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Dr. TanDY

It is quite a comprehensive review on the Avian influenza disease. The scholarly scientific articles are superb and the best thing is they are all free to download! (All have the PDF format version) :-)

So what are you waiting for? If you work with poultry, get them all for freeeee.... :lol:

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Website: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/index.htm

Current Issue
Volume 12, Number 1—January 2006

Special Issue: Influenza
Overview
Influenza Revisited, J.K. Taubenberger and D.M. Morens
H5N1 Outbreaks and Enzootic Influenza, R. Webster et al.

History
Influenza Pandemics of the 20th Century, E.D. Kilbourne
1918 Influenza: the Mother of All Pandemics, J.K. Taubenberger and D.M. Morens
Swine Influenza A Outbreak, Fort Dix, New Jersey, 1976, J.C. Gaydos et al.
Reflections on the 1976 Swine Flu Vaccination Program, D.J. Sencer and J.D. Millar
Influenza Pandemic Periodicity, Virus Recycling, and the Art of Risk Assessment, W.R. Dowdle
The Swine Flu Episode and the Fog of Epidemics, R. Krause

Pathogenesis
Antiviral Response in Pandemic Influenza Viruses, A. García-Sastre
Cell-mediated Protection in Influenza Infection, P.G. Thomas et al.

Prevention
Vaccines and Antiviral Drugs in Pandemic Preparedness, A. Monto
Making Better Influenza Virus Vaccines? P. Palese
Vaccines for Pandemic Influenza, C.J. Luke and K. Subbarao
Pandemic Influenza Threat and Preparedness, A.S. Fauci

Another Dimension
Influenza and the Origins of The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, D.M. Morens and J.K. Taubenberger

Policy Review
Nonpharmaceutical Interventions for Pandemic Influenza, International Measures, World Health Organization (WHO) Writing Group
Nonpharmaceutical Interventions for Pandemic Influenza, National and Community Measures, World Health Organization (WHO) Writing Group

Research
Economics of Neuraminidase Inhibitor Stockpiling for Pandemic Influenza, Singapore, V.J. Lee et al.
Estimating Influenza Hospitalization among Children, C.G. Grijalva et al.
SARS–associated Coronavirus Replication in Cell Lines, M. Kaye et al.
Influenza-associated Deaths in Tropical Singapore, A. Chow et al.
Real-time Estimates in Early Detection of SARS, S. Cauchemez et al.
Real-time Forecast of Multiphase Outbreak, Y.-H. Hsieh and Y.-S. Cheng

Dr Ooi · Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 41

BBC news about bird flu

Global impact of bird flu
BIRD-FLU OUTBREAKS AROUND THE WORLD
Confirmed H5N1 strain only
Human cases: laboratory-confirmed since Dec 2003
UK case discovered in quarantine, so disease-free status unaffected

Much of the world is now on alert for potential outbreaks of the lethal strain of bird flu that has become a major avian killer in South East Asia.
Millions of birds have died or been destroyed as a result of outbreaks in more than a dozen countries since the H5N1 strain began to take hold in 2003, before spreading into Eastern Europe during the second half of 2005.

The number of cases among humans is also rising, although at nowhere near the rate among birds.

By the end of 2005, more than 70 people had died from bird flu - a mortality rate of around 50%.

The first human deaths from H5N1 outside Asia, in January 2006, heightened concern, but the World Health Organization pointed out that the deaths, in Turkey, were among people who had been in close contact with infected birds, and were not passed from human to human.

But although the WHO points out that this is true of most human cases, governments around the world are being encouraged to develop a global policy to try to stem the advance of the virus.

The main fear is that with each new human case, the chances increase of a mutation that might create a more lethal strain that may transmit more easily from human to human .

HUMAN CASES OF BIRD FLU
9 January 2006 (*Turkey data subject to WHO confirmation)
Country Cases Deaths
Cambodia 4 4
China 8 5
Indonesia 16 11
Thailand 22 14
Turkey* 14 3
Vietnam 93 42
Total 157 79
Source: World Health Organization