Bird Flu

This page provides details of GRAIN publications, external documents and other resources on bird flu and their impact on small-scale farmers.

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GRAIN publications and collaborations

Edward Hammond, Indonesia fights to change WHO rules on flu vaccines, Seedling, April 2009

Patrice Sagbo, Mismanaging avian flu in Benin, Seedling, July 2008

GRAIN, Bird flu in eastern India: another senseless slaughter, Against the grain, February 2008

GRAIN, Germ warfare - Livestock disease, public health and the military–industrial complex, Seedling, Janaury 2008

GRAIN, Viral times - The politics of emerging global animal diseases, Seedling, January 2008

GRAIN, Bird flu: a bonanza for 'Big Chicken', Against the grain, March 2007 (also available in Bahasa Indonesia)

GRAIN, Bird flu crisis - Small farms are the solution, not the problem, Seedling, July 2006

Interview with Josepth Keve, Seedling, July 2006

GRAIN, The top-down global response to bird flu, Against the grain, April 2006

GRAIN's principal report published end of February 2006: Fowl play: The poultry industry's central role in the bird flu crisis, GRAIN Briefing, February 2006

Read the February press release (Feb 2006) (Available in Arabic too)

Read GRAINs letter about bird flu to the FAO (Feb 2006)

External publications and resources

Ed Hammond's blog, Immunocompetent - A prickly thorn in the side of America's confused influenza blogosphere.

Briefing Paper: Sharing of avian influenza viruses, Third World Network, 2007

Ed Hammond, "Briefing Paper: Some Intellectual Property Issues Related to H5N1 Influenza Viruses, Research and Vaccines", Third World Network, 2007.

Sangeeta Shashikant, "WHO: Concerns over Chair's text on sharing of flu viruses and benefits", SUNS #6539, Third World Network, Geneva, 15 August 2008. [Review of how the balance between sharing of the influenza virus and sharing of the benefits from the use of the virus is being handled by a process at the World Health Organisation.]

Pro-poor Livestock Policy Initiative, "Industrial Livestock Production and Global Health Risks," FAO, 2007. [Provides analysis of the role played by industrial livestock in the development and spread of highly-pathogenic diseases.]

The Lancet, "Avian influenza goes global, but don’t blame the birds," Vol 6, April 2006.

Beyond Factory Farming Avian Flu Fact Sheet

FAO's Avian Influenza web pages

WHO Avian Influenza Fact Sheet

World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). [Provides country reports of official outbreaks.]