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I had to close the other panflu thread as it was way too long, and becoming unreadable. I am starting this one with info on the agenda of this meeting tomorrow in Congress. I am linking to Flutrackers because all of the info is right there and easily readable from this post: http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=61735&postcount=1

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Taiwan and Thailand working on their own vaccines:

http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2007/01/taiwan-and-thailand-working-on-their.html

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White Washing with the Flu - Effect Measure:

http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/2007/01/whitewashing_with_the_flu.php#more

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80 People Treated with Tamiflu in Wales for H7N2 infection:

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=83018&postcount=1

If there is H5N1 in wild birds in the area, then this situation is worrisome due to the possibility

of dual infections in the same host, and the chance of H5N1 picking up the ability to

become more easily transmissible from a recombination with H7N2.

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this seems to get scarier and scarier

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Wales

I could not pull up the CIDRAP link on this article so you'll have to read this excerpt. This does seem odd. So few bird deaths but so many human cases.

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=83262&postcount=88

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Of 221 patients identified as contacts, 171 may have been exposed in a workplace setting, including patients and staff at two hospitals, the NPHS statement said. At one of the hospitals, 79 patients and staff were offered oseltamivir because of contact with a healthcare worker who was treated for the H7 flu virus. Lyons said in the NPHS statement that the sick staff member was working between May 21 and 23, when she may have been infectious.

At the other hospital, 69 patients and staff were notified because a patient who had the H7N2 illness was recently treated at the facility. Lyons said the patient was discharged on May 18, and after an 8-day incubation period, anyone who was ill would have had symptoms by May 26. "So we are contacting all staff and patients to ensure that they remained well and to reassure them," she said in the statement.

"There may be a bit of complacency when it comes to recognizing the pandemic potential of H7 viruses," Michael Perdue from the World Health Organization (WHO) told the Associated Press (AP) today.

The number of [H7] human cases seems large for the small number of bird deaths, he told the AP. "Unless there's something unusual about the contact with birds, that suggests the virus is finding new ways of getting to humans," he said in the AP report.

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The situation in Vietnam bears watching. This is one of the countries that is most experienced with controlling H5N1. If they are struggling to contain this disease, than it is important to know this.

Vietnam orders agressive campaign:

http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2007/05/vietnam-orders-aggressive-campaign.html

Vietnam on verge of H5N1 crisis:

http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2007/05/vietnam-on-verge-of-h5n1-crisis.html

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Another death in Indonesia, this man is 45, no strict cut off in age with H5N1 where most cases are under age 40:

http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2007/05/indonesia_man_d.html

http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2007/05/the_official_re_1.html

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Another death in Indonesia, another 15 yr old girl this time. So many young girls in both this country and Egypt...

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=83625&postcount=46

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Vietnam, still trying to get their situation with H5N1 under control:

http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2007/06/vietnam-bird-flu-spreads-to-16th.html

Thailand worried that these poultry deaths are caused by avian flu:

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=83649&postcount=1

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Vietnam reporting a new human case of H5N1, and another two suspected

cases, one of which has already died:

http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2007/06/vietnam-new-human-case-2-others.html

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=83725&postcount=1

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Hong Kong:

I have not posted anything really on the wild birds of Hong Kong. Let's just say that many of their common birds are infected with avian flu. This is just one example, but there have been many, many others. I think that you could say that H5N1 is endemic in their various species of wild birds. They do seem to test any that are found dead very promptly.

http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2007/06/hong_kong_starl.html

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Antibodies from H5N1 survivors provide possible treatment:

http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=3658&language=1

The researchers, including doctors from the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, isolated antibodies from the blood of human survivors of the H5N1 virus. Studies in mice showed these to be effective at preventing infection and neutralising the virus in those already infected.

The research was published in PLoS Medicine this week (28 May).

Gregory Hartl, communications adviser at the World Health Organization said the study offers a potentially promising new mode for the prevention and treatment of H5N1. "[The antibodies] have the advantage of prolonged duration of activity compared to current antiviral drugs," he told SciDev.Net.

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The 19 yr old Chinese soldier has died. We do not know how he became

infected.

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=83396&postcount=36

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=84079&postcount=37

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