New worries about H1N1 influenza. Continuing activity of pandemic H1N1 influenza in the Southeast is raising fears of a third wave of swine flu cases, federal officials said Monday. They urged people to continue getting vaccinated as a preventive measure in case a new outbreak occurred. [News Source]

New worries about H1N1 influenza. Continuing activity of pandemic H1N1 influenza in the Southeast is raising fears of a third wave of swine flu cases, federal officials said Monday. They urged people to continue getting vaccinated as a preventive measure in case a new outbreak occurred. [News Source]

Farm-to-Farm Transmission of Avian Influenza (redOrbit) A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health examines the potential influence that the business connections between broiler chicken growers may have on the transmission of avian influenza, H5N1. [News Source]

Business affiliation could increase potential risk of farm-to-farm transmission of avian influenza (PhysOrg) A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health examines the potential influence that the business connections between broiler chicken growers may have on the transmission of avian influenza, H5N1. According to the study, the risk of between-farm transmission is significantly greater among farms within the same company group than it is between farms with ... [News Source]

Business Affiliation Could Increase Potential Risk of Farm-to-Farm Transmission of Avian Influenza (Newswise) A new study examines the potential influence that the business connections between broiler chicken growers may have on the transmission of avian influenza, H5N1. The risk of between-farm transmission is significantly greater among farms within the same company group than it is between farms with different company affiliation. [News Source]

Business affiliation could increase potential risk of farm-to-farm transmission of avian influenza (EurekAlert!) ( Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health ) A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health examines the potential influence that the business connections between broiler chicken growers may have on the transmission of avian influenza, H5N1. According to the study, the risk of between-farm transmission is significantly greater among farms ... [News Source]

Kuwait bans bird imports from Denmark, Romania for bird flu disease (MENAFN)

Kuwait bans bird imports from Denmark, Romania for bird flu disease

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Kuwait bans bird imports from Denmark, Romania for bird flu disease (MENAFN)

Kuwait bans bird imports from Denmark, Romania for bird flu disease

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Resistance to swine flu antiviral drugs can develop faster than expected, research finds. The pandemic H1N1 influenza virus can develop resistance to the commonly used antiviral drugs much faster than expected, federal researchers said Friday.  [News Source]

Allergies mysteriously on rise in U.S. If you think you're seeing more people sneezing and tearing up this allergy season, you might be right. Studies show that allergies are on the rise in developed countries, including the United States — not just seasonal allergies, but allergies of all kinds. [News Source]

NEWS SCAN: MRSA in ICUs, workers at risk for avian flu, outbreak linked to raw milk (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy) Community MRSA spreading in hospital ICUs Six percent of 1,674 children admitted to the Johns Hopkins Hospital pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) over 15 months were colonized with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and 61% of those isolates were community rather than hospital strains. [News Source]

Also In Global Health News: Bird Flu; Burundi’s Global Fund Grant; Maternal Mortality In Ghana; Food Security In … (Medical News Today) WHO Warns Bird Flu Continues To Pose Threat Despite a reduction in the number of cases of avian flu (H5N1) since its peak in 2006, the WHO said in a statement Wednesday that "the newly confirmed human and poultry cases of avian influenza this year are a reminder that the virus poses a real and continuous threat to human health," Agence France-Presse reports (3/24). "The WHO noted that so far ... [News Source]