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Here are the top Bird Flu stories for this month, July 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 July » Nigeria Reports New Outbreaks of Bird Flu at Farms in North
Bloomberg - USA
The H5N1 strain of bird flu has spread to more than 60 countries and has killed 243 people in 12 countries as of June 19, according to the World Health …

28 July » FAO to help Myanmar prevent highly pathogenic avian influenza
Xinhua - China
In April this year, the World Animal Health Organization (OIE) declared Myanmar as a bird-flu-free country three months after the country was proved that …

27 July » Two dead birds found at equestrian venues
South China Morning Post (subscription) - Hong Kong
“Tests are now being carried out to see if the birds died from the H5N1 bird flu virus,” she told local radio. Last month, the deadly H5N1 virus was found …

26 July » Nigeria finds H5N1 in bird markets
CIDRAP - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Meanwhile, two rounds of avian flu exercises in Laos are helping the country to protect itself against the H5N1 virus, the FAO said in a statement yesterday …

25 July » UK Says The World Is Unprepared For Bird Flu
UKMedix Health News - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
It was noted that with so many millions of people travelling around the world on business and the pleasure the potential for the bird flu virus to spread …

24 July » Rockeby gets orders for bird flu tests
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
The H5N1 strain of avian flu, one of the most deadly types on poultry and birds, originated in Asia in 2003 spreading to the Middle East, Africa, Russia, …

23 July » ASEAN states to test readiness on bird flu pandemic
AFP -
JAKARTA (AFP) — Bird flu chiefs from across Southeast Asia have agreed to assess the ability of their governments to respond to a deadly human pandemic of …

22 July » SKorea to start year-round monitoring for bird flu
AFP -
The country has been hit by bird flu outbreaks three times. But no South Korean is known to have contracted the disease, even though the H5N1 strain found …

21 July » Bird flu strikes southern Vietnamese province
Xinhua - China
HANOI, July 21 (Xinhua) — Bird flu has hit Vietnam’s southern Dong Thap province, raising the total number of affected provinces in the country to two, …

20 July » Human-to-Human Transmission of Bird Flu Discovered in China
Natural News.com - Phoenix,AZ,USA
(NaturalNews) China’s National Disease Authority has confirmed that a man whose 24-year-old son died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu is also infected with …

18 July » Mystery of ‘vaccinated’ chickens dying of bird flu
AsiaOne - Singapore
Last week, they were tested positive for the H5N1 avian-influenza virus, said Mr Dinh Van The, head of the province’s Animal Health Department. …

17 July » Indonesian man dies of bird flu
The Associated Press -
“The doctor told us he died of bird flu,” he said. “The tests came back positive from Jakarta.” The H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed at least 243 people …

16 July » Vietnam reports bird flu-hit chicken in southern province
Xinhua - China
HANOI, July 16 (Xinhua) — Specimens from dead chickens in Vietnam’s southern Long An province have been tested positive to bird flu virus strain H5N1, …

15 July » CDC lab containing deadly virus suffers power outage
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
The outage affected air flow systems in labs that help contain such germs as the H5N1 flu virus, which some experts fear could cause a pandemic. …

14 July » Lights out at home to bird deadly virus
USA Today - USA
The outage affected air flow systems in labs that contain germs such as the H5N1 virus, a strain of avian flu virus that some experts think could cause a …

13 July » Fruit Fly Gene Study Could Yield New Flu Treatments
Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Chevy Chase,MD,USA
As they design new drugs to fight off influenza, scientists may not need to attack the virus directly. Instead, they may be able to stave off infection by …

12 July » Team ‘turns off’ genes to fight bird flu
United Press International - USA
MILWAUKEE, July 10 (UPI) — A US medical team has found a way of spotting genes that help spread the bird flu, the subject of global concern as a potential …

11 July » Expert warns Hong Kong’s avian flu vaccine is waning
CIDRAP - Minneapolis,MN,USA
In other developments, officials in Egypt on Jul 7 filed a report with the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) on several H5N1 outbreaks that have …

10 July » 17 Texas infants overdosed with heparin, one dead, one in critical …
Food Consumer - Lisle,IL,USA
Authorities allege that the victims received a few dollars to be tested with they thought was a conventional flu vaccine, but actually was an H5N1 bird flu …

09 July » Pandemic mutations in bird flu revealed
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
These are called H5N1 bird flu quasispecies. Professor Dr Auewarakul and his colleagues found that some mutations in the quasispecies were more frequent …

08 July » Hong Kong expert warns flu vaccine for chickens losing efficacy
Monsters and Critics.com - USA
Hong Kong - A vaccine used to stop outbreaks of the deadly bird flu virus in chickens in Hong Kong for the last seven years is losing its effectiveness, …

07 July » Bird Flu Vaccine Money Better Spent Elsewhere
OhmyNews International - South Korea
Despite the numbers none of these diseases has caused the kind of media hype and got as much attention from journalists as bird flu H5N1. …

06 July » Koichi Otsuki has invented a special fabric that destroys the bird …
BharatTextile.com (subscription) - Mumbai,India
(Did you know that the most recent figures show that New Zealand’s imports totaled $14.3 billion?) (In recent years, Turkey’s share of global cotton …

05 July » Australia concerned by bird flu reporting
August Margaret River Mail - Augusta,Western Australia,Australia
Dr Supari has been at odds with the WHO and other countries about bird flu for more than a year. She has refused to share Indonesian H5N1 virus samples with …

04 July » Homeless die in Poland of bird-flu vaccine
United Press International - USA
WARSAW, Poland, July 3 (UPI) — Twenty-one homeless individuals in Poland have died after being given an unproven bird-flu virus vaccine, authorities have …

03 July » CIWF: UK in Shadow as Avian Flu Crisis Looms
ThePoultrySite.com - Sheffield,UK
… of Avian Influenza is H7, not the deadly H5N1, he added that the government cannot afford to shy away from the potential but realistic threat bird flu …

02 July » HK live chicken industry faces cull in bird flu clampdown
Straits Times - Singapore
HONG KONG - THE familiar clucking of chickens returned to Hong Kong’s markets on Wednesday after a three-week ban, but bird flu fears may soon consign the …

01 July » Virologist Endorses Plan to Help Business Stockpile Tamiflu, But …
HSToday - Germantown,MD,USA
“I believe that in most of the human H5N1 bird flu cases that died despite having been given Tamiflu, the drug was given far too late after infection to be …

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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