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Here are the top Bird Flu stories for this month, January 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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31 January » $8.7 million bolsters bird-flu battle
The News Journal – Wilmington,DE,USA
Avian influenza, or bird flu, is a contagious disease that has largely been confined to animals. The World Health Organization has tracked 403 human cases …

30 January » Japanese researchers develop all-round flu vaccine
AFP
The viruses used are the Soviet-A and Hongkong-A along with the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. “We expect this will also be effective on new variations” of …

29 January » Indonesian woman dies of suspected bird flu: doctor
AFP
JAKARTA (AFP) — A 21-year-old Indonesian woman has died of suspected bird flu, a doctor said Wednesday. The woman died on Saturday in Doctor Soetomo …

28 January » Bird flu cull begins on BC farm
Grainews – Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada
One “high-path” H5 avian flu strain, H5N1, has gained notoriety as having also killed about 250 people overseas since 2003. Generally, human victims of the …

27 January » China reports fifth bird flu death this year
Reuters – USA
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Ministry of Health said a young man had died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu on Monday, in the fifth reported death of 2009. …

26 January » Migratory birds pose danger to bringing avian flu to Gabon
African Press Agency – Dakar,Senegal
APA Libreville (Gabon) Some 40000 migratory birds flying in transit each year through Gabon, potentially expose this country to a bird flu outbreak, …

25 January » China records its fourth bird flu death this year
CNN International – USA
The country’s Ministry of Health had then moved to allay fears over the outbreak, saying that although further human bird flu cases were possible throughout …

24 January » Migratory birds pose danger to bringing avian flu to Gabon
African Press Agency – Dakar,Senegal
APA Libreville (Gabon) Some 40000 migratory birds flying in transit each year through Gabon, potentially expose this country to a bird flu outbreak, …

23 January » Avian Influenza Death Toll In Indonesia Rises To 115
AHN – USA
They were twice tested and both results indicated they were positive of the H5N1 strain of the virus. . The first bird flu fatality in Indonesia was …

22 January » Avian flu outbreak leads to culling of over 10000 birds in Nepal …
UN News Centre
21 January 2009 – Nepalese authorities have begun slaughtering thousands of poultry and disposing of their carcasses in response to an outbreak of bird flu …

21 January » Bird flu spreads to Sikkim
Times of India – India
WHO had described a January 2008 outbreak of bird flu in West Bengal, when more than four million birds were culled, as the worst ever in India. …

20 January » China bird flu warning
Straits Times – Singapore
It was the first death from bird flu since last February. A two-year-old girl sickened by H5N1 is in critical condition in the northern province of Shanxi. …

19 January » Daily Update
US-China Today – Los Angeles,CA,USA
Chinese authorities announced that a woman named Zhang became the second person this month to die from H5N1, bird flu. 22 people have died from the virus …

18 January » US Taking all Precautions against Human Influenza Pandemic
TopNews – Little Rock,Arkansas,USA
In response to the ongoing outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza in birds, or bird flu, the US has started to take the preventive measures in order to keep this …

17 January » Nepal reports bird flu outbreak
Gulf Times – Doha,Qatar
KATHMANDU: Nepal said yesterday it had found the H5N1 bird flu in poultry, the first time the deadly virus has surfaced in the Himalayan nation, …

16 January » Report shows US only half ready for flu pandemic
Reuters – USA
1 suspect now is H5N1 avian influenza, or bird flu, which has infected 394 people and killed 248 of them since 2003. The virus does not infect people easily …

15 January » Vietnam finds bird flu virus in Chinese chickens
GMA news.tv – Quezon City,Metro Manila,Philippines
… the H5N1 virus, said Do Van Duoc, director of the provincial animal health department. “The smuggling of chickens from China poses a threat of bird flu …

14 January » Govt plans survey on Tamiflu-resistant flu
The Daily Yomiuri – Osaka,Japan
Meanwhile, among foreign patients, including those from Southeast Asia, infected with H5N1 bird flu virus, which some experts fear could mutate into new …

13 January » Egyptian girl has bird flu, 2nd case this season
Reuters – USA
Since the first case in 2003 there have been 248 human deaths globally from the H5N1 strain of bird flu and at least 394 confirmed cases of infection. …

12 January » Beijing Female Dies of H5N1 Bird Flu
The Epoch Times – New York,NY,USA
The United Nations has reported that bird flu has appeared in about 60 countries. (Getty Images) A 19-year-old female from Chaoyang Beijing died of H5N1 …

11 January » Vietnam bird flu patient is recovering: gov’t website
Thanh Nien Daily – Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam
Her death may not be related to the H5N1 strain of avian flu virus, according to Vietnamese authorities. There is not enough evidence to show her death was …

10 January » Kanchi team trained in handling bird flu emergency
Times of India – India
The training assumes significance because avian influenza A (H5N1) or bird flu has caused infection in birds and humans. Poultry workers are especially at …

09 January » Google Earth Used To Track Bird Flu Evolution
InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USA
Researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder recently found that the avian flu, a subtype of Influenza A known as H5N1, is evolving resistance to …

08 January » China finds no bird flu outbreak after new death
Reuters – USA
… it had found no bird flu cases amongst poultry in Beijing or areas surrounding the city after a woman in the capital died of the H5N1 form of the virus. …

07 January » Bird flu near to recurrence in China
Little About – Navi Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Do you have any idea of bird flu and H5N1 strain? As indicated by specialists, bird flu, which is known as avian Influenza also, is the offshoot of …

06 January » Sparrows living at Yuen Long farm linked to latest bird flu outbreak
South China Morning Post (subscription) – Hong Kong
Experts who visited the Yuen Long chicken farm at the centre of the latest bird flu outbreak found important evidence flying around – sparrows. …

05 January » Bird flu spreads to Hills, culling begins
Times of India – India
DARJEELING: A day after culling operations began at Matigara near Siliguri, bird flu spread to the Hills, with officials confirming an outbreak of the …

04 January » New bird flu cases revive fears of human pandemic
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
Hong Kong, believed to have been free of H5N1, is forced to cull thousands of poultry after an outbreak. Two avian flu deaths are reported in Egypt and …

03 January » Researchers still don’t know what to make of avian influenza …
The Canadian Press – TORONTO
It begs the question: Is H5N1 on the wane? Sadly, science knows too little about how flu viruses emerge, spread and jump – or don’t jump – from one species …

02 January » Researchers ponder future of bird flu
CTV.ca – Canada
TORONTO — Five years after the avian influenza strain H5N1 started killing poultry and people in Southeast Asia, researchers still don’t know what to make …

01 January »  FAO helps Nam Dinh control bird flu
VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi,Vietnam
… two deaths caused by avian influenza A (H5N1). Between May 17-June 5, 2007, 25 communes in six districts of Nam Dinh were discovered to have bird flu …

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, December 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.

But first a word from our sponsors ::

31 December » Hong Kong-born baby girl contracts mild form of bird flu
Channel News Asia – Singapore
More than 90000 chickens were culled to prevent the spread of the flu. Hong Kong was the scene of the world’s first reported major H5N1 bird flu outbreak …

30 December » High alert against Bird flu sounded in Orissa
Newspost Online – Baroda,India
The state forest department was maintaining a strict vigil and was carefully working to check the presence of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus. …

29 December » Bird flu found in poultry in northern Vietnam
Reuters – USA
The H5N1 strain seems to thrive best in low temperature. Five Vietnamese have died of bird flu so far this year out of six reported H5N1 infections and all …

28 December » Fresh bird-flu outbreak detected in Thai Nguyen
VOVNews.vn – Hanoi,Vietnam
This is the second batch of poultry testing positive for the bird-flu virus discovered in Thai Nguyen province this year.

27 December » Bird flu spreading to new areas in Assam
Thaindian.com – Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
The Indian health ministry confirmed outbreak of bird flu after laboratory tests found strains of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza.

26 December » Baxter International awaits results on flu vaccine trials
Chicago Tribune – United States
… European Medicines Agency issued a “positive opinion” for Baxter’s Celvapan, a vaccine against H5N1 strains of avian influenza, also known as bird flu. …

25 December » Bangladesh slaughters 10000 birds over avian flu
AFP
Bangladesh was hit by bird flu in February 2007 and the virus made a comeback in January. Earlier this year, 50 of the country’s 64 districts were affected …

24 December » Fresh outbreak of bird flu detected in Bangladesh
Xinhua – China
Bangladesh’s Health Ministry in May confirmed the country’s first human case of bird flu as tests on a 16-month-old girl proved H5N1 positive. …

23 December » Indonesia labors to tackle infections
Jakarta Post – Jakarta,Indonesia
The frequency of infections is also feared to lead to a pandemic, which could sweep through the population as soon as the H5N1 bird flu virus — now only …

22 December » Bird flu teams inspect high-risk villages in Uttaradit
Thai News Agency MCOT – Bangkok,Thailand
Pichai district is also considered a high risk area as it adjoins Sukhothai province where health officers detected the H5N1 strain of bird flu virus in …

21 December » Cambodian survives H5N1 bird flu virus: official
Reuters UK – UK
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – A 19-year old Cambodian man has survived the H5N1 bird flu virus which has killed seven other people in the poor Southeast Asian …

20 December » Talking Public Health With Obama
Huffington Post – New York,NY,USA
I think I would distinguish between the particular threat of the H5N1 [avian flu strain], and the threat of pandemic generally. …

19 December » India seals part of Bangladesh border over bird flu
Reuters India – Mumbai,India
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) – India sealed part of its border with Bangladesh on Thursday amid fears the latest outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus had spread …

18 December » COA denies bird flu outbreak, cover-up
Taipei Times – Taiwan
In addition, Indian officials in West Bengal confirmed an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu virus 10 days ago and begun massive culling operations. …

17 December » Egyptian teen dies of H5N1 infection
CIDRAP – Minneapolis,MN,USA
(CIDRAP News) – Egypt’s health ministry has announced that a 16-year-old girl died of an H5N1 avian influenza infection, the country’s first …

16 December » Avian Flu In Hong Kong And Indonesia – Disease Jumps From Bird To …
Best Syndication – Pinon Hills,CA,USA
(Best Syndication News) Within a couple days of the announcement in Indonesia concerning human cases of H5N1 bird flu, officials in Hong Kong are announcing …

15 December » Local politics hindering RP govt efforts vs bird flu – experts
GMA news.tv – Quezon City,Metro Manila,Philippines
Bird flu, or avian influenza (AI), is an infectious disease caused by the H5N1 virus. All birds are believed to be susceptible to it, although some species …

14 December » India’s Assam State Battling Serious Bird Flu Outbreak
Voice of America – USA
India has sent avian influenza experts to the northeastern state of Assam to diagnose people who are suffering from flu-like symptoms. …

13 December » Bird flu case detected in Cambodia
Monsters and Critics.com – USA
Phnom Penh – Cambodian health workers converged on a town near the capital Phnom Penh after a man was diagnosed with avian flu, officials said Friday. …

12 December » Crucell antibody beats Tamiflu in preclinical test
Reuters – USA
Crucell’s mAb CR6261 was tested against a number of flu strains, including the bird flu strain H5N1, which experts fear has the potential to cause a …

11 December » Indonesia reports two human bird flu cases
Xinhua – China
The cases put the total cases of human bird flu infection to 139, including 113 fatalities, in Indonesia since the virus hit the archipelago country in 2003 …

10 December » New Bird Flu Outbreak In Hong Kong
eFluxMedia – USA
By Alexis Ceck Commonly known as the “bird flu” or “avian flu,” avian influenza is a type of influenza caused by certain viruses that have adapted to birds. …

08 December » Vaccine makers urge speedy accord on pandemic plan
Reuters – USA
Indonesia, the country most affected by H5N1 bird flu, has resisted providing viral samples to the international community because it argues that material …

06 December » Bird Flu Spreads To Barpeta, Nalbari In Assam
TopNews – Noida,Uttar Pradesh,India
Moreover, the authorities stepped up precautionary measures against the spread of deadly bird flu after such avian influenza cases have been reported in …

05 December » China Bans Thai Poultry Following H5N1 Bird Flu Outbreak
Alibaba News Channel – New York,NEW YORK,USA
China has banned poultry imports and its related products from Thailand following a deadly H5N1 strain avian influenza outbreak there, the official Xinhua …

04 December » People of Assam faces a new danger
Little About – Navi Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
The only reason is that samples in the laboratory tests were found to comprise stresses of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza. It should be remembered that …

03 December » Bird flu makes mallards thin, study finds
Reuters – USA
There are hundreds of kinds of bird flu, and evidence suggests that human forms of influenza originate in birds. Low-pathogenic avian influenza strains …

02 December » India loses bird flu-free status
Hindu – Chennai,India
NEW DELHI:Barely three weeks after India declared itself to be free from the highly pathogenic Avian Influenza (Bird Flu), the deadly disease showed up in …

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 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.

But first a word from our sponsors ::

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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Return to main Pandemic Influenza site

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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.

But first a word from our sponsors ::

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 …

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

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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 …

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

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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 …

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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