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 Topic: Iraq test for flu after girl diesPosted: January 18 2006 at 6:05pm |
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Iraq tests for bird flu after girl dies in north (English) |
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Posted: January 18 2006 at 6:34pm |
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The time is posted that this news came in from Reuters. I posted it here, but it was deleted. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/acarology
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Posted: January 18 2006 at 6:44pm |
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THANK YOU PHYREFLY.
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Posted: January 19 2006 at 5:57pm |
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WHO knows? Who does W-H-O says....... W-H-O says girl in Iraq did not die of bird flu |
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Posted: January 20 2006 at 5:29am |
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I've been tracking the WHO tests and the labs they carry out
confirmations. Re the Iraq case, samples were sent to Jordan first, but
I knnew they don't have a WHO h5n1 reference lab.. anyways who's report
today said it requested the confirmation info from their eastern med
office in cario and I've blogged out the details of the 2 labs that
were involved with the testing the samples and confirming it's results
-- this info would be useful for CS/Med folks who are doing simulations
of the H5N1 strains and probably a good try at communicating with these
labs in obtaining sequence data:
Blogged here: http://avianfluhelp.blogspot.com/2006/01/iraq-suspected-bi rd-flu-case-ruled-out.html I've included the name and email of the person heading the NAMRU-3 lab from which WHO requested the info has been as well as the H5N1 Ref Lab in Cairo. Using email/namem do a search query on the WHO collaborating centers database and you'll get the other contact details you may need such as fax/tel#s Hope this helps someone out there. :) |
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Posted: January 20 2006 at 6:47am |
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Namru-3 has a long-standing relationship to Chicago Natural History Museum and Washington Zoo. via one ot the greatest acarologists who ever lived, Harry Hoogstraal. Hoogstraal worked at Namru-3. With the H5N1 magpie-robin found in Hong Kong, there could not be a better place to do simulations in silico or otherwise. Taiwan now has endemic Borrelia-vectoring ticks. A tick possibly found on a 'Turdus' group (such as the magpie-robin) and a mite of the proven H5N1 vector Passer montanus, Syringophiloidus, would be an unprecedented combination and opportunity to study changes in the influenza virus as relates to hosts and ectoparasite-induced changes in the virus/host. What should be asked is 'What else was the H5N1 magpie-robin vectoring? Pertinent is Pitta ('ant-thrushes')-robin nomenclature and domestic chicken connection, numbered below: http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/acarology Hoogstraal #77 Taiwan / Borrelia # 112, 113, 120 Turdus / Pitta / Gallus gallus # 124 'Turdus' Group / Syringophiloidus # 155
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