http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Scientists at the University of California, Davis, detected the H1N1 (2009) virus in free-ranging northern elephant seals off the central California coast a year after the human pandemic began, according to a study published today, May 15, in the journal PLOS ONE. It is the first report of that flu strain in any marine mammal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-h1n1-marine-mammals.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 15 May 2013 17:00:24 EST news287856012 (Medical Xpress)—Recent scientific papers from China suggest a vigilant watch should be kept on the development of bird flu viruses, as a new strain has been identified and previously known viruses have been shown capable of mutating to forms that could spread from human to human via respiratory droplets. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-surveillance-bird-flu-strains.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 03 May 2013 06:20:01 EST news286776701 Studies on this disease recently completed by researchers from the Asia Partnership on Emerging Infectious Diseases Research (APEIR) developed a series of messages for policy makers that are highly relevant to the current outbreak. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-combating-h7n9-lessons-apeir-h5n1.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:30:21 EST news285834612 The United Nations on Friday presented a list of recommendations, including a strict hygiene culture and keeping different breeds of animals apart, to try to curb the spreading of the H7N9 flu virus which has killed six people in China. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-urges-strict-hygiene-h7n9-virus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:20:01 EST news284392958 (Medical Xpress)—This year's unusually long and rocky flu season would be nothing compared to the pandemic that could occur if bird flu became highly contagious among humans, which is why UCLA researchers and their colleagues are creating new ways to predict where an outbreak could emerge. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-hotspots-future-flu-outbreaks.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:40:37 EST news282469229 In 2010, 35 people in Greece died from a West Nile virus (WNV) outbreak, with a further 262 laboratory-confirmed human cases. A new article published in BioMedCentral's open access journal Virology Journal examines whether wild or migratory birds could have been responsible for importing and amplifying the deadly virus. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-wild-birds-deadly-west-nile.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:00:01 EST news271871413 Hong Kong culled 17,000 chickens Wednesday and suspended live poultry imports for 21 days after three birds tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu virus. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-hong-kong-culls-chickens-bird.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:10:15 EST news243664781 Hong Kong raised its bird flu alert level to "serious" on Tuesday and announced it is to cull 17,000 chickens after three birds tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-hong-kong-bird-flu-imports.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:22:47 EST news243609755