The economic reality of avian influenza Picture yourself in a tiny village in a developing country, say in Southeast Asia. One of your chickens die. Before you know it, government troops are getting off the back of lorries and swarming into your … [Read more...]

Bird flu has killed again in Indonesia and is picking up speed elsewhere in Asia, with fresh outbreaks in Vietnam and a new human case reported in China. The bird flu or Avian Influenza (H5N1) A virus is now rampant again. Here is a break … [Read more...]

A 26-year-old Egyptian man has died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the third member of his extended family to die of the virus, a World Health Organisation official says. All three cases belong to one extended family in Gharbiyah province, 80 … [Read more...]

If any country faces an epedimic with only limited amounts of vaccine or anti-virals, who should get treated? Most guidelines (national) - and conventional wisdom - give priority to health-care workers, the youngest, the frail and the elderly. … [Read more...]