Avian Flu Diary

Covering Pandemic and Seasonal Flu, Emerging Infectious Diseases, public health, community & Individual preparedness. NOTE: All AFD blogs are written by a human - any mistakes are solely mine.

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Saturday, July 28, 2012

H3N2v: When Pigs Flu

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Photo Credit ( Wikipedia) # 6457 This week, with news of another small cluster of H3N2v infections in Indiana (see MMWR On...

Friday, June 03, 2011

UK: `New MRSA’ Strain Spreading

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Updated (see link at bottom) # 5598 Photo Credit – CDC PHIL If you happen to be an exotic, emerging, and ant...

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Referral: McKenna On Farm Vectors Of Resistant Bacteria

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# 5267 Maryn McKenna has an important and illuminating post on gaps in our surveillance systems and the surprising way...

Thursday, July 15, 2010

FDA Farm Antibiotic Guidance Meets Resistance

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# 2727 The use of antibiotics by farmers on their livestock in this country is largely unregulated, and many critics belie...

Thursday, February 11, 2010

CBS News On `The Danish Experiment’

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# 4342 The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric aired part II of their look at antibiotic use on factory farms last night, ...

Sunday, October 25, 2009

David Brown: New Scrutiny of Pig Farming

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# 3987 David Brown of the Washington Post has a terrific in-depth look today at swine flu viruses, and the hazards they ...

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