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Here are the top Bird Flu stories for October 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 October » The “Next” Step in Bird Flu Mutations
ThreatsWatch.Org - USA
H5N1 bird flu virus has mutated to infect people more easily and is circulating in birds in Africa and Europe. The mutation allows the virus to live and …

30 October » Flu lab nears completion
Wisconsin State Journal - Madison,WI,USA
Kawaoka plans to study several kinds of flu viruses in the institute — including H5N1, the bird flu virus circulating in Asia, and a reconstructed version …

29 October » Bird Flu May Be on `Silent’ March in Europe, UN Agency Warns
Bloomberg - USA
Germany’s discovery of the fatal H5N1 strain in healthy ducks and geese two months ago may be a sign that domestic animals are harboring bird flu without …

28 October » Government takes action on Bird flu
New Vision - Kampala,Uganda
Bird flu is a deadly disease which affects poultry and occasionally human beings. The disease, caused by the H5N1 avian influenza virus, is spread by close …

27 October » Experts at WHO Announce Ability to Produce More Bird Flu Vaccine
The Money Times - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Scientists in the United States as well as Europe are testing a vaccine that would provide protection against the H5N1 strain of bird flu, a potentially …

26 October » Bird flu hits Vietnam village near Chinese border
Reuters - USA
“Tests on the samples from the dead poultry were positive to the bird flu virus H5N1,” it said in a statement seen on Friday. About 560 ducks and chicken …

25 October » Bird flu breaks out again in Vietnam
Bangkok Post - Thailand
Vietnam has been one of the country’s hardest hit by the deadly avian influenza virus known as H5N1, which has caused concern over its potential to infect …

24 October » Vaccine Plan for Flu Pandemic Drafted
The Associated Press -
Scientists cannot predict when the next pandemic will arrive, although concern is rising that the Asian bird flu known as H5N1 might trigger one if it …

23 October » Bird Flu Spreads Among Humans - WHO
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
THE H5N1 strain of bird flu has finally managed to spread from person to person, according to officials of the World Health Organisation (WHO). …

22 October » Bird flu plans failing children, report says
Reuters - USA
No one can say when or what strain will cause the next one, but the main suspect now is the H5N1 avian flu virus that has killed 203 people in 12 countries …

21 October » Indonesian girl thought to have bird flu dies
The West Australian - Perth,Western Australia,Australia
The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu is endemic in birds across nearly all of Indonesia. Scientists worry that the virus could mutate into a form more easily …

20 October » Bird-flu scare means area hunters return from Canadian journey …
La Crosse Tribune - La Crosse,WI,USA
Fortunately, the Saskatchewan avian influenza is not the H5N1 virus that spread through Africa, Asia and Europe since being discovered in 1996. …

19 October » Japan Institute of Infectious Diseases Publishes Article On …
CNNMoney.com - USA
Research efforts such as the JNIID’s are focused on containing and eventually eliminating the pandemic threat that would arise if avian flu were to “cross …

18 October » Report: Children Overlooked in Flu Prep
The Associated Press -
Concern is rising that the Asian bird flu known as H5N1 could trigger the next worldwide influenza epidemic if it mutates to become more easily spread …

17 October » HEALTH-ASIA: Four Years On Questions Hover on Bird Flu
Inter Press Service (subscription) - Rome,Italy
The H5N1 strain of avian flu, which has led to the culling of millions of birds and poultry with compensation payments to farmers running into millions of …

16 October » Health Screening at Airports
Korea Times - South Korea
Undoubtedly you’ve heard about avian flu: long endemic to birds in Southeast Asia, it’s gone global over the last half decade. …

15 October » Indonesia Confirms Death of Boy From Bird Flu, 88th Fatality
Bloomberg - USA
Millions may die if H5N1 develops the characteristics of seasonal flu and begins spreading easily between people, touching off a global outbreak, …

14 October » COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY, HEALTH E-science conscripted in fight against …
EUROPA - Brussels,Belgium
Recently released data from the Peking University in Beijing, China, where research is currently under way, shows that the H5N1 bird-flu virus can pass …

13 October » All poultry culled at farm after bird flu outbreak
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
No other bird flu cases have been registered in the region, he added. The lethal H5N1 virus was identified at the farm after some 500 chickens died on …

12 October » Bird flu cases in Vietnam, Indonesia
Bangkok Post - Thailand
Jakarta (dpa) - A 12-year-old Indonesian boy was confirmed Thursday to be suffering from bird flu, bringing the country’s cases of the H5N1 avian influenza …

11 October » Five cleared of bird flu in Indonesia
Radio Australia - Australia
Indonesia’s death toll of 87 from avian influenza is the highest in the world. The results of two other people suspected to have bird flu have not yet been …

10 October » American Biotech Labs Announces Results of Preliminary Tests for …
CNNMoney.com - USA
Clifton Mining Company Inc. (OTC : CFTN)In separate in vitro tests against two strains of the H5N1 avian bird flu subtype, both instances of the virus were …

09 October » Key Bird flu mutation identified
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran
The change could make bird flu grow more easily in the upper respiratory tract of humans, the researchers say in their report. Though some H5N1 viruses from …

08 October » Risk of a bird flu outbreak remains on high alert
VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi,Vietnam
The development of avian flu in humans is occuring in a complex manner. Transmitted from infected poultry to humans, the disease, known as the H5N1 virus, …

07 October » Bird flu virus mutates into a strain more infectious to humans
Independent - London,England,UK
All flu viruses are evolving constantly and other mutations were necessary to convert H5N1 avian flu into a human pandemic strain, he said. …

06 October » No ‘bird flu’ found in north Iran
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran
Iran’s Veterinary Organization chief says that no acute ‘bird flu’ sample has been registered in Mazandaran, northern Iran, so far. …

05 October » Chinese University Uses EGEE to Battle Bird Flu
GRIDtoday - San Diego,CA,USA
This effort comes as new data released last week by Peking University in Beijing, China, shows that the H5N1 bird flu virus can pass through the placenta of …

04 October » Bird flu shown to infect multiple organs
Healthcare Republic (press release) - London,UK
The H5N1 bird flu virus can infect multiple organs besides the lungs, and can be passed across the placenta from mother to child, a Chinese study has found. …

03 October » US border agents seize hunters’ birds amid Canada’s bird flu scare
The Canadian Press -
While the Saskatchewan avian influenza is not the H5N1 virus that has caused worldwide alarm, USDA officials said the H7N3 virus is a considerable threat to …

02 October » West Jakarta shop attendant latest bird flu victim
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
The Health Ministry has confirmed that a West Jakarta shop attendant died of the bird flu Friday, increasing the country’s human death toll from the virus …

01 October » Autopsy of pregnant woman felled by bird flu showed virus passed …
The Canadian Press -
Autopsies performed on a pregnant woman who died from H5N1 avian flu infection showed the virus passed to the fetus, Chinese researchers report in 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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