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For an excellent weekly update with full international coverage,
see the website of the Center for Infectious Disease Research &
Policy (CIDRAP), University of Minnesota (USA) at:
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu? Just click on the blue listed
website and note the latest news on the Home Page:
19 May 08: EU approves its first prepandemic H5N1 vaccine
16 May 08: Launch of WHO H5N1 vaccine stockpile still
awaited
15 May 08: Researchers: Pandemic readiness demands mix of
antivirals
14 May 08: OSHA offers guides to stockpiling masks, etc.
See also CIDRAP's Promising Practices: Pandemic
Preparedness Tools
see the website of the Center for Infectious Disease Research &
Policy (CIDRAP), University of Minnesota (USA) at:
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu? Just click on the blue listed
website and note the latest news on the Home Page:
19 May 08: EU approves its first prepandemic H5N1 vaccine
16 May 08: Launch of WHO H5N1 vaccine stockpile still
awaited
15 May 08: Researchers: Pandemic readiness demands mix of
antivirals
14 May 08: OSHA offers guides to stockpiling masks, etc.
See also CIDRAP's Promising Practices: Pandemic
Preparedness Tools
For up-to-date news on the impact of avian flu on developing countries, see the
weekly report from SciDev (Science for Developing Countries) at their website at:
http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?
weekly report from SciDev (Science for Developing Countries) at their website at:
http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?
For a British perspective:
see the website of the Health Protection Agency at: http://www.hpa.org.uk
see the website of the Health Protection Agency at: http://www.hpa.org.uk
Also helpful, in a British context, is entering "avian flu" in the search box on the top
right corner of the BBC News website at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/
right corner of the BBC News website at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/
For a daily listing from newspapers throughout the world, giving science news in a
rather popular style, see the Retroscreen Daily Virology News website at:
www.retroscreen.com/?a=dvn
rather popular style, see the Retroscreen Daily Virology News website at:
www.retroscreen.com/?a=dvn
Background News
Subscribe (free) in the top right-hand corner.
New Scientist has a regularly updated archive (some of which
requires a subscription) at:
www.newscientist.com/channel/health/bird_flu
requires a subscription) at:
www.newscientist.com/channel/health/bird_flu
Latest News
Dr Y Guan and colleagues from the University of Hong Kong,
Shatou University in Guangdong, China and St Jude Children's
Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee have traced a direct
transmission link for H5N1 virus from China's southwestern
Yunnan province to strains of the virus that appeared in
Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia in 2002 and 2003.
The fact that all of the samples were collected in live-poultry
markets from Guangdong, Hunan and Yunnan, China suggests
a greater genetic diversity of the H5N1 in southern China than
previously reported. For a news report see the final half of the
article on Indonesia at: www.news-medical.net
or the abstract in the April 2008, Vol 82 No 7, Journal of Virology
Shatou University in Guangdong, China and St Jude Children's
Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee have traced a direct
transmission link for H5N1 virus from China's southwestern
Yunnan province to strains of the virus that appeared in
Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia in 2002 and 2003.
The fact that all of the samples were collected in live-poultry
markets from Guangdong, Hunan and Yunnan, China suggests
a greater genetic diversity of the H5N1 in southern China than
previously reported. For a news report see the final half of the
article on Indonesia at: www.news-medical.net
or the abstract in the April 2008, Vol 82 No 7, Journal of Virology