Avian Flu Timeline  
2005

Below is a chronological list of events pertaining to Bird Flu history for 2003;

Jan. 2005

Chinese authorities announce they have developed a new rapid test to diagnose bird flu that produces results in hours rather than days.
 
Feb. 2005
Thirteen more cases of bird flu have occurred in Vietnam since Dec. 2004, 12 fatal.

Cambodia reports its first human case of bird flu.

A report of likely person-to-person transmission of bird flu in Vietnam is published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The World Health Organization makes prototype H5N1 vaccine strains available to a number of institutions and companies, and several vaccines are developed for clinical testing.

March 2005
Fifteen new human cases of Avian H5N1 infection are reported in Vietnam along with one new case in Cambodia. Bird flu has spread to 10 countries, including North Korea, and killed around 50 million chickens.

April 2005
Vietnam has reported a total of 60 confirmed human cases of H5N1 avian influenza since the outbreaks began, with 35 deaths. Thailand has confirmed a total of 17 infections of which 12 have been fatal, while Cambodia has confirmed two fatal cases.

April 5, 2005
The United Nations says the H7 strain of bird flu, previously undetected in Asia, has been found in North Korea.

May 2005
The World Health Organization reports that the H5N1 bird flu cases in Vietnam in 2005 suggest the virus is mutating, making it more capable of being passed between humans.

China reports more than 1,000 migratory bird have died of bird flu.

Indonesia confirms reports of H5N1 infection in pigs.

May 19, 2005
The World Health Organization reports 97 cases and 53 deaths from bird flu in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand since Jan. 2004.

June 6, 2005
Indonesia confirms a man exposed to sick chickens has been infected with the H5N1 virus. The farm worker shows no symptoms, but his blood carries antibodies to the H5N1 strain.

The bird flu virus becomes resistant to the low-cost amantadine family of antiviral drugs. Chinese farmers' use of the compound in chickens is blamed, a claim formal denied by Chinese authorities who pledge to investigate.

July 2005
At the end of a three-day conference in Malaysia, WHO officials announce that $150 million is needed to fight the spread of bird flu among people and another $100 million to stop its spread among animals.

July 8, 2005
The Philippines reports its first case in a town north of the capital, Manila, but does not confirm it is the H5N1 strain.

July 20, 2005
Indonesia confirms its first human deaths from the H5N1 virus.

July 26, 2005
Japan says a fresh outbreak of bird flu has been discovered on a chicken farm. All outbreaks were confirmed to be caused by the weaker H5N2 strain.

Aug. 2005
Migratory bird carry the bird flu virus to Siberia.

Aug. 10, 2005
Bird flu is found in Tibet.

Aug. 15, 2005
Russia reports an outbreak of bird flu in the Urals region of Chelyabinsk.

Aug. 23, 2005
Kazakhstan reports an outbreak of the H5N1 virus in seven villages.

Sept. 1, 2005
Vietnam reports one new human death from bird flu, bringing its total to 44. Sixty-five people have died in Asia, including 12 in Thailand, five in Indonesia and four in Cambodia.

Oct. 5, 2005
U.S. researchers announce they have reconstructed the virus that caused the deadly 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. They confirm the virus was originally an avian influenza virus that jumped to people.

Oct. 8, 2005
Turkey reports its first cases of avian flu among birds, and Romania also reports suspected cases. Both countries begin slaughtering birds to prevent spread of the disease.

Oct. 10, 2005
Bosnia, Croatia, Bulgaria and Switzerland announce a ban on poultry imports from Turkey and Romania. The European Commission announces a ban on imports of live bird and feathers from Turkey.

Oct. 13, 2005
The European Union urges all member countries to prepare for a bird flu pandemic.

more than 3,600 wild bird are confirmed dead in Iran of an unknown cause.

Oct. 16, 2005
Three ducks found dead in Romania test positive for the deadly strain of bird flu.

Oct. 19, 2005
The deadly strain of bird flu kills 2,600 birds at a poultry farm in China. The outbreak has since been brought under control, officials say.

Russia detects the deadly strain in a region south of Moscow.

Oct. 20, 2005
A Thai boy tests positive for bird flu after his infected father dies from the virus. Doctors say there is no sign he caught the virus from his father.

Oct. 21, 2005
Croatia reports its first suspected case of bird flu in dead swans. Separately, Britain says a parrot in quarantine has died from bird flu.

Oct. 24, 2005
Britain confirms a parrot that died in quarantine was infected with the deadly strain of bird flu.

Sweden says one of four ducks found dead in an area west of Stockholm was infected with bird flu, but not the deadly H5N1 strain.

Russia confirms more cases of the deadly strain of bird flu. The latest case killed 12 hens in Tambov, 250 miles southeast of Moscow.

Oct. 25, 2005
China reports hundreds of farm geese have succumbed to a fresh outbreak of the deadly bird flu virus.

Britain says a second parrot in quarantine died from bird flu.

Oct. 26, 2005
Tests confirm dead swans found in Croatia had the deadly H5N1 strain.

Oct. 27, 2005
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche says it has temporarily suspended shipments of the antiviral drug Tamiflu in the United States to ensure that enough treatments are available for the regular influenza season.

In China, a 12-year-old girl who died in Hunan province with flu-like symptoms tested negative for bird flu.

Oct. 28, 2005
Three French tourists suspected of catching bird flu during a trip to Thailand test negative for the deadly H5N1 virus.

Oct. 31, 2005
Thailand reports a woman has been diagnosed with bird flu.

Canada detects bird flu in 33 wild migratory ducks.

Nov. 1, 2005
President Bush outlines a $7.1 billion strategy to prepare for the danger of a pandemic influenza outbreak.

Nov. 2, 2005
Sustained person-to-person spread of bird flu or any other super-influenza strain may prompt the U.S. to implement travel restriction or other steps to block a pandemic, federal plans say.

Nov. 3, 2005
China reports its fourth bird flu outbreak in three weeks.

Nov. 6, 2005
Indonesia reports a 19-year-old woman has died of bird flu and an 8-year-old boy from her family was hospitalized with the virus.

China reports of three suspected human cases of bird flu.

Nov. 7, 2005
China says it has killed 6 million birds around its latest outbreak and ordered the closure of all live poultry markets in Beijing.

Nov. 8, 2005
Vietnam reports the death of a man from bird flu which, according to the World Health Organization, brings the human death toll throughout Asia to 64, comprising 42 in Vietnam, 13 in Thailand, five in Indonesia and four in Cambodia.

Nov. 9, 2005
Health experts unveil a $1 billion plan to halt the spread of bird flu.

Nov. 11, 2005
Kuwait reports the first known case of deadly bird flu in the Persian Gulf, saying a culled flamingo was carrying the deadly strain of the H5N1 virus.

Nov. 16, 2005
China confirms its first three cases of human bird flu, two in the central province of Hunan and one in eastern Anhui.

Nov. 23, 2005
China confirms a woman farmer from Anhui province has died of H5N1.

Dec. 3, 2005
Ukraine introduces tough steps to combat its first outbreak of bird flu, sending troops to patrol exclusion zones in the Crimea peninsula where the virus was detected.

Dec. 13, 2005
Indonesia confirms that a 35 year-old man has died from bird flu.

Dec. 29, 2005
China confirms its third human death from bird flu. That brings the death toll in Asia to 74, comprising 14 victims in Thailand, four in Cambodia, 11 in Indonesia, 42 in Vietnam and three in China.

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Sources: CDC; WHO

 

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