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Bird flu:
Nature looks at the status of avian influenza three years after their Special Issue
What ever happened to bird flu?Posted on July 10, 2008 8:03 AM • 13 Comments •
Tamiflu and 1984 Newspeak
The government's private strategy for public health.Posted on July 7, 2008 7:09 AM • 15 Comments •
Why fever screening at airports is unlikely to work
Assessing the accuracy and predictive power of IR devices to screen out passengers with fevers.Posted on June 25, 2008 7:35 AM • 22 Comments •
The problem of testing the effectiveness of bird flu vaccines
Standardizing a guess.Posted on June 23, 2008 7:39 AM • 9 Comments •
Not even National Lampoon would vacation in Indonesia
Torturing the truth is bad for business and tourism.Posted on June 21, 2008 9:02 AM • 24 Comments •
Indonesia's public health apostasy
Don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue.Posted on June 12, 2008 8:22 AM • 9 Comments •
Beware: Indonesian Health Minister at the wheel
What a nut job.Posted on June 6, 2008 7:29 AM • 11 Comments •
Public health: broken and needs fixing
Mowing the lawn but not fixing the roof.Posted on June 2, 2008 7:42 AM • 7 Comments •
More about the adapting bird flu viruses
Both more and less than meets the eye.Posted on May 28, 2008 11:31 AM • 7 Comments •
Bangladesh's used car
News you can use. As in used car.Posted on May 24, 2008 8:53 AM • 11 Comments •
Where in the world is the H5N1 virus?
Human cases without sick poultry around. Makes you wonder. Or it should.Posted on May 18, 2008 3:03 PM • 9 Comments •
Germs in the middle seat
The airplane as an environment for infection.Posted on May 16, 2008 10:50 AM • 11 Comments •
Bad behavior in the world of flu science
Many top flight flu scientists are acting unethically and unprofessionally.Posted on May 15, 2008 3:26 PM • 7 Comments •
Pandemic doctors' dilemma
Deciding who lives, who dies?Posted on May 6, 2008 7:56 AM • 96 Comments •
Naming a bird flu virus
Politically correct terminology.Posted on April 25, 2008 7:07 AM • 5 Comments •
Important new flu paper in Cell: part III
Oxidative stress, SARS and H5N1Posted on April 24, 2008 7:21 AM • 7 Comments •
Important new flu paper in Cell: part II
Paying the Toll-like receptor.Posted on April 23, 2008 7:18 AM • 2 Comments •
Important new flu paper in Cell: part I
For Whom the Toll receives.Posted on April 22, 2008 7:13 AM • 3 Comments •
Pandemic flu no worse than seasonal flu?
Pointless but not harmless.Posted on April 17, 2008 7:34 AM • 9 Comments •
Indonesia, bird flu viruses and the moral high ground
The US gander gets some of the sauce it serves up for the Indonesian goose.Posted on April 15, 2008 7:04 AM • 26 Comments •
Pandemic model paper is not model behavior
Self promotion by modelers does not promote public health planning.Posted on April 14, 2008 7:47 AM • 11 Comments •
AFP newswire even less reliable than Chinese spokesperson on bird flu
Agence France Presse: reliably unreliable.Posted on April 13, 2008 3:41 PM • 4 Comments •
Vagrant birds and bird flu
Wrong-way Corrigan's of the bird world and bird fluPosted on April 11, 2008 7:45 AM • 0 Comments •
New Relenza warning
Canada requires new warning label on inhalable antiviral.Posted on April 10, 2008 7:55 AM • 25 Comments •
Bird flu: staying calm about panic
Person to person transmission of bird flu in China.Posted on April 9, 2008 7:08 AM • 22 Comments •
The climate change disease train
As usual, Asia will bear the brunt.Posted on April 8, 2008 7:38 AM • 14 Comments •
Flu preparedness and pregnancy
There's more to flu prepping than flu.Posted on April 4, 2008 6:07 AM • 6 Comments •
Flu in dogs again, but not H5N1
Dog to dog transmission of a bird flu virus.Posted on April 3, 2008 7:17 AM • 4 Comments •
Penalties for health care workers who don't show up in a pandemic?
Doctors and nurses who don't show up and what to do about it.Posted on April 2, 2008 7:01 AM • 13 Comments •
Yi Guan on stopping a pandemic before it starts: trust isn't transitive
Why I don't believe Yi Guan is right.Posted on March 31, 2008 6:54 AM • 20 Comments •
Dead ducks, live ducks and bird flu [updated]
Not all ducks are the same when it comes to bird flu.Posted on March 28, 2008 6:07 AM • 4 Comments •
Egypt, chickens and Indonesia
Egypt tames chicken. Indonesia play chicken.Posted on March 27, 2008 7:36 AM • 1 Comments •
Germany free of bird flu. Oh, oh.
I predict a bird flu outbreak merely on the basis of a government pronouncement a country is free of bird flu. I know it's silly. But will it work?Posted on March 26, 2008 7:38 AM • 6 Comments •
Indonesia and collateral damage of their flu policy
Indonesian Health Minister is just another version of George W. BushPosted on March 25, 2008 7:51 AM • 7 Comments •
A patch for flu vaccine production
Frenzied activity on the flu vaccine frontPosted on March 21, 2008 6:41 AM • 11 Comments •
How not to deny a rumor about bird flu
Canadian hospital denies they have bird flu cases. They almost certainly don't. But they could have done a better job denying it.Posted on March 20, 2008 7:00 AM • 8 Comments •
Indonesia bird flu: still critical
The world's bird flu hot spot and what makes it hot.Posted on March 19, 2008 7:20 AM • 3 Comments •
Pandemic flu and the best laid plans
Are we there yet?Posted on March 18, 2008 7:15 AM • 13 Comments •
Pandemic on a table top at CDC
DemFromCT sees a pandemic unfold at CDC's Emergency Ops Center.Posted on March 17, 2008 7:39 AM • 6 Comments •
Biotech wants more money for flu prep. So do I. But not for them.
The headline seemed to say it all: "Funding Issues Stymie Pandemic Preparation." Right, I thought. All the money is going in to procurement, too little into shoring up a failing public health system. Little did I know:...Posted on March 16, 2008 4:10 PM • 3 Comments •
Fried rat. It's what's for lunch.
Chicken, no! Rats, si!Posted on March 14, 2008 6:54 AM • 16 Comments •
What's up with H5N1 in civets in Vietnam?
How and why did Owlston's palm civets get bird flu?Posted on March 13, 2008 7:43 AM • 3 Comments •
Pandemic flu "lockdown" nonsense
Coping with pandemic flu with computer modelsPosted on March 12, 2008 12:09 AM • 28 Comments •
How to test for counterfeit Tamiflu
A simple color change test can measure Tamiflu quantitatively in the field.Posted on March 7, 2008 7:43 AM • 11 Comments •
The heart of bird flu season coming up
This year looks like last year.Posted on March 6, 2008 7:15 AM • 20 Comments •
Good bird flu primer
Short video with bird flu basics.Posted on March 5, 2008 7:52 AM • 9 Comments •
Does Tamiflu work for bird flu?
The maker of Tamiflu reports data suggesting the drug works for bird flu.Posted on March 4, 2008 7:52 AM • 16 Comments •
Another H5N1 seroprevalence study. Same story.
Looking for Mr. Antibody.Posted on March 3, 2008 7:41 AM • 5 Comments •
Indonesian virus sharing and "God's Plan"
Indonesian virus starts to move again as Siti Supari self-destructs.Posted on March 2, 2008 3:15 PM • 12 Comments •
No bigger bird flu problem in China?
But big enough.Posted on February 28, 2008 7:50 AM • 17 Comments •
Indonesian virus sharing by the book
Did Health Minister Supari's self-immolation shake bird flu sharing loose.Posted on February 23, 2008 7:19 AM • 14 Comments •
Bird flu, mosquitoes and blowflies
A notice from ProMed yesterday alerted many of us to a new published report [subscription firewall] about H5N1 influenza detection in an arthropod species in the vicinity of an infected poultry farm. The arthropods were mosquitoes (Culex tritaeniorhynchus) in Thailand....Posted on February 21, 2008 7:03 AM • 5 Comments •
Virus preference for humans and birds in the 1918 virus
The long and the short of the glycan hypothesis.Posted on February 20, 2008 7:35 AM • 9 Comments •
New bird flu cases: reading the tea leaves
What does the other shoe dropping sound like?Posted on February 19, 2008 7:07 AM • 26 Comments •
USDA bird flu program not Grade A
Protecting the US from bird flu in poultry. USDA reports "erroneously." That is, they lied.Posted on February 13, 2008 7:08 AM • 4 Comments •
Toughening a community for a pandemic
Will current pandemic preparedness efforts make things worse?Posted on February 12, 2008 7:36 AM • 13 Comments •
Bird flu and the Fifth Estate
Sometimes can't live with them, certainly can't live without them.Posted on February 11, 2008 7:33 AM • 8 Comments •
Why can't the chicken cross the road?
Leg disorders in broiler chickens.Posted on February 7, 2008 7:07 AM • 45 Comments •
Bird flu and arsenic
Is there an interaction between this toxic metal and the bird flu infection?Posted on February 6, 2008 7:03 AM • 15 Comments •
Bird flu: Bangladesh behaving badly
Bangla is not divulging genetic sequences. They can and they should.Posted on February 5, 2008 7:23 AM • 9 Comments •
Preparedness and predicaments
It's all about priorities.Posted on February 4, 2008 7:37 AM • 3 Comments •
Failure of pandemic preparedness: look in the mirror [rant alert]
Getting what you pay for. Or not.Posted on February 1, 2008 6:22 AM • 31 Comments •
The Indian peoples' lying eyes
Bird flu doesn't cause panic. A lying government causes panic.Posted on January 31, 2008 7:20 AM • 19 Comments •
Tamiflu resistance in seasonal flu: the devil is in the details
No surprise. It's more complicated than we might think.Posted on January 29, 2008 7:26 AM • 43 Comments •
Flu season
Seasonal flu is having its season in the US and Europe.Posted on January 28, 2008 7:45 AM • 17 Comments •
Encouraging critical employees to get seasonal flu vaccine
Twisting arms or asking please?Posted on January 27, 2008 4:02 PM • 9 Comments •
There's more bird flu than we thought. That's good news.
Missed cases are found. I'm glad.Posted on January 25, 2008 6:45 AM • 53 Comments •