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Here are the top Bird Flu stories for November 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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30 November » Romania Reports Fresh Bird Flu Outbreak, Joining UK, Germany
Bloomberg - USA
Europe’s Black Sea area, where chicken and waterfowl populations are similar to those in Asia, may become a reservoir for H5N1 because birds migrating from …

29 November » Bulgaria shuts markets after Romanian bird flu outbreak
AFP -
SOFIA (AFP) — Bulgaria on Wednesday closed poultry markets in the northeast of the country after bird flu was detected in a village over the border in …

28 November » Japan offers Indonesia bird flu laboratory
Mathaba.Net - London,UK
… its efforts in the fight against bird flu. According to Antara news agency of Indonesia , the laboratory is designed to conduct tests for the H5N1 virus …

27 November » City Officials Intercept More Poultry Trucks in Riyadh
Arab News - Jeddah,Saudi Arabia
The ministry said bird flu virus detected at Hijrat Al-Barat in Al-Kharj was the highly dangerous H5N1 strain. “The presence of H5N1 in poultry poses …

26 November » WHO official says Asia should remain alert for bird flu, but some …
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
The H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed or led to the slaughter of millions of birds in recent years. It remains difficult for humans to catch, …

25 November » Thousands of Ducks Killed After Bird Flu Found in South Korea
Voice of America - USA
South Korea’s poultry exports were hit hard by seven outbreaks of the potentially deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu between November 2006 and March of this …

24 November » True cost of the avian flu outbreak starting to emerge
Farmers Guardian - Preston,England,UK
He predicted the various avian flu outbreaks in the UK in recent years had cost the industry around £100m. About 40 per cent of the country’s fresh birds …

23 November » EU boosts anti-bird flu measures in Britain
EUbusiness (press release) - Richmond,England,UK
On Monday, Britain confirmed a second outbreak of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza. It was found in turkeys on premises near a first infected farm, …

22 November » Poultry culled on sixth site in bird flu zone
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Poultry on a sixth premises were culled last night on suspicion of having bird flu, said the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). …

21 November » UPDATE1-Indonesia and US square off at bird flu talks
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Indonesia on Tuesday called for countries who share bird flu virus samples to have full control of their use …

20 November » WHO hopes to resolve row on bird flu virus sharing
Reuters - USA
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Health officials this week reopen the thorny issue of bird flu virus sharing, which the World Health …

19 November » Cull ends at bird flu-hit farms
BBC News - UK
More than 28000 birds were slaughtered following a suspected outbreak of H5N1 bird flu, a variant of the disease capable of being transmitted to humans. …

18 November » BAXTER INTERNATIONAL Firm calls 2-dose trial vaccine against avian …
Chicago Tribune - United States
Findings show the experimental vaccine, derived from an Indonesian victim who died after infection with the strain of H5N1 bird flu in 2005, …

17 November » 22000 CULLED IN BIRD FLU OUTBREAK
UK Express - UK
The zone was set-up after turkeys at Redgrave Park farm were found to be infected with the HN51 avian flu. Despite speculation that the infection spread …

16 November » Saudi Arabia: 50000 birds culled after flu outbreak
Al-Bawaba - Amman,Jordan
The statement said it was not clear how the birds had become infected with the H5N1 virus. The ministry learned of the deaths on Monday. …

15 November » BIRD FLU - Q&A
UK Express - UK
Almost 160000 birds were culled. Why is there particular concern about the H5N1 strain? It is highly infectious in poultry, spreading quickly and resulting …

14 November » Farmers urge bird flu ‘vigilance’
BBC News - UK
Scottish farming leaders have urged poultry producers and the public to be “vigilant” for signs of bird flu after an outbreak of the disease in Suffolk. …

13 November » New bird flu outbreak in Britain
AFP -
LONDON (AFP) — British vets ordered the slaughter of some 5000 birds Monday after a new outbreak of avian flu on a farm in eastern England, the first in six …

12 November » Bird flu claims 91st victim in Indonesia
Bangkok Post - Thailand
Jakarta (dpa) - A 31-year-old Indonesian man has died of bird flu, raising the country’s death toll from the H5N1 avian influenza virus to 91 - the world’s …

11 November » UN warns of possible sharp rise in bird flu outbreaks ahead of …
International Herald Tribune - France
Tests showed the birds had the lethal H5N1 bird flu virus strain, Vietnam’s Department of Animal Health said. The World Health Organization says the …

10 November » New Vaccine That Protects Monkeys Against Avian Flu Ready For …
Science Daily (press release) - USA
The rate of transmission of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) from birds to humans is rapidly increasing. The H5N1 strain is responsible …

09 November » Bird flu hits one more Vietnamese province
Xinhua - China
8 (Xinhua) — Bird flu outbreaks have recently occurred in Vietnam’s northern Ha Nam province, raising the total number of localities currently affected by …

08 November » Bird flu kills Indonesian toddler, raises country’s death toll to 89
The Canadian Press -
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian health officials say a toddler has died from bird flu after apparently coming into contact with dead poultry. …

07 November » ENVIRONMENT-ASIA: Farmers Unfazed by Bird Flu
Inter Press Service (subscription) - Rome,Italy
One of the biggest myths is the widespread belief that the onset of avian flu — which has often been blamed on open and backyard farming — means that …

06 November » Bird flu kills one Tangerang resident
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
Health workers and the poultry industry must be responsive to bird flu outbreaks, he said. Data from the Agriculture Ministry showing avian influenza has …

05 November » H5N1 hits poultry in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Vietnam
CIDRAP - Minneapolis,MN,USA
In other avian flu developments, authorities in Canada have lifted remaining restrictions on the movement of birds and bird products in Saskatchewan, …

04 November » Indonesian woman dies of suspected bird flu
Xinhua - China
3 (Xinhua) — A 30-year-old Indonesian woman died of suspected bird flu on Saturday, the country’s health ministry said here. The woman from Tanggerang town …

03 November » Parents ignore doctors and take home H5N1-infected toddler from …
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
Parents of a Tangerang toddler confirmed to have been infected with avian influenza forced the hospital Wednesday to discharge their child, the hospital …

02 November » Bird Flu Silently Spreads Across Europe
theTrumpet.com - Edmond,OK,USA
Bird flu may become entrenched throughout parts of Europe. Two months ago, German scientists discovered the fatal H5N1 strain of the avian influenza virus …

01 November » Bird flu returns to Nam Dinh, threatens North
VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi,Vietnam
At a meeting of the National Steering Board for Bird Flu Control Tuesday, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Bui Ba Bong asked the …

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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