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Last month at the U.N., George W. Bush told "as many leaders as I could find" about the need to track the avian-flu virus so that "the world scientific community can analyze the facts." But the ability of scientists in poorer countries to do just that could suffer when federal funding for the Los Alamos Influenza Sequence Database runs out at the end of the month. Until now, access to the online database--used by researchers to compare the genetic codes of new flu strains with the world's biggest collection of flu sequences--has been free...
...that bird flu has touched down in Britain, Romania, Russia and Turkey, fear is growing that the virus will sweep through Africa and the Middle East too. Last week, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (fao) said that the risk of a major outbreak had "markedly increased," warning that some countries in these regions were unprepared. "We would have to mobilize donors, the international community and the veterinary services massively to respond," fao chief veterinary officer Joseph Domenech told Time. The fao suspects that wild birds could spread the lethal h5n1 virus - which can jump to humans and has killed...
When people living in the remote Danube Delta villages of Ceamurlia de Jos and Maliuc heard last week that their chickens and ducks would have to be destroyed to help prevent the spread of the Avian flu virus, they reacted in different ways. Some wept and prayed as they handed over their birds; others tried to hide them. Said Ceamurlia resident Gina Braileanu, "My uncle was caught hiding a hen close to his chest. He had to give...
...Days after the flu virus first appeared on the shores of Europe, local farmers in the former communist country of Romania were struggling to cope. The Danube Delta is one of the most pristine wildernesses in Europe, teeming with wildlife, rare species and hundreds of thousands of migratory birds that pass annually through the region on the way to their wintering grounds in north Africa. This year, those birds are carrying with them a dangerous infection that doctors fear could, if it makes the leap to humans, unleash the deadliest flu pandemic since...
...Another 15 swans died Monday in the hamlet of Popina in the northeast of the Delta, close to the border with Ukraine. This makes three outbreaks of bird flu to be confirmed in Romania. Further south, the eastern Greek island of Inousses is under watch while tests are conducted on an infected turkey. Results won't be in for days and authorities have yet to order a mass slaughter of fowl there, but state vets are also looking into scores of other bird flu scares reported in mainland Greece within in the last 24 hours...