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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