Avian Flu in India, page 1

Officials have begun the slaughter of thousands of chickens in India as they find H5N1.

Authorities in Manipur in India's north-east, have started killing all poultry in the state's capital, Imphal, after an outbreak of bird flu.

More than 150,000 birds and backyard poultry will be killed within a week, a state official said.

The deadly H5N1 virus has been reported from a poultry farm near Imphal where 133 chickens have died in four days.

The virus can cause illness and death in humans, but scientists say the chances of being infected are very low.

Officials say the special focus is on a five-km area around the infected poultry farm at Chingmeirong, near Imphal, from where the outbreak of avian influenza has been reported

Full Story:
news.bbc.co.uk...

This link for the spread of the virus:
news.bbc.co.uk...

So far, measures to prevent the feared pandemic seem to have worked, but it keeps popping up.

Health officials in India were monitoring four children suffering from fever on Wednesday after they had contact with dead or sick poultry in Manipur state, where authorities are fighting a bird flu outbreak in fowl.


They also mention checking on 230,000 people so far for flu symptoms .

news.yahoo.com...

1996Highly pathogenic H5N1 virus is isolatedfrom a farmed goose in Guangdong Province, China.

1997 Outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 are reported in poultry at farms and wet markets in Hong Kong.Human infections with H5N1 are reported in Hong Kong. Altogether, 18 cases (6 fatal) are reported in the first known instance of human infection with this virus .

www.who.int...

www.nature.com... 1968 saw a lot of flu deaths .. H3N2 virus.
budski Guangdong 1996 .. something buried .. would be in the deep hole there .. wonder if it was floating... just drifting in the cool winds on a picture perfect lake .

Kids test negative for BF all completed tests also are negative .

Throat swab and tissue samples of the four boys had been sent for testing but no sign of bird flu was found.
"They are negative," Vineet Chawdhry, a joint secretary in the health ministry, told Reuters on Friday.

in.reuters.com...

I was thinking more of when the current scare began.

One of the first big reports was feb 16 2006, when the virus first came to public prominence, and lots of air time was dedicated to it. I've found 2 stories of relevance to the UK - 2 stories which the Blair regime don't like to talk about.

www.mpa.gov.uk...

Finance matters for the met police in the above link.

news.bbc.co.uk...

Un calling for guantanamo closure in 2nd link.

I'm sure there's plenty more.

While BF world tour took off in 2006 , many laws changed also all laws mentioned under pandemic , terror environment . Police laws , to chicken laws , many countries as the tour developed laws slipped in giving all different powers to different areas , I am confused not many said BOO to the new laws . I find them just as scary as the thought of a pandemic . Pan flu was in the same sentence as terrorism with changing laws .

www.afp.gov.au...
Impact of environmental change on the police function

These in turn will affect areas such as water availability, agricultural viability, disease levels, flooding and the movement of people.
greater health consequences such as pandemics and infectious diseases;
Such changes raise fundamental questions around human security, survival and stability of nations to the extent that climate change will quickly become the security issue for the 21st century.

It is possible that security could be undermined by phenomena such as:

increasing food, water and energy scarcities;
increasing unregulated population movements;
more frequent and more severe natural disasters;
greater health consequences such as pandemics and infectious diseases;
pressures on state borders including the emergence of diasporas formed as smaller states are displaced; and
The previous five events combining to weaken some states.
Here is a link for the 2006 BF tour .today.reuters.co.uk...

Down in OZ laws will be same as in 1900 . We're screwed if they put these laws into action . An Aussie ABC interview link .

Bird flu: risks, laws and rights.
|

Scientists, lawyers, politicians, security forces—everyone's walking a fine line with avian flu, between the rights of the individual and the rights of the wider public. When a pandemic happens each of us will be on our own, as the authorities look at the big picture. Reporter, Ian Townsend. (Originally broadcast 16 July 2006)

www.abc.net.au...

Another Bug, Worse than the Last Bug - Flesh Eater Spreading
  Posted 8 days ago with 20 member flags

Superbugs spied off the Antarctic coast
  Posted 8 days ago with 14 member flags

NYC Employers Now REQUIRE Yearly H1N1 Shot - Or you\'re FIRED!
  Posted 6 days ago with 6 member flags

Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Found in 37 U.S. States
  Posted 4 days ago with 6 member flags

Bird flu \'censorship\' decision
  Posted 11 days ago with 5 member flags

No way of stopping leak of deadly new flu, says terror chief
  Posted 3 days ago with 5 member flags

Schmallenberg Virus affects European Livestock
  Posted 3 days ago with 5 member flags

Deadly mosquito virus on rise in Australia
  Posted 19 days ago with 4 member flags

Newest topics, updated in real-time:

Newest topics getting flags, in real-time:

Newest topics getting replies, in real-time: