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The most complete information that I've been able to find on how to make sure that you and your family survive avian bird flu is right here:

Avian bird flu protection

Other ebooks contain the same old rehashed information you can find for free here and in other blogs.

How to Protect Yourself and Your Family From Bird Flu contains a unique 7-Perimeter Immune System to keep yourself and your family free from avian bird flu.

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Avian bird flu in Indonesia

Indonesia is finally waking up to the need to control avian bird flu -- as indicated by the speed with which they tested 4 nurses who treated patients, and who are now sick with flu-like symptoms.

Fortunately, all four of the women have tested negative for the H5N1 virus.

Two of the nurses treated the 10 year old girl and her 18 year old brother who recently died of bird flu in Bandung, West Java. The other two treated members of the family in Kubu Sembelang who raised international concern by having seven out of eight family members die of avian bird flu.

This is a strain of ordinary flu circulating through Indonesia right now, so that seems to be the main source of the four nurses becoming ill.

4 Indonesian nurses do not have avian bird flu

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Avian bird flu found in Denmark hatchery

Avian bird flu's been found in Denmark in a hatchery for ducks and geese in Funen county.

What they found was a "low pathogenic" strain of the H5 influenza virus, but the N subtype was not given.

Low pathogenic does not mean harmless -- it can cause disease in people, especially conjunctivitis.

Besides, every possible case of H5 virus out there still has the ability to jump from birds to people and possibly change into something more dangerous. H5N1 was not considered a human disease at all until it killed a 3 year old boy in Hong Kong in 1997. So we have no control over what happens when these viruses infect people.

The hatchery did take all appropriate steps to isolate and contain the outbreak.

avian bird flu found in Denmark hatchery

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Avian bird flu and ECDC

For many years after its founding after World War II (it actually began during World War II but only as an agency charged with eliminating the malaria threatening soldiers in training camps in the southern United States), the United States Center for Disease Control has had many names (but always the initials CDC) and has taken on my disease chores.

Yet it's certainly most well known and successful in the area of infectious diseases.

The CDC laboratories in Atlanta Georgia have been the main support for the fight against many infectious diseases around the world. Especially after European countries disbanded the centers for studying tropical diseases which they established during the colonial era.

Whether it was food poisoning in Oregon or Ebola in Zaire -- the CDC was sent to investigate and stop it.

In mid-2004, the European Union formed the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ECDC to safeguard EU countries against infectious diseases.

So naturally, the ECDC is now active in the fight against avian bird flu -- along with the United States CDC and United Nations World Health Organization. We should welcome all the great men and women who are working hard, often at great effort and risk to their own safety, to protect us from infectious diseases.

And so naturally their website is another great resource in the fight against avian bird flu:


avian bird flu and The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Avian Bird Flu

protection from avian bird flu

The most complete information that I've been able to find on how to make sure that you and your family survive avian bird flu is right here:

Avian bird flu protection

Other ebooks contain the same old rehashed information you can find for free here and in other blogs.

How to Protect Yourself and Your Family From Bird Flu contains a unique 7-Perimeter Immune System to keep yourself and your family free from avian bird flu.

Some chickens killed to fight avian bird flu

Here's some good news -- Indonesia is actually culling chickens in the village in Tasikmalaya regency of West Java where a 15 year old boy died recently. Of Avian bird flu, according to local test. (They're waiting for WHO laboratory tests to confirm the cause of death.)

About 1,300 birds were killed.

But what's 1,300 birds?

Is that all the chickens within a one kilometer radius of the boy's house?

Well, not being familiar with Tasikmalaya I don't know whether it's sparsely or densely popular with people or chickens.

And one kilometer does not sound like a lot of distant. Unless there's nothing but jungle one kilometer out, I think there's been plenty of time for the virus to spread more than one kilometer.

Maybe local conditions are different than I imagine, but I suspect that they killed just as many chickens as they thought they needed to, to make the public health officials happy. So the government would not have to pay more compensation money to the farmers who owned the dead birds. To keep the number of farmers affected to as low a number as possible.

I hope I'm wrong, but it sounds as though Indonesia is not yet serious about controlling bird flu.

Maybe when 13 million chickens are dead -- or how many children?

Avian bird flu causes some chicken culling in Indonesia

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Avian bird flu in pigs in Indonesia

Many news reports are saying that WHO and local health officials in Indonesia have been unable to find the animal source of the outbreak of bird flu that's by now killed at least 6 members of a family.

Yet according to this story, pigs in the same village have tested positive.

Avian Bird Flu

The most complete information that I've been
able to find on how to make sure that you and
your family survive avian bird flu is right here:

Avian bird flu protection

Other ebooks contain the same old rehashed
information you can find for free here and
in other blogs.

How to Protect Yourself and Your Family From
Bird Flu contains a unique 7-Perimeter Immune
System to keep yourself and your family free
from avian bird flu.

bird flu spreading through pigeons?

The following post seems sort of humorous at first -- but raises a serious issue I don't recall seeing anyone mention before:

Pigeons

Right now, the main way people catch bird flu is through close contact with chickens. Yet obviously this applies mainly to rural people and people in cities who raise and sell chickens.

Yet even in poor countries most people in major cities don't have room or money to raise chickens, unless it's their main source of income.

But lots of cities are overrun with pigeons. They fly around and spread dropping all over buildings and sidewalks where people walk.

Once bird flu is common in pigeons, it'll be much more common for people in large cities to catch it.

And of course that'll give the virus that many more chances to mutate into a contagious form.

And controlling pigeons is much harder than controlling chickens. They have a talent for multiplying and getting out of control.

Thailand, being Buddhist, is not going to try to control them by killing them, but to give them bird control to limit their rate of reproduction.

Do human birth control hormones really have this effect on pigeons?

I don't know, but I think the problem is serious.

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Check out my other bird flu related blogs:

Asian bird flu
Bird flu
Bird flu virus
Bird flu symptoms

Avian Bird Flu and ordinary flu shots

For those of you who take the annual shot against ordinary flu, WHO has come up with its recommendations for the 2006-2007 flu season shot for the Northern Hemisphere. And in the U.S., the CDC is accepting those recommendations:

1. A/New Caledonia/20/99-like (H1N1)

2. A/Wisconsin/67/2005-like (H3N2)

3. B/Malaysia/2506/2004-like

I know that the A and B stand for the type of influenza. The place is where it was first discovered. I'm not sure what the middle number means. The final number is the year of discovery. The H stands for hemagluttin and the N for neuraminidase.

The flu shot always contains the 3 influenza strains WHO expects to be the most common during the flu season.

How do they know?

From tracking, from experience and from guesswork.

Sometimes they do guess wrong. Another strain spreads, people get exposed to it but the vaccine wasn't desired to protect them from the strain they're exposed to -- and that's often why people who have the shot still get sick.

Yet they need to desire this early, because it takes at least 6 months to test, manufacture and distribute the flu shots.

One possible positive result of the bird flu fears will be an improved and streamlined technology for creating and manufacturing vaccines. Which will also make the annual flu shot more accurate.

If you want to keep track of ordinary flu in the United States, here's your web page:

CDC weekly information on influenza in the U.S.

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Here is the best free resource I've found on
how to protect yourself and your family from
avian bird flu. This sums up all the free information
you can find on the Internet, without paying
for it and without doing the extensive digging
yourself.

Clint Fountain is a good guy trying to saving
people's lives from avian bird flu, and he's given me permission
to give this away to readers of this avian bird flu blog.

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Avian bird flu and U.S. small chicken farms

The North American poultry industry is in relatively good shape. Odds are good however that by the end of the year it'll more closely resemble that of Vietnam of the E.U.

That's because bird flu is likely to arrive here via migratory or smuggled bird during the summer -- and they're prepared to kill as many millions of chickens as necessary:

U.S. government plans to slaughter chickens when bird flu arrives

This article does raise some issues:

1. Although large commercial factory farms where chickens are kept indoors are described as safe from exposure to wild birds, if any of them do catch bird flu -- the virus may more easily and quickly spread through chickens because they are kept crowded and immobile in tiny cages.

2. I've read that factory farming in Asia was responsible for the spread and virulence of bird flu there -- but from what I know of that region, there're far more chickens raised by small farmers in back yards than by any concern on a par with American factory farming.

3. It's sad that small chicken farmers in the U.S. may be wiped out -- I prefer to buy eggs from free-ranging chickens. And if the government is issuing written materials in Vietnamese and Spanish it's obvious that many of these chickens are being raised by people who are used to small scale chicken farming.

I don't want to see that wiped out. I don't belong to PETA and I am not a vegetarian, but I'm also not comfortable with factory farming. I'd rather eat chickens raised by small farmers.

Besides, the long run, factory farming of chickens poses the greater health risk of infectious disease to both chickens and people.