Avian Influenza and the Pandemic Threat

Source: WHO | Photo: WorldBank 10 September 2008 -- The Ministry of Health of Indonesia has retrospectively announced two confirmed cases of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus.

Source: IRIN | Photo: Biotec
29 August 2008 -- The key message that needs to be heard is that Avian Influenza (AI) is endemic in Vietnam and needs to be controlled, say UN officials involved in the battle to identify and contain avian influenza outbreaks.

Source: ILO | Photo: lecercle
13 August 2008, Bangkok -- Training to help small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) protect their workers and businesses from future Pandemic Human Influenza is being organized in Thailand .

Source: FAO
11 August 2008 -- A strain of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza previously not recorded in sub-Saharan Africa has been detected in Nigeria for the first time, FAO said today. Nigeria has recently reported two new Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza outbreaks in the states of Katsina and Kano.

FAO Avian Influenza Disease Emergency news released the latest Situation Update, number 55.

Table of contents

• Viet Nam: H5N1 HPAI pathogenicity rising, but situation in check
• Egypt: Avian influenza now officially endemic
• Bird-to-cattle transmission: H5N1 avian influenza could probably infect bovine calves
• Avian influenza: Animals successfully immunized in trials
• Most Recent HPAI Outbreaks 2006-08
• H5N1 HPAI Global Overview: April 2008
• At a glance
• Summary of confirmed HPAI outbreaks

Source: IRIN
4 August 2008 | Dakar, Senegal -- Niger’s Ministry of Livestock is intensifying its bird surveillance along the 1,500-kilometre border with northern Nigeria after a recent resurgence of bird deaths.