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Here are the top Bird Flu stories for August 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 August » New poultry scare
Al-Ahram Weekly - Cairo,Egypt
The most recent case was 25-year-old Naema Abdu Gamil from Damietta governorate, 150km north of Cairo, who tested positive for the deadly H5N1 bird flu …

30 August » Bird flu in German farm more serious than thought
Xinhua - China
All the 166000 birds on the farm were killed after bird flu was identified on Friday. Several cases of the deadly H5N1 strain in wild birds has been …

29 August » Study confirms 2006 human-human spread of bird flu
Reuters.uk - UK
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A mathematical analysis has confirmed that H5N1 avian influenza spread from person to person in Indonesia in April, US researchers …

28 August » Germany to enforce buffer zone around bird flu farm
Forbes - NY,USA
… a 15-kilometre (10-mile) buffer zone around a Bavarian farm after the discovery of the highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 bird flu, an EU spokesman said. …

27 August » Germany culls 160000 poultry for bird flu
Bangkok Post - Thailand
Erlangen, Germany (dpa) - German officials were culling about 160000 ducks Sunday after the deadly H5N1 bird-flu virus was found in a poultry farm near the …

26 August » Bird flu feared in another Bali patient
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Bali has already confirmed one earlier death due to the deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu, prompting officials in the tourism-dependent island to cull more …

25 August » Study finds key markers for bird flu change
Scientific American - USA
“The pandemic virus from 1918, the Spanish flu, is halfway between a bird virus and a human virus. What is reassuring is the H5N1 appears be much more avian …

24 August » Poultry farming must be re-examined: WHO - Summary
Earthtimes.org - USA
The majority of the 40 new pathogens identified since 1967 could be sourced to animals in this way including the deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu linked to …

23 August » Indonesia offers Japan to cooperate in producing bird flu vaccine
Xinhua - China
… the hardest-hit country by bird flu, offered Japan on Monday to cooperate in producing anti-bird flu vaccine developed from the strain of H5N1 virus in …

22 August » Study finds key markers for bird flu change
Reuters.uk - UK
… that a flu virus needs to become a deadly pandemic strain, and said on Tuesday the H5N1 avian influenza virus has so far made only a few of them. …

21 August » Housemaid latest avian flu fatality
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
The Health Ministry’s laboratory has confirmed a Tangerang domestic helper died from the bird flu virus Friday, bringing the country’s death toll to 83. …

20 August » Indonesia reports a new case of H5N1 avian influenza
SpiritIndia - New Delhi,New Delhi,India
With the flu spreading around the world, the virus has turned up in birds in Asia, Europe and Africa. So far, bird flu has mostly been passed from birds …

19 August » UPDATE 2-UK moves to secure pandemic flu vaccine supplies
Reuters.uk - UK
While Glaxo’s vaccine offers protection against the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus now circulating, its impact on any mutated strain of virus is not certain. …

18 August » Glaxo’s Bird-Flu Shot May Be Taken Before Outbreak, Study Says
Bloomberg - USA
GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s experimental flu vaccine may work against more than one strain of avian influenza, enabling doctors to give the shot …

17 August » Teen Maid In Indonesia Succumbs To Bird Flu
AHN - USA
Joko Suyanto, an official at the Indonesian Health Ministry’s Bird Flu Information Center, said the girl tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of the …

16 August » Maddening Media Misinformation on Biotech (Part 3 of 5)
American Council on Science and Health - New York,NY,USA
These “industrial farming methods…may also have created the lethal strain of bird flu virus, H5N1, that threatens to set off a global pandemic. …

15 August » Indonesia Still Not Sharing Virus Samples for Avian Flu Vaccines
US Department of State - Washington,DC,USA
All countries except Indonesia are sharing human samples of the H5N1 avian flu virus with the WHO Global Influenza Surveillance Network so experts can …

14 August » Bird flu kills 2 in Bali
Disaster News Network - USA
A 2-year-old girl believed to be a neighbor of the victims was also confirmed as being infected with the H5N1 strain of avian influenza. …

13 August » The battle over bird flu
St. John’s Telegram - St. John’s,Newfoundland,Canada
The nefarious little H5N1 bug was showing up in more and more avian species around the world. A few human victims started surfacing. …

12 August » Second bird flu death in Vietnam in a week
News-Medical.net - Sydney,Australia
The H5N1 strain of bird flu remains primarily a disease of birds which affects poultry and wild birds but it can infect humans who have close contact with …

11 August » Last Flu Season Was Mild, But Child Deaths Worrying
Forbes - NY,USA
“We had a good flu year. But that was last year,” Katz noted. In terms of the H5N1 bird flu virus, from December 2003 to mid-July 2007, 319 cases of bird …

10 August » NIH Scientists Target Future Pandemic Strains of H5N1 Avian Influenza
National Institutes of Health (press release) - USA
Bird-adapted H5N1 binds bird cell surface receptors. But these receptors differ slightly from the receptors on human cells, which in part explains why …

09 August » Bird flu kills Vietnamese student
The Brunei Times - Bandar,Brunei,Brunei Darussalam
HANOI: A 22-year-old Vietnamese university student died yesterday from the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the country’s fourth victim of avian influenza this year …

08 August » US stocks up again on bird flu vaccine
News-Medical.net - Sydney,Australia
The Department of Health and Human Services has placed another order for more doses of GSK’s vaccine against the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus. …

07 August » More Bird Flu Vaccine from Glaxo
Earthtimes.org - USA
This vaccine is used for the prevention of the H5N1 flu strain, also referred to as ‘avian flu’ or ‘bird flu’. The British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline [NYSE: …

06 August » Culling tally crosses 3 lakhs
KanglaOnline - India
IMPHAL, Aug 5: Surveillance in the 5-10 km radius area from Chingmeirong, the epicenter of the recent bird flu outbreak has begun, even as 3,31606 domestic …

05 August » Bird flu scare: Myanmar bans poultry imports from India
Times of India - India
Myanmar, on Tuesday, detected its second outbreak of bird flu in less than a month, but so far has not reported any human cases of avian influenza. …

04 August » Company set to test global flu vaccine
Mississauga News - Ontario, Canada
… goal is to create a vaccine that would help boost immune systems against the H5N1 flu virus, one strain of which is known as “avian flu” or “bird flu. …

03 August » Pigeon deaths spark bird flu fears
Ilford Recorder 24 - UK
… a flock of pigeons has sparked a rash of referrals to rule out the possibility the birds were killed by the devastating avian H5N1 virus - “bird flu”. …

02 August » UN studies use of space technology in fight against the spread of …
UN News Centre -
1 August 2007 - The United Nations is taking steps to promote the application of space technology to help Asian-Pacific countries fight bird flu, …

01 August » Third bird flu death in Vietnam in less
France24 - Paris,France
A 22-year-old pregnant woman has died of bird flu in Vietnam, hospital sources said Tuesday, bringing the death toll in the country to three in less than …

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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