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There will likely be another press conference (via phone) later tonight after the emergency meeting.
2 minutes ago from TweetDeck I will continue to update you throughout the day on the swine flu situation, as well as @BreakingNewsOn.
2 minutes ago from TweetDeck Transcript of this press briefing will be available soon.. WHO man apologies for the technical issues.
4 minutes ago from TweetDeck Chan says reports that many health care workers fall ill to this virus are false.
4 minutes ago from TweetDeck 2 health care workers were infected with swine flu
5 minutes ago from TweetDeck Especially young adults fall ill to this disease, similar to the 1918 pandemic
6 minutes ago from TweetDeck @tenspider I think it will be impossible to track down the first, original source but.. I don’t see why it would be terrorism-related.
7 minutes ago from TweetDeck Chan says they will discuss changing the pandemic alert level today
8 minutes ago from TweetDeck WHO will hold 4pm emergency meeting
9 minutes ago from TweetDeck CHAN SAYS NEED TO WAIT BEFORE RECOMMENDING WHETHER TO SWITCH VACCINE PRODUCTION TO NEW STRAIN
9 minutes ago from TweetDeck WHO may have recommendations within days
10 minutes ago from TweetDeck there is an information gap because of the size of the outbreak*
10 minutes ago from TweetDeck there’s an information gasp
11 minutes ago from TweetDeck back on the call
11 minutes ago from TweetDeck @Todzilla It does seem to evolve quicker than other diseases.
12 minutes ago from TweetDeck in reply to TodzillaReally annoyed by the conference center the WHO is using. “Please wait for operator”, waiting 10 mins now
14 minutes ago from TweetDeck CHAN SAYS MAIN WHO RECOMMENDATION TO OTHER COUNTRIES IS TO ENHANCE SURVEILLANCE FOR UNUSUAL DISEASE PATTERNS
17 minutes ago from TweetDeck Reuters bulletin: CHAN SAYS PREMATURE TO ISSUE TRAVEL ADVISORIES, TO BE ADDRESSED BY EMERGENCY COMMITTEE LATER TODAY
17 minutes ago from TweetDeck The WHO seems to be experiencing technical problems, likely hundreds of journalists on the call. Awaiting..
Viral gene sequences to assist update diagnostics for
swine influenza A(H1N1)
25 April 2009
WHO published a Guidance to influenza laboratories on response to swine influenza
A(H1N1) infections1. Due to the fact that it is a new reassortant virus, diagnostics has to
be updated accordingly.
The full genome sequence of the newly identified swine influenza virus
A/California/04/2009 A(H1N1) has been made available by the WHO Collaborating
Center in CDC, Atlanta, USA on the GISAID sequence database2 and has the following
accession numbers.
Further update on availability on other public sequence databases will be provided when
available.
• HA:
SequenceID: EPI176470
SequenceName: 2009712049_seg4
Length: 1701
Isolate: A/California/04/2009
• NA:
SequenceID: EPI176472
SequenceName: 2009712049_seg6
Length: 1410
Isolate: A/California/04/2009
• M:
SequenceID: EPI176471
SequenceName: 2009712049_seg7
Length: 972
Isolate: A/California/04/2009
• PB2:
SequenceID: EPI176486
SequenceName: 2009712049_1
Length: 2280
Segment: PB2
1 http:// …. Link to the first
Proteins: N/A
Isolate: A/California/04/2009
• PB1:
SequenceID: EPI176485
SequenceID: 2009712049_2
Length: 2274
Segment: PB1
Proteins: N/A
Isolate: A/California/04/2009
• PA:
SequenceID: EPI176484
SequenceName: 2009712049_3
Length: 2151
Segment: PA
Proteins: PA (716aa)
Isolate: A/California/04/2009
• NP:
SequenceID: EPI176482
SequenceName: 2009712049_5
Length: 1497
Segment: NP
Proteins: N/A
Isolate: A/California/04/2009
• NS:
SequenceID: EPI176483
SequenceName: 2009712049_8
Length: 838
Segment: NS
Proteins: N/A
Isolate: A/California/04/2009
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/swineflu_genesequences_20090425.pdf