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Here are the top Bird Flu stories for May 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 May » We thought we would die from bird flu
ic Liverpool - Southport,England,UK
She was eventually taken to hospital, unable to walk or drive, where medics confirmed she had contracted a strain of bird flu. Mr Kinder fell ill later, …

30 May » Tests to show extent of bird flu
Shropshire Star - Telford,Shropshire,UK
… avian flu virus. It was discovered at a farm in Corwen last week. The disease is the “very mild” H7N2 strain rather than the more virulent H5N1 variety. …

29 May » Pupils offered bird flu drug
ic Wales - Cardiff,UK
This most recent variety of avian flu is less aggressive than the H5N1 strain. Health officials could not rule out the disease had spread from …

28 May » China Confirms Soldier Is 25th Person Infected With H5N1 Bird Flu …
AHN - USA
Beijing, China (AHN) - A man has contracted the deadly H5N1 bird flu in China, officials announced Saturday. His case brings the total number of human …

27 May » Vietnam confirms first human bird flu case in 18 months
Indian Muslims - San Diego,CA,USA
Vietnam once had the highest number of human bird flu fatalities, with 42 people having died of the infection between 2003 and 2005, but it has since been …

26 May » Four test positive for bird flu
BBC News - UK
In February, more than 160000 birds were slaughtered on a Suffolk farm owned by the Bernard Matthews firm after an outbreak of the H5N1 strain. Avian flu …

25 May » Two adults tested for bird flu after North Wales outbreak
24dash.com - Hereford,Herefordshire,UK
Dr Christianne Glossop, Chief Veterinary Officer for Wales, said it was not the most dangerous H5N1 strain but H7N2 low pathogenic avian influenza. …

24 May » Bird flu hits Pakistan
CNN
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) — Pakistani authorities have discovered the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu at three poultry farms on the outskirts of Islamabad and culled nearly 10,500 chickens, a government official said on Wednesday.

23 May » Bird Flu Could Be Slowing Down
American Agriculturist - PA,USA
This year, avian influenza has killed fewer wild birds, and the World Organization for Animal Health said Monday that this “could indicate the disease is coming closer to the end of a cycle.”

22 May » HANOI (Reuters) - Bird flu has killed nearly 1,900 ducks in farms across Vietnam in the past week, the government said on Tuesday, bringing to five the number of provinces struck by H5N1.

21 May » China Controls Outbreak Of Deadly H5N1 Avian Bird Flu In Hunan …
AHN - USA
Mutation in H5N1 bird flu virus would enable it to spread from human to human quite easily endangering every one in an affected area. …

20 May » Rockeby To Present Rapid Bird Flu Test Research To Pasteur Institute
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
Avian influenza H5N1 virus “positive swab samples were used to estimate sensitivity of the diagnostic tests. This included H5N1 infected swabs from …

19 May » EU countdown to bird flu amendments continues
MeatProcess.com - Montpellier,France
18/05/2007 - The European poultry industry has just six weeks left to prepare itself for new proposals designed to prevent the spread of H5N1 avian …

18 May » Bird flu, WHO and Indonesia
News-Medical.net - Sydney,Australia
The WHO has also acknowledged 15 formerly unconfirmed H5N1 avian flu cases which have occurred in Indonesia since a virus-sharing partnership with the …

17 May » Canada stockpiling avian flu vaccines as hedge against outbreak in …
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
But Halvorson pointed out that ducks have been shown to excrete Asian H5N1 viruses through their respiratory tracts, like people shed flu viruses. …

16 May » Indonesia resumes sharing bird flu samples
CBC News - Canada
Avian flu remains largely an infection in birds. Since 2003, the H5N1 strain as infected at least 282 people worldwide and killed about 170 of them, …

15 May » Nigeria, others to benefit from
Business Day - Nigeria
About 700000 birds have been culled in Nigeria since bird flu was discovered in the country in February 2006, according to World Health Organization (WHO) …

14 May » Amid bird flu vaccine debate, scientists aren’t sure what dose …
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
Simply put, scientists can’t be certain how much vaccine is needed to protect people against novel influenza viruses such as H5N1 avian flu, because they …

13 May » Avian Flu High On World Health Assembly Agenda
Voice of America - USA
The issue of sharing research data on avian influenza is shaping up to be the most controversial and potentially damaging item on this year’s agenda of the World Health Assembly. The annual assembly of 193 governments, which opens in Geneva on Monday, will debate ways to tackle a possible bird flu pandemic. Other global health problems will also be under review…

12 May » Intervet’s Bird Flu Vaccine Receives EU License
ThePoultrySite.com - Sheffield,UK
BOXMEER - Intervet, a leading animal health company, received approval for its bird flu (avian influenza) vaccine Nobilis(R) Influenza H7N1. …

11 May » Indonesia and the WHO’s Bird Flu Showdown
TIME - USA
Bird flu may have fallen off the media radar lately, but that doesn’t mean the threat has passed. Poultry continue to die from the H5N1 virus, …

10 May » Egyptians Play Chicken With Bird Flu Virus on Conspiracy Rumors
Bloomberg - USA
When the Egyptian government outlawed raising poultry on roofs and balconies in February of last year to curb bird flu, he whisked his brood straight into …

09 May » World Bank grants Uzbekistan $3 mln for bird flu prevention
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
The avian influenza disease, originating in East Asia, has spread worldwide. Scientists fear the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus of bird flu could mutate into …

08 May » Wildlife Monitoring Could Provide Clues on Pandemics
Congressional Quarterly - Washington,DC,USA
Currently, the federal government is targeting its bird flu surveillance to birds, which has a proven link to the H5N1 avian influenza strain. …

07 May » Vietnam reports new bird flu
France24 - Paris,France
Vietnam bird flu officials say they consider poultry to have been infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus if test positive for H5 and also show …

06 May » BioTech Medics Developing Avian Bird Flu Virus Prevention Program
WM Experts (press release) - Inverness,FL,USA
The SHBAN™ solution was tested at the University of London, Queen School of Medicine, Retroscreen Labs against the H5N1 virus. In previous in vitro and in …

05 May » US govt says to reduce bird flu testing during ‘07
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
The U.S. Agriculture and Interior departments, which jointly monitor for avian influenza, told Reuters they plan to take about 77,000 samples from wild birds during the April 2007 to March 2008 period.

04 May » Novavax Up on Bird Flu Vaccine Data
Forbes - NY,USA
The company said all ferrets, even those given the smallest dose of the Novavax vaccine, survived exposure to the Indonesian strain of H5N1 bird flu and …

03 May » Ghana confirms first bird flu case
Joy Online - Accra,Ghana
Also quarantined are all other poultry farms in the Tema Municipality, which has been declared a bird flu area, as a safety measure. …

02 May » ‘Supermap’ of avian flu yields new info on source/spread
Biology News Net (press release) - QC,Canada
Credit: Image courtesy of Ohio State University Scientists here have designed a new, interactive map of the spread of the avian flu virus (H5N1) that for …

01 May » ‘Genes being developed for disease resistant chicken’
Deccan Herald - Bangalore,India
… vulnerable to diseases such as avian influenza. Amongst chicken related diseases, bird flu or H5N1 has been the most dangerous disease as ever found. …

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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