If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]

Officials in southern Vietnam have confirmed that the recent bird flu outbreak is the lethal H5N1 strain.
And, experts say a fresh outbreak of avian influenza in Nigeria is more widespread than thought.
Meanwhile, the University of Maryland School of Medicine will begin testing its cell-based bird flu vaccine in January in preparation for a possible [...]

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.
But in the USA, Minnesota to be exact, they are re-writing the rules. A panel including government officials, [...]

The Maker of all Human Beings is recalling all units manufactured, regardless of make or year, due to a serious defect in the primary and central component of the heart. This is due to a malfunction in the original prototype units code named Adam and Eve, resulting in the reproduction of the same defect in [...]

Experts fighting bird flu around the world met on Wednesday in Mali to plan the next stage of their campaign to control the disease.
The outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza began in Asia in 2003 and spread rapidly in early 2006.
But the experts meeting in Mali also say the deadly H5N1 virus is just [...]