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There have been a lot of H5N1\H1N1 combo mix warnings lately, so I want to keep them here. There are many already posted. Some are crazy, but most are from scientist telling of things I believe are not to far off. Please add yours as you find them. I will start with this one from Vietnam, and then one from a Chinese dissident type site
<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=numberdate bgColor=#3a84fd height=16 vAlign=top align=left>Thursday ,Dec 03,2009, Posted at: 12:18(GMT+7)</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=3 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=thanh vAlign=top align=left>Swine flu, bird flu viruses could form deadly cocktail: health official</TD></TR><TR><TD class=tintop_text vAlign=top align=left>The reappearance of bird flu has opened up the threat of the virus combining with the swine flu virus to become more lethal and capable of human transmission, a health official warned at a meeting of the National Steering Board of Human Flu Prevention on December 2.
Dr. Nguyen Huy Nga, chief of the Preventive Health and Environment Department, said the H1N1 virus that causes swine flu could combine with the H5N1 virus and become more deadly than the former and more capable of human-to-human transmission than the latter, especially in winter. He told delegates that two more people have died of swine flu, both from the Mekong delta province of An Giang -- a 33-year-old man from who died on November 20, and a 17-year-old girl who died on November 29. On November 28 bird flu claimed its fifth victim, a 23-year-old man in the northern province of Dien Bien. Many others have been hospitalized around the country with suspected bird flu. Officials from the Vietnam Drug Administration said at the meeting that three drug suppliers, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Sanoffi Aventis, and Pasteur have registered to sell swine-flu vaccines. The administration has tested the vaccine made by GSK which would supply 1.2 million doses through the World Health Organization, they said. They are meant for high risk groups like children aged six to 59 months, pregnant women, people with chronic health conditions including asthma, diabetes, and immune system problems, and health-care personnel who provide direct patient care, the officials added. Besides buying one million doses of Tamiflu, Vietnam has successfully made an antiviral drug for treatment of both flus called Arbidol (Fludon H1), So far the country has reported 10,944 swine-flu cases with 46 deaths and five deaths from bird flu.http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Health/2009/12/76628/
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A flow of the spread of well-known Chinese medicine practitioner teach you how to prevent the
By Reuters December 3 (Associated Press coverage of the news of ancient Kiyoji) A flow of the epidemic in China has continued to spread, but showed a rapid rise.Recently, the domestic A substantial flow of patients with lesions caused by "white lung" and "white matter lesions" that leads to rapid death of patient case. Rapid mutation of the virus began to appear, spread to a variety of animals.
Chinese Ministry of Health, 25, notified last month said China's 31 provinces in the report of 9733 cases of confirmed cases A stream of death 51. However, as of November 29, 91,393 cases of confirmed cases in mainland China, deaths were up to 178 cases, the death toll is increasing rapidly.
Taiwan's acceptance of big well-known Chinese medicine practitioner in mind, Hu Nai-yuan, said an interview, modern medicine for any virus infection are helpless, there is no drug administration. So, whether to accept a current detection point is not important. As long as the virus with the mutation of injections for the vaccine will simply be meaningless, the vaccine can only be single-minded against specific viruses, as long as there are some variants, the vaccine is useless, and had to throw away. He said: "Even worse is that no one wants to responsibly speak out this truth."
Conditions change quickly causing rapid death in patients with
According to the Shenyang Daily reported that the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, specialists have discovered a stream of patients is often severe lung involvement, the condition is changing very fast, there is infection in the fever, cough, just two days on the emergence of the "white lung" symptoms. Recently, Shenyang, 6,7 a local hospital with severe due to a flow of death, the patient's lungs 80% of the almost "burn white."
Recently, the Shenzhen A flow of a second cases of deaths, of which Shenzhen Children's Hospital intensive care unit admitted a total of 18 children with severe A stream, including nine children with brain neuropathy occurs, that is, encephalitis, there are two basic boy diagnosed as brain dead. Experts point out that these cases belong to the nervous system lesions, "white matter lesions."
It is understood that white matter lesions, the current international no conclusion, but there are basically three kinds of reasons, first, the virus directly caused by neural cells against the disease, commonly known as viral encephalitis; 2 is a viral infection caused by systemic inflammation, caused by toxemia; Third, the rapid invasion of the virus cause allergic reactions.
The media mergers on the Shenzhen Influenza A H1N1 cases reported encephalitis cases, the Guangdong provincial health department notification, there is no evidence to suggest that influenza A H1N1 influenza virus directly against the base of brain organization, denied that a flow of death in children infected with viral encephalitis.
Wu Nai-wen said that there is no direct infringement brain tissue, which is indirectly against the brain tissue, also did not mention. There is no evidence that does not mean it could not occur, there is evidence, then it was tragic. The nervous system lesions, or at least that the virus may be a direct violation of the nervous system may also be an indirect violation of the nervous system.
A variation of flow and reorganization of the avian flu would be a catastrophe
Chinese Ministry of Agriculture on November 25 China Agricultural University, received a report that the University College of Veterinary Medicine Clinical Hospital from 52 dogs nasopharyngeal samples, was found two samples of influenza A H1N1 influenza infection. This is the continent the world's first dog infected with human swine influenza (H1N1 influenza) cases. Experts believe that the virus most likely transmitted from person dog, but also may be a dog of a dog pass.
Chinese Medical Association, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Zhong Nanshan said that influenza A H1N1 influenza virus is mutating and the possibility of increased primary and secondary schools should be vaccinated as soon as possible a flow of vaccine. For animals, the virus found in a stream, he pointed out, this means that a flow of the virus reorganization, the possibility of variation in the increase, the Chinese people must guard against influenza A H1N1 and H5N1 influenza viruses occurred between genetic recombination, generating a new strain of the virus, it will lead to a disaster.
Hu Nai-wen said that the current A flow of virus variants, as it were passed by the dog, who had a cold do not infect animals, animals, cold do not infect people, but now there animals to humans case, like birds or pigs to pass like everyone else, such as AIDS, Ebola, influenza and SARS, virus mutates, it can infect humans.
A flow injection of the vaccine virus variant useful?
Liang million years, according to Chinese Ministry of Health officials pointed out that currently the whole of China, it has been notified of 4 cases of influenza H1N1 vaccine after vaccine deaths. But later denied that, saying that three people were killed of which has nothing to do with the vaccine and another one who is still verify the cause of death. Health department officials said the vaccine for some people a great reaction, might as well not to fight.
Hu Naiwen noted that so long the virus with the mutation of injections for vaccination will simply be meaningless, the vaccine as long as there is a little bit different I just could not believe that biology, as long as it has a little bit variant is the variant of a little bit, then the original use of this vaccine is completely has no effect. Developed a vaccine requires at least a few months time, but this variant of the vaccine as long as it would tantamount to not save.
A flow of people how to fight to prevent and health care?
Recently, the Guangdong Provincial Health Department, said Huang Fei, deputy director of the province at all levels of schools have become the hardest hit by influenza A H1N1 influenza outbreak, the province and 7 died in 3 cases were students. It is reported that patients were more than 10 years old to 20-year-olds mainly for heart and lung injury in the general performance of large changes in acute illness.
U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) virologist Dr. Hu Zongyi said that the poor health conditions, population, mobility in China, you can speculate the actual number of infections and deaths is far greater than the number released. He said: "This is very worrying, to conceal the epidemic so that the public awareness of prevention and reduction, very dangerous."
Hu Nai-wen said that with the way Western medicine is now completely powerless, helpless. If the theory of traditional Chinese medicine the way we should Bianzheng rule, each a different case, you can use in different ways, or can be treated. He said: "Western medicine's concept is to kill that virus, while the concept of Chinese medicine makes your body produce different energy structure to kill the virus, rather than drugs to kill the virus."
According to national reports, Gansu in the prevention and control of influenza A flow of work into full play the advantages of the role of Chinese medicine, there are nearly 100 million people to take control a flow of Chinese medicine, achieved good results.
"Prevention of Disease Sachet" can avoid all the Plague
Faced with the spread of variants of influenza A variety of information, the public is most concerned about than how to prevent and health care? In this regard, Hu Nai-wen, a Chinese medicine offers an "immunization Sachet" recipe and production methods, he expressed the hope that people in mainland China to have, at least be able to achieve the efficacy of immunization.
Hu Nai-wen said: "This sachet-induced antibody effect is very strong, compared to fungus, etc. These drugs are used. My sachet to be a test, prevention is possible, but Can governance, because I did not make experiments, I dare not say. "
Hu Nai-wen provides a precautionary approach, that is, the ancient Chinese folk use of "pot-pourri." Ancient books is called "provision of plague Sachet" and that the sachet can be avoided almost all of the blast. Using the method, wear on the chest.
Formulations and production methods are as follows:
(1) Notopterygium, rhubarb, Bupleurum, herb, Asarum, Wu Chu, each equal parts.
(2) ground into a powder, placed in a small cloth bag, worn on the body or on the pillow, the always smell it taste, they can prevent plague disease infection.
In addition to avoid the plague Sachet addition, another kind of plague to avoid fragrance, is a kind of incense, burning up and smell the infection could have been avoided. . Its composition and production method are as follows:
"Herb, peach branches of 12 kilograms, Xiang Angelica, three of eight pounds Chennai, nard, large fennel, cinnamon, Cyperus rotundus, sandalwood, incense down two pounds each, Aconitum 2 jin, Tribulus terrestris, Guanzhong, ghosts Arrow feather The one jin, realgar, orpiment all 8 2, Elm leather moderate, (made of incense) closed burning of household, so that flue gas with the breath into the room can play Shen rotten, absolutely infectious.
Why the incidence of human society, avian flu, SARS, influenza? Dr. Hu heartbreaking, said: "decline in moral standards of humanity, acts with animals is similar, people do not talk about things without a good thinking and behavior may be related to this." Dr. Hu pointed out that people should pay attention to morality, good deeds, keeping good Nian, who Mindfulness, comply with the timing, spiritual cultivation, regulation is thinking and behavior, it may be good health. (http://www.dajiyuan.com)
No new A(H1N1) deaths reported last week in Thailand<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=3 width="95%" align=center><TBODY><TR vAlign=top><TD height=40> </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD height=20></TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=default12>BANGKOK, Dec 2 (TNA) – Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health in its weekly report on Wednesday confirmed that no new fatalities related to Influenza Type A(H1N1) have occurred, urging health offices nationwide to monitor any possible mutation between the A(H5N1) bird flu virus and A(H1N1) virus.
In its weekly report on the A(H1N1) situation in the country from November 23-29, Public Health Minister Witthaya Kaewparadai said that the number of fatalities still stands at 187 as no fatality was reported last week.
Regarding Thailand’s overall spread of the virus, the outbreak is still found in some areas and communities. Increasing numbers of local residents in several provinces have seasonal flu-like symptoms and pneumonia.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) report estimated that 7,826 people living in North America, Eastern Europe and Eastern Asia have so far died in the flu pandemic.
Following the death of a 23-year-old Vietnamese man infected with bird flu in Dien Bien province, Dr Paichit Varachit, the ministry’s permanent secretary, ordered upcountry provincial health offices to closely monitor the flu situation.
Dr Paichit said he has instructed heath officials nationwide to follow up patients suffering from chronic pneumonia and to make standard inquiries in such cases about their background, that is whether they had close contact with poultry. He said the measure is aimed at preventing possible mutation of the A(H1N1) swine flu and the H5N1 bird flu viruses, which might mutate into a new virus strain, particularly in the lower northern and upper central parts of the country where the bird flu outbreak had been detected.
Dr Paichit added that officials concerned will convene to discuss upgraded measures against the avian influenza before forwarding it to the national committee on the H5N1 flu. (TNA)http://enews.mcot.net/view.php?id=13083
WHO warns that with new H5N1 bird flu cases reported in poultry in Egypt, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam, the risk of bird flu and the H1N1 pandemic swine flu virus mixing was heightened
AP
Published: 08:46 December 1, 2009
A man is injected with an H1N1 flu vaccine in Suining, in southwest China's Sichuan province. China has detected eight people infected with mutated forms of the swine flu virus, a health official said.
Image Credit: AP
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<!-- image -->Hanoi: Vietnam's Ministry of Health says a man has died from bird flu, as the World Health Organization warns about the dangers of bird flu and swine flu combining.
The ministry said on its Web site Tuesday that the 23-year-old man died last week, and test results confirmed he was infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus. He had eaten duck blood pudding before falling sick. Last week, the WHO warned that with new H5N1 bird flu cases reported in poultry in Egypt, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam, the risk of bird flu and the H1N1 pandemic swine flu virus mixing was heightened. http://gulfnews.com/news/world/other...combo-1.542816
The community was appealed to anticipate the new virus attack that was formed from the combination two genetic the virus namely pig flu (H1N1) and bird flu (H5N1) with the level of the spread and the death was very high.
That was revealed by the Section Head the Dan Pengamatan Prevention of the Illness, Dinas Kesehatan of the Regency Lampung Selatan Kristi Endarwati SKM, on Monday (30/11).
He said, be based on pengamataan and the Department's research of the Health, naturally the two viruses were enabled bermutasi in a short time. "We received intruksi to guard against and anticipate him in accordance with the procedure continue to (Protap) clearly from the centre to handle him if terjangkit to humankind," he said.
He said, uptil now the community only learned the existence of the bird flu virus and pig flu separately, in fact was based on results of the scientific research, the virus could have a mutation and spread to humankind simultaneously in the form of the very deadly new virus.
Further, he explained, the bird flu virus uptil now the characteristics of his spread tended slower but the mortality rate that was resulted in by him very high. Whereas the flu virus of the spread pig was very fast antarmanusia but the mortality rate was classified as low. After having a mutation, continued he, the two viruses had finally become a new virus that was perfect with the characteristics was faster fast between humans was increased by the mortality rate was very high. The indication of the spread even more dasyat because of the combination of the sign of the two viruses.
He added, the mutation of this virus by the Department of the Health was not yet given by the name because of not yet having the case that happened because of that the community diintruksikan was on the alert and menyosialisasikan to that did not yet know him.
The "mutation" of "this virus happened naturally started from the virus H5N1 spread to the pig body that has infected H1N1 afterwards spread between humans in accordance with the original characteristics" of the "virus H1N1," said he. He said, was based on the research, the bird flu virus was really enabled to spread to the pig that already infected flu or humankind because of the structure of the pig body had the similarity with the human body, or H5N1 spread direct to humankind that has infected H1N1.
"One of the viruses till at this time still was difficult to be prevented in fact immune with antivirus, moreover if until the two viruses has bermutasi became the crueller new virus," explained he. He explained, after the virus was combined bermutasi became the virus just had speed perfection of the spread and height perfection of the death for that tertular.
To melaukan the early detection of the case, the Kesehatan Service make an effort with empowerment of the health service, and memebentuk 40 people surveilans (the observer) to berkerja be the same as gave the edication to the community. The important matter that must be done by the community to anticipate him that is guarding the pattern of the healthy life by maintaining the cleanliness as washing the hands before eating, maintained ethics when sneezing and the cough. (Ant/MI)
AP Photo/Yonhap, Kim Ho-chun
The potential amalgamation between the two viruses H1N1 (Swine Flu) and H5N1 (Bird Flu) has troubled the sleep of leading flu scientists for several years, as the two viruses continue to emerge and erupt. The fear is that the two viruses will reassort and produce a new, more virulent virus, one with as high a mortality rate as Bird Flu and as easily transmissible from human to human as the Swine Flu.
“Perhaps, in some innocent encounter in China between a child and a bird, a new killer flu is on its way. Or perhaps, even now, a young man or a young woman, has become infected with two different strains of flu viruses. They are mixing together in the person’s lungs, their genes reassorting. Emerging from that witches’ brew is a new virus, a chimera, that, like the 1918 flu virus, is perfectly suited for destruction.” - Gina Kolata, Flu
On November 28, 2009 a 23-year-old Vietnamese man died of H5N1 Bird Flu after eating “duck’s blood pudding.” His symptoms included high fever, cough, and respiratory problems. He died two days after entering the hospital, about two weeks after the intial infection of the disease. In Vietnam to date there have been 46 Swine Flu deaths and 5 Bird Flu deaths.
Swine Flu deaths: 46 Bird Flu deaths: 5
The words with which Gina Kolata ends her 2001 book (page 306) on the "murder mystery" of the Great Pandemic of 1918, seem highly prescient today, in 2009: "...a chimera, that, like the 1918 flu virus, is perfectly suited for destruction." As there is a lull in the storm of the 2009 Great Pandemic, the Bird Flu circles like a carrion feeder, emerging again, swooping down. Scientists and researchers around the world are fidgeting with the strong reemergence of H5N1 and the resulting deaths.
Dr. Nguyen Huy Nga, chief of the Preventive Health and Environment Department, said the H1N1 virus that causes swine flu could combine with the H5N1 virus and become more deadly than the former and more capable of human-to-human transmission than the latter, especially in winter. -K. Nguyen, translated by Dang Long
As early as September 2009, a 19-year-old Balinese woman, Ni Wayan Siti, died of pneumonia brought on by H1N1 Swine Flu, indicative of an early flu mutation recognized only now in the news media. The remarkable complication was that the hospital suspected that the patient was also infected with H5N1 Bird Flu. Do not be lulled in the Pandemic lull. The stage for an H1N1/H5N1 amalgamation was established in September 2009, or even possibly earlier.
Influenza viruses not only mutate quickly and unpredictably, but they can swap genes,especially if a person or animal becomes infected with two strains at once. The new H1N1 strain is itself a mixture of various strains, genetic tests show. -NYDaily News
This is the end of the beginning, as Winter settles in. From April 2009 until now, it has been the beginning, the time of the so-called "mild influenza." With Winter comes the true flu season, and it will be from December 2009 until about March 2010 that the ultimate significance of the 2009-2010 Great Pandemic can be judged, and ultimately compared to the 1918-1919 Great Pandemic. During the lull in the pandemic storm, this is the time to regroup, and redouble our vigilance in fighting influenza.
FONT] On November 28 bird flu claimed its fifth victim, a 23-year-old man in the northern province of Dien Bien. Many others have been hospitalized around the country with suspected bird flu.
I am wondering if a CFR on these cases will become available.
Disease control departments to closely monitor a flow variation
Time :2009-12-04 04:29
"At present, monitoring a flow of evolution of the virus is one of our important work." Yesterday, the reporter learned from the disease control department, strain detection range and frequency increase, the monitoring of sentinel virus has been found a variation of flow tend to.
A province of the first flow of the vaccine injection, disease control experts in the field, said the monitoring of a stream evolution of the virus disease control departments have become an important task, the most afraid of is a flow of the virus and the avian flu virus re-mutation, because Avian influenza death rates were high.
At present, our province has not yet found a flow of virus mutation, disease control department is still in the evolution of the virus closely monitored. http://cjsb.cnxianzai.com/kandian/2009/1204/171272.html
National Research Center in Egypt warns of new virus more dangerous than the "birds and pigs"
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Warned the research carried out by the National Center for Research of the new virus had attacked Egypt in the autumn is more dangerous than bird flu and swine flu.
وقالت رئيس قسم الشعب البيطرية في المركز الدكتورة نبيل الدغيدي أن "انفلونزا الطيور مستوطن
The head of the Veterinary Center Dr. Nabil El-that "the bird flu endemic
في مصر ولا يمكن التخلص منه قبل عشر سنوات وفيروسه خطير جدا حتى وصلت نسبة الوفيات الناجمة عن الإصابة بهذا الفيروس 50% " .
In Egypt and can not be disposed of ten years ago, and AIDS is very serious and had reached the proportion of deaths due to HIV infection 50%. "
وأشارت إلى أن "مصر تحتل المرتبة الأولى في الوفيات على مستوى العالم تليها أندونيسيا " .
She pointed out that "Egypt was the first death in the world followed by Indonesia."
وبين أن "معظم الطيور الموجودة في الأسواق حاليا حاملة للفيروس".
The "most birds are currently on the market carrying the virus."
وأشارت إلى أن "أنفلونزا الخنازير سوف تتزايد بدرجة مخيفة خلال موسم الشتاء القادم وهو بطبيعة الحال موسم الانفلونزا " .
She pointed out that the "swine flu will become increasingly more frightening during the winter season, which of course is the next flu season."
وتابعت أن "جميع الحالات التي تم اكتشافها قدمت من الخارج ولكن لم يتم اكتشاف المرض وأعراضه ".
She said "All the cases were detected from the outside, but were not detected the disease and its symptoms."
وأكدت أن "هناك 256 نوعا من الانفلونزا يسبب امتلاك ال H
It stressed that "there are 256 kinds of flu cause possession of H
16 نوعا وال
16 species and
9
9
أنواع وإذا ما تم الإندماج بين هذين النوعين ينتج 256 فيروسا " .
Types and if the integration between the two types produces 256 virus. "
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"Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour...We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep..."
The US will support Vietnam?s efforts to combat bird and swine flu with a three-year project, providing US$3.6 million during the first year, the country?s embassy in Hanoi said in a press release on Sept. 23.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has selected Abt Associates to carry out the project in coordination with the Vietnamese Government.
It will focus on five provinces -- the southern provinces of Can Tho and Kien Giang, the central province of Quang Tri, and the northern provinces of Ha Nam and **** Yen -- as the base for testing and applying risk reduction practices.
Other provinces will be included later. It will involve local health, agriculture, and rural development officials, and work through public communication campaigns and training for animal and human health workers in monitoring, preventing, and controlling the two epidemics.
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Perhaps this 'group' tested and confirmed the 23 y.o. man's death this week in Dien Bien?
<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=NewsDetailsTitle>Swine flu virus could mutate into more dangerous strain -- UK official </TD></TR><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD class=NewsDetailsCategory>Health 12/4/2009 8:59:00 AM</TD></TR><TR><TD> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=ArticleDetails><TABLE class=ImageFloat cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 align=left><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD id=tdCaption class=pictureCaption width=180 align=middle></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>LONDON, Dec 4 (KUNA) -- The swine flu virus could mutate into a more dangerous strain this winter, said Sir Liam Donaldson, chief medical officer, as he revealed his biggest concern over the pandemic. According to the Daily Telegraph, the cases of the H1N1 pandemic virus are dropping but the risk remains that the strain could change into something more virulent.
Sir Liam revealed so-called "drift" of the virus, where it changes slightly over time, was his biggest worry.
Millions of healthy children to get swine flu jab Experts have warned that although the virus is causing only mild illness in the majority of people currently, it could still change into a more dangerous disease. Flu viruses have shown they can mutate easily and they can also mix with other strains raising the concern that swine flu could mix with the more deadly bird flu. It comes after Tamiflu-resistant swine flu emerged in Wales and spread between very sick patients in a hospital ward. The strain does not appear to have escaped from the hospital and there have been no further cases.
Resistant forms have been found in other countries around the world.
Sir Liam revealed his "worry list" for the first time, and said, "The biggest worry of all is the fear of mutation. We hear people saying something funny has happened (to the virus) in Norway or France but fortunately we have not seen any change in the virus so far.
"We are not claiming victory, there are still too many things to worry about, particularly at the severe end of the disease spectrum and it is still early days as far as the NHS winter is concerned."http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesP...60&Language=en</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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China Agricultural Universityexperts: do not rule out a stream of the virus in animals mutate
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Xinhua Beijing December 4 (Xinhua Dong Jun), referring to the recent detection of canine influenza virus, Influenza A H1N1, the Chinese Agricultural University, College of Veterinary Medicine Professor Liu Jinhua 4, said in an interview from the characteristics of influenza A H1N1 influenza virus and dissemination of the law point of view, although the mutation of the virus has not yet taken place, does not rule out the virus in animals in vivo geneticrecombinationoccurs, the virus does notrule out the possibility of transmissionamong animals.
Liu Jinhua also said, according to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and World Health Organization (WHO) to monitor the current global epidemic of influenza A H1N1 influenza virus has not yet happened obviously variations,including my own pigs and dogs isolated from the Influenza A H1N1 influenza viruses.
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"At present, the influenza A H1N1 influenza in dogs with little research data, there is no evidence that the virus can be formed between the dog spread." Jin-Hua Liu said, "foreign disease have been reported in companion animals is also a fragmented place, the current data are limited formed between the dog can not come to spread the conclusion thereis no evidencethat sick animals infected with the virus has returned to people. "
According to Liu Jinhua introduction, for cough, runny nose symptoms of respiratory diseases such as dogs and cats, need to bring dogs and cats to the animal hospital for clinical examination, blood routine examination usually needs to be done, dogs plague, canine adenovirus, cats and other diseases rhinotracheitis Inspection diagnosis, and save the blood samples for further diagnosis. At the same time to do mouth swabs and nasal swab samples sent to specialized laboratories H1N1 virus, laboratory testing. Confirmed positive for H1N1 virus, dogs, the use of comprehensive treatment of antiviral drugs and specific drugs obey the views of veterinarians in general in order to symptomatic therapy.http://translate.googleusercontent.c...PtvAN-KASnTfrA
Concerns of the two recombinant viruses A-H1N1 and H5N1 RFA-12-04-2009 Avian influenza outbreak in Vietnam Now the chance last year, at the same influenza A/H1N1 is spreading. There are concerns about capacity in Vietnam two strains of this virus may re-combine to form a new virus has a higher motivation.
First situation, the Department of Animal Health has sent the special province and city yesterday asked the nurse to strengthen disease prevention cattle and poultry before Lunar New Year.
Document not get to many places actively implementing the text added to the previous foot-mouth disease, long nails on the increasingly complex animal, bird flu outbreak began.
As reported by the Department of Veterinary thei Ca Mau has reported an outbreak of H5N1 new. This is a local record Monday in the country's bird flu is hard from the winter. Before that, Dien Bien also detected bird flu in seven households, and over 2,000 birds were destroyed.
By David Oshinsky Sunday, December 6, 2009 [/SIZE]
THE FATAL STRAIN On the Trail of Avian Flu and the Coming Pandemic By Alan Sipress Viking. 386 pp. $27.95
Americans know little about lethal infectious diseases. With the exception of AIDS, which targets specific population groups, we haven't experienced a nationwide epidemic since the 1960s, when the so-called Hong Kong Flu sickened millions of children and older adults, though killing relatively few. In 1900, infectious disease was the leading cause of death in the United States; today, with life-saving vaccines and antibiotics, this is no longer the case. When health officials talk about current "epidemics," they more likely are referring to chronic illnesses like cancer and heart disease. Aside from the post-9/11 threat of bioterrorism, infectious disease is more of a seasonal annoyance to most Americans than a major threat to their lives.
Until now, that is. Almost overnight we are discovering that microbes can be deadly and that the current influenza virus known as H1N1, or something uncomfortably close, has visited us before. In the fall of 1918, a strain of the swine flu triggered the worst seasonal pandemic in world history. Estimates range as high as 100 million deaths, and the United States was hardly immune. Indeed, 10 times as many Americans died in that year of influenza as were killed on the battlefields of World War I. The good news is that the current H1N1 strain has proved far less lethal than the one that circulated in 1918. The bad news, says Alan Sipress in his superb and sobering book about the shadowy progression of a virulent avian flu now moving across Asia, is that the worst is yet to come.
Sipress, a deputy business editor at The Washington Post, is uniquely positioned to tell this story. He's intimately familiar with the region, having served as a correspondent in South Asia during the devastating recent tsunami. And his grasp of virology, as well as of the ins and outs of the world health bureaucracy, serves him well in explaining why medical practices that appear so obvious to Western experts in containing a deadly epidemic are largely irrelevant to "the backyard chicken farmers, cockfighters, witch doctors, political bosses, and poultry smugglers" who control the terrain where this battle must be fought. We may be "closer to a global epidemic than [we've] been in a generation," says Sipress, who adds: "The pandemic [is] coming."
The culprit will not be H1N1, Sipress notes, but rather H5N1, an avian influenza that has killed millions of birds throughout East Asia since the 1990s and has now turned up in places as distant as Egypt and Azerbaijan. Flu viruses are defined by two types of protein: hemagglutinin, which the virus uses to break into the victim's host cells; and neuraminidase, which the virus needs to break out again in search of new cells to infect. What makes H5N1 so virulent is its ability to penetrate deep into lung tissue, unlike seasonal influenza, which targets the nose, throat and upper respiratory system. Particularly troubling is the fact that it has already jumped the species barrier from animals to humans. Though few people have been infected so far -- all in Asia and the vast majority in close contact with diseased poultry -- the mortality rate has been a staggering 60 percent.
Sipress sees H5N1 as the product of numerous factors, including a livestock revolution gone wild. Countries like Indonesia and Vietnam have become world leaders in poultry production without changing the primitive ways they go about tending their flocks. Chickens and ducks are rarely segregated from other farm animals, allowing all sorts of viruses to mix and spread. The birds are packed together in astonishing density; slaughtering takes place in open markets or private homes. Epidemics are ignored or covered up by public officials. Why risk the sort of publicity that could cost hundred of millions of dollars in poultry sales and tourism? "The fatal strain's progress across East Asia," writes Sipress, "had been a journey veiled in secrecy and blessed with neglect."
The blame does not rest solely in this part of the world, however. Western governments have been slow to grasp the resentments of Asian nations, which are both starved for antiviral drugs like Tamiflu and reluctant to provide influenza strains without receiving compensation from the pharmaceutical giants that will profit from them. This "fracture between haves and have-nots," as Sipress calls it, may well derail the coordinated effort needed to battle a pandemic.
It must be noted that many infectious disease experts are skeptical of H5N1's catastrophic potential. They note that this influenza strain, which jumped from animals to humans more than a decade ago, has still shown almost no ability to move from one human to another -- the key factor in triggering a pandemic. If it hasn't happened by now, they argue, the potential for person-to-person transmission appears low. What does worry these experts, however, is the sort of mutation, common to influenza viruses, that could produce an H5N1 variant that is transmissible and to which there is no current human immunity. That, indeed, may be the next fatal strain.
David Oshinsky, the Jacob K. Javits visiting professor at New York University, won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2006 for his book "Polio: An American Story."http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...120402026.html
There have been a lot of H5N1\H1N1 combo mix warnings lately, so I want to keep them here. There are many already posted. Some are crazy, but most are from scientist telling of things I believe are not to far off. Please add yours as you find them. I will start with this one from Vietnam, and then one from a Chinese dissident type site 
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