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Beyond the scope of the American continent there are far more concerning matters involving global survival that took place in the last week. On Sept. 19, government officials in Jakarta, Indonesia shut down the Ragunan Zoo when tests on 27 exotic birds revealed that 19 were infected with the H5N1 avian influenza, better known as the bird flu virus. According to authorities a woman in the area also died of the illness, while four children lay in hospital after appearing to contract the deadly disease. Perhaps even more concerning, the zoo hosted tens of thousands of guests this past weekend...
...York It is time for China to place greater importance on one of the hidden costs of its economic rise: the lack of adequate health care for much of its population. Another influenza pandemic capable of killing tens of millions of people is inevitable, especially as the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus is plaguing many parts of Asia today...
Bird flu had Europe aflutter last week. The lethal , H5N1 ,mavian flu virus, which has killed 57 of the 112 people it's infected in Asia since the end of 2003 and caused the death or destruction of 150 million poultry there, was found in flocks in Russia and Kazakhstan. Then Finnish authorities said another strain of the virus may have killed a seagull in a northern coastal town. The discoveries fanned fears that it could travel west and infect the European Union's estimated ?22-billion-a-year egg-and-poultry industry, or mutate into a strain that leaps...
...there any genetic changes in the virus? The H5N1 virus has undergone significant genetic changes over the past several years, but there's no evidence so far of a specific change that makes the virus more transmissible to humans...
...World Health Organization (WHO) and other scientists are worried about Vietnam's vaccine, which they say could itself make people sick, or even set off a pandemic. The problem is that the virus reference seed?the weakened bit of live H5N1 used to build up immunity in the human body?was mixed with cancer cells to help it replicate and then grown in a monkey kidney. That method is highly unorthodox. "People could get cancer from the vaccine," says Klaus Stohr, head of the WHO's global influenza program. Even more ominous, the developers say they've followed international procedures...