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Wednesday, 24 April the USDA, CDC, FDA held a closed briefing to disseminate information on H5N1. It shouldn't have been closed but we still got the info. Eric Topol who you may recall from the last pandemic wrote about the key points. You can read his...
by MNPundit
on Thu Apr 25, 2024 at 11:24 PM PDT
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Last week, the USDA released the genetic sequences of a strain of influenza that originated in birds and has now spread to dairy cattle in at least eight states. While scientists welcomed the ...
by Mark Sumner
on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Admin note: This story about avian influenza was retracted for unsupported claims regarding the number of infected cats, the mortality among infected cats, and other specific claims about the risks of the virus to humans.
by Adventurist
on Sat Apr 06, 2024 at 12:13 PM PDT
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“Be prepared.” — The Boy Scout Motto Some 31 years ago, an American political philosopher named Francis Fukuyama published a book about the “end of history.” The Soviet Union had just collapsed of its own dead weight, and he predicted the dominance of...
by dratler
on Wed Feb 22, 2023 at 11:53 AM PST
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Trump’s no longer president, but he and his racism could still be responsible for millions more American deaths from a new pandemic disease. How and why? I’ll explain in just a moment, but first let’s look at the disease itself. One reason egg prices...
by thomhartmann
on Fri Feb 10, 2023 at 07:03 AM PST
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CDC Special Pathogens Branch (SPB) lab tech
immerses pathogens in liquid nitrogen ...
by HoundDog
on Sat Jul 12, 2014 at 05:39 PM PDT
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Originally posted here .
More than 25 people have died in China from avian influenza since January, and last week, a study in The Lancet reported that a third strain of avian flu—in addition to ...
by UN Dispatcher
on Tue Feb 18, 2014 at 09:58 AM PST
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So says Bill Moyers, in an article today:
Moyers: How Fear of Science Can Destroy Us
We haven’t even turned the page on the controversy over contraceptives, health care and religious freedom ...
by mem from somerville
on Wed Feb 29, 2012 at 03:40 PM PST
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http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20110313p2g00m0dm056000c.html
A total of four birds were found dead at the Chiba farm on Friday and Saturday, and a genetic test confirmed ...
by nathguy
on Sun Mar 13, 2011 at 08:12 PM PDT
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Considering the amount of time spent on disaster scenarios involving a global bird flu pandemic , you would think that this story would at least get a ...
by posse comitatus
on Fri Mar 06, 2009 at 10:38 AM PST
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Here's this month's editorial in the prestigious international science journal Nature :That ...
by Greg Dworkin
on Sun Jul 13, 2008 at 07:46 AM PDT
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I have been watching tv this Saturday night. I am still fighting the remnants of the influenza, and don't want to go out in the plummeting temperatures. So I have been watching the History Channel ...
by annetteboardman
on Sun Feb 10, 2008 at 12:43 AM PST
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David Nabarro , Senior UN System Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza, has some bad news, some good news and some more ...
by Greg Dworkin
on Sun Dec 23, 2007 at 07:58 AM PST
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Well, originally, the title (respectfully stolen from Effect Measure ), referred to a new H5N1 ...
by Greg Dworkin
on Sun Dec 16, 2007 at 06:15 AM PST
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Click the links for previous Sunday Kos Essays on pandemic preparedness ...
by Greg Dworkin
on Sun Nov 18, 2007 at 05:11 AM PST
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While it doesn't make news here, because it's not American deaths or a change from a simmering baseline, H5N1 still percolates in hot spots like Indonesia's Bali. Several resources help illustrate ...
by Greg Dworkin
on Mon Sep 10, 2007 at 04:07 AM PDT
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(more reports from the YearlyKos convention...)
I had an unusual opprtunity this weekend to attend a partisan political convention and present a non-partisan topic... pandemic preparedness.
by Greg Dworkin
on Tue Aug 07, 2007 at 05:06 AM PDT
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It's been an intersting run on a .gov blog, the first and perhaps the only one I'll ever be invited to participate in. Highlights:
On communication (
by Greg Dworkin
on Wed Jun 27, 2007 at 10:57 AM PDT
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Amongst the tasks we have set for ourselves is a deliverable way of teaching and explaining why you, the reader, should take pandemic planning seriously. As some of the social marketers advising and ...
by Greg Dworkin
on Thu Jun 21, 2007 at 03:43 PM PDT
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The HHS Pandemic Flu Leadership Blog will be active for two more weeks. The Pandemic Flu Leadership Summit agenda ...
by Greg Dworkin
on Mon Jun 18, 2007 at 07:05 PM PDT
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