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Here are the top Bird Flu stories for February 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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29 February » Indonesia reports 100th human death from bird flu
Mister Info - Hong Kong,Hong Kong
“The woman died yesterday, but we just received the results that she’s positive with bird flu. The total number of deaths is now 100 out of 124 positive …
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28 February » Some Countries May Have Slowed Bird Flu’s Spread
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
27 (HealthDay News) — Several strains of H5N1 bird flu virus that afflicted southern China were blocked from entering neighboring Thailand and Vietnam, …
27 February » Pan-African bid to clip bird flu gets funding boost
AFP -
DAKAR (AFP) — A new pan-African initiative to combat bird flu was launched Tuesday in Dakar, Senegal, in a breakthrough partnership between the African …
26 February » First pre-pandemic bird flu vaccine authorised by CHMP
Nursing Times - UK
The European medicines watchdog has granted marketing authorisation for the first pre-pandemic bird flu vaccine. Prepandrix, which contains inactivated H5N1 …
25 February » Bird flu strikes another Bangladesh district
Reuters - USA
The latest outbreak of H5N1 avian flu was detected in Munshiganj, 60 km (40 miles) from Dhaka, while the virus re-emerged in several other districts, …
24 February » Sequel to bird flu outbreak: Nutritional crisis feared
The New Nation - Bangladesh
In the case of human infection, it is quite difficult to differentiate the avian flu from the regular seasonal flu. But there is a 90 per cent chance of …
23 February » Media urged to report carefully on bird flu
The Daily Star - Dhaka,Bangladesh
Speakers at a seminar yesterday called on the media to report carefully on bird flu so that vested groups cannot take business advantage of the crisis, …
22 February » European Regulators Approve Glaxo’s Bird-Flu Vaccine
Wall Street Journal - USA
The H5N1 virus has been circulating for several years, killing thousands of birds and hundreds of people, but has not yet mutated into a strain that could …
21 February » FACTBOX-WHO figures for bird flu cases in humans
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
Following is a list of confirmed human cases of H5N1. Total cases include survivors. The H5N1 virus remains mainly a virus of birds, but experts fear it …
20 February » China confirms second bird flu outbreak in Tibet this year
Xinhua - China
The National Bird Flu Reference Laboratory confirmed the virus as a subtype of the H5N1 strain on Sunday, it said, adding that emergency measures by the …
19 February » Experts suggest ways to minimise avian flu effects on humans
Hindu - Chennai,India
Stating that in India’s healthcare map avian influenza is currently the most disturbing disease with bird flu cases being reported from several countries in …
18 February » Official: UAE free of bird flu
Xinhua - China
17 (Xinhua) — A senior official of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said that his country is free of the deadly H5N1 bird flu due to the full-proof …
17 February » Bird Flu Kills Another Indonesian Boy
The Associated Press -
Senior Health Ministry official Nyoman Kandun confirmed the report and said laboratory tests confirmed the boy had the dangerous H5N1 strain of the bird flu …
16 February » Vietnam reports additional bird flu fatality
Xinhua - China
9, the department said, noting that their specimens were tested positive to H5N1. Bird flu outbreaks in Vietnam, starting in December 2003, have killed and …
15 February » Asia faces grave situation of bird flu outbreak
Xinhua - China
In Myanmar, a seven-year-old girl was reported as the country’s first human-infected bird flu case on Dec. 15. Bird flu H5N1 virus has also been detected in …
14 February » Hong Kong disinfects markets after bird flu scare
Reuters - USA
Further tests were being conducted on the Magpie Robin, a wild bird resident in Hong Kong. Hong Kong detected 21 birds with the H5N1 virus last year and …
13 February » Bangladesh seeks Chinese help in anti-bird flu campaign
Earthtimes - London,UK
… which has been claimed to be effective against the H5N1 bird flu virus, the daily Bangladesh Observer said. The H5N1, called the Avian Influenza virus, …
12 February » 55 LGs Affected By Bird Flu
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Statistics have shown that the Avian Infuenza known as bird flu has so far spread to over 55 local government areas and Abuja as at February 2007. …
11 February » Link between migratory birds, avian influenza unsubstantiated
The News - International - Pakistan
It is worth mentioning here that some provincial government officials, after the recent outbreak of bird flu in poultry birds in Pakistan, put the blame on …
10 February » Sick of bird flu
Checkbiotech.org (press release) - Basel,Switzerland
By Kevin Friedl This time two years ago, the press was busy working itself into a lather over an unlikely celebrity: H5N1, a strain of avian influenza that …
09 February » New vaccine against H5N1 bird flu
WorldPoultry.net - Doetinchem,Netherlands
A vaccine against the H5N1 bird flu virus has been tested by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Vaccine Research. …
08 February » Australia, Hong Kong report Tamiflu-resistant flu
Guardian Unlimited - UK
The mutated H1N1 showing resistance is a sub-type of ordinary influenza A, different from the H5N1 virus which causes bird flu. …
07 February » ‘Mysterious’ bird flu baffles Indonesian scientists
AFP -
Indonesia has reported 126 cases of H5N1 bird flu, 103 of them fatal, since 2005. This year’s victims have all come from the capital Jakarta and its …
06 February » Bird flu or drought, Pawar is busy with cricket
Sify - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
… Disease Laboratory in Bhopal and again on January 23 when he said the H5N1 strain of bird flu had entered India from Bangladesh. The avian influenza has …
05 February » Bird flu spreads in Pakistan; new outbreak in birds
Reuters - USA
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities confirmed on Monday a fresh outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu at a poultry farm on the outskirts of …
04 February » Bird flu spreads in Bangladesh, port city on alert
Reuters - USA
DHAKA, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Bird flu has spread to three more districts of Bangladesh, the livestock department said on Sunday, taking the number of affected …
03 February » Scientists make bird flu breakthrough
NEWS.com.au - Australia
The professor said the H5N1 virus had evolved to the stage where it could be transmitted from birds to humans, with evidence mounting that limited …
02 February » India isolates 26 people as bird flu spreads in Asia
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
India has not reported any human infection of the H5N1 bird flu virus in its four outbreaks of avian influenza since 2006. “The preliminary tests for bird …
01 February » FACTBOX-WHO figures for bird flu cases in humans
Reuters - USA
Jan 31 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) have confirmed the death of a 32-year-old Indonesian man from the H5N1 strain of avian influenza. …
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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