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On Thursday, 29 November 2007 00:28:09 MST, Francis Ohanyido <FOha...@compassnigeria.org> wrote:
Lesley Palmer <lpa...@comminit.com> wrote:
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:43:08 -0800
Subject: Avian Influenza and Polio Media Reporting and Knowledge
From: "Lesley Palmer" <lpa...@comminit.com>
To: Media, Health, Polio and Immunisation and Vaccine related people
and organisations in The Drum Beat network
Attention: International Public Health Forum (IPHF)
From: Lesley Palmer - Researcher - The Communication Initiative
Re: AVIAN INFLUENZA and POLIO Media Reporting and Knowledge
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Many best wishes. Below for your information and insight are examples
of media coverage in [so called] developing countries on two growing
global health issues, Avian Influenza and Polio. Please let us know if you
are working on Avian Influenza or Polio issues, and where and how we
can access your journalistic reporting should it appear online.
Can I also encourage you, in support of your reporting and other work
roles to please review and utilise the online resources for POLIO and
AVIAN INFLUENZA.
AVIAN INFLUENZA: Given the growing concerns about Avian Influenza we
have developed an Avian Influenza Communication page with links to a
range of information and knowledge at
POLIO: The final push is on for the eradication of Polio. You can see a
range of resources in support of your work and reporting at
After your review of these pages and the media reports below can I also
encourage you to provide your perspectives on these 3 items relevant
to media coverage of communicating health issues. Simply complete the
very simple and quick page review form at the bottom of each page. We
would love to share - and people in this network would greatly value -
your insights and critique on the value of these ideas. Thank you.
1. Community Dialogue Sessions Advance Bird Flu Education in Nigeria
This article explores the strategy of using open community dialogue
sessions to raise awareness about avian influenza.
2. Drive Against Polio Hit by Rumours, Litigation
This article describes public concerns regarding the reliability and
safety of oral polio vaccine in Pakistan.
3. Digital Norway Sweeps Away Barriers to Information Sharing
This article details the Digital Norway plan, an arrangement through
which government agencies must make data clearly and easily available
through a national portal called geoNorge.
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Now onto...
AVIAN INFLUENZA AND POLIO - NEWS COVERAGE
Please note that we are also very interested in your assessment of the
stories that follow. Do they make good stories? Are they "helpful"? Are
they accurate? Are they well told? Are there any particular stories
that stand out for you? Why? Please simply reply to this email and
include your thoughts on these and other stories. We will be happy to share
them. Many Thanks.
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AVIAN INFLUENZA
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Richer nations refuse sharing bird flu virus samples
CHINA DAILY (China)
November 26 2007
Richer nations and drugmakers refused to share their bird flu virus
samples which upset developing countries that wanted to develop cheap
vaccines by the virus samples, media reported Monday.
Developing states like Indonesia - which with 91 of the 206 human bird
flu deaths since 2003 is the hardest hit country - want guarantees from
richer nations and drugmakers that they will have access to cheap
vaccines if they share samples...
Access the full article at
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Myanmar reports bird flu outbreak at chicken farm in northeast
THE STAR ONLINE (Malaysia)
November 24 2007
Myanmar has reported an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus at a
chicken farm in the northeast, state media and an international
livestock health agency said Saturday.
Unusual deaths of chickens at a farm in a village in Shan State's Keng
Tung township were reported on Nov. 18, and laboratory tests confirmed
that H5N1 was detected in some of them, the state-run New Light of
Myanmar newspaper reported.
According to the Myanmar government's report to the Paris-based World
Organization for Animal Health, 2,058 of the farm's 2,591 susceptible
birds had died in the outbreak, and the other 533 were slaughtered to
prevent the virus from spreading...
Access the full article at
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Britain to offer vaccines in case of flu outbreak
PRAVDA RU (Russia)
November 22 2007
Britain is going to provide the entire population with vaccines in the
case of a flu pandemic.
Health Secretary Alan Johnson said a flu pandemic was "one of the most
severe risks" facing the country, telling lawmakers that he had signed
an agreement to secure the delivery of enough pandemic flu vaccines to
cover every citizen.
Experts would formulate a vaccine once the strain of the virus has been
identified, but it would take several months before a vaccine could be
produced and distributed to the population...
Access the full article at
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Shoura Calls for Quick Steps to Contain Bird Flu
ARAB NEWS
November 21 2007
The Shoura Council has urged the health and agriculture ministries to
take quick measures to eradicate bird flu in the Kingdom and keep the
public updated about the deadly virus.
During a meeting in Riyadh, many Shoura members called upon the
ministers of health and agriculture to explain to the public the reason for
the bird flu outbreak in the Riyadh region.
Al-Watan Arabic daily carried photographs of an Agriculture Ministry
team in masks and white coats in the Aziziya market south of Riyadh,
saying bird flu cases had been found there. It was not clear what strain of
the bird flu virus had been detected...
Access the full article at
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Saudi ministers need to explain reason for bird flu outbreak
KHALEEJ TIMES (United Arab Emirates)
by Habib Shaikh
November 22 2007
The Saudi Shoura Council members have called upon the ministers of
health and agriculture to explain to the public the reason for the bird flu
outbreak in the Riyadh region, and has urged the ministries to take
quick measures to eradicate the disease in the kingdom and keep the
public updated about the deadly virus.
In view of the arrival of thousands of pilgrims for Haj this year,
which is less than a month away, Saudi authorities have taken ll measures
to contain the outbreak...
Access the full article at
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Indonesia and U.S. square off at bird flu talks
REUTERS
by Stephanie Nebehay
November 20 2007
Indonesia on Tuesday called for countries who share bird flu virus
samples to have full control of their use andaccess to vaccines developed
from them, but the United States ruled out any automatic reward for
sharing.
Indonesia, the nation worst hit by bird flu with 91 human deaths, has
held back most of its virus samples and demanded guarantees that poor
countries get access to affordable pandemic vaccines derived from them.
Speaking at the start of a four-day meeting hosted by the World Health
Organization (WHO), Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari
said developing countries were being denied their "sovereign rights" over
bird flu virus samples sent to the WHO, a United Nations agency...
Access the full article at
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Outbreak of lethal bird flu confirmed in England
THE MANILA TIMES
November 15 2007
Veterinary authorities confirmed an outbreak of the potentially lethal
Asian strain of bird flu in eastern England on Tuesday, in a new blow
to the British farming industry.
More than 6,000 poultry were ordered to be slaughtered at the site in
Suffolk, where an exclusion zone was imposed on Monday after a suspected
outbreak was found.
"I can now confirm that the strain of avian influenza found in the
infected premises is the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1
strain," said deputy chief veterinary officer Fred Landeg...
Access the full article at
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Quick govt action key for bird flu fight-study
REUTERS
By Michael Kahn
November 15 2007
Quick government action and clear communication with the public are
needed to contain bird flu cases in humans, Turkish researchers said on
Thursday.
The researchers were reviewing how Turkey handled an outbreak that
killed four people in 2006 - the first human victims reported outside China
and Southeast Asia after the H5N1 bird flu strain reemerged in 2003.
The rapid response overcame the impact of nervous health-care workers
who felt ill-prepared to deal with the outbreak and poor coordination
between human and animal health services, the researchers reported in the
journal BioMed Central Public Health...
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UN warns of possible sharp rise in bird flu outbreaks ahead of Northern
Hemisphere winter
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
November 9 2007
Asia must keep watch for a sharp rise in bird flu outbreaks as winter
approaches, the top U.N. influenza official said Friday, calling
illnesses from animals "one of the greatest threats to the survival of the
human race."
"The northern winter seems to be a time when the risk of the disease in
poultry increases, and it's partly to do with the fact that this virus
quite likes cold weather," said David Nabarro, the U.N. coordinator
for avian flu and influenza.
Birds migrating from Asia to the south and west in winter could also
carry the disease to new areas, Nabarro told The Associated Press in
Tokyo...
Access the full article at
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Indonesian woman dies of bird flu
CHINA VIEW (China)
November 5 2007
A 30-year-old Indonesian woman from an outskirts city of Jakarta has
died of bird flu, the health ministry said here Monday.
Laboratory tests indicated that the woman, from Tanggerang city who
died on Saturday in a designed-bird flu hospital of Persahabatan in east
Jakarta, was positively contracted by avian influenza, an official of
the anti-bird flu center of the ministry Djoko Suyono said.
"She was dead on Saturday. Two of laboratory tests showed that she is
positive of bird flu," he told Xinhua...
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Bird Flu Finds Children's Lungs Faster
SCIENCE DAILY
October 27 2007
New findings, reported in the journal Respiratory Research, about how
the virus binds to the respiratory tract and lung suggest children may
be particularly susceptible to avian influenza. The results also mean
that previous receptor distribution studies may have to be re-evaluated.
John Nicholls and colleagues at the University of Hong Kong and
Adelaide Women and Children's Hospital, in Australia, describe a modified
technique to visualize the putative receptors for influenza viruses in the
upper and lower respiratory tract, including the lung...
Access the full article at
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Uganda: Bird Flu Spreads Among Humans - WHO
ALL AFRICA.COM
By Hilary Bainemigisha
October 21 2007
THE H5N1 strain of bird flu has finally managed to spread from person
to person, according to officials of the World Health Organisation
(WHO).
Until now, it was spread from birds to humans. They warned that if the
bird flu virus mutated to easily spread between humans, it could spark
a global pandemic, killing millions.
According to a new study of deaths in Indonesia last year, bird flu
could have spread between humans on several occasions. Person to person
infection was suspected but could not be confirmed...
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Nigerian gov't pays 4.3m dollars to bird flu affected farmers
RELIEF WEB
October 9 2007
Nigerian federal government has so far paid 546 million naira (about
4.3 million U.S. dollars) as compensation to poultry farmers affected by
the outbreak of bird flu in 25 states and the federal capital Abuja,
according to a government official's disclosure in Gusau of the country's
northwestern Zamfara State on Tuesday.
Abba Ruma, the minister of agriculture and water resources, said while
presenting check to poultry farmers whose birds were culled due to the
avian influenza disease.
Ruma was represented by Dantani Sa'idu, deputy director in charge of
livestock and pest control services. According to him, the government has
in addition, released another 103 million naira (about 810,000
dollars) for the payment of the compensation which started on Monday...
Access the full article at
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POLIO
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Anti-Polio Drive Gets $200m Boost
BBC News
November 25 2007
The global campaign to eradicate polio has been given a grant of $200m
(£97m) from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Rotary
International.
It comes as the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for more
donations to boost its drive to eradicate the disease altogether...
Access the full article at
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Nigeria: Polio - Rotary Club Takes Fight to Abuja
<http://allafrica.com/> AllAfrica.com
November 21 2007
Rotary Club International has taken further steps to ensure the
eradication of polio in Nigeria as its members from the U.S and Canada
recently took the campaign to Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Club's visit to
Nigeria was to seal the "bond of partnership" with Africa and provide
solution to the many needs of the continent particularly on polio...
Access the full article at
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India Surprises World In Fight Against Polio
Khaleej Times Online
November 15 2007
NEW DELHI - An unprecedented vaccination campaign has produced strong
results in fighting polio in India and if sustained, the crippling
disease could be eradicated in the next two years, a top WHO expert said.
Although India overtook Nigeria with the most cases in the world this
year, the rise was of a less virulent strain and authorities should not
divert their focus from rooting out Type 1 polio, Bruce Aylward,
director of WHO's Global Polio Eradication Initiative, said...
Access the full article at
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UP Shows Success In Anti-Polio Drive
The Times of India
November 14 2007
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh has shown a remarkable improvement on the front
of polio eradication this year. The Lucknow and Kanpur sub-regions have
recorded only four cases of P1 polio viruses transmission and five
cases of P3 virus so far.
Addressing Polio workers at a ceremony to mark the occasion Dr Nimal
Hettiaratchy, state representative, UNICEF, UP said, "Uttar Pradesh is
close to eradicating polio and we know we can do it. Here your role is
most significant. We should not be complacent. We have to walk that extra
mile to achieve the goal of 'a polio-free
India'..."
Access the full article at
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Call For Help For Those Suffering Post-Polio Syndrome
Irish Times (Ireland)
November 14 2007
by Alison Healy
Polio survivors who recovered from their illness decades ago but have
now contracted post-polio syndrome have urged the Government to do more
to help them.
There are about 7,500 polio survivors in the State and between 60 and
80 per cent of these will contract post-polio syndrome.
Symptoms include muscle and joint pain, difficulty in walking, constant
fatigue and severe intolerance to the cold. There is no known cure for
the syndrome...
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PAKISTAN: Opposition to anti-polio drive weakens
IRIN News
November 12 2007
ISLAMABAD - Local opposition to polio eradication efforts in western
Pakistan is declining, health experts claim.
"The refusal rate has decreased. The coverage has improved," Waheed
Khan, a government coordinator for the anti-polio drive in Pakistan's
North West Frontier Province (NWFP), told IRIN from Peshawar, the
provincial capital, on 12 November, citing stronger awareness and public
acceptance...
Access the full article at
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Team India Bat For Polio eradication
The Times of India
November 12 2007
KANPUR: Joining the campaign for polio eradication in the country,
Indian pacer R P Singh presented a bat, signed by the entire cricket squad,
to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati here.
The bat was the team's contribution to UNICEF's 'Bowl Out Polio'
campaign...
Access the full article at
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Nigeria: Women Worry Over Effect of Polio Vaccine on Children
Daily Trust (Nigeria)
November 7 2007
Women in Lagos State have complained over effects of the polio vaccine
on their children in ongoing polio immunisation programme in the state.
The polio vaccine, called IPV, is administered as a drop into the
mouths of children aged between two and six years. Most children get four
doses of the vaccine between
that period.
Daily Trust learnt that the recent polio vaccine has a negative effect
on many of the immunised children...
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PESHAWAR: Anti-Polio Drive Put Off In Swat
Dawn (Pakistan)
October 29 2007
The authorities have postponed an anti-polio campaign in Swat district
in view of clashes between security forces and the Taliban militants,
according to officials.
"We have deferred the three-day anti-polio campaign in Swat due to lack
of security for vaccinators. The campaign will be launched after the
law and order situation improves," said officials of the health
department's Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI)...
Access the full article at
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Bangladeshi Campaign Aims To Vaccinate 25 Million Children Against
Polio
AOL News
October 27 2007
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - About 700,000 health workers were aiming to
vaccinate some 25 million children up to age 5 on Saturday as part of
Bangladesh's continuing efforts to eliminate polio, the Health Ministry
said.
Some volunteers waited at bus and train stations, hoping to vaccinate
children who live on the streets or were traveling cross country during
the one-day campaign, the ministry said in a statement...
Access the full article at
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Sudan: New Polio Case Sparks Vaccination Programme
AllAfrica.com
October 23 2007
UN agencies and Sudanese health officials began a two-day countrywide
polio immunisation campaign on 23 October, following reports of a new
case of the disease in Darfur.
No polio cases had been reported in Sudan since August 2005, granting
the country WHO certification as polio-free. The new case, which was
confirmed in a boy from South Darfur, may have spread from neighbouring
Chad, the health agency said...
Access the full article at
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Community Dialogue Sessions Advance Bird Flu Education in Nigeria
Drive Against Polio Hit by Rumours, Litigation
Digital Norway Sweeps Away Barriers to Information Sharing
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Compiled by Lesley Palmer and Kiyuri Naicker.
Francis Ohanyido FIPH,
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USAID-funded Project that is empowering communities to improve health and
education in Nigeria.
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Subject: FW: Weekly Polio Statistic and update WK 47, 2007
FYI
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Subject: RE: Weekly Polio Statistic and update WK 47, 2007
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please find attached for your information, an update on the wild poliovirus
situation in Nigeria and statistics in 2007, as at week 47.
The total WPV this week is 235 cases for year 2007 in 23 states.
Best Regards
WHO EPI/ Disease Surveillance Unit
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