Here are the top Bird Flu stories for this month, February 2009 – (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 March » Waging war on superbugs
Times Online – UK
New flu strains tend to follow the same path. H5N1 bird flu is currently extremely lethal, killing more than 60 per cent of people it has infected so far, …

29 March » Bird Flu Death Reported In Vietnam
UKMedix Health News – Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
This case is the third fatality from the H5N1 bird flu virus and the first from the southern region of Vietnam in 2009. Overall Vietnam is the second most …

28 March » Egyptian girl contracts bird flu – WHO
Reuters – USA
CAIRO, March 27 (Reuters) – A 30-month old Egyptian girl has contracted the bird flu virus, bringing the number of avian flu cases in the country to 60, …

27 March » Egypt reports one more human case of bird flu
Xinhua – China
CAIRO, March 26 (Xinhua) — An Egyptian girl has contracted the bird flu virus, bringing the number of human cases of the avian influenza to 60, …

26 March » POULTRY INDONESIA
Poultry Indonesia Online – Jakarta,DKI Jakarta,Indonesia
THOUGH Indonesia is making progress in its fight against avian influenza, specialists have warned that the danger posed by the H5N1 virus to humans remains …

25 March » Bird flu drug hope from Indian trees
Calcutta Telegraph – Calcutta,India
Central government health authorities have stockpiled oseltamivir and sent doses of the drug to areas where the H5N1 avian influenza virus has surfaced. …

24 March » Vietnamese woman dies of suspected bird flu
Xinhua – China
In 2008, bird flu killed five people in Vietnam. Currently, Vietnam reports four provinces nationwide hit by avian flu including two provinces in Mekong …

23 March » Drug-resistant flu strains throw doctors a curve
USA Today – USA
Tamiflu still is effective against bird flu in most cases, though some variants show signs of reduced sensitivity, says Frederick Hayden of the Infectious …

22 March » Mekong woman dies, bird flu suspected
Thai News Agency MCOT – Bangkok,Thailand
Soc Trang (VNA) – A woman suspected of being infected with the H5N1 virus (Avian Influenza) died on March 20 in Chau Hung commune, in the Mekong Delta …

21 March » Study finds drug resistance in some African bird flu virus mutations
SmartBrief – Washington,DC,USA
Scientists classified 67 H5N1 bird flu viruses found in Africa into three distinct families and discovered that some are capable of mutating to become …

20 March » Bird flu kills 3-year-old boy in southern Vietnam
Reuters – USA
HANOI, March 19 (Reuters) – A three-year-old boy infected with the H5N1 bird flu strain has died in southern Vietnam, a state-run online newspaper reported …

19 March » EGYPT: Bird flu cases among young children raise concerns
IRINnews.org – New York,NY,USA
CAIRO, 12 March 2009 (IRIN) – An 18-month-old child contracted the H5N1 bird flu virus on 10 March, bringing the number of human cases in Egypt to 58 since …

18 March » India-Massive Poultry culling has started.
Farming UK – Brighouse,England,UK
This will improve the rewards of poultry rearing and prevent bird flu in an unorganised sector, according to officials of the department of animal husbandry …

17 March » Germany-More Bird Flu.
Farming UK – Brighouse,England,UK
In the southern German state of Bavaria one of 39 wild ducks shot in January was positive for HPAI H5N1, 38 were negative for influenza A. The cause of the …

16 March » China bird flu effort in question after new cases
AFP
While the authors could not say for certain where in Asia the wild bird may have contracted H5N1, the report said the specific version of the virus was the …

15 March » US to sponsor bird flu training in Vietnam
Thanh Nien Daily – Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam
… one of the countries most affected by avian influenza, which is caused by the H5N1 virus, and has incurred millions of dollars in losses due to bird flu …

14 March » Bird flu in Hong Kong
eTaiwan News – Taiwan
Hong Kong authorities say another dead chicken has tested positive for the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu. The Agricultural, Fisheries and Conservation …

13 March » Alert over fears of possible Bird Flu outbreak
Standard – Nairobi,Kenya
By Peter Orengo Kenya has been put on the alert over a possible outbreak of Avian Influenza, also known as Bird Flu. The warning was given by the Kenya …

12 March » New bird flu outbreak in Dien Bien
VOVNews.vn – Hanoi,Vietnam
Bird flu has hit Thanh Yen commune, Dien Bien district, in the mountainous northern province of Dien Bien, said Do Hoa Luong, head of the provincial …
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11 March » Egyptian girl contracts bird flu – agency
Reuters – USA
Since 2003, the H5N1 avian influenza virus has infected at least 410 people in 15 countries and killed at least 254 of them. It has killed or forced the …

10 March » EU’s first 2009 bird flu case found in Germany
Reuters – USA
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Germany has informed the European Commission of an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu, the EU’s first case of the lethal strain of the …

09 March » Two-year-old Egyptian boy has bird flu
Reuters UK – UK
It was not yet known if he had the H5N1 virus. Egypt is one of the few countries affected by bird flu that does not compensate farmers when poultry is …

07 March » Influenza Flu Pandemic Signs: H5N1 hits Cairo, human infection to …
Lifegen.de (Abonnement) – Germany
The human form of bird flu (avian influenza) has arrived to Cairo. The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population did not confirm the cases yet, …

06 March » Wild birds likely caused HK H5N1 outbreak: official
AFP
HONG KONG (AFP) — An outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus at a Hong Kong farm last year which led to the slaughter of 90000 chickens was likely spread …

05 March » Vaccines as Biological Weapons? Live Avian Flu Virus Placed in …
Prison Planet.com – USA
But there’sa bigger question in all this: How could this company have accidentally mixed LIVE avian flu viruses (both H5N1 and H3N2, the human form) in this …

04 March » 4 Indonesians die of bird flu; toll climbs to 119
The Associated Press
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Four Indonesians have died of bird flu, bringing the death toll in the country hardest hit by the disease over the past several …

03 March » Aust researchers closer to bird flu vaccine
ABC Online – Australia
Melbourne researchers say they are closer to developing a human vaccine for avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu. A Melbourne University research …

02 March » Two-year-old boy becomes Egypt’s 56th bird flu case
Reuters – USA
Since 2003, the H5N1 avian influenza virus has infected 408 people in 15 countries and killed 254 of them. It has killed or forced the culling of more than …

01 March » Bird flu kills Vietnamese who ate sick chicken
Arizona Daily Star – Tucson,AZ,USA
Vietnam said a 32-year-old man died of bird flu, the Southeast Asian nation’s second confirmed case of the fatal H5N1 virus strain this year, …

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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