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- Bird flu hits Vietnam poultry farms: report (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Dec 28, 2008 - Bird flu has struck two poultry flocks in northern Vietnam, a newspaper reported Sunday, after authorities warned that the killer virus could resurface strongly in the cold and wet winter months. - Tumultuous year for PRMC (The Paris News)
Dec 27, 2008 - The Essent-PRMC lawsuit against the operator of the-paris-site.blogspot.com began in June 2007 when the hospital accused the anonymous blogger of wrongful conduct in publishing information detrimental to the hospital and violating patient confidentiality, and obtained a court order to force the blogger’s Internet service provider, Suddenlink, to reveal the name of its client. - Sarah Sands: Haunted by the ghost of pandemics past (Independent)
Dec 27, 2008 - It is modish to scare ourselves over historical cycles, so let's start early on the great flu pandemic of 1918. My favourite spine-chilling anecdote is of the four women who stayed up to play bridge. By the time they had finished their game, three were dead. - Baxter Receives EMEA Positive Opinion For CELVAPAN, The First Cell Culture-Based Pandemic Flu Vaccine (Medical News Today)
Dec 27, 2008 - Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX) today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has issued a positive opinion for the marketing authorization of CELVAPAN, the first cell culture-based H5N1 (avian flu) pandemic vaccine, in the European Union. - JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む (Japan Today)
Dec 27, 2008 - The operator of Narita International Airport has outlined an action plan to interdict the inflow of new types of influenza, sources close to the plan said Saturday. - Homes 'left defenceless' by axing of back-up firefighting services (Daily Mail: World News)
Dec 26, 2008 - Millions of homes will be defenceless in the event of a firemen's strike after ministers scrapped a £100million scheme for a private reserve force, it can be revealed. - Bird flu found in chickens in eastern China (High Plains Journal)
Dec 26, 2008 - BEIJING (AP)--Authorities in eastern China have killed more than 300,000 fowl after bird flu was discovered in chickens, the Agriculture Ministry said Dec. 16. - Baxter awaiting vaccine results (Chicago Tribune)
Dec 25, 2008 - Seasonal flu study outcome expected in 2nd quarter Baxter International Inc., which last week won an endorsement from European health officials for its vaccine to combat the bird flu, should find out how its seasonal influenza product in the U.S. is faring in clinical trials by next year. - MCOT Public Company Limited.2008 (MCOT - English News By Thai News Agency)
Dec 25, 2008 - BANGKOK, Dec 25 (TNA) – Thailand's public health ministry has received 500,000 Tamiflu pills, valued at Bt 42 million from Japan for domestic stockpiling in case of an outbreak of bird flu. - Screening of passengers for flu called a success (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Dec 24, 2008 - A voluntary screening process for flulike illnesses among international arrivals at Hono- lulu Airport worked so well it may be done more often next year, a state Health Department official said.