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
Two excellent reports on the poultry industry's role have been produced by GRAIN:
Bird flu: a bonanza for 'Big Chicken' (March 2007)
The top-down global response to bird flu (April 2006)
Fowl play: The poultry industry's central role in the bird flu crisis (February 2006)
Caroline Lucas MEP's new report expands on this (see link on right).
Background
A detailed exploration of the politics behind the crisis is in Mike Davis's book.
We will be adding further information to this page in the coming weeks.
