Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Thursday, October 17, 2013

NSW: 400K Birds To Be Culled For H7N2 Outbreak

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  # 7868   An update to Tuesday’s report of avian flu at a poultry farm in New South Wales, Australia (see NSW: H7 Avian Influenza R...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

NSW: H7 Avian Influenza Reported In Poultry

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  # 7860   With the caveat that all H7 viruses are not created equal - and that with the exception of H7N9 - H7 viruses are ...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Australia: Acute Flaccid Paralysis & EV71

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WHO Guidance On HFMD     # 7324   ProMed Mail   carried a report over the weekend from Professor Bruce Thorley of the National...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Australia Reports Flu Vaccine Shortages

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Mash up of U.S. Flu seasons from Multiple FluView Reports   # 7207   Having watched the United States come off perhaps the worst ...
Thursday, April 04, 2013

Australian Influenza Experts Weigh In On H7N9

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  Credit NIAID     # 7069   It’s been five days since China announced their detection of a new strain of bird flu (H7N9) in h...
Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Virology Down Under

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Credit Ian M. MacKay – Virology Down Under   # 7060     My thanks to Dr. Ian M. Mackay from the University of Queensland in A...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Research: Antiviral Resistance In 2009 H1N1 Influenza A Strain

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    # 7014     Readers with good memories will recall that in December of 2011, in NEJM: Oseltamivir Resistant H1N1 in Australia...
Monday, March 18, 2013

Australia: Hendra Vaccine Hurdles

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  Credit WHO   # 7011   Hendra, a bat-borne virus found in Australia that occasionally infects horses and has killed at least...
Friday, February 15, 2013

Queensland: Rare Australian Bat Lyssavirus Infection

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Fruitbats In Australia – Credit Wikipedia     # 6939     Rabies - the best known of the Lyssaviruses - is believed responsi...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Anticipating The Flu Season Down Under

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  The red band signifies the tropics, which has no distinct flu season.  Viruses circulate there, at a low level, year round. – Credit W...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Dr. Alan Hampson Interview On Indonesia’s New Bird Flu Clade

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Photo Credit – FAO # 6775   On Monday we began to see reports that a previously unseen clade of the H5N1 virus had recently turne...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

NSW: Hen Facility Quarantined Under Suspicion Of Avian Influenza

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Photo Credit – FAO UPDATED: I see Crof has picked up a story indicating Australia: Bird flu at chicken farm is H7 strain   # 6718 ...
Friday, November 09, 2012

Queensland: A Hendra Watch & A New Vaccine

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Nipah/Hendra Virus & Fruit Bat Home Range – WHO # 6706     Although long known to carry rabies, over the past two decades b...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

CSIRO: The Quest For Flu Resistant Poultry

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    # 6657   The idea of creating genetically modified chickens with a built-in resistance to the H5N1 virus has been around for som...