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Here are the top Bird Flu stories for the month, January 2007 - (more news on our main web-site)

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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 January » China meeting warns of bird flu mutation risk
Scientific American - USA
BEIJING (Reuters) - The deadly H5N1 form of the bird flu virus is rapidly mutating and the world must be on guard even though the disease has yet to be …

30 January » Flu vaccine mass production due to begin by end of 2007
China Post - Taipei,Taiwan
However, vaccines that defend against the existing H5N1 bird flu virus are expected to provide a lesser degree of immunity. The virus remains hard for …

29 January » New Bird Flu Outbreaks Require Strong Vigilance
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
“Only immediate reporting of any suspected bird flu outbreak makes possible rapid intervention by farmers and veterinarians,” Lubroth said. …

28 January » Japan Confirms Second Bird Flu Case as H5N1 Strain in Miyazaki
Bloomberg - USA
The H5N1 strain of bird flu has infected 269 people in 10 countries since 2003, killing 163 of them, the World Health Organization said this month. …

27 January » New Outbreaks in Asia Remind Experts of Bird Flu Pandemic Possibility
Voice of America - USA
Avian flu concerns health officials because of its potential for pandemic. In Washington, a Congressional panel heard testimony about bird flu from the …

26 January » Bird Flu Kills Indonesian Girl as Death Toll Rises (Update1)
Bloomberg - USA
– Bird flu killed a 6-year-old girl in Indonesia, pushing the number of fatalities reported in the country this month from the H5N1 virus to …

25 January » Model predicts pandemic flu spread
Science Daily (press release) - USA
H5N1 — H5N1 is an avian influenza virus subtype. The H5N1 flu is what is commonly meant when talking of “bird flu” or “avian influenza”. …

24 January » Age-old duck farming practice spreads bird flu, virus rages in …
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
Bird flu typically flares during the winter months when temperatures drop. The H5N1 virus has recently surfaced in South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Nigeria, …

23 January » Don’t let down guard against bird flu: WHO chief
CBC - Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
The threat of a human flu pandemic continues to linger as the world tries to fight bird flu in poultry, the head of the World Health Organization said …

22 January » Military ‘concerned’ by bird flu cases
Stars and Stripes - Washington,DC,USA
The US military medical community is “quite concerned” about Japan ’s latest case of bird flu, Col. Mark Presson said Friday. …

21 January » S Korea confirms new highly-virulent bird flu case
Xinhua - Beijing,China
(Xinhua) — The South Korean Agricultural Ministry confirmed Saturday that a new highly-virulent bird flu case has broken out in central South Korea …

20 January » H5N1 Avian Flu virus mutates; shows resistance to drugs
E Canada Now - Brantford,Ontario,Canada
A mutation in the H5N1 Avian Flu or Bird Flu virus has been found in two humans infected with the virus located in the Gharbiyah Province of Egypt which is …

19 January » More Bird Flu Deaths in Humans Reported as Milestone Is Passed
Washington File - Washington,DC,USA
Indonesia’s latest deaths push its fatalities from this strain of bird flu — H5N1– to 61, the highest number for any of the 10 countries where humans have …

18 January » Bird flu flaring up in Southeast Asia
Brownfield - Jefferson City,MO,USA
The H5N1 Avian Influenza or bird flu is flaring-up again in Southeast Asia. Indonesia, Vietnam, Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong and South Korea have all reported incidents including cats infected …

17 January » Bird flu spreading in northern Nigeria
AlaskaReport - Juneau,AK,USA
Adiya Farm, Nigeria - The detection of the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza in Sokoto means the disease is or has been present in 17 of Nigeria’s 36

16 January » China Reports New Case Of Bird Flu
E Canada Now - Brantford,Ontario,Canada
It is being reported that a farmer from an eastern province has contracted the H5N1 strain of the avian bird flu.

15 January » Father ruled out in latest cluster of Indonesian bird flu cases
CBC News - Canada
(CP) - An Indonesian man investigated as a possible case of avian flu in the latest family cluster of infections does not have the H5N1 virus, …

14 January » Bird Flu Infects Indonesian Teenager, Creating New H5N1 Cluster
Bloomberg - USA
Avian flu has killed four people in Indonesia since Jan. 10 after a hiatus of almost two months. World health officials say H5N1 may touch off a lethal …

13 January » H5 bird flu strain confirmed at poultry farm in Miyazaki, Japan
The Japan Times - Japan
The confirmation of Japan’s fifth case of avian flu came through a virus test by the National Institute of Animal Health based in Tsukuba, …

12 January » NIGERIA: Bird flu re-emerges, culling underway
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
… cases of the deadly H5N1 virus. Nigeria was the first West African country to register bird flu when the disease jumped from Asia to Africa last year. …

11 January » Officials confirm no sign of bird flu from Alaska tests
Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - There were no signs of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu from tests conducted in Alaska in 2006, state officials said Tuesday. …

10 January » Another Mekong Delta province succumbs to bird flu plague
Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam
Kien Giang is the fourth Vietnamese province hit by bird flu with some 70 ducks perishing last weekend, all testing positive for H5N1, said the local animal …

09 January » Free seasonal flu vaccinations for poultry workers in UK
News-Medical.net - Sydney,Australia
By protecting poultry workers against human flu, any slight risk that the worker could catch human flu and avian (bird) flu at the same time would be …

08 January » Indonesia Confirms 75th Case of Human Bird Flu Infection
Bloomberg - USA

07 January » China, US scientists develop new bird flu vaccine virus
The News - International - Pakistan
Researchers found that a newly isolated virus collected from people infected with H5N1 strain of bird flu in southern China was distinguishable in terms of …

06 January » HK confirms dead bird carried H5N1 avian flu virus
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
HONG KONG, Jan 6 (Reuters) - A wild bird found dead in a shopping district in Hong Kong has tested positive for H5N1 avian influenza, the government said on …

05 January » B20m in smuggled bird flu vaccine seized
Bangkok Post - Klong Toey,Bangkok,Thailand
”The country’s bird flu prevention operation will be badly affected if these 1800 bottles of H5N1 virus vaccine were able to find their way to poultry …

04 January » Red Cross Offers Public Information Series on Pandemic Flu
Murfreesboro Post - Murfreesboro,TN,USA
In 2003 scientists recognized a new type of flu virus called H5N1 that has infected and killed many birds. This virus causes a flu called Avian or Bird Flu. …

03 January » Bird Flu Viruses Unlikely to Endure Water Treatment, Study Says
Bloomberg - USA
Scientists are tracing the pathways by which a pandemic influenza virus could spread to identify potential risks…

02 January » How the immune system recognises the flu
Scenta.co.uk - London,England,UK
“This study reveals many gaps in our knowledge of influenza viruses and indicates where we need to focus our attention.”

01 January » Vietnam family tests negative for bird flu
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India
The mother and her three children fell ill a week earlier after eating a chicken that had died on their farm in Ca Mau …

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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