Showing posts with label birds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birds. Show all posts
Friday, June 14, 2013

Vienna: 5 Smuggled Birds Now Reported Positive For H5N1

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Photo Credit USDA     # 7395   An update to a story mentioned earlier this week by Crof (see Austria: Smuggled bird had H5N1 ) ...
Thursday, July 05, 2012

Hong Kong Closes Bird Market Due To H5N1

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  Photo Credit – FAO     # 6421     From the Hong Kong government this morning, word that they’ve closed the Mong Kok Bird G...
Saturday, May 01, 2010

Thailand: Investigating Thousands Of Dead Storks

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    # 4540     Whenever we hear of large die-offs of birds, particularly in Asia, we immediately think of H5N1.   But we’ve...
Saturday, March 27, 2010

If You’ve Seen One Triple Reassortant Swine Flu Virus . . .

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    # 4465   You haven’t seen them all.   At least, not according to a letter that appears in the latest edition of the CDC’s J...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Study: H1N1 And Birds

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    # 4271   After four years of blogging about influenza – whether it be human, swine, or avian – very little surprises me.   I’m u...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Branswell Updates The Ontario Turkey Story

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  # 3860   When a flu story breaks, bloggers like myself eagerly await reportage from one of the the handful of ` A ’ list science...

Update On Ontario H1N1 Infected Turkeys

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    # 3859   The ever-widening host range of the H1N1 virus is something that scientists will be keeping a wary eye on, even if righ...

Ontario Turkey Farm Reportedly With H1N1

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  # 3858   We’ll get an update apparently later this afternoon.   This is the second report I’ve seen where turkeys have been s...
Monday, October 19, 2009

Mounting Questions Over Transmission Of Avian Flu

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    # 3851     Admittedly, the above title was my second choice for this story.  But it has the advantage of being printable. ...