Avian Flu
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Beetlemania [Full Story]
Gristmill Nov 21, 2008By Joseph Romm The so-called paper of record ran a major story Tuesday on the country's most infamous climate-driven pest, " Bark Beetles Kill Millions of Acres of Trees in West ." Great story, other than neglecting to mention climate change. It'd be like an article on an outbreak of avian Add A Comment »
The New York Times blows the bark beetle story [Full Story]
Climate Progress Nov 19, 2008The so-called paper of record ran a major story Tuesday on the country’s most infamous climate-driven pest, “Bark Beetles Kill Millions of Acres of Trees in West.” Great story, other than neglecting to mention climate change. It’d be like an article on an outbreak of avian flu Add A Comment »
Thailand: New bird flu outbreak in Sukhothai(Crof) [Full Story]
Wikio - Blogs Nov 9, 2008Via the Bangkok Post: New bird flu outbreak in Sukhothai. This may be a delayed report of an outbreak reported last week by Avian Flu Diary. Excerpt: Bird flu has been found at a native-chicken farm in the northern province Add A Comment »
Thailand: Bird Flu Detected In Chickens(FLA_MEDIC) [Full Story]
Wikio - Blogs Nov 9, 2008# 2451 Sukhothai Province Although this article in today's Bangkok Post calls this a ` new outbreak' , and refers to bird deaths ` last week' , I reported on a suspected bird flu outbreak in this province on October 30th of this year. It isn't entirely clear if this is the same incident Add A Comment »
A Disaster Simulator In A Deck Of Cards(FLA_MEDIC) [Full Story]
Wikio - Blogs Nov 6, 2008# 2445 An intriguing idea out of Japan. A card game that gets people to think about how they, and other people, would react to a crisis. It's called Crossroads . And it comes in a `bird flu edition'. While superficially, the goal is to `win' the game, the real value comes from getting Add A Comment »
Research: How Avian Flu Viruses Evade The Immune System(FLA_MEDIC) [Full Story]
Wikio - Blogs Nov 6, 2008# 2444 While there is still much we don't understand about how influenza viruses function, there has been renewed interest in researching these pathogens over the past few years, and we are beginning to see some results. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston are studying the internal Add A Comment »
How H5N1 smuggles itself past customs(Crof) [Full Story]
Wikio - Blogs Nov 6, 2008Via EurekAlert.com, a news release: Protein 'tubules' free avian flu virus from immune recognition. Excerpt: A protein found in the virulent avian influenza virus strain called H5N1 forms tiny tubules in which it "hides" the pieces of double-stranded RNA formed Add A Comment »
CIDRAP on the new Laotian H5N1 outbreak(Crof) [Full Story]
Wikio - Blogs Nov 4, 2008Via CIDRAP, Lisa Schnirring reports: Laos reports new avian flu outbreak. Excerpt: Government officials in Laos today confirmed that the H5N1 avian influenza virus struck birds in a village in the northwestern part of the country, according to media reports. Add A Comment »
Wild Birds Carry Avian Flu to U.S(Bobbi Lea) [Full Story]
Wikio - Blogs Nov 3, 2008October 28, 2008 by Maggie Fox Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Migrating waterfowl may be carrying avian influenza viruses from Asia to the Americas, U.S. government researchers reported on Tuesday. Photo : A flock of wintering northern pintail ducks takes flight in Northern Honshu, Japan. (Reuters/ USGS Add A Comment »
Sri Lanka On Alert for Avian Flu(cmthomp5) [Full Story]
Wikio - Blogs Nov 2, 2008Sri Lanka On Alert for Avian Flu Chelsea Thompson 11/2/2008 9:27 am Sri Lanka is taking several steps in preventing the spread of Avian Flu. They now have people sending in reports of outbreaks of the virus from neighboring countries to better keep themselves aware of the problem. They also have specific Add A Comment »
Bird Flu [Full Story]
Planet Green (Discovery Channel) Oct 18, 2008While the bird flu (a.k.a. avian flu) hype has quieted a bit (more specifics here), it's important for those in the green movement to remember the environmental factors that play a role. Add A Comment »
Beware of the “Deadly Dozen” [Full Story]
Technorati: Climate Change Oct 9, 2008Its that time of year again when people start coming down with a cold or the flu. But they could soon be the least of your worries. Avian flu, TB, cholera and Ebola are just some of the broad range of infectious diseases that will get worse because of climate change. If that is not enough to make you Add A Comment »
Climate Change: Implications for Proliferation of Deadly Pathogens [Full Story]
Technorati: Climate Change Oct 8, 2008A new report released by the Wildlife Conservation Society names 12 deadly pathogens likely to spread into new geographic regions of the endangering both human and animal populations. The “deadly dozen” includes ebola, avian flu, cholera, yellow fever, tuberculosis and Add A Comment »
Climate change seen aiding spread of deadly diseases [Full Story]
Peak Oil News (3) Oct 7, 2008BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - A "deadly dozen" diseases ranging from avian flu to yellow fever are likely to spread more because of climate change, the Wildlife Conservation Society said on Tuesday. The society, based in the Bronx Zoo in the United States and which works in 60 nations, urged better monitoring Add A Comment »
Better Put On Your Face Masks [Full Story]
Technorati: Climate Change Oct 7, 2008Reuters is reporting that climate change will bring about the spread of a dozen diseases. Of those expected to traverse the planet due to global warming are the “avian flu, tick-borne babesia, cholera, ebola, parasites, plague, lyme disease, red tides of algal blooms, Rift Valley fever, sleeping Add A Comment »
Deadly Diseases Spreading Faster, Thanks to Global Warming [Full Story]
Digg Oct 7, 2008A "deadly dozen" diseases ranging from avian flu to yellow fever are likely to spread more because of climate change, the Wildlife Conservation Society said on Tuesday. "Even minor disturbances can have far reaching consequences on what diseases (wild animals) might encounter and transmit as climate Add A Comment »
New Cities Join The Urban Chicken Movement [Full Story]
GreenOptions Oct 6, 2008Across the country, cities are passing new laws to allow backyard chickens. Cities across the country have shown new leniency in the urban chicken arena. Ann Arbor , Michigan, South Portland , Maine and Fort Collins Colorado, have all voted in the past year to allow backyard chickens. They Add A Comment »
Debating avian flu(Crof) [Full Story]
Wikio - Blogs Aug 21, 2008I posted a couple of items recently with some anxiety, because I was afraid of the responses I might get. One of them was about H5N1 and dioxins. That drew a helpful comment from Theresa, whose post on another site Add A Comment »
EarthNews Podcast (Www.OSIR.org.in) Avian Flu(Admin) [Full Story]
Wikio - Blogs Aug 19, 2008EarthNews Podcasts by Media Interchange and Jerry Kay Everyday Science Everyday: Hosted by Jerry Kay. THIS SITE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTIONSource: earthnewsradio.org Connecting with mother earth : News : WNWO NBC24 By Michael Schlesinger Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 11:05 a.m. TOLEDO — Gardening is a Add A Comment »
Antibodies for Avian Flu Extracted from 90-Year-Old Blood Samples [Pandemic](Annalee Newitz) [Full Story]
Wikio - Blogs Aug 18, 2008Two mutations in the H1N1 avian flu virus were responsible for killing 50 million people all over the world during the 1918 outbreak of so-called Spanish Flu. Now researchers at MIT have analyzed [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Add A Comment »
