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Here are the top Bird Flu stories for April 2008 - (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 » Bird flu vaccines get first thumbs up
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Two bird flu vaccines have won the first nod from a government committee for registration to protect Australians against an avian flu pandemic. …

29 April » WHO denies advising tourists to China for Olympics to pack bird …
The Canadian Press - GENEVA
The WHO’s website shows there have been 30 cases of avian flu, also known as H5N1, reported in all of China since 2003 - three of them so far this year …

28 April » Lethal H5N1 bird flu virus entraps 108th Indonesian
The Money Times - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
A bird-adapted strain of H5N1, called HPAI A(H5N1) for “highly pathogenic avian influenza virus of type A of subtype H5N1“, is the causative agent of H5N1 …

27 April » South Korea reports new case of suspected bird flu
Reuters - USA
SEOUL, April 29 (Reuters) - South Korea on Tuesday reported a suspected bird flu outbreak at a chicken farm in Ulsan City, which if confirmed would be the …

26 April » India blames Bangladesh as bird flu spreads
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
By Biswajyoti Das GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Authorities battling an outbreak of bird flu in poultry in Tripura blamed Bangladesh for the spread on …

25 April » South Korean soldier may have contracted bird flu
Stars and Stripes - Washington,DC,USA
Ninety to 100 percent of birds infected with the highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 die from it, Lund said. Sixty percent of humans who catch avian flu die …

24 April » Fresh bird flu outbreak in Tripura
Economic Times - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
GUWAHATI: Avian influenza is back in Tripura. The disease resurfaced within one week of declaring the state as bird flu-free. Sources said the disease has …

23 April » US-Indonesian debates over bird flu samples involve NAMRU-2
Pravda - Moscow,Russia
The refusal to share samples of H5N1 avian influenza virus actually arrested any talks to renew the operation of NAMRU-2 in Jakarta. …

22 April » US says Indonesia stalling in talks on US lab
Reuters - USA
He said Indonesian health officials are refusing to share samples of H5N1 avian influenza virus with the rest of the world. Meanwhile, negotiations over the …

21 April » SKorea culls 5 million poultry over bird flu Forbes - NY,USA
SEOUL (Thomson Financial) - Almost 5 million poultry have been slaughtered in South Korea to contain the spread of bird flu since it hit the country earlier …

20 April » Myanmar declares itself bird flu free
AFP -
The H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed 240 people worldwide, mostly in Southeast Asia, since late 2003, World Health Organisation figures show. …

19 April » S. Korea confirms another highly pathogenic bird flu outbreak
Yonhap News - Seoul,South Korea
As of Saturday morning, South Korea received reports of 46 suspected and confirmed outbreaks of bird flu, with 25 cases proven to be linked to the deadly …

18 April » Recipe for a Pandemic
Wall Street Journal - USA
Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari asserts that Indonesian bird flu is a form of intellectual property, from which the country should benefit. …

17 April » SKorea upgrades bird flu alert, troops on standby
AFP -
SEOUL (AFP) — South Korea on Wednesday issued a nationwide bird flu alert, deployed troops and put firefighters on standby to try to contain the spread of …

16 April » Chinese Say Son With Bird Flu Likely Infected Father
Voice of America - USA
In that case, an animal doctor was infected with the avian flu virus when he helped destroy diseased birds in Peshawar. His three brothers became infected …

15 April » Scientists Create First Successful Libraries of Avian Flu Virus …
AScribe (press release) - USA
While overwhelmingly confined to bird populations in Asia and Europe, the H5N1 avian flu virus has shown its ability to infect humans and has killed more …

14 April » Bird flu virus may have mutated
Times of India - India
NEW DELHI: The highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus has passed from human-to-human in China, raising fears that the virus may have started to mutate. …

13 April » South Korea Confirms Fourth Outbreak Of Avian Flu; 1.3 Mln Birds …
RTT News - Williamsville,NY,USA
4/13/2008 9:05:51 AM The government of South Korea on Sunday confirmed that the deadly avian flu of the H5N1 strain had broken out for the fourth time in …

12 April » Why bird flu stories aren’t all bad news
Times Online - UK
It is now five years since the present outbreak of H5N1 avian flu first infected people. Though 379 people have since contracted the virus, of whom 239 have …

11 April » Egypt reports 22nd bird flu death
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
CAIRO, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - A 30-year-old woman died of bird flu in Egypt on Friday bringing the total death toll from the deadly H5N1 strain in the …

10 April » Bird Flu virus entrenched in India: United nations
News Line 365 - Nashik,Maharashtra,India
Bird flu has attacked this northeastern state and it is the fifth state of India that has become the prey of H5N1 avian influenza virus within a short span …

09 April » Indian state hit by bird flu outbreak
The News - International - Pakistan
The country, which reported its first outbreak of avian flu in 2006 in western Maharashtra state, has not reported any human infections. The deadly H5N1 …

08 April » Chinese doctors report human-to-human bird flu transmission; 1 …
The Canadian Press -
Chinese doctors have reported that human-to-human transmission likely occurred in a small family cluster of H5N1 avian flu cases in China late last year. …

07 April » Suspected Bird Flu Case Reported In Southwestern Korea
Bernama - Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia
It said detailed tests conducted on ducks from the farm 250 kilometres south of Seoul confirmed the existence of the H5N1 strain of the avian influenza. …

06 April » Bird flu kills young man in Egypt, bringing toll to 21
International Herald Tribune - France
AP CAIRO, Egypt: Egypt’s state news agency has announced the death of young man from bird flu, that country’s 21st fatality from the deadly H5N1 virus. …

05 April » Bird flu spreads among dogs
WorldPoultry.net - Doetinchem,Netherlands
Many scientists and researchers in the field fear that the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus could spread, like the H3N2 virus in this study. …

04 April » Toll rises to 107 as two die of bird flu
Gulf Times - Doha,Qatar
Jakarta: Two more Indonesians, a boy and a girl, have died from bird flu, bringing the country’s human death toll from the H5N1 strain of the deadly virus …

03 April » Bird flu vaccine for humans approved
China Daily - China
By Shan Juan (China Daily) A homegrown vaccine for humans against the H5N1 influenza virus, commonly known as bird flu, was Wednesday approved by the State …

02 April » Bird Flu - Information on Bird Flu
Los Angeles Chronicle - CA, USA
There are 15 types of bird flu, but the type that is causing concern at the moment is the deadly strain H5N1. Avian flu passes from birds to other birds, …

01 April » Another bird flu case in Indonesia - expert says surveillance and …
News-Medical.net - Sydney,Australia
Dr. Guan has been studying and tracking the H5N1 bird flu virus since it first appeared in Hong Kong in 1997. He says with proper surveillance in both …

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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