Bird Flu (Avian Influenza)
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20 December 2007 Vietnam’s Vaccination Effort Helps in Fight Against Avian Flu Hanoi, Vietnam -- Vaccinating its highest-risk populations of chickens and ducks has been an expensive and logistically complex effort for Vietnam’s central government, but animal health officials say it has slowed deadly outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza among birds in the Southeast Asian nation and, critically, among people.
19 December 2007 Vietnam Bird Flu Preparations Boost General Disease Capacity In the four years since highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu began infecting and killing the chickens, the ducks and eventually the people of Vietnam, the government has made changes on the ground and across the animal and human health infrastructure that will serve the nation far beyond the threat of avian flu.
06 December 2007 Delegates Pledge $605 Million in New Delhi for Avian Flu Fight Eight nations and the European Commission pledged $605 million in the continuing fight against the spread of H5N1 avian influenza in birds and people for efforts focusing on halting the virus at its avian source, bolstering disease surveillance and integrating animal and human health services and capabilities.
04 December 2007 "Substantial Progress" in Global Avian Flu Response, Report Says The world community has made progress in its response to avian influenza, according to a new United Nations-World Bank report whose results were announced in New Delhi on the first day of the New Delhi International Ministerial Conference on Avian and Pandemic Influenza.
28 November 2007 U.S. International Engagement on Avian and Pandemic Influenza -- An Update The threat of pandemic influenza has not changed. The U.S. Government remains concerned about the ongoing outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI ) H5N1 in birds and the potential for a human influenza pandemic that could have major global health, economic and social consequences. For this reason, as of June 2007, the United States Government has allocated $6.3 billion in emergency funding to address the threat of avian and pandemic influenza domestically and internationally.
• U.S. Government Support to Combat Avian and Pandemic Influenza -- Europe and Eurasia
22 August 2007 North American Leaders Prepare for Avian Flu Pandemic As the human toll from avian influenza rises to 321 cases, with 194 deaths worldwide, leaders of the U.S., Canada and Mexico have released a plan that outlines how the three countries will work together if the highly pathogenic virus makes its way to North America.
13 August 2007 Indonesia Still Not Sharing Virus Samples for Avian Flu Vaccines Despite agreeing to share viruses with the World Health Organization in March, Indonesia -- the nation with the highest rates of infection and death from highly pathogenic avian influenza -- still has not done so.
18 July 2007 Pandemic Preparation Boosts Readiness for Other Disasters The U.S. is better prepared to detect a pandemic flu outbreak, support international work to contain a pandemic in its early stages, limit a pandemic’s spread and save lives after a year of coordinated effort across federal agencies, according to a White House report.
15 March 2007 U.S., U.N. Officials Agree To Coordinate Avian Flu Efforts U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns signed an agreement with the head of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) calling for coordinated technical assistance to address avian influenza and other issues important to agriculture.
20 December 2006 Experts Urge Nations To Report Flu Cases Immediately, Share Data Delegates from more than 72 countries are calling on all nations to report influenza cases immediately and share epidemiological data and samples. The reporting and data sharing provisions are in a declaration issued December 18 after the Fourth International Conference on Avian Influenza December 6-8 in Bamako, Mali.
06 December 2006 Global Conference in Mali Targets Avian and Pandemic Influenza More than 350 representatives from countries around the globe gathered in this West African nation for three days of meetings to assess programs that seek to counter the threat of avian and pandemic influenza and to boost financial support for preparedness and response efforts worldwide.
02 November 2006 New Bird Flu Virus Replacing Other Strains in Southern China A new variant of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus, the Fujian-like strain, has replaced most other strains across a large part of southern China since 2005 despite mass poultry vaccinations, according to researchers at the University of Hong Kong and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Tennessee.
26 October 2006 U.N. Official Sees Bird Flu as Threat for Next Decade Bird flu is likely to remain a health threat to animals, and possibly humans, for the next decade, the U.N. coordinator for avian influenza says
02 October 2006 U.S. Researchers Discovering What Makes Flu Viruses Lethal The first comprehensive analysis of an animal’s immune response to the 1918 influenza virus gives new insights into the killer flu, scientists funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases reported online in the journal Nature.
22 August 2006 Indonesia Reports 59th Human Case of Avian Influenza A 35-year-old woman from a remote subdistrict in Indonesia’s West Java province has become that nation’s 59th case of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus, and its 46th death.
26 July 2006 Bird Flu Recurs in Thailand; Efforts Continue To Combat Disease The death of 17-year-old Thai youth from the H5N1 strain of avian influenza is confirmed by the World Health Organization as researchers and health officials continue efforts to contain the disease in the hop of quelling a possible human pandemic.
05 June 2006 Top Officials Meeting on Bird Flu Strategy in Vienna A high-level meeting of officials involved in the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza is being held in Vienna, Austria, June 6-7. The government of Austria, on behalf of the EU, hosts the meeting jointly with the U.S. .
24 May 2006 U.S. Helping Nations Brace for Bird Flu Outbreaks Veterinarians from four African nations spent a week at the U.S. National Veterinary Service laboratory in Ames, Iowa, in May, learning how better to diagnose disease in animals.
12 May 2006 Human Bird Flu Appears in Djibouti, First in Horn of Africa Djibouti is the latest country to report the appearance of highly pathogenic avian influenza in humans, according to the World Health Organization, with an account of illness in a 2-year-old girl.
11 May 2006 U.S. Collaborating with International Groups on Bird Flu Plans The U.S. is collaborating with major international bodies to help countries affected by highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, control and eradicate the disease, according to a senior U.S. Department of Agriculture official.
03 May 2006 Bush Administration Refines Pandemic Preparedness Plan The Bush administration unveiled a far-reaching plan, directing federal government agencies to take more than 300 actions to prepare for an outbreak of pandemic influenza
04 April 2006 United States Allocated $3.8 Billion To Avian Flu Preparedness Fact sheet details U.S. involvement, contributions to meet global threat.
20 March 2006 U.S. Enhances Plan To Detect Entry of Dangerous Bird Flu Strain The U.S. has enhanced its strategy for detecting if a highly pathogenic avian influenza (bird flu) enters the U.S.
13 March 2006 Pandemic Could Restrict Transportation Severely, Experts Warn If a pandemic occurs, the movement of goods and the travel of people throughout the world could be restricted severely to keep the disease contained. National or regional borders might have to close, and shortages of fuel likely would occur and major bottlenecks in the flow of many goods would arise.
23 February 2006 USAID Increases Funding for Bird Flu Preparedness The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is increasing funding for poor countries' preparations for a potential avian influenza pandemic, agency officials say.
21 February 2006 Pace of Bird Flu Spread Accelerating The spread of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus has affected more countries in the month of February than in any similar period in the more than two-year-old epidemic.
15 February 2006 Additional European Countries Report Bird Flu The appearance of avian influenza in wild birds has been confirmed in several European nations in recent days.
20 January 2006 Human Bird Flu Cases Present Puzzling Patterns The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a new fact sheet on avian influenza, the first since the disease moved out of Asia into Europe . The document summarizes the course of bird flu in its two-year spread across Eurasia.
19 January 2006 Confirmed Human Deaths from Bird Flu Worldwide Reach 80 Confirmation of the death of a Chinese poultry worker due to avian influenza January 19 pushes the world total of human fatalities from that disease to 80, just as international donors committed almost $2 billion to the worldwide campaign to fight the disease and prevent a human flu pandemic.
18 January 2006 U.S., Donor Nations Pledge Almost $2 Billion for Bird Flu The United States is putting $334 million into a global pool to help hard-hit nations cope with the most widespread outbreak of avian influenza ever known.
10 January 2006 Bush Approves Funding Boost for Bird Flu Prevention President Bush has approved supplemental spending of $91.4 million to enhance the Agriculture Department’s efforts to prevent and prepare for any potential cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), part of $3.8 billion for pandemic flu preparedness, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
1 January 2006 Flu Pandemic Preparations Needed Now, U.S. Health Officials Say The international community must take steps now to prepare for a possible pandemic, Bush administration officials said on two talk shows January 1.
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