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Here are the top Bird Flu stories for November 2008 – (more news on our main web-site)

Note: Alerts are the top, daily news headlines, with the keywords of H5N1, Avian (bird) influenza (or combination thereof). These are from major news organizations all over the world. We have sorted these in month pages since January 2006.

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29 November » ‘About 30000 poultry to be culled in Assam’
Newstrack India – Delhi,India
The Indian health ministry Thursday confirmed outbreak of bird flu after laboratory tests confirmed strains of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza. …

28 November » Scientists say it’s time to let GM genie out of the bottle
New Zealand Herald – New Zealand
But it’s this sort of advance – combating bird flu – that is changing public perceptions about a technology many view as too dangerous to be messing with. …

27 November » Days after India says it’s clean, bird flu strikes Assam block
Indian Express – New Delhi,India
Once the outbreak of High Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1) virus is notified, local health authorities would start culling within the five-km radius of the …

25 November » Makassar stages first urban bird flu sim
Jakarta Post – Jakarta,Indonesia
Makassar municipality organized a bird flu pandemic simulation in Tamangapa sub district, Manggala district, Makassar, South Sulawesi in an effort to …

24 November » Regional Experts To Gather For Pacific Pandemic Task Force Meeting
pacific – Honolulu,HI,USA
According to Dr. Ken Cokanasiga, Animal Health and Production Adviser at SPC, “PICTs are still vulnerable to the introduction of the deadly bird flu H5N1 …

21 November » World Is 40 Percent Prepared for Pandemic, UN Official Says
NewsBlaze – Folsom,CA,USA
The report said there were fewer outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu and fewer infected countries than in the same period in 2006 and 2007, …

18 November » Birds in the News 152
ScienceBlogs – USA
H5N1 avian influenza has been detected in domestic poultry in Thailand and in humans in Indonesia. On BirdNote, for the week of 16 November 2008. …

17 November » How to win the cold war and fight off flu
Times Online – UK
Fortunately there have so far been only a few instances in which the avian flu virus, H5N1, has been shown to have developed resistance to Tamiflu, …

16 November » Malaysia suspends Thai chicken imports over bird flu scare: report
AFP
On Thursday, Thailand confirmed a second case of bird flu in less than a week. The H5N1 virus was found in poultry in the northern province of Uthai Thani, …

15 November » Turkey – It’s Not Just for Thanksgiving Anymore
Newswise (press release) – USA
Q: Avian Flu continues to be a concern – will it ever have an impact on our Thanksgiving turkey? All animals are subject to getting the flu, …

14 November » 17 treated in Makassar for suspected bird flu
Jakarta Post – Jakarta,Indonesia
… coughing and breathing difficulty, all symptoms closely associated with bird flu. “Rapid tests showed they may be infected with the H5N1 avian influenza …

13 November » How Google Alerts can fight disease
New Scientist (subscription) – UK
This gets even harder in countries like Indonesia, now the world’s hotspot for H5N1 bird flu, where the government has stopped promptly announcing cases. …

12 November » United States provides record level of support for UN campaign …
UN News Centre
Avian flu, or H5N1, has impacted more than 60 countries since the epidemic began in 2003 in Asia. Most nations have eliminated it from their poultry …

11 November » Birds in the News 151
ScienceBlogs – USA
H5N1 avian influenza has been identified in domestic poultry in Laos and immediately across the border in Thailand and possibly in humans in Indonesia. …

10 November » New bird flu outbreak in Sukhothai
Bangkok Post – Thailand
Bird flu has been found at a native-chicken farm in the northern province of Sukhothai, raising fears of a new outbreak of the H5N1 avian flu virus in the …

09 November » West Java hospital probes bird flu death
Jakarta Post – Jakarta,Indonesia
“I think the spread of the bird flu virus is a mystery. Perhaps it was not the H5N1. We are very curious of the actual cause,” Songka said. …

08 November » Indonesia: Teenager dies of suspected bird flu in Java
The 15-year old local Semarang girl was identified only as DS A total of 113 people have died of avian influenza or bird flu in Indonesia, …

07 November » Bird flu virus hides from immune system
United Press International – USA
Baylor College of Medicine researchers said they discovered a protein found in the virulent avian flu virus strain called H5N1 forms tiny tubules in which …

06 November » Protein ‘tubules’ free avian flu virus from immune recognition
EurekAlert (press release) – Washington,DC,USA
… H5N1, a form of avian flu associated with more than half the deaths in a 2004 “bird flu” outbreak that resulted in 50 human cases and 36 deaths in …

05 November » Laos reports new avian flu outbreak
CIDRAP – Minneapolis,MN,USA
Nov 4, 2008 (CIDRAP News) – Government officials in Laos today confirmed that the H5N1 avian influenza virus struck birds in a village in the northwestern …

04 November » Keeping bird flu strategies on paper will not do
The Statesman – Kolkata,India
He highlighted the world had been battling “bird flu” caused by the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza type A virus for the last five years. …

03 November » Flu epidemic anniversary: How would modern Britain cope with an …
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
Now, as the world faces the prospect of a new pandemic – mostly likely triggered by the bird flu virus H5N1 – the question has to be asked: how would …

02 November » DA bans importation of birds, poultry from Germany for now
Philippine Star – Manila,Philippines
… P60-billion poultry industry in the Philippines which has remained free of bird flu ever since the H5N1 strain of this virus struck Asia five years ago. …

01 November » Movement of Bird Flu from Asia to North America Via Birds Confirmed
MedIndia – Chennai,India
The researchers said that it was a highly pathogenic form of the H5N1 avian influenza virus that spread across Asia to Europe and Africa over the past …

Alerts are the top, daily news headlines with the keywords of H5N1, Avian (bird) influenza (or combination thereof). Since our goal is to forecast or calculate, we view these headlines as interesting indicators. Scanning over the whole year gives you a broad picture of what is going on in the world.

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Here are the top Bird Flu stories for October 2008 – (more news on our main web-site)

Note: Alerts are the top, daily news headlines, with the keywords of H5N1, Avian (bird) influenza (or combination thereof). These are from major news organizations all over the world. We have sorted these in month pages since January 2006.

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31 October » Lifewatch: Flu test
WECT-TV6 – Wilmington,NC,USA
“It’s very important to detect very early that it’s the normal flu or if it’s avian flu, also known as the H5N1 virus,” said Mark Stevenson, president of …

30 October » Making Cents in Penny Stocks
Motley Fool – USA
But the beaten-down biotech is developing a new type of bird flu vaccine. Since 2005 it has invested more than $100 million in developing multiple vaccines, …

29 October » Wild birds carry avian flu viruses to US: report
Reuters UK – UK
USGS and US Fish and Wildlife Service experts have been testing birds in Alaska for any evidence they may be carrying highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu with …

28 October » Egypt conference on avian and human influenza : “We must remain …
Reuters AlertNet – London,England,UK
It is not because the media do not write stories anymore about pandemic and bird flu that the public should believe there is no threat. …

27 October » US Pledges Additional $320 Million in Fight Against Bird Flu
Voice of America – USA
She warned against complacency in fighting avian flu, which the United Nations says could cause a pandemic. The US pledge brings to about $950 million …

26 October » Bird flu fight hindered by fatigue -UN agency
Reuters South Africa – Johannesburg,South Africa
Almost half of the reported deaths from the H5N1 strain of bird flu have occurred in Indonesia, according to World Health Organisation data. …

25 October » Global plan to tackle bird flu threat
Smash Hits – India
Over the last decade, the bird flu virus, H5N1, has spread across most of Asia and Europe and parts of Africa. In some countries – including Indonesia, …

24 October » Drive-thru flu shots will serve as training exercise
Randolph Leader – Roanoke,AL,USA
Currently, a virus of most concern is circulating in Asia, Europe and Africa and it is called H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu). This virus is only missing …

22 October » UN reports broad, but untested bird flu planning
International Herald Tribune – France
Almost all of the 148 countries that provided data on the spread of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus ahead of an international conference this week in Egypt …

21 October » Dead bird confirmed with avian flu in China’s Hong Kong
RIA Novosti – Moscow,Russia
HONG KONG, October 20 (RIA Novosti) – A dead crow, which was found in one of Hong Kong’s central parks, has tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus, …

20 October » Bangladesh finds more bird flu
Straits Times – Singapore
DHAKA – BANGLADESH authorities said on Sunday they have detected fresh bird flu at a poultry farm four months after the deadly virus was last reported in …

19 October » Students learn how to to tackle avian influenza
Jakarta Post – Jakarta,Indonesia
Bird flu or avian influenza is a poultry disease, but experts fear that the virus — H5N1 — could mutate and become able to be transmitted from human to …

18 October » Flu Pandemic May Cost World Economy Up to $3 Trillion (Update3)
Bloomberg – USA
The spread of the H5N1 avian-influenza strain across Asia, Africa and Europe prompted the development of vaccines and the slaughter of poultry from …

17 October » Double flu jab recommended against bird flu pandemic
Entertainment and Showbiz! – Baroda,India
It is not feasible to predict the actual pandemic influenza strain, but global health authorities have identified H5N1 avian influenza as a strain with the …

16 October » Deadly bird flu virus found at German farm: EU
AFP
BRUSSELS (AFP) — German authorities were culling poultry at a farm in Germany after the discovery of a case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, the European …

15 October » US controls bird flu vaccines over bioweapon fears
guardian.co.uk – UK
Yet deep inside an 86-page supplement to United States export regulations is a single sentence that bars US exports of vaccines for avian bird flu and …

14 October » ASIA: Countries lagging in flu pandemic plans, UN warns
IRINnews.org – New York,NY,USA
Since the re-emergence of the highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza virus in poultry in 2003, 387 cases of human avian flu have been recorded, of whom 245 died, …

13 October » Preventing an Outbreak: McCain and Obama on Pandemics
Popular Science – New York,NY,USA
Pandemic flu didn’t pop up on any politicians’ radar until 2004, when a major breakout of highly deadly H5N1 avian bird flu began killing birds and people …

12 October » Viet Nam seeks world help with avian-flu vaccination
Viet Nam News – Hanoi,Vietnam
“Viet Nam is facing challenges controlling avian flu, including the need to find a way to successful move beyond subsidised vaccination of poultry, …

11 October » Germany Kills 1400 Farm Fowl After First Bird Flu Case in 2008
Bloomberg – USA
A duck tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu, Elke Reinking, a spokeswoman for Germany’s Friedrich Loeffler Institute, said in a telephone …

10 October » Bird Flu Returns to Germany
Deutsche Welle – Germany
Bird flu has returned to Germany, with the H5N1 influenza virus breaking out among farm ducks in the eastern state of Saxony, officials said Thursday. …

09 October » Deadly by the Dozen: 12 Diseases Climate Change May Make Worse
Scientific American – USA
Bird flu: H5N1 infections are becoming the rule rather then the exception in farmed poultry worldwide, and even wild birds are showing signs of infection …

07 October » Avian flu hits central Vietnam
Earthtimes (press release) – London,UK
Hanoi – Authorities have detected the H5N1 avian flu virus in ducks in the central Vietnamese province of Nghe An, the third outbreak of bird flu in Vietnam …

06 October » DEC gets assistance from duck hunters
WatertownDailyTimes.com – NY, United States
There are multiple strains of avian influenza, or bird flu. But only one is dangerous for birds and humans. According to the World Health Organization, …

05 October » S.Korea reports new case of suspected bird flu
Reuters UK – UK
In May, South Korea culled all domestic fowl in the Seoul area in a bid to contain bird flu after confirming 31 cases of the deadly H5N1 strain in poultry …

04 October » Emergency manager warns of flu outbreak possibilities
Fort Scott Tribune – Fort Scott,KS,USA
According to www.pandemicflu.gov, the avian flu is caused by influenza viruses that occur naturally among wild birds. The highly pathogenic H5N1, …

03 October » Stopping Pandemic Bird Flu
MIT Technology Review – Cambridge,MA,USA
Avian influenza, caused by a variant of the H5N1 virus, has afflicted hundreds of millions of birds worldwide. The virus mutates quickly: some of the …

02 October » Suspected bird flu victim dies
Bangkok Post – Thailand
Although an avian flu outbreak has never occurred in the district, Phichit was listed as an avian influenza epidemic zone, he said. …

01 October » TOGO: 17000 poultry killed in latest flu outbreak
Reuters AlertNet – London,England,UK
LOME, 30 September 2008 (IRIN) – Some 17000 birds died or have been culled since the outbreak of the H5N1 avian flu virus on 9 September on three poultry …

Alerts are the top, daily news headlines with the keywords of H5N1, Avian (bird) influenza (or combination thereof). Since our goal is to forecast or calculate, we view these headlines as interesting indicators. Scanning over the whole year gives you a broad picture of what is going on in the world.

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Return to main Pandemic Influenza site

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Here are the top Bird Flu stories for September 2008 – (more news on our main web-site)

Note: Alerts are the top, daily news headlines, with the keywords of H5N1, Avian (bird) influenza (or combination thereof). These are from major news organizations all over the world. We have sorted these in month pages since January 2006.

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29 September » Roche, GSK urge employers to stockpile flu drugs
The Associated Press
According to the World Health Organization, to date there have been 382 people sickened and 245 deaths caused by the H5N1 bird flu strain, mostly in people …

28 September » Poultry cull in Togo capital after bird flu outbreak
AFP
The H5N1 bird flu virus mainly kills animals but scientists fear it could mutate into a disease that is easily transferrable from human to human and spark a …

27 September » Bird flu hits northern Iraq
Middle East Times – Cairo,Egypt
… town (in Dahuk) because of the H9 strain of bird flu,” he said. Though it does not pose a significant health threat to humans, as does the H5N1 strain, …

26 September » Kansai Paint Product Proved to Lower Bird Flu Virus Infections
Japan Corporate News (press release) – Tokyo,Japan
<4613> said Wednesday the firm’s plaster has been proved to lower the infectious ability of a highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus. …

25 September » Nice issues strict guidelines for GlaxoSmithKline and Roche flu drugs
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
Tamiflu, a pill, and inhaler Relenza have also been seen as potential treatments for H5N1, commonly known as bird flu. However, Nice said that their …

24 September » Japanese NIH Scientists Report Robust Cross-Protection With …
CNNMoney.com (press release) – USA
9, Sept; 2008), published by the Centers for Disease Control (“CDC”), a new outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N1) in whooper swans. …

22 September » Poultry farmers, businesses express mixed reactions over bird flu …
The Punch – Lagos,Nigeria
By Agency reporter Togo?s government has confirmed the H5N1 bird flu virus was responsible for the September 10 outbreak of bird flu that killed 3500 birds …

20 September » Diseases pose big danger to biosecurity
The Australian – Sydney,Australia
Public health expert Julie Hall says the most famous EID is H5N1 avian influenza, or bird flu. Only 245 people have died after contracting it from chickens, …

19 September » Get a Deep Insight into the World Human Vaccines Market
MarketWatch – USA
… RiVax(TM) II-74 GlaxoSmithKline Starts Clinical Trials to Test H5N1 Pandemic Flu Vaccines II-74 MedImmune Initiates Phase I Clinical Trial of Avian H5N1 …

18 September » Low Pathogenic Virus No Cause For Concern
Voxy – Wellington,New Zealand
LPAI H5N1 is different to ‘bird flu‘, which is the high pathogenic (HPAI) form of the virus. The samples were taken from healthy birds and there have been …

17 September » Togo: Recent bird flu outbreak is deadly H5N1
The Associated Press
LOME, Togo (AP) — Tests performed after an outbreak of bird flu in the West African nation of Togo have confirmed the presence of the virulent H5N1 strain …

16 September » `Flu Fatigue’ Poses Public Health Threat, WHO Says (Update1)
Bloomberg – USA
Health authorities have been monitoring the H5N1 strain of avian influenza for more than a decade for any sign that it is becoming as contagious as seasonal …

15 September » Bird flu outbreak reported in West Africa
USA Today – USA
LOME, Togo (AP) — Togo’s Health Ministry says an outbreak of bird flu has been confirmed in the West African nation for the first time since last year. …

14 September » Presence Of Bird Flu Confirmed By Authorities In Togo
TopNews – Noida,Uttar Pradesh,India
Ministry has not revealed any details concerning the type of bird flu. It is not clear whether the birds were infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of the …

13 September » TOGO: Officials to slaughter more poultry to fight bird flu spread
IRINnews.org – New York,NY,USA
Authorities have already slaughtered about 1500 birds that survived this week’s bird flu epidemic in three poultry farms in Agbata, 10 km from the capital, …

12 September » Another Bird Flu Death Strikes In Indonesia
UKMedix Health News – Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
In line with proper practice all birds in the area around where the man used to live are being tested for the H5N1 bird flu virus and it is hoped that they …

11 September » Togo quarantines village in suspected bird flu case
Reuters South Africa – Johannesburg,South Africa
Togo, one of a string of West African countries to be hit by outbreaks of bird flu over the past two years, reported several cases last year of H5N1 avian …

10 September » Bird flu found in northern Laos
The Age – Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
The WHO says 243 people have died from bird flu worldwide. The H5N1 avian influenza virus mainly kills birds but scientists fear it could mutate to easily …

09 September » Safe-to-eat” campaign prepared by SA poultry industry
Supermarket Online – Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa
The risk of the bird flu or Avian Influenza, as it is more formally known, cannot be minimised. Nor can the risks. At the moment the virus only infects …

08 September » Bird Flu Suits To Be Worn By Hospital Staff
UKMedix Health News – Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
The Japanese government as well as stocking the Tamiflu drug to prepare for an outbreak of the bird flu virus has also put out tenders for the purchase of …

07 September » Idaho bird farm quarantined after virus found
San Jose Mercury News – CA, USA
The deadly, highly pathogenic bird flu virus found in Asia and parts of Europe is H5N1, Boyce said, and is considered a high-pathogen virus, meaning it is …

06 September » Indonesia hopes agreement on bird flu virus specimen to be settled
Xinhua – China
… transparent and equal virus sharing mechanism. Indonesia is the bird flu hardest hit country with more than 100 people killed by the H5N1 virus. ¡¡

05 September » Bird Flu Vaccine Gives Strong Protection in Mice
Desastres.org – Peru
An experimental bird flu vaccine that uses DNA from various strains of the H5N1 virus appears to trigger a strong immune response in mice after it is …

04 September » GlaxoSmithKline Offers New Purchasing Options to Help Employers …
CNNMoney.com (press release) – USA
In-vitro and animal modeling data show activity for RELENZA against H5N1 avian flu. Additionally, RELENZA has retained in-vitro activity to influenza viral …

03 September » Sharp and LU Find Bird Flu Deterrent
TV Envy – Seattle,WA,USA
Sharp Electronics has paired up with London University biologist John Oxford to bring us all H5N1, a defense against the dreaded bird flu. …

02 September » Bird flu vaccine gives strong protection in mice
Reuters India – Mumbai,India
HONG KONG (Reuters) – An experimental bird flu vaccine that uses DNA from various strains of the H5N1 virus appears to trigger a strong immune response in …

01 September » Mekong birds duck away from avian flu
Viet Nam News – Hanoi,Vietnam
“The bio-safety measures really helped us avoid the nightmares that bird flu caused last time,” he said. In the last five years, six outbreaks of the H5N1 …

Alerts are the top, daily news headlines with the keywords of H5N1, Avian (bird) influenza (or combination thereof). Since our goal is to forecast or calculate, we view these headlines as interesting indicators. Scanning over the whole year gives you a broad picture of what is going on in the world.

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Return to main Pandemic Influenza site

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Here are the top Bird Flu stories for August 2008 – (more news on our main web-site)

Note: Alerts are the top, daily news headlines, with the keywords of H5N1, Avian (bird) influenza (or combination thereof). These are from major news organizations all over the world. We have sorted these in month pages since January 2006.

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30 August » New Vaccine May Be Most Promising Yet Against Bird Flu
findingDulcinea – New York,New York,USA
Of those who received the highest doses, 94 percent developed immunity to H5N1, which is an Indonesian strain of the bird flu that emerged in 2005, …

29 August » Sharp’s Improved Air-Cleaning Tech Kills 99.9 Pct of Airborne H5N1
Japan Corporate News (press release) – Tokyo,Japan
Details of the findings will be presented at BirdFlu 2008: Avian Influenza and Human Health, the first international bird flu conference. …

28 August » Novavax Moves Closer to Licensing Bird Flu Vaccine
Washington Post – United States
Of the patients who received the highest dosage, 94 percent produced antibodies to neutralize H5N1, an Indonesian strain of bird flu that emerged in 2005 …

27 August » Bird flu strain in India, Bangladesh similar
Times of India – India
NEW DELHI: The bird flu virus, that caused India’s worst Avian Influenza (AI) outbreak this year, has been found to be “a lot similar” to the one that …

26 August » Campaigns take bird flu education to villages
Jakarta Post – Jakarta,Indonesia
Red spaghetti, a chicken roll and hot chili fried eggs replaced the usual banners, posters and stickers in a bird flu campaign here Sunday. …

25 August » UAE takes strict precautionary measures against bird flu
Xinhua – China
24 (Xinhua) — The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is gearing up for a battle against bird flu as the season of birds’ migration approaches with strict …

24 August » VN-made bird-flu vaccine effective
Viet Nam News – Hanoi,Vietnam
Blood samples of volunteers were collected over time for testing, and results showed effective immunisation against the H5N1 avian influenza virus, …

23 August » Hendra virus mutation fear
Courier Mail – Australia
Considering that this represents a FAR greater danger to all of us in SEQld than any overhyped potential outbreak of H5N1 Avian Influenza, due to the fact …

22 August » Internet Abuzz: Avian Flu Weaponized?
PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA
Since Natural Solutions Foundation first used the phrase “Weaponized Avian Flu” on its www.HealthFreedomUSA.org Internet site, on July 19, 2008, …

21 August » WHO-LINKED CENTRE LAYS PATENT CLAIM ON BIRD FLU VIRUS
Grain – Barcelona,Spain
The patent application claims a new vaccine against influenza, particularly for Bird Flu (H5N1). The vaccines incorporate one to four genes from a H5N1 …

20 August » Flu pandemic survivors retain immunity
Healthcare Republic – USA
US scientists discovered that antibody-producing B-cells isolated from survivors, are effective in protecting mice from the lethal H5N1 infection. Bird flu …

19 August » Bacteria played a role in 1918 pandemic flu deaths, scientists say
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
A similar overkill response has been seen in deaths from the ongoing avian flu outbreak that began in Asia. Capable of jumping the species barrier, the H5N1 …

18 August » South Korea to declare itself free of bird flu
International Herald Tribune – France
The OIE has been at the forefront of global efforts to monitor and fight the H5N1 strain of bird flu, which scientists have tracked because they fear it may …

17 August » Long march of Chinese demand for chicken’s feet
Scotsman – United Kingdom
The threat to human health from the virulent strain of avian flu – H5N1 – remains a major concern and China is taking steps to ensure that imported poultry …

16 August » Scientists Say H9N2 Strain Poses New Bird Flu Threat
AHN – USA
Scientists have so far focused on the H5N1 bird flu virus and H7 avian flu viruses as candidates for the next pandemic, but new circumstantial evidence …

15 August » Hope over ‘quick’ bird flu test
BBC News – UK
So far, tens of millions of birds have died or been slaughtered as a result of bird flu in Asia and beyond. At the moment, the H5N1 strain, while highly …

14 August » Ghana seeks meeting with neighbours on Nigeria bird flu detection
Afrique en ligne – Angers,France
Kumasi, Ghana – Ghana’s Veterinary Services Directorate, alarmed at the resurgence of avian influenza (bird flu) in Nigeria, is seeking a meeting with its …

13 August » New bird flu strain found in Africa
Independent Online – Cape Town,South Africa
Washington – A new strain of H5N1 bird flu has shown up among birds in Africa in a worrying development, the United Nations Food and Agriculture

12 August » New Bird Flu Strain Detected in Nigeria
Stackyard – Carlisle,UK
Since the avian influenza epidemic caused by the H5N1 strain started five years ago in Asia, the disease has affected over 60 countries; the vast majority …

11 August » Contact With Birds Not Required to Contract Bird Flu Infection
Natural News.com – Phoenix,AZ,USA
(NaturalNews) The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that it may be possible to contract the avian flu without coming into direct contact with …

10 August » Indonesian villagers test negative to bird flu
Radio Australia – Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
The local husbandry office has taken preventive action this week by slaughtering and burning some 400 chickens and ducks. The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu …

09 August » 13 People Hospitalized With Bird Flu Symptoms
TopNews – Noida,Uttar Pradesh,India
Officials have found some dead chickens with H5N1 bird flu virus. In May 2006, 7 people died in the Karo district of North Sumatra province due to bird flu. …

08 August » Suspected bird flu cases in Indonesia village: report
Reuters UK – UK
Although bird flu remains mainly an animal disease, experts fear the H5N1 virus might mutate into a form easily passed between humans, causing a pandemic.

07 August » Pandemic flu drug stockpile to be doubled
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
Experts say it is only a matter of time until another flu pandemic sweeps the world killing millions. Most believe H5N1 bird flu is the most likely strain …

06 August » NIGER-NIGERIA: Border on high-alert for bird flu
Reuters AlertNet – London,England,UK
Birds have been sent to laboratories in Italy to determine if the H5N1 avian flu virus is responsible. Two years ago, a bird flu outbreak in Nigeria spread …

05 August » Bacteria were the real killers in 1918 flu pandemic
New Scientist (subscription) – UK
The H5N1 bird flu strains jetting around the world seem to kill humans without the aid of bacteria, but those viruses aren’t fully adapted to humans, …

04 August » Indonesian man dies of bird flu, official says
The Associated Press –
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian factory worker died of bird flu, bringing the death toll in the country worst hit by the virus to 112, …

03 August » CDC Says Bird Flu Becoming More Contagious
UKMedix Health News – Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
Nevertheless it is worth noting that if an H7 bird flu virus mutates it is likely that the H5N1 variant of the virus will also be able to follow suit. …

02 August » South Korean Cat Had The H5N1 Bird Flu
UKMedix Health News – Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
The city of Gimje had been particularly badly hit by the H5N1 bird flu virus earlier this year and millions of poultry had to be culled to contain the virus …

01 August » Avian Flu Weaponized? Press Release Censored
American Chronicle – Beverly Hills,CA,USA
Avian Flu May Already be Weaponized. Natural Solutions Foundation alerts world to startling evidence that H5N1 virus may already have been genetically …

Alerts are the top, daily news headlines with the keywords of H5N1, Avian (bird) influenza (or combination thereof). Since our goal is to forecast or calculate, we view these headlines as interesting indicators. Scanning over the whole year gives you a broad picture of what is going on in the world.

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Here are the top Bird Flu stories for this month, July 2008 – (more news on our main web-site)

Note: Alerts are the top, daily news headlines, with the keywords of H5N1, Avian (bird) influenza (or combination thereof). These are from major news organizations all over the world. We have sorted these in month pages since January 2006.

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29 July » Nigeria Reports New Outbreaks of Bird Flu at Farms in North
Bloomberg – USA
The H5N1 strain of bird flu has spread to more than 60 countries and has killed 243 people in 12 countries as of June 19, according to the World Health …

28 July » FAO to help Myanmar prevent highly pathogenic avian influenza
Xinhua – China
In April this year, the World Animal Health Organization (OIE) declared Myanmar as a bird-flu-free country three months after the country was proved that …

27 July » Two dead birds found at equestrian venues
South China Morning Post (subscription) – Hong Kong
“Tests are now being carried out to see if the birds died from the H5N1 bird flu virus,” she told local radio. Last month, the deadly H5N1 virus was found …

26 July » Nigeria finds H5N1 in bird markets
CIDRAP – Minneapolis,MN,USA
Meanwhile, two rounds of avian flu exercises in Laos are helping the country to protect itself against the H5N1 virus, the FAO said in a statement yesterday …

25 July » UK Says The World Is Unprepared For Bird Flu
UKMedix Health News – Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
It was noted that with so many millions of people travelling around the world on business and the pleasure the potential for the bird flu virus to spread …

24 July » Rockeby gets orders for bird flu tests
Sydney Morning Herald – Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
The H5N1 strain of avian flu, one of the most deadly types on poultry and birds, originated in Asia in 2003 spreading to the Middle East, Africa, Russia, …

23 July » ASEAN states to test readiness on bird flu pandemic
AFP –
JAKARTA (AFP) — Bird flu chiefs from across Southeast Asia have agreed to assess the ability of their governments to respond to a deadly human pandemic of …

22 July » SKorea to start year-round monitoring for bird flu
AFP –
The country has been hit by bird flu outbreaks three times. But no South Korean is known to have contracted the disease, even though the H5N1 strain found …

21 July » Bird flu strikes southern Vietnamese province
Xinhua – China
HANOI, July 21 (Xinhua) — Bird flu has hit Vietnam’s southern Dong Thap province, raising the total number of affected provinces in the country to two, …

20 July » Human-to-Human Transmission of Bird Flu Discovered in China
Natural News.com – Phoenix,AZ,USA
(NaturalNews) China’s National Disease Authority has confirmed that a man whose 24-year-old son died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu is also infected with …

18 July » Mystery of ‘vaccinated’ chickens dying of bird flu
AsiaOne – Singapore
Last week, they were tested positive for the H5N1 avian-influenza virus, said Mr Dinh Van The, head of the province’s Animal Health Department. …

17 July » Indonesian man dies of bird flu
The Associated Press –
“The doctor told us he died of bird flu,” he said. “The tests came back positive from Jakarta.” The H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed at least 243 people …

16 July » Vietnam reports bird flu-hit chicken in southern province
Xinhua – China
HANOI, July 16 (Xinhua) — Specimens from dead chickens in Vietnam’s southern Long An province have been tested positive to bird flu virus strain H5N1, …

15 July » CDC lab containing deadly virus suffers power outage
Atlanta Journal Constitution – GA, USA
The outage affected air flow systems in labs that help contain such germs as the H5N1 flu virus, which some experts fear could cause a pandemic. …

14 July » Lights out at home to bird deadly virus
USA Today – USA
The outage affected air flow systems in labs that contain germs such as the H5N1 virus, a strain of avian flu virus that some experts think could cause a …

13 July » Fruit Fly Gene Study Could Yield New Flu Treatments
Howard Hughes Medical Institute – Chevy Chase,MD,USA
As they design new drugs to fight off influenza, scientists may not need to attack the virus directly. Instead, they may be able to stave off infection by …

12 July » Team ‘turns off’ genes to fight bird flu
United Press International – USA
MILWAUKEE, July 10 (UPI) — A US medical team has found a way of spotting genes that help spread the bird flu, the subject of global concern as a potential …

11 July » Expert warns Hong Kong’s avian flu vaccine is waning
CIDRAP – Minneapolis,MN,USA
In other developments, officials in Egypt on Jul 7 filed a report with the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) on several H5N1 outbreaks that have …

10 July » 17 Texas infants overdosed with heparin, one dead, one in critical …
Food Consumer – Lisle,IL,USA
Authorities allege that the victims received a few dollars to be tested with they thought was a conventional flu vaccine, but actually was an H5N1 bird flu …

09 July » Pandemic mutations in bird flu revealed
EurekAlert (press release) – Washington,DC,USA
These are called H5N1 bird flu quasispecies. Professor Dr Auewarakul and his colleagues found that some mutations in the quasispecies were more frequent …

08 July » Hong Kong expert warns flu vaccine for chickens losing efficacy
Monsters and Critics.com – USA
Hong Kong – A vaccine used to stop outbreaks of the deadly bird flu virus in chickens in Hong Kong for the last seven years is losing its effectiveness, …

07 July » Bird Flu Vaccine Money Better Spent Elsewhere
OhmyNews International – South Korea
Despite the numbers none of these diseases has caused the kind of media hype and got as much attention from journalists as bird flu H5N1. …

06 July » Koichi Otsuki has invented a special fabric that destroys the bird …
BharatTextile.com (subscription) – Mumbai,India
(Did you know that the most recent figures show that New Zealand’s imports totaled $14.3 billion?) (In recent years, Turkey’s share of global cotton …

05 July » Australia concerned by bird flu reporting
August Margaret River Mail – Augusta,Western Australia,Australia
Dr Supari has been at odds with the WHO and other countries about bird flu for more than a year. She has refused to share Indonesian H5N1 virus samples with …

04 July » Homeless die in Poland of bird-flu vaccine
United Press International – USA
WARSAW, Poland, July 3 (UPI) — Twenty-one homeless individuals in Poland have died after being given an unproven bird-flu virus vaccine, authorities have …

03 July » CIWF: UK in Shadow as Avian Flu Crisis Looms
ThePoultrySite.com – Sheffield,UK
… of Avian Influenza is H7, not the deadly H5N1, he added that the government cannot afford to shy away from the potential but realistic threat bird flu …

02 July » HK live chicken industry faces cull in bird flu clampdown
Straits Times – Singapore
HONG KONG – THE familiar clucking of chickens returned to Hong Kong’s markets on Wednesday after a three-week ban, but bird flu fears may soon consign the …

01 July » Virologist Endorses Plan to Help Business Stockpile Tamiflu, But …
HSToday – Germantown,MD,USA
“I believe that in most of the human H5N1 bird flu cases that died despite having been given Tamiflu, the drug was given far too late after infection to be …

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Here are the top Bird Flu stories for this month, June 2008 – (more news on our main web-site)

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28 June » Want Drugs in a Flu Pandemic? Reserve Them Now, Cheap!
Wall Street Journal Blogs – New York,NY,USA
The fortunes of the drug have risen and fallen lately on fears of a global flu pandemic. A while back, when worries about the H5N1 strain of bird flu were …

27 June » Baxter develops bird flu vaccine
Prague Post – Czech Republic
By Claire Compton The solution to a potential avian flu pandemic can be found approximately 30 kilometers outside of Prague, in Bohumile. …

26 June » New bird flu outbreak in Pakistan
Fresh News – Delhi,Delhi,India
By Indo-Asian News Service on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 Pakistan has confirmed a new outbreak of avian flu in a poultry farm in the country’s northwest, …

25 June » Unsold live chickens to be culled daily in HK to avoid bird flu
Xinhua – China
Samples of live chicken excrement from four wet markets were tested positive towards the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus earlier this month. …

24 June » Portuguese-speaking countries discuss management of possible bird …
Xinhua – China
In the case of Cape Verde, the government in 2006 approved the establishment of a comprehensive plan to prevent bird flu at a cost of up to one million euro …

23 June » Bird flu vaccines not subject to uniform testing
CTV.ca – Canada
TORONTO — A study comparing the tests being used by vaccine manufacturers to gauge the effectiveness of their H5N1 avian flu vaccines shows there is a lot …

22 June » Bird flu vaccine strength could be under-or overestimated due to …
CanadaEast.com – Moncton,New Brunswick,Canada
TORONTO – A study comparing the tests being used by vaccine manufacturers to gauge the effectiveness of their H5N1 avian flu vaccines shows there is a lot …

21 June » US health official: Complacency is ‘public health enemy No. 1′
International Herald Tribune – France
The H5N1 bird flu virus made headlines two years ago as the world worked to head off a potential disaster. The disease continues to decimate poultry stocks …

20 June » China reports new bird flu outbreak
RIA Novosti – Moscow,Russia
BEIJING, June 17 (RIA Novosti) – An outbreak of bird flu has been confirmed in southern China, the Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday. …

19 June » Vietnam reports additional bird flu-hit province
Xinhua – China
HANOI, June 17 (Xinhua) — Vietnam’s central Quang Ngai province has been stricken by bird flu, raising the number of affected localities to two, …

18 June » UN Cites Progress in Combating Avian Flu
Voice of America – USA
“There has been an extraordinary global response to the bird flu enzootic [endemic]. The current highly pathogenic bird flu virus does seem to be being …

17 June » Bird Flu Report Published
meatinfo.co.uk – Crawley,England,UK
… report on the outbreak of bird flu in Oxfordshire earlier this month. The report suggests that the outbreak of highly pathogenic H7N7 Avian influenza, …

16 June » Sanofi gives 60 mlll H5N1 flu vaccine shots to WHO
Reuters – USA
LONDON (Reuters) – Sanofi-Aventis is to donate 60 million doses of its H5N1 bird flu vaccine to the World Health Organisation, the French drugmaker said on …

15 June » Arroyo to DA: Intensify measures vs bird flu
GMA news.tv – Quezon City,Metro Manila,Philippines
“The country has remained free of bird flu ever since the H5N1 strain of this virus first resurfaced in Asia in 2003. I have directed the DA to remain …

14 June » Clinical Trial for H5N1 Bird Flu Vaccine
GNIF Brain Blogger – Los Angeles,CA,USA
Since the virus was first detected in Guangdong Province, China in 1996, H5N1 (Bird Flu) has received much attention as the fear of a global spread of the …

13 June » Indonesia’s new bird flu policy angers families
Forbes – NY,USA
By ZAKKI HAKIM and ROBIN McDOWELL 06.13.08, 1:52 PM ET Ali Usman’s wife died of bird flu 10 days ago, but he still has not been officially notified by the …

12 June » Bird-flu detectives focus on vaccines
South China Morning Post (subscription) – Hong Kong
“There is no documentation that eating chickens you will catch avian flu,” he said. Some 4000 chickens from affected markets had been sold. …

11 June » Some Bird Flu Strains Have Acquired Properties That Might Enhance …
Kansas City infoZine – Kansas City,MO,USA
Health officials have also been closely monitoring a different avian influenza virus, H5N1, which began spreading among birds and poultry in Asia in 2003 …

10 June » H5N1 avian flu: Call for wild bird early warning system
FarmersWeekly – UK
Mr Hall believes the common Pochard is the most likely candidate for carrying and harbouring the H5N1 avian flu virus. “Looking at wild birds testing …

09 June » WHO concerned by Indonesia’s plan to announce bird flu deaths …
Daily Gleaner – Fredericton,New Brunswick,Canada
Indonesia’s health minister announced that her country will no longer report H5N1 avian flu deaths as they occur – a threatened policy shift experts said …

08 June » Chickens found with avian influenza, shares fall
Stockhouse – Vancouver,BC,Canada
Harless said poultry are routinely tested for avian influenza and other diseases, and Tyson Foods has previously said it tests heavily for avian flu, …

07 June » Hong Kong bans China poultry as bird flu hits city (Roundup)
Monsters and Critics.com – USA
The H5N1 bird flu virus was found on swabs on chicken faeces from the market in Po On Road which was Saturday declared an infected area and sealed off to …

06 June » We Are Developing Capacity – Ugandan Avian Flu Official
Voice of America – USA
By Douglas Mpuga East Africa continues to face the threat of an avian flu outbreak because the region lies on the path of a migratory bird route from East …

05 June » Indonesia will stop announcing bird flu deaths
The Associated Press –
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A teenager died of bird flu last month, becoming Indonesia’s 109th victim, but the government decided not to announce the death …

04 June » Bird flu case confirmed as H7 strain
Reuters UK – UK
LONDON (Reuters) – An outbreak of bird flu at a chicken farm in southern England is a virulent strain, the farm ministry said on Wednesday. …

03 June » Bird flu strain ‘highly pathogenic’
The Press Association –
Dr Colin Butter, of the Institute of Animal Health, said highly pathogenic H7, like the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain which has been found on several …

02 June » Bird flu drugs successes in Hong Kong
Radio Australia – Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
During the experiment, the scientists infected mice with lethal doses of the H5N1 virus and did not start treating them until 48 hours after they were …

01 June » Study shows hybrids of bird flu and human flu viruses fit well …
The Canadian Press – TORONTO
TORONTO — An experiment mating H5N1 avian flu viruses and a strain of human flu in a laboratory produced a surprising number of hybrid viruses that were …

Alerts are the top, daily news headlines with the keywords of H5N1, Avian (bird) influenza (or combination thereof). Since our goal is to forecast or calculate, we view these headlines as interesting indicators. Scanning over the whole year gives you a broad picture of what is going on in the world.

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Here are the top Bird Flu stories for this month, May 2008 – (more news on our main web-site)

Note: Alerts are the top, daily news headlines, with the keywords of H5N1, Avian (bird) influenza (or combination thereof). These are from major news organizations all over the world. We have sorted these in month pages since January 2006.

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31 May » Warning about the danger of yet another bird flu virus
News-Medical.net – Sydney,Australia
Scientists in the United States have identified a second H strain of bird flu that could cause a pandemic, they say the H5N1 strain of bird flu currently …

30 May » Some avian flu H7 viruses growing more human-like
CIDRAP – Minneapolis,MN,USA
Previous research has established that avian flu viruses prefer to link up with cell receptor molecules known as alpha 2-3 glycans, whereas human flu …

29 May » Vaccine developer Medicago shrinks Q1 loss to $326K as revenue …
The Canadian Press – QUEBEC
During the quarter the company’s H5N1 avian influenza VLP vaccine was shown to provide complete protection in mice. “We are highly encouraged by these …

28 May » New H7 bird flu strain hikes risk of pandemic
FierceBioResearcher – Washington,DC,USA
Most of the research in the field has centered on the lethal H5N1 bird flu strain, which has yet to mutate into a virus that can be easily transmitted among …

27 May » North American Bird Flu Viruses Becoming More Adapted to Humans: Study
RedOrbit – Dallas,TX,USA
TORONTO – North American avian flu viruses of the H7 subtype – like the one responsible for British Columbia’s massive poultry outbreak in 2004 – seem to …

26 May » Bangladesh Bird Flu Update -Infected Child Recovers
The Money Times – Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
… that a toddler who became infected with the extremely infectious H5N1 bird flu virus, also known as Avian influenza, has recovered after treatment. …

25 May » DG Health reports: Child infected with bird flu
The New Nation – Bangladesh
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) yesterday said that a child was infected with H5N1, a deadly strain of the bird flu virus, in January but …

24 May » WHO confirms first bird flu case in Bangladesh
Reuters India – Mumbai,India
GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday confirmed the first human case of bird flu in Bangladesh, a baby boy who has recovered, …

23 May » E Nepal’s 6 districts at risk of bird flu
Xinhua – China
KATHMANDU, May 23 (Xinhua) — Avian Influenza Control Project in Nepal has said six districts bordering India are at risk of bird flu, reported the local …

22 May » S. KOREA SET TO UPGRADE BIRD FLU COUNTERMEASURES
Trading Markets (press release) – Los Angeles,CA,USA
South Korean quarantine officials confirmed 42 cases of the virulent H5N1 bird flu strain since April 1, which have resulted in millions of birds being …

21 May » Europe approves new bird flu vaccine
ABC Online – Australia
Fears of a bird flu pandemic have eased somewhat in recent months, but experts are warning that the risk is far from over. BARBARA MILLER: It may have …

20 May » Emergency planners brace for bird flu pandemic
Shelbyville Times-Gazette – TN,USA
Johnson said the state health department has devised a plan that specifies what the local responsibilities would be when an avian flu outbreak occurs. …

19 May » Glaxo Wins European Approval to Sell Pre-Pandemic Flu Vaccine
Bloomberg – USA
Governments are trying to prepare for a possible pandemic caused by the fatal strain of bird flu that has spread across Asia to Africa, the Middle East and …

18 May » Bird flu back in Bengal, culling to begin
NDTV.com – New Delhi,India
Bird flu resurfaced at the nearby Sukna block in the district May 9 and then it spread to Bijanbari block. Avian flu had broken out in West Bengal in …

17 May » DoH gets R60M for anti-bird flu drive
Tempo – Manila,Philippines
He noted that bird flu or the H5N1 avian flu is spreading through Africa, Europe, and Asia but Brunei, Singapore and the Philippines are still spared this …

16 May » SKorea to build bird flu vaccine factory next year: ministry
AFP –
SEOUL (AFP) — South Korea will build its own factory to produce human bird flu vaccine, health officials said Thursday as authorities battled the country’s …

15 May » Research questions stockpiling of bird flu drugs
ABC Online – Australia
The team examined the most common mutation of the H5N1 bird flu virus – one that has emerged in a human form of influenza, known as H1N1, and is widely …

14 May » Avian flu: all poultry culled in Seoul
AsiaNews.it – Italy
Seoul (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Seoul’s entire poultry stock has been culled to stop the spread of bird flu following a fresh outbreak of the disease in the …

13 May » India Under ‘Bird Flu’ Virus Turmoil
TopNews – Noida,Uttar Pradesh,India
Bird flu had broken out in West Bengal in January this year. Avian flu had hit 13 of 19 districts in the state leading to around four million poultry birds …

12 May » Positive results for Vietnam’s bird flu vaccine
VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi,Vietnam
VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam is hoping to prevent bird flu in humans following good results from the first tests of made-in-Vietnam H5N1 influenza vaccine. …

11 May » SKorea doubles Tamiflu stockpile over bird flu fears
AFP –
South Korea has not recorded any human cases, however the deadly H5N1 strain was detected in an aviary in Seoul this week, the first time bird flu has been …

10 May » New outbreak of bird flu hits India: minister
AFP –
KOLKATA (AFP) — Bird flu has spread to the hilly Darjeeling district of eastern India which has been hit by avian influenza several times already this year, …

09 May » Risk of Pandemic Flu Still Acute
Daily Green – USA
Despite being primarily a wildlife disease, the H5N1 strain, or so-called bird flu, has killed 382 people since 2003. This year, victims have been …

08 May » Bird flu fears incite hospital visits in Seoul
한겨레신문 – South Korea
One day after the highly virulent H5N1 strain of avian influenza, known to pass from infected poultry to humans, was found in two dead pheasants from a …

07 May » H5N1 bird flu found in S. Korea’s capital city
Yonhap News – Seoul,South Korea
SEOUL, May 6 (Yonhap) — The deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza was detected on Tuesday in dead chickens from a bird vivarium in Seoul, …

06 May » Risk of bird flu pandemic probably growing
Reuters – USA
The H5N1 avian flu virus has infected flocks in much of Asia, Africa and parts of Europe. Experts fear it could mutate into a form that passes easily from …

05 May » Bird flu spreading in SKorea, officials say
AFP –
SEOUL (AFP) — Bird flu outbreaks have spread to six of South Korea’s nine provinces despite a massive cull which saw the slaughter of more than five million …

04 May » Gov’t takes drastic action to check bird flu spread
Yonhap News – Seoul,South Korea
The first case was in Pyeongtaek near Anseong, when birds tested positive for the virulent H5N1 strain of the bird flu. The ministry, meanwhile, said that …

03 May » Bird flu virus detected in dead swans found in northeast Japan
International Herald Tribune – France
AP TOKYO: Dead swans found recently in northeast Japan carried the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza, the government said Tuesday. …

02 May » SKorea probes another suspected bird flu outbreak
Radio Australia – Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
South Korea has reported a new suspected bird flu outbreak, as officials confirm two more cases of the virus despite a big poultry cull. …

01 May » Indonesian boy dies of bird flu
Xinhua – China
JAKARTA, April 30 (Xinhua) — The Indonesia Health Ministry said Wednesday a three-year-old Indonesian boy died of avian influenza, bringing the total …

Alerts are the top, daily news headlines with the keywords of H5N1, Avian (bird) influenza (or combination thereof). Since our goal is to forecast or calculate, we view these headlines as interesting indicators. Scanning over the whole year gives you a broad picture of what is going on in the world.

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