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Here are the top Bird Flu stories for December 2007 - (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 December » Bird flu kills hundreds of ducks, chickens in Tra Vinh Province
Viet Nam News - Hanoi,Vietnam
HCM CITY — Bird flu has killed hundreds of ducks and chickens in southern Tra Vinh Province. The Viet Nam Animal Health Department has confirmed that the …

30 December » New bird flu outbreak in Burma
Bangkok Post - Thailand
A new outbreak of bird flu has been detected in Burma’s eastern Shan State close to the Thai border, a state-run newspaper reported Saturday. The H5N1 virus …

29 December » Tests confirm 1 case in large bird flu cluster in Pakistan; more …
The Canadian Press -
One member of a large family of suspected H5N1 avian flu cases in Pakistan was found positive for infection in confirmatory testing by two international …

28 December » Avian flu death prompts investigation
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
Her death has taken the city’s bird flu toll to 24 deaths since the first was recorded July 20, 2005. The H5N1 virus, the deadliest bird flu strain for …

27 December » Sinovac Biotech finishes phase II clinical test of human vaccine …
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
As a part of the national program of human vaccine against bird flu, clinical trials of human vaccine against H5N1 bird flu got documentary approval this …

26 December » Vietnam suspects bird flu killed child
Special Broadcasting Service - Australia
Doctors were testing to see if the H5N1 bird flu virus was the killer, the ministry official was quoted as saying. Vietnam last reported outbreaks among …

25 December » Bird flu outbreak in south Russia spreads
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
In September, the region was hit by the H5N1 strain and 230000 birds were culled. In February, dead poultry with traces of the lethal virus were found in …

24 December » The ultimate weapon against a flu pandemic: a vaccine in powder form
Radio Netherlands - Netherlands
The measure was taken after cases of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza – which can be fatal to humans – were reported in Germany and Poland. …

23 December » Poland reports fresh outbreak of H5N1 bird flu
Reuters - USA
WARSAW, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Laboratory tests have confirmed a fresh outbreak of deadly H5N1 avian flu in the same area of northern Poland where the virus was …

22 December » WHO Investigates Bird Flu in Pakistan
The Associated Press -
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Limited human-to-human bird flu transmission may have occurred in Pakistan, but no new infections have been reported for two weeks and …

21 December » New German bird-flu case reported in Germany
Earthtimes - London,UK
Berlin - A fresh bird-flu outbreak has been discovered in Germany, with a state laboratory confirming the presence of the H5N1 virus, …

20 December » WHO warns Pakistanis to be mindful of bird flu amid country’s …
International Herald Tribune - France
… alert to monitor patients with flu-like symptoms who could be infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus, said Khalif Bile, the WHO country representative. …

19 December » Pakistan’s human bird flu cases rise to 8
Xinhua - China
The WHO Tuesday noted the death of Indonesia’s latest avian flu patient, a 47-year-old man from Tangerang who died Dec 13. The country’s overall H5N1 count …

18 December » Two die in bird flu outbreak in Pakistan
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
And in September 230000 birds were culled at a farm in the Krasnodar Territory. Although cases of human-to-human transmission of avian influenza have not …

17 December » Family cluster infected in Pakistan’s 1st reported bird flu cases
The Canadian Press -
Authorities in Pakistan announced the country’s first reported human cases of H5N1 avian flu Saturday in a cluster of family members which may have involved …
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16 December » One dead, five infected with bird flu in Pakistan
Scientific American - USA
The Geneva-based WHO said it was aware of eight suspected human cases of H5N1 bird flu in Pakistan’s Peshawar region. “These cases were detected following a …

15 December » WHO Confirms Burma’s First Human Case of Bird Flu
Voice of America - USA
Officials say she developed symptoms of the disease last month in an area where there had been an outbreak of the H5N1 virus in poultry. …

14 December » Indonesian man dies of bird flu
Xinhua - China
14 (Xinhua) — A 47-year-old Indonesian man has died of bird flu, bringing the country’s death toll from the virulent disease to 93, a hospital official …

13 December » Poland confirms new bird flu outbreak
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Warsaw - Poland has been hit by a fresh outbreak of bird flu with the discovery of the deadly H5N1 virus at two poultry farms, veterinary authorities said …

12 December » Bird-flu Expert Calls For Changes In Early-warning System
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Go where the H5N1 virus lives: Surveillance has focused too heavily on Europe and North America, where few wild birds are infected. To really understand the …
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11 December » China hunts father-and-son bird flu link
Reuters - USA
The 52-year old father was diagnosed with the H5N1 strain of bird flu late last week in the eastern province of Jiangsu, days after his 24-year old son died …

10 December » US$605 Million Pledged For H5N1 Bird Flu Fight
Scoop.co.nz - New Zealand
Eight nations and the European Commission pledged $605 million December 6 in the continuing fight against the spread of H5N1 avian influenza in birds and …

09 December » Another bird flu centre found in Poland
Thenews.pl - Warsaw,Poland
Another centre of the H5N1 strain of avian flu virus was found in Masovian region, central Poland , chief veterinary officer Ewa Lech informed on Saturday. …

08 December » Donors pledge $406 million to fight avian flu
CIDRAP - Minneapolis,MN,USA
When the New Delhi conference opened Dec 4, the World Bank predicted a need for $1.2 billion to help countries battle avian flu over the next 2 to 3 years, …

07 December » TIMELINE: Bird flu developments
Reuters - USA
February 3, 2007 - WHO confirms bird flu killed a 22-year-old Nigerian woman, its first known human fatality in sub-Saharan Africa. — H5N1 is found to have …

06 December » Anti-bird flu stocks to cover 100000 key people
The Dominion Post - Wellington,New Zealand
The Government has purchased enough bird-flu vaccine for nearly 100000 front-line personnel and have orders in for the rest of the country, …

05 December » Bird flu pandemic could cost 2 trillion dollars: World Bank
AFP -
The H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed more than 200 people worldwide since late 2003. But the number of human infections and deaths declined this year over …

04 December » Chinese man dies of H5N1 bird flu
US-China Today - Los Angeles,CA,USA
A man in Jiangsu province became the seventeenth person to die from the H5N1 virus. Mr. Lu (he was not fully identified) went to a hospital on Nov. 27. …

03 December » Bird flu virus found in Mazowsze, Poland epidemic threatens
Warsaw Business Journal (subscription) - Poland
On Saturday morning sanitary services found the H5N1 (bird flu) virus that can infect humans in turkey farms in the Mazowsze province. …

02 December » Campaign to Combat Bird Flu in Full Swing
Arab News - Jeddah,Saudi Arabia
RIYADH, 2 December 2007 — More than four million birds have been culled in the Kingdom since avian flu was first detected on Nov. 12 in 1500 birds at a farm …

01 December » Bird flu spreads to 60 countries, pandemic risk still high: UN
The Canadian Press -
The upsurge in H5N1 bird flu outbreaks around the world has led to the slaughter of millions of birds across Asia since late 2003. …

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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