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Here are the top Bird Flu stories for January 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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31 January » Universal Flu Vaccine
ScienCentral News - New York,NY,USA
Nabel’s team is at the front line of developing vaccines to stop bird flu from becoming a global epidemic, or pandemic. “The avian flu has been around long …
30 January » Birds culled in Saudi as new bird flu case found
Reuters - USA
The Saudi Press Agency said 158000 birds were exterminated at al-Kharj, 150 km (94 miles) south of the capital, after the H5N1 strain of bird flu was found …
29 January » Bangladesh plans house-to-house bird flu search
AFP -
Hundreds of crows have died across the country due to the bird flu. Laboratory tests have confirmed that the crows died of H5N1 strain of the bird flu,” a …
28 January » The war on disease in Asia: Avian virus
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
… Hawaii’s protection against a bird flu pandemic depends largely on Southeast Asia’s success in containing the H5N1 avian virus in millions of chickens …
27 January » Why bird flu has been kept at bay
BBC News - UK
This suggests that for the H5N1 bird flu virus to become pandemic it must adapt so that it can latch onto the umbrella-shaped glycans of the human upper …
26 January » WHO Sets Up Database To Share Facts on Bird Flu
Wall Street Journal - USA
By NICHOLAS ZAMISKA HONG KONG — The World Health Organization created a public database of information to track strains of avian-flu virus collected from …
25 January » India fears H5N1 bird flu outbreak in Kolkata
Radio Netherlands - Netherlands
Dead birds found relatively close to the city tested positive for the H5N1 variant of the virus, which can be lethal to humans. Bird flu has broken out in …
24 January » Media: Vietnamese man dies of bird flu
Xinhua - China
23 (Xinhua) — A 32-year-old man from Vietnam’s northern Tuyen Quang province died of bird flu, local newspaper Youth reported Wednesday. …
23 January » PuriCore says spray can tackle bird flu
Reuters - USA
US-based PuriCore said its sterilox solution was effective at killing the H5N1 avian flu virus when it was applied to test strains for two minutes on hard …
22 January » Slow culling causes H5N1 to spread
The Statesman - Kolkata,India
20: Culling of chickens in the Bird flu-hit areas in Birbhum was affected today after the authorities had decided to stop culling in Margram on the day of …
21 January » India bird flu spreads as farmers resist cull
Khaleej Times - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
KOLKATA - Avian flu was reported from two more districts in eastern India where authorities said Sunday that poultry farmers have fought a massive bird cull …
20 January » Lab tests begin on migratory birds for H5N1
Bangkok Post - Thailand
According to the World Health Organisation’s latest avian flu report, it was found that one case of human H5N1 infection was confirmed in Indonesia on …
19 January » Flu outbreak is serious: WHO
The Statesman - Kolkata,India
In the face of spreading avian influenza (bird flu) virus, the Union agriculture minister, Mr Sharad Pawar, today said that the Centre has sounded an alert …
18 January » Bird Flu Is Mistaken for Typhoid, Slowing Diagnosis, Study Says
Bloomberg - USA
Early signs of H5N1 avian-flu infection range from fever and cough to diarrhea and vomiting, researchers said in a report today in the New England Journal …
17 January » Bird flu cull begins in eastern India
AFP -
This is the third outbreak of the avian flu in India, home to 1.1 billion people, since 2006. An isolation centre had been opened in a hospital near the …
16 January » Red alert in Orissa over bird flu in West Bengal
Hindustan Times - India
The coastal state of Orissa has woken up to the scare of bird flu in the state after thousands of poultry died in neighbouring West Bengal. …
15 January » Chief vet rejects demand to vaccinate all outdoor poultry
ic Wales - United Kingdom
There was good news from the swannery at the weekend when two more dead swans tested negative for bird flu. Another dead swan was found nearby and has been …
14 January » UN: Indonesia records 117th human case of bird flu
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
GENEVA (AP): Indonesia has recorded another human case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, raising its world-leading total to 117 cases, according to the World …
13 January » Discovery sheds insight on bird-flu virus
GoErie.com - Erie,PA,USA
Knowing how a virus makes a “species transition” will help gauge whether strains such as the H5N1 bird flu in Southeast Asia are evolving in ways that pose …
12 January » Business as usual in Wales as bird flu strikes in Dorset
ic Wales - United Kingdom
Nick Blayney, president of the British Veterinary Association, added, “Avian influenza is a disease of birds and, given the number of outbreaks throughout …
11 January » Bird flu kills three wild swans in UK
Irish Independent - Dublin,Ireland
POULTRY farmers have been told to return to high alert after three wild swans found dead in southern England tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu …
10 January » UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News - January 9, 2008
Earthtimes - London,UK
The findings suggest that for H5N1 bird flu virus to spread widely in humans, it must adapt so it can latch onto the umbrella-shaped glycans of the upper …
09 January » Nearly 5% of poultry in Vietnam bear bird flu viruses
Xinhua - China
9 (Xinhua) — Nearly five percent of 15000 samples from healthy poultry in different cities and provinces in Vietnam have been tested positive to bird flu …
08 January » Lebanon on alert following bird-flu outbreak in Israel
Daily Star - Lebanon - Beirut,Lebanon
By Agence France Presse (AFP) BEIRUT: Lebanon on Saturday said it was increasing its vigilance after a case of H5N1 strain of bird flu that is dangerous to …
07 January » Flu vaccine achieves positive results and offers pandemic hope
Healthcare Republic (press release) - London,UK
Using ferrets, which are commonly used in flu research because they are susceptible to human and bird flu, they found that 70 per cent of those that were …
06 January » How humans catch bird flu: Study
Times of India - India
Of 348 confirmed cases of H5N1 avian flu in the last five years, 216 — more than 60 percent — have died as a result, according to the World Health …
05 January » Bird flu hits northwestern Turpan
China Internet Information Center| - China
An outbreak of bird flu occurred in Turpan in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Dec. 29, resulting in 4850 poultry deaths. …
04 January » Israeli govt confirms bird flu in school
NDTV.com - New Delhi,India
Israeli health officials have confirmed the outbreak of bird flu in chickens at children’s petting zoo. About a dozen birds have already been culled in the …
03 January » H5N1 strain of bird flu infects more Bangladeshi farms
The Money Times - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
by Poonam Wadhwani - January 2, 2008 - 0 comments Health authorities in Bangladesh have culled nearly 20000 chickens after the H5N1 bird flu virus was …
02 January » Woman dies of bird flu in Egypt, fourth in week-WHO
Reuters - USA
CAIRO, Dec 31 (Reuters) - A woman died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in northern Egypt on Monday, the country’s fourth fatality from the virus in less than …
01 January » Bird flu still a threat 10 years after leap to humans
USA Today - USA
By Anita Manning, USA TODAY In Hong Kong, when a mysterious avian flu virus jumped from poultry to people for the first time, killing six of the 18 people …
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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