Internet age, it's impressive the British/Sri Lankan artist has stayed relevant this long, especially since she found fame and fortune and currently enjoys a ...
- TV Pick of the week: Survivors
- Hollywood gets a lot of stick for its remake habits. But that venerable screen institution, the BBC, also finds it hard not to go fossicking in the attic for past glories to "re-imagine". Certainly it provides a fair bit of fuel for American remakes, whether it's The Office , State of Play or Edge of Darkness .
- Arunachal key to flu medicine
- The plant, Illicium griffithii , found in three districts of the Himalayan state, is a source of shikimic acid, the raw material used to manufacture oseltamivir, an anti-viral drug for influenza.
- The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead, by Marcus Chown
- Reading this book is a little like being at a party with an almost perfect DJ. The tracks Chown plays - a mixture of the familiar and the cutting edge - are not records, however, but the highlights of recent attempts to answer some of the biggest scientific questions there are, from "What is beyond the edge of the universe?" to "Why do we ...
- CR Council a " Chickens and Art
- The council waded once again into the seemingly endless backyard chicken saga. No need to ponder the question of which came first, the chicken, the egg or the backyard chicken ordinance.
- A problem in Indonesia
- The Indonesian Ministry of Health has begun reporting on H5N1 cases again, but this Avian Influenza Case Report Until June 2010 reflects its problems.
- Indonesia: Possible H5N1 death in Sumatera
- Via Ida's Bird Flu Information Corner, a translated report from Era Baru : Padang, West Sumatera ::: Bird flu suspect dies .
- WTO backs China in US chicken import row
- A World Trade Organisation panel has ruled in favour of the mainland in its dispute with the United States over an effective US ban on imports of cooked chicken, a mainland source said on Tuesday.
- WTO backs China in U.S. chicken import row: Chinese source
- A World Trade Organization panel has ruled in favor of China in its dispute with the United States over an effective U.S. ban on imports of Chinese chicken, a Chinese source said on Tuesday.
- MomentumCALM DOWN, AMERICA
- Momentum CALM DOWN, AMERICA! by Joyce Marcel American Reporter Correspondent Dummerston, Vt.
- CIDRAP on the latest Egyptian H5N1 case
- Via CIDRAP, Lisa Schnirring offers some useful background: Egyptian woman hospitalized with H5N1 infection .
- Quangos cull to help save 180mn
- Guardian News and Media / London Health Secretary Andrew Lansley yesterday announced a cull of regulators to save A 180mn in the health sector consigning the agency that handles public health emergencies to oblivion and splitting up the fertility watchdog.
- A visit to Spirited Away creator's museum in Japan
- A couple of days after we arrived in Tokyo, we visited the Ghibli Museum . It's in a suburb of Tokyo and was designed by the famous animator Hayao Miyazaki .
- Andrew Lansley announces shakeup of health regulators
- Health secretary Andrew Lansley has launched a A 180m cull of regulators aimed at cutting NHS costs and bureaucracy.
- UK: Culling the quangos
- Quangos are quasi- and nongovernmental organizations, and they're an endangered species in Coalition Britain.
- Health watchdogs 'are to be axed'
- The Health Protection Agency that handles public health emergencies such as swine flu is to be axed under reforms, the government has confirmed.
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