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Here are the top Bird Flu stories for this month, February 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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28 February » Bird flu in Kuwait
News-Medical.net - Sydney,Australia
Kuwait’s last confirmed case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus was in 2005 when officials discovered the disease in a flamingo. …

27 February » Hai Duong controls new bird flu outbreak
VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi,Vietnam
A new bird flu outbreak confirmed in Thanh Mien district, northern Hai Duong province on Feb. 17 has been put under control, according to a top agricultural …

26 February » HEALTH-INDONESIA: Mothers Join Bird Flu Awareness Campaign
Inter Press Service (subscription) - Rome,Italy
”Why is bird flu present in Indonesia, but not in other countries?” asked a student. “Which part of our body is affected by the H5N1 virus?” asked another. …

25 February » Afghanistan confirms new H5N1 outbreaks
CIDRAP - Minneapolis,MN,USA
In other avian flu news, European Union member states plus Iceland and Norway are 2 to 3 years away from being prepared for an influenza pandemic, …

24 February » FDA experts to vote on first bird flu vaccine
CNNMoney.com - USA
Poultry has been culled by the millions in parts of Asia and Europe in an effort to control H5N1. Most recently, the virus has appeared in Moscow. Bird flu …

23 February » Official: Avian flu confirmed in Moscow
USA Today - USA
MOSCOW (AP) — The H5N1 bird flu strain has been confirmed in eight suburban Moscow districts, a top Russian veterinary official said Thursday, …

22 February » Bird flu confirmed in Pakistan
Times Now.tv - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
After Russia, Canada and New Zealand, the Pakistan Agricultural ministry has confirmed the presence of avian flu in the country. Four peacocks and a goose …

21 February » 6th Case of Bird Flu Found Near Moscow
The Moscow Times - Moscow,Russia
Authorities confirmed a new case of the deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu in the Moscow region Wednesday as environmental inspector Oleg Mitvol called for the …

20 February » 130 Bernard Matthews employees laid off after avian flu outbreak
FarmersWeekly - UK
Bernard Matthews held a meeting with the Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU) on 19 February to discuss the impact of the H5N1 avian flu outbreak at …

19 February » Deadly Bird Flu Found Near Moscow
The Moscow Times - Moscow,Russia
If the presence of H5N1 — a strain of avian flu that can be contracted by humans — is confirmed, it would be the first outbreak of the disease to be …

18 February » Bird flu claims the life of 13th Egyptian
Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
AN EGYPTIAN woman has died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, bringing the number of deaths in the country to 13, while a five-year-old boy has tested positive …

17 February » World moves closer to having bird flu vaccine-WHO
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
The H5N1 avian flu virus has killed 167 people worldwide since 2003, mainly in Asia. Public health experts fear it could mutate into a form that people …

16 February » Bird Flu Officials And Bernard Matthews Say Consumers Not At Risk
Medical News Today - UK
Officials investigating the deadly H5N1 bird flu outbreak at a Bernard Matthews turkey farm in Suffolk, UK, have said that consumers are not at risk of bird …

15 February » Egyptian woman tests positive for H5N1 bird flu strain
USA Today - USA
Since the avian influenza outbreak a year ago, Egypt has been one of the countries worst afflicted with the deadly bird flu outside Asia, where the disease …

14 February » Suffolk-Hungary bird flu link confirmed
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press - Norfolk,England,UK
13 February:30 Government scientists today confirmed that the laboratory analysis of the Suffolk and Hungary H5N1 avian influenza viruses is now …

13 February » Indonesia’s flu death toll hits 64
Gulf Times - Doha,Qatar
“The latest death was Indonesia’s 64th from 84 cases of the H5N1 avian influenza virus, and was the sixth death in 2007,” Nurdin added. …

12 February » More Bird Flu Found in Gyeonggi Province
Chosun Ilbo - Seoul,South Korea
A new case of the deadly avian influenza was detected in Ansong, Gyeonggi Province on Saturday, the sixth case of bird flu detected in Korea since Nov. …

11 February » Three hospitalised in Turkey over bird flu scare
Turkish Press - Plymouth,MI,USA
Samples from dead chicken, where bird flu in poultry was confirmed last Thursday, determined that the virus was of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain, …

10 February » Turkey has avian flu; UK, Hungary outbreaks may be linked
CIDRAP - Minneapolis,MN,USA
So far birds in six instances have tested positive for the low-pathogenic North American H5N1 avian flu virus, a mild strain that has been found several …

09 February » Africa’s bird flu preparations must involve the media
SciDev.net - UK
Until recently, the African media has been ill prepared to report effectively on outbreaks of avian flu. The first African H5N1 outbreak, among poultry in …

08 February » Third UK Poultry Worker Tests Negative for Bird Flu (Update3)
Bloomberg - USA
The government doesn’t expect any UK workers to test positive for the H5N1 strain of avian flu, which has killed at least 166 of the 272 people known to be …

07 February » Two Indonesians contract avian flu
Gulf Times - Doha,Qatar
Indonesia, where many people keep chickens in their backyards, has had 63 human deaths from the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus, six of them this year …

06 February » Britain reassuring public after avian-flu slaughter
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
About 2500 of the company’s turkeys died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, and as a precaution, the rest of the at the farm were slaughtered. …

05 February » UN sees Europe-wide bird flu threat
CNN International - USA
Bird flu cannot be contracted from eating “properly prepared” poultry, the WHO statement said. “The H5N1 avian influenza virus is not transmitted to humans …

04 February » Bird flu virus is Asian strain
BBC News - UK
The avian flu which killed 2600 turkeys at a Bernard Matthews farm in Suffolk has been confirmed as the Asian strain of the H5N1 virus. …

03 February » 1918 flu virus: tiny changes cancel transmissibility
CIDRAP - Minneapolis,MN,USA
… genetic changes that might be early-warning signals of dangerous strains—Tumpey cautioned against applying the results too directly to H5N1 avian flu. …

02 February » Nigeria confirms first human bird flu death
afrol News - Oslo,Norway
WHO said in a statement on its website that it was working with Nigerian authorities to monitor the avian flu situation in the country. …

01 February » Bird flu returns to Hungary
Budapest Sun - Budapest,Hungary
HUNGARY has confirmed that bird flu has returned to the country, the first reported incident in the EU since last summer. Five geese from the southeast of …

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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