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Here are the top Bird Flu stories for this month, April 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 April » Flu money’s denial elicits warnings
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA
This spring the H5N1 strain of bird flu has spread to several new countries, including Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh and Kuwait, but it has yet to reach the …

29 April » Schools discuss doomsday avian flu plans
Tuscaloosa News (subscription) - Tuscaloosa,AL,USA
The Alabama Department of Education began working with the state Department of Public Health in February 2006 to create awareness about bird flu and start …

28 April » Research center will test new vaccine for bird flu, plans mass …
Taiwan Journal - Taiwan
Being excluded from the world health community, Taiwan had to take action to protect itself from a possible outbreak of H5N1 avian flu, also known as bird …

27 April » UPDATE 3-Tamiflu maker lowers production, says slow demand
Reuters - USA
Experts say a pandemic is inevitable, but they cannot predict when, or which strain of flu might be the cause. The H5N1 avian flu virus currently killing …

26 April » Bird Flu May Lead to $200 Billion in Losses Worldwide (Update1)
Bloomberg - USA
April 24 (Bloomberg) — The global economy may suffer as much as $200 billion in losses with a “modest” bird flu and influenza pandemic that lasts more …

25 April » Bird flu found in ostrich in Kuwait
WorldPoultry.net - Doetinchem,Netherlands
A new case of the pathogenic H5N1 bird flu has been found in an ostrich farm in the south of Kuwait near the Saudi border. Health ministry spokesman Ahmed …

24 April » Human Bird Flu Deaths Reported in Egypt, Cambodia
US Department of State (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
Washington – The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed two new human cases of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza in Egypt and …

23 April » Myanmar lifts ban on chicken sales
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Yangon - A ban on selling chicken in bird flu-hit areas of Yangon has been lifted after three weeks passed with no new reported cases of the virus, …

22 April » Search for Highly Effective Bird Flu Vaccine Goes On
CBC News - Canada
Luckily, the annual search for a vaccine against seasonal flu is helping scientists as they seek immunization against its much deadlier cousin, H5N1 avian …

21 April » Report: China to send avian flu samples to WHO
USA Today - USA
Beijing has vowed an aggressive fight against the H5N1 strain of bird flu, which has infected nearly 300 people worldwide, killing more than half of them. …

20 April » Bird flu deal for Bernard Matthews criticized
Budapest Business Journal - Budapest,Hungary
But the report says the possibility of H5N1 going undetected in turkeys was a “rare event”. The precise source of the bird flu outbreak had not been found …

19 April » WHO dispenses new advice on treating bird flu
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Doctors can consider doubling the Tamiflu dose, giving it for longer or combining it with another flu drug, amantadine (in countries where H5N1 viruses are …

18 April » Bird Flu Genome Study Shows New Strains, Western Spread
Infection Control Today - Phoenix,AZ,USA
The green, pink and yellow arrows depict the three strains of avian flu that have emerged independently in the West. The orange arrows show the likely …

17 April » “Bird Flu” Genome Study Shows New Strains, Western Spread
Newswise (press release) - USA
“Collaborations like this one are essential if the scientific community is going to keep track of avian flu, but most influenza researchers continue to work …

16 April » HEALTH-THAILAND: Avian Flu Campaigns Reach Schools
Inter Press Service (subscription) - Rome,Italy
… how to prevent the H5N1 strain of avian influenza from affecting their communities and transmission to humans are underway, whether or not bird flu is …

15 April » Bird flu turns up in Cambodia
WorldPoultry.net - Doetinchem,Netherlands
The chickens were found ill on April 6 and H5N1 was confirmed on April 12. Bird flu was not reported in Cambodia since September 2006. …

14 April » Bird flu scare returns
Times Now.tv - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
The Bird flu, avian influenza scare has returned in India following news of an outbreak in Bangladesh. The Government, in particular the Ministry of …

13 April » Eleven People Tested for Suspected Bird Flu in Lagos
Voice of America - USA
Nigerian health authorities say they are testing nearly a dozen people in Lagos for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. This after they developed what …

12 April » Egyptian Girl Dies of Bird Flu
Voice of America - USA
Egypt’s health ministry says a teenage girl who tested positive for the H5N1 avian flu has died — raising the number of deaths from the disease in Egypt to …

11 April » University Of Alaska Fairbanks Awarded $3.8M For Bird Flu Research
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
Scientists say that could provide an opportunity for exchange of bird flu viruses which could then infect humans. “Our major goal is to understand the …

10 April » Hygiene education campaign battles spread of avian influenza in Egypt
UNICEF (press release) - New York,NY,USA
It was in January that local health authorities discovered the carcass of a dead chicken and, suspecting an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, …

09 April » Health Minister urges nation to co-operate in bird flu fight
Viet Nam News - Hanoi,Vietnam
Since bird flu was first detected in Viet Nam four years ago, the nation has seen three major human outbreaks of the virus. …

08 April » Vietnam acts to prevent bird flu among humans
Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam
Vietnam is focusing on mobilizing all resources to prevent bird flu among humans, improve public awareness, and prepare medicines for potential outbreaks, …

07 April » Indonesia’s bird flu death toll hits 73
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
The number of bird flu cases has increased rapidly in Indonesia. This year alone, the H5N1 avian influenza virus has claimed the lives of 16 people in the …

06 April » New report reveals a link between bird flu and factory farming
Arkangel for Animal Liberation - London,UK
The latest incidence of HPAI H5N1 bird flu virus in the UK was found in February this year amongst intensively-reared turkeys in a unit run by Bernard …

05 April » Flu detection leads to bird destruction in W. Va.
Brownfield - Jefferson City,MO,USA
The bird flu at the farm was detected during routine screening, which has been conducted since a 2002 outbreak in neighboring Virginia. …

04 April » Bernard Matthews escapes bird flu prosecution
FoodNavigator-USA - Montpellier,France
The last UK bird flu scare that took place in Scotland in March 2005, when H5N1 was found in a dead wild swan. Then, chicken sales growth slowed by 10 per …

03 April » Two New Cases Of Human H5N1 Bird Flu Found In Egypt – Avian …
Best Syndication - Pinon Hills,CA,USA
(Best Syndication) The Egyptian Health Ministry reported two new human bird flu cases Saturday. The Egyptian Daily News site reports that the cases are in …

02 April » Bangladesh says bird flu spreads to more farms
PeaceJournalism.com - Nepal
DHAKA, March 30 (Reuters) - Bird flu has spread to five more farms in central and northern districts, Bangladesh said on Friday. “The avian flu has now …

01 April » China confirms human death from bird flu
Andhra Cafe - Hyderabad,Andhra Pradesh,India
Tests by the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday confirmed that he had been infected with the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus. …

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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