Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Earlier bird flu vaccine 'causes new strain'

Ironically, it may have been a vaccine that was used to protect poultry from earlier types of the H5N1 flu that led to the virus' evolution.
The new variant has become the primary version of bird flu in several provinces of China and has spread to Hong Kong, Laos, Malaysia and Thailand, according to a report published in the latest issue of Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences.
It is being called H5N1 Fujian-like, to distinguish it from earlier Hong Kong and Vietnam variants.
'We don't know what is driving this,' report co-author Dr Robert G Webster of St Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, said.
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Thursday, October 19, 2006

Fall Brings Migratory Birds Across US Waterways

Now is the time for wild birds to begin migrating south for the winter and so we see flocks of geese and ducks flying over waterways all over the US.
The world watches and waits to see what this new bird migration will bring.
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