Pendemic
Avian Influenza: Time to Shut the Intensive Poultry Flu Factories?
By Caroline Lucas and Colin Hines, July 2006
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On Friday 22 September, Pandemic Action took part in a meeting on bird flu at the Green Party conference in Brighton. Milan Rai of Pandemic Action joined Green MEP Caroline Lucas and Dr Richard Lawson, former Green Party spokesperson on health, at a fringe session in Hove Town Hall.
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Download a copy of our postcard to send to the Department for International Development (DfID), or email Douglas Alexander direct via enquiry@dfid.gov.uk.
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You can download the following campaign materials for printing and distribution:
'Virus Alert!' briefing
Pandemic Action has produced an 8-page briefing to coincide with the World Social Forum. The briefing explores briefly the pandemic influenza risk, impact, and the change needed.
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'Avian influenza: an immediate danger to the world's poor'
If you're pressed for time, download our basic, 1 page A5 leaflet to spread the word.
FAQs
The World Health Organisation's FAQs on avian influenza are here.
Access to Medicines
The Third World Network's Info Service on Health Issues is the best source of info on influenza and access to medicines:
- WHO meeting on avian flu virus ends with draft documents, 28 November 2007
- WHO: Meet discusses proposals to reform WHO's influenza surveillance system, 28 November 2007
- Rush is on for patents on avian flu viruses and vaccines, 1 November 2007
- WHA avian flu decision links sharing of virus and benefits, 25 May 2007 (Word doc)
- Texts on virus sharing, ip and public health adopted at WHA, 24 May 2007 (Word doc)
- WHO stung by delegates' criticisms, 24 May 2007
- WHO admits patents taken on avian flu virus, 22 May 2007
- Developing countries call for new flu virus sharing system, 16 May 2007 (Word doc)
- Developing countries look to WHA for solution to flu virus issue, 14 May 2007 (Word doc)
- Winners and losers in the sharing of avian flu viruses, 11 May 2007
- Sharing of avian flu virus to be a major issue at WHA, 8 May 2007 (Word doc)
- Report blames factory farms for bird flu, 23 February 2007
- Indonesia to share bird-flu samples only if there is new system, 22 February 2007
- Developing countries raise fears over sharing bird flu virus samples, 13 February 2007
- WHA urged to act on high cost of bird flu vaccines, 9 June 2006
- Roche's Secret, Sub-Licences for Tamiflu will not help poor, 9 November 2005
- WTO should review TRIPS/health decision in view of avian flu, 31 October 2005
- Avian Flu Threat, 25 October 2005
Agriculture
A call for a global justice response to the threat of pandemic flu
Today humanity faces a massive global threat from avian infl uenza ('bird flu'). Leading researchers believe a human pandemic is not only inevitable but overdue
In December 2006, the Lancet medical journal estimated that a global H5N1 influenza pandemic could kill over 60 million people - 96% of them in the Global South.
n 1918, an influenza virus killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has killed in 24 years. Overwhelmingly, these deaths took place in the Global South. People with HIV and AIDS will be particularly vulnerable to a new influenza pandemic, along with those affected by malnutrition and war.