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Children bore brunt of 2009 H1N1 flu UPI.com 10 (UPI) -- Dutch and World Health Organization officials said the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic in Europe was no worse than the seasonal flu, but children bore the brunt of it. The researchers compared the fall wave of the pandemic with the six preceding flu ... H1N1 'Swine' Flu Makes a Comeback in MexicoU.S. News & World Report Closing schools could stop the fluCNN (blog) Flu activity gaining steadily in US, EuropeCIDRAP Pork Magazine -Focus Taiwan News Channel -BusinessGhana all 68 news articles »

Current H5N1 Flu Outbreak and Location Predicted in 2009 Bradenton Herald The previous four predictions were made for H5N1 in Indonesia in 2006 (6); for H1N1 in Mexico in 2008, which spread to become the global pandemic of 2009 (1); for H1N1 in Europe in 2010 (1); and for H1N1 in Mexico in 2010 for the outbreak there in ... and more »

Kuwait Times

MOH rules out H1N1 outbreak Kuwait Times KUWAIT: Three patients were recently treated for the H1N1 virus at Al-Jahra Hospital where another patient remains under treatment and is recovering steadily. This was mentioned by senior Ministry of Health officials during a recent press conference in ...

Three inmates OK following exposure to H1N1 virus at Centinela State Prison ... Imperial Valley Press By SILVIO J. PANTA Imperial Valley Press Staff Writer SEELEY — Three inmates at Centinela State Prison have been released from quarantine this week following their exposure to the H1N1 virus, a spokesman said Thursday. The Level 4 inmates kept in ... and more »

Astros May End up Thanking the H1N1 Virus for this Pitcher Houston Chronicle (blog) In the spring of 2009, the phrase “H1N1 Virus” became a prominent part of the vernacular in Southeast Texas. For good reasons, swine flu was on everyone's mind about three years ago. Many schools in the Houston area were closed for several weeksa and ...

French Tribune

Flu vaccine could be mandatory for New Jersey health care workers The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com By Tom Rowan Jr. | The Express-Times • The 2011-12 flu vaccine protects against an influenza A (H3N2) virus, an influenza B virus, and the 2009 H1N1 virus, the so-called swine flu that caused illness during the 2009-10 influenza season. • Flu ... New Flu Virus Name Avoids HarmPortage Online Health Matters: The Flu and YouNBC2 News Physicians Should Weigh Mandatory Flu Vaccination for StaffMedscape Journal Pioneer -Deccan Chronicle -Longview News-Journal all 59 news articles »

Over 100 pigeons die in Shillong Economic Times SHILLONG: At least 100 pigeons have died in this north-east hill city in the past one week, though none of the samples have been tested positive for the H1N1 virus. The Assam-based Regional Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (RRDL) confirmed that the ... Over 100 pigeon die in ShillongDaily News & Analysis Shillong: Tests don`t confirm bird fluZee News all 15 news articles »

Daily Mail

Swine flu spikes in Mexico after hiatus, but government says cases are within ... Washington Post The country registered more cases of all types of flu and more incidents of the H1N1 strain, originally called swine flu, in January than in all of 2011, federal health officials said Tuesday. Despite the spike, the number of cases is well within a ... Coughs And Sneezes - Have We Forgotten The Flu Outbreak?Bernama Study finds influenza B may be more severe than thoughtCIDRAP Flu vaccine still advised, despite warm weatherMount Airy News Lexington Clipper Herald -ReporterNews.com all 80 news articles »

DigitalJournal.com

Mexico Fears Second Outbreak of H1N1 as Cases Climb Fox News Getty Getty Next Slide Previous Slide Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet Related Stories Mexico Ups Swine Flu Screening A(H1N1) Death Toll Hits 9 in Mexico Nearly three years after H1N1, so-called swine flu, first struck Mexico, ... Mexican health officials keep careful eye on Swine flu spikeCBS News Swine flu returns to MexicoDigitalJournal.com Officials worried about Swine Flu outbreak along the borderKGBT-TV CBS Local all 9 news articles »

CBC.ca

Flu pandemics slowed by school closures CBC.ca The study in Tuesday's issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine analyzed data on H1N1 infections in the province during the 2009 pandemic. School-age children fuelled the spread of pandemic H1N1, researchers say.School-age children fuelled the spread ... School closures slow spread of pH1N1: studyPhysOrg.com all 5 news articles »

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Bird & Swine Flu Information

The infection known as “Bird Flu” or “Swine Flu” is caused by the “avian influenza virus” (avian – bird, influenza – flu). Although these types of flu viruses are naturally transmitted from one bird to another, (wild birds from around the world are thought to carry the virus in their body) they do not normally render their hosts ill. Unfortunately, the Bird Flu is extremely contagious among birds; therefore this infection can easily be transmitted to domestic birds like chickens, ducks, and turkeys – eventually leading to their death.

Although the “avian influenza virus” is not normally transmitted to humans, several cases of human Bird Flu infections have been reported since 1997.

The first case of human H5N1 infection was reported in Hong Kong when an epidemic war raged among their poultry flocks. At the time six people died and another twelve were infected. Recently, other cases of humans infected by the H5N1 virus were reported in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, all with a frightening death rate of 50%. The infection is usually the result of direct contact with an infected bird or with a contaminated surface, but it is suspected that the virus could also have been transmitted from one person to another.

Until now, the spreading of the virus from one person to another has been very rare and it is believed that it cannot spread beyond one person. However, some scientists are concerned that in the future the H5N1 virus could easily spread from one person to another due to the fact that all types of influenza viruses are known for their increased ability to mutate. If this happens, the consequences will be horrifying as the H5N1 virus is foreign to humans and our bodies cannot begin to offer us reliable immune protection against it. Although no one can say whether such an outbreak might occur, scientists from around the world are studying the H5N1 situation in Asia and monitoring the spread with much concern.

Do you want to know how vulnerable you really are?

As the Avian Flu and Swine Flu virus continues to spread throughout the world, your normal lifestyle is enough to put you at risk. The question you should ask yourself is whether you are prepared in case of a new pandemic.

For example, Dr.Lea Longini (a well known biostatistician) warns keen travellers that they should avoid travelling by air, because “aeroplanes re-circulate air, a situation that is ideal for spreading a flu virus throughout a whole cabin.” Parents should also know that “children are the major transmitters” – according to Longini. Therefore the most exposed individuals are parents as well as teachers.

Dr. John Treanor, a researcher of the Bird Flu vaccine, warns both students and teachers that spending time in a place where lots of people crowd together increases the risk of being infected.

Unfortunately, even the most innocent handshake or close indoor seating arrangements have made churches, mosques and synagogues dangerous places to be. “Congregating in one room is undoubtedly the best way to spread infection,” says Dr. Robert Lamb.

Because indoor sports games is an easy way of getting more people infected , most of these sports events might be cancelled if a pandemic is triggered. However, watching the game at a bar, in front of a huge TV screen while surrounded by lots of other people is not a good idea either.

Common cold, Avian Flu, or Swine Flu?

Although the deadly Bird & Swine Flu continues to spread worldwide with the help of migratory birds, most people will not recognise the difference between a common cold and the Avian Flu. Below we supply a list of the symptoms of the common cold against that of Bird & Swine Flu in order to help you and your family take better care of yourselves. Remember: paying attention to details and learning this difference could actually save your life and those of your immediate family.

Bird Flu & Swine Flu Outbreaks

As the deadly Avian Flu and Swine Flu continues to spread throughout the world, we can only pray that human to human transmission will not occur. Unfortunately, history is about to prove that human to human transmission is a natural progression for the virus and it is more a matter of when rather than if. Below we will give you a brief history of the Avian Flu and just how deadly in has been throughout the ages.

1889-1890 Russian flu: strain unknown – First pandemic for which detailed records exist. Origin: Russia, death toll: 1 million people.

1918-1919 Spanish flu: strain H1N1 – Origin: Unites States, death toll: Over 40 million people worldwide.

1957-1958 Asian flu: strain H2N2 – Origin: China, death toll: 1 million people worldwide.

1968-1969 Hong Kong flu: strain H3N2 – Origin: Hong Kong, death toll: 1 million people worldwide.

Today-? Avian flu: strain H5N1 – Origin: Hong Kong, death toll (estimated): 180 to 360 million people worldwide.

The Good News? It's not too late!

We still have stock of Tamiflu and Relenza and you still have time to purchase a supply of the Avian Flu treatment and Swine Flu treatment for your family before it spreads any worse. Have you ever tried to buy a life saving medication at the time of a pandemic when everyone just starts to realize they could die without it?

Do you have any idea what people will do for the Bird Flu treatment & Swine Flu treatment when this virus endangers their community? Is it really worth the risk to wait and find out? You CAN NOT afford to take a chance with your family's wellbeing - none of us can. We each have a responsibility to take care of those we love and preparing for deadly threats such as the Bird & Swine Flu is no exception.

We hope you make the right decision. The right Bird Flu treatment and Swine Flu treatment is in your reach.

Archived Bird Flue & Swine Flu News

• New York City swine flu case tally could be as high as 500,000, CDC says
  New research estimates that half a million New Yorkers have been infected by swine flu - casting doubts on the city's claim that transmission of the H1N1 virus has declined. The alarming data was released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which estimated there have been 50 times more cases nationwide than have been reported to health authorities.
  
  
• Delay for vaccine as swine flu toll rises
  A VACCINE for swine flu may not be available until next winter, yet authorities fear more deaths from the virus. A 26-year-old West Australian woman became the fifth person to die while infected with swine flu.
  
  
• Swine flu helps fuel major decline in traffic for U.S. airlines
  U.S. airlines saw passenger traffic drop 9.5 percent in May, with the H1N1 swine flu outbreak a factor, and their revenue dropped another 26 percent compared to April.
  
  
• 9 year old student dies from Swine Flu
  Swine flu complications claim the life of a second child in Buffalo, this time a 9-year-old girl. Maya Harden had been on life support for several day, but she passed away this morning. Meanwhile, we've also learned tonight that another Buffalo public school student has been in the ICU at Women and Children's Hospital due to swine flu and pnemonia.
  
  
• Baby Dies 24 Hours After Swine Flu Kills Mom
  Jacqui Fleming, 38, gave birth nearly three months prematurely at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, near Glasgow. The baby, named Jack, lost his battle for life in the same hospital where his mother passed away on Sunday. "My beautiful son was born June 1, 2009 — 11 weeks early,” his dad William McCann said in a statement.
  
  
• Bird Flu Accidentally Sent As Vaccine
  Officials at the World Health Organization and and the European Centre for Disease Control have launched an investigation into how live Avian Bird Flu virus (both H5N1 and H3N2) was accidentally shipped to 18 countries as Bird Flu vaccine. Deerfield, Illinois-based pharmaceutical company Baxter International Inc. accidentally sent an “experimental virus material,” which mixed H3N2 seasonal flu viruses and unlabelled H5N1 viruses, to an Austrian research firm, Avir Green Hills Biotechnology in late December. That company then shipped portions of the mixture to sub-contractors in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany.
  
  
• Bird flu detected in second quail farm in central Japan
  Thailand has confirmed a case of bird flu on a farm in the country's north, with hundreds of birds slaughtered as a result. The Ministry of Agriculture said the H5N1 virus was found in a dead chicken on a backyard farm, just six months after the country declared itself free of the disease.
  
  
• Bekasi resident allegedly dies of bird flu
  An eight-year-old Bekasi resident died Saturday morning after being hospitalized at Persahabatan Hospital in East Jakarta with symptoms that link the case to bird flu, kompas.com reports.
  
  
• Woman, 23, dies of bird flu in northern Vietnam
  QUANG NGAI, Vietnam, Feb 22 (Reuters) - A 23-year-old woman with H5N1 bird flu has died in northern Vietnam, a hospital official said on Sunday. The woman died on Saturday at the provincial general hospital in Quang Ninh, about 150 km (90 miles) east of the capital Hanoi and home to the popular tourist destination of Halong Bay, a doctor there said. .
  
  
• Is China Making Its Bird-Flu Outbreak Worse?
  One thing is certain about avian influenza: it's deadly. All three people who contracted the H5N1 strain of the virus in China last year died. In the first six weeks of 2009, eight people have come down with bird flu, and five have died. Another thing is that while the disease has yet to go pandemic, as many doctors fear it could, it remains worrisomely persistent. Every year since 2003, about 100 people in Asia, the Middle East and Africa contract the disease. Last year, in a rare exception, the number dropped below 50.
  
  
• Second bird flu outbreak detected in western Canada
  A second outbreak of bird flu in less than a month has been detected on another poultry farm in Canada's westernmost British Columbia province, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Wednesday..
  
  
• Bird flu confirmed in northern Thailand
  Thailand has confirmed a case of bird flu on a farm in the country's north, with hundreds of birds slaughtered as a result. The Ministry of Agriculture said the H5N1 virus was found in a dead chicken on a backyard farm, just six months after the country declared itself free of the disease.
  
  
• Vaccinations Against Bird Flu Should Happen Now, Say Experts
  People should be vaccinated now against bird flu rather than waiting for a global pandemic to erupt, an international panel of experts - including a leading British influenza specialist - say in a new report. The influenza researchers say the World Health Organisation (WHO) and national governments should give "urgent consideration" to the idea of priming people in advance of bird flu with a preparatory vaccination.
  
  
• Migratory Ducks Carry Bird Flu From Asia to Alaska
  Wild migratory birds appear to be important carriers of avian influenza viruses from continent to continent, according to new research that scientists say has important implications for highly pathogenic avian influenza virus surveillance in North America.
  
  
• Dead crow sparks bird flu fears in HK
  A house crow found dead in Hong Kong has tested positive for the deadly H-5-N-1 bird flu virus. An agriculture official says the crow was found dead in a park in October and tests showed it was carrying the virus. Hong Kong was the location of the world's first outbreak of bird flu in humans, which hit the city in 1997, leaving six people dead.
  
  
• CDC urges public to get flu shots after local death
  The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday announced the first flu fatality of the fall. The victim was a 75-year-old woman who died four days after contracting the illness.
  
  
• Avian Flu Breakthrough: Virus Detection 'in Two Hours'
  Scientists at Nottingham Trent University in Britain said they are developing a machine that can rapidly diagnose different types of bird flu, including the extremely infectious H5N1 bird flu virus, also known as Avian influenza. A consortium of researchers from the British university's School of Science and Technology and European scientists are on track to develop a mobile machine that they claim would identify not only bird flu, but a wide range of influenza A and influenza B viruses, as well as other respiratory viruses within hours.
  
  
• Nigeria Battles New Bird Flu Strain
  
  Animal health specialists warn a new strain of highly pathogenic bird flu in Nigeria - which has previously not been recorded in sub-Saharan Africa - increases the risk of avian influenza spreading to other countries in West Africa. For VOA, Gilbert da Costa in Abuja filed this report on Nigeria's campaign to deal with the threat.
  
  
• CDC Says Bird Flu Becoming More Contagious
  In America the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say that the bird flu virus is changing and that it is developing strains and properties which could possibly increase the potential of it to infect humans from birds. They also said that it was also developing into a virus which could become more contagious between humans.
  
  
• H9N2 avian flu strain has pandemic potential
  Pandemic planners may have been looking at the wrong avian influenza virus as the source of the next worldwide flu epidemic. A type of avian flu virus known as H9N2 could become transmissible in humans with just a few changes, a new study shows.
  
  
• Australia unprepared for epidemic
  IN February 2008, 10 swans in Dorset, south-west England, were found to be positive for the H5N1 avian bird flu virus. The virus has long since escaped from Asia. Could Australia be next?
  
  
• `Bird Flu Strain Can Be Transmitted to Mammals'
  Quarantine authorities said Tuesday that the virus strain of avian influenza that swept the country in April could be transmitted to mammals, but not necessarily to humans. The Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries sent samples from infected birds to the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention for detailed analysis.
  
  
• Human-to-Human Transmission of Bird Flu Discovered in China
  China's National Disease Authority has confirmed that a man whose 24-year-old son died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu is also infected with the disease, raising concerns about human transmission of the virus. H5N1 is a particularly virulent and lethal strain of the influenza virus that primarily infects domestic and wild birds. So far, it does not spread easily between birds and humans, but health officials fear that it could mutate into a form that is highly contagious from human to human. Given the intensely lethal nature of the disease, such a strain could easily lead to a global health crisis.
  
  
• Bird flu to 'devastate the planet'
  Foreign travel could spark a bird flu outbreak that devastates the world's population, a report warned last night. A House of Lords team said more deadly animal diseases were spreading to humans - and the extent of world trade and travel mean there are few barriers to a global pandemic.
  
  
• Bangladesh kills 200,000 fowl to stop bird flu
  Authorities in Bangladesh said on Monday they have culled more than 200,000 chickens at different farms over the last two weeks over suspected bird flu outbreaks, although the disease had begun subsiding across the country. Avian influenza has spread through 47 of Bangladesh's 64 districts and forced the killing of more than 1.5 million birds since March of last year. Nearly 2 million eggs have also been destroyed.
  
  
• Bird flu spreads in India, Bangladesh amid massive slaughter
  Bangladesh has slaughtered 50,000 more poultry to combat a severe outbreak of bird flu that continues to spread while neighbouring India has stepped up similar efforts, officials said.
  
  
• Bird Flu Remains a Dangerous Threat
  Like the rumble of distant thunder, bird flu continues to spread across Asia, Africa and Europe. Although it's been out of the news lately in the United States, scientists say that avian influenza, as it's also known, remains a serious threat to human and animal health. The lethal H5N1 version of the virus is mutating rapidly and rampaging through bird flocks throughout those parts of the world, infecting and often killing people who come in contact with them.
  
  
• Flu Outbreak Closes Hong Kong Schools
  The Hong Kong government on Thursday closed all elementary schools and preschools in the territory a week early for Easter holidays after three children died amid an influenza outbreak, but insisted there was no sign that SARS or bird flu were involved.
  
  
• Son 'gave bird flu to his father'
  A rare case of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu being passed from one person to another has been reported by health officials in China. One man died, but his father lived after he too caught the virus in the eastern Jiangsu province last year. Scientists fear if the virus mutates and gains the ability to pass easily between humans, millions could die.
  
  
• India suffers its worst bird flu outbreak
  As the official human death toll from bird flu in Indonesia reached 100 over the weekend, Indian authorities have announced that their country is in the grip of its worst bird flu outbreak.
  
  
• China lifts quarantine on village hit by bird flu
  Authorities in a part of southern China close to Hong Kong lifted a quarantine Tuesday that had been imposed on a village after an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu there, state media said.
  
  
• H5N1 mother to fetus link
  Chinese researchers have discovered that the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus can pass through the placenta of pregnant women to the unborn fetus and can infect organs other than the lungs in adults.
  
  
• Indonesian boy dies of bird flu
  A 12-year-old Indonesian boy died of bird flu Saturday, raising the toll in the nation worst affected by avian flu to 88, the health ministry said. The boy, who tested positive for the H5N1 virus, died in a hospital here at 7:30 am (0030 GMT), said Nirwan, a staffer on duty at the health ministry's bird flu information centre.
  
  
• Bird flu cases in Vietnam, Indonesia
  After months of no reported cases of avian influenza, ducks in Vietnam's Mekong Delta have tested positive for the virus, a local official said Thursday.
  
  
• Bird Flu Sweeps Across Indonesia
  Cities in Indonesia are falling like dominos to bird flu: Garut in West Java, then Kendari in Southeast Sulawesi, then Dairi, Serang, and finally Simalungun in North Sumatra.
  
  
• Indonesia - the epicentre of bird flu fears
  The deadly bird flu is fast spreading, enveloping the whole globe under its wings. The H5N1 strain emerged in South East Asia in 2003 and has been spreading ever since. Many birds have been killed or destroyed as a result of the outbreak.
  
  
• Ducks in Vietnamese southern province contract bird flu viruses
  At least 45 ducks in Vietnam's southern Ben Tre province have been infected with bird flu viruses, local newspaper Youth reported Monday. Specimens from the ducks in a farm in Thanh Phu district, which were bird flu vaccinated last month, have been tested positive to H5N1, the paper quoted head of the provincial Veterinary Bureau, Mai Van Hiep, as saying.
  
  
• Alaska on alert for avian flu
  Within sight of an Arctic radar station built for Cold War warnings of air attacks from Soviet Siberia, government scientists are stalking birds that could be carrying a new menace from Asia: the H5N1 avian influenza virus.
  
  
• Alarm spreading after bird flu kills cat
  Alarm is spreading across Europe after the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu apparently killed a cat in Germany, the first time the virus has jumped species on the continent.
  
  
• Nepal at High Risk After India Faces Bird Flu
  Dr. Margarita Ronderos, an epidemiologist at the World Health Organization (WHO) Sunday warned about the possibility of avian influenza, also known as bird flu, coming to Nepal. She further said that "Nepal is at risk of avian influenza though no single case has been detected so far." The outbreak of bird flu in neighboring India has made Nepal a high-risk country.
  
  
• French test ill woman for bird flu
  A French woman with a respiratory illness who recently traveled to rural Turkey has been hospitalized for testing and observation to make sure that she did not contract the H5N1 bird flu virus, the French Health Ministry reported Sunday.
  
  
• EU closes ranks against Turkish bird flu outbreak
  The European Commission has banned all imports of live birds and feathers from Turkey into the 25-nation European Union after Ankara confirmed an outbreak of the highly contagious avian influenza.
  
  
• Bird Flu Spreads to Turkey, EU Bans Imports of Live Turkish Birds
  The European Commission Monday adopted a ban on all imports of Turkish live birds and untreated feathers, following the first confirmed report of the avian influenza virus in Turkey over the weekend. Imports of live poultry, eggs and fresh poultry meat from Turkey were not allowed in the European Union before the current ban was imposed, so no new rules were needed for these products.
  
  
• Britain on alert over bird flu signs
  The public is being urged to be vigilant and report suspicious bird deaths amid fears of a deadly strain of avian flu which is feared to be spreading across Europe. Anyone with concerns about a bird death is being invited to call a helpline manned by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
  
  
• Bird Flu Case Appears in Colombia
  The first bird flu case in Colombia has appeared. An Agriculture Ministry statement reported the bird flu has occurred in three farms in Tolima and poultries affected from the bird flu have been put under the quarantine to prevent the spread of the illness.
  
  
• Fed Govt gives flu vaccine $5 million boost
  MARK COLVIN: The Federal Government today announced a $5 million boost to efforts to protect Australians against a possible major flu outbreak. The Health Minister Tony Abbott says the funding will be used to bring forward clinical trials of a prototype pandemic vaccine to September, eight months earlier than planned. Health officials have welcomed the move, saying the vaccine will make a big difference in lessening the impact of a deadly flu outbreak.
  
  
• Flu vaccine production fast tracked
  The Federal Government is fast tracking the large scale production of vaccines to protect Australians against a possible major flu outbreak. The Government is spending an extra $5 million to bring forward clinical trials of a vaccine to September, eight months earlier than planned.
  
  
• Tender for contract for H5N1 flu vaccine, UK
  The UK Department of Health today invited manufacturers to tender for a contract to supply a limited amount of H5N1 vaccine. The move is part of the work to prepare for and reduce the impact of a possible flu pandemic.
  
  
• New cases spark global flu fears
  Indonesia’s first human bird flu case, coupled with more birds dying elsewhere including Russia, are signs a long-dreaded global influenza pandemic may be approaching, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said today.
  
  
• Mouse studies of oseltamivir show promise against H5N1 influenza ...
  Experiments in mice show that an antiviral drug currently used against annual influenza strains also can suppress the deadly influenza virus that has spread from birds to humans, killing dozens of people in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand since early 2004. This study, the first published report conducted on oseltamivir against the H5N1 influenza strain circulating in Vietnam, found that the drug, sold commercially as Tamiflu, dramatically boosted the survival rate of infected mice.
  
  
• WHO Says Flu Pandemic Likely
  Indonesia’s first human bird flu case, coupled with more birds dying elsewhere including Russia, are signs a long-dreaded global influenza pandemic may be approaching, the World Health Organization said on Friday.