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A new trainer’s manual aims to provide health journalists with adequate tools to report on threats of bird flu.
Put together by Internews and funded by UNICEF, the manual is to help trainers design and conduct [...]

I found this piece by the UPI regarding a three-day training course to teach public health responders how to deal with an avian influenza outbreak. It is good to know where these resources are. Here is the article and the link to the course which you can download in PDF format.
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The online course offered by [...]

Here is a course which is especially focused on helping families and corporations be prepared and educated about pandemic outbreaks. Although it is a company, there are many free resources. It is good to have these practical tools we can all use (which is why I re-post the information here …)
Here is the excerpt:
TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pandemic [...]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the first approval in the United States of a vaccine for humans against the H5N1 influenza virus, commonly known as avian or bird flu. Here is the report:
“The vaccine could be used in the event the current H5N1 avian virus were to develop the capability to efficiently [...]

In a paper from Emerging Infectious Diseases, an international team of researchers report the first ever large-scale sequencing of western genomes of the deadly avian influenza virus, H5N1.
Their study of 36 genomes of the virus collected from wild birds in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMA), and Vietnam confirms not only that the virus [...]