If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Here are the top Bird Flu stories for this month, June 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.

But first a word from our sponsors ::

28 June » Want Drugs in a Flu Pandemic? Reserve Them Now, Cheap!
Wall Street Journal Blogs - New York,NY,USA
The fortunes of the drug have risen and fallen lately on fears of a global flu pandemic. A while back, when worries about the H5N1 strain of bird flu were …

27 June » Baxter develops bird flu vaccine
Prague Post - Czech Republic
By Claire Compton The solution to a potential avian flu pandemic can be found approximately 30 kilometers outside of Prague, in Bohumile. …

26 June » New bird flu outbreak in Pakistan
Fresh News - Delhi,Delhi,India
By Indo-Asian News Service on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 Pakistan has confirmed a new outbreak of avian flu in a poultry farm in the country’s northwest, …

25 June » Unsold live chickens to be culled daily in HK to avoid bird flu
Xinhua - China
Samples of live chicken excrement from four wet markets were tested positive towards the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus earlier this month. …

24 June » Portuguese-speaking countries discuss management of possible bird …
Xinhua - China
In the case of Cape Verde, the government in 2006 approved the establishment of a comprehensive plan to prevent bird flu at a cost of up to one million euro …

23 June » Bird flu vaccines not subject to uniform testing
CTV.ca - Canada
TORONTO — A study comparing the tests being used by vaccine manufacturers to gauge the effectiveness of their H5N1 avian flu vaccines shows there is a lot …

22 June » Bird flu vaccine strength could be under-or overestimated due to …
CanadaEast.com - Moncton,New Brunswick,Canada
TORONTO - A study comparing the tests being used by vaccine manufacturers to gauge the effectiveness of their H5N1 avian flu vaccines shows there is a lot …

21 June » US health official: Complacency is ‘public health enemy No. 1′
International Herald Tribune - France
The H5N1 bird flu virus made headlines two years ago as the world worked to head off a potential disaster. The disease continues to decimate poultry stocks …

20 June » China reports new bird flu outbreak
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
BEIJING, June 17 (RIA Novosti) - An outbreak of bird flu has been confirmed in southern China, the Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday. …

19 June » Vietnam reports additional bird flu-hit province
Xinhua - China
HANOI, June 17 (Xinhua) — Vietnam’s central Quang Ngai province has been stricken by bird flu, raising the number of affected localities to two, …

18 June » UN Cites Progress in Combating Avian Flu
Voice of America - USA
“There has been an extraordinary global response to the bird flu enzootic [endemic]. The current highly pathogenic bird flu virus does seem to be being …

17 June » Bird Flu Report Published
meatinfo.co.uk - Crawley,England,UK
… report on the outbreak of bird flu in Oxfordshire earlier this month. The report suggests that the outbreak of highly pathogenic H7N7 Avian influenza, …

16 June » Sanofi gives 60 mlll H5N1 flu vaccine shots to WHO
Reuters - USA
LONDON (Reuters) - Sanofi-Aventis is to donate 60 million doses of its H5N1 bird flu vaccine to the World Health Organisation, the French drugmaker said on …

15 June » Arroyo to DA: Intensify measures vs bird flu
GMA news.tv - Quezon City,Metro Manila,Philippines
“The country has remained free of bird flu ever since the H5N1 strain of this virus first resurfaced in Asia in 2003. I have directed the DA to remain …

14 June » Clinical Trial for H5N1 Bird Flu Vaccine
GNIF Brain Blogger - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Since the virus was first detected in Guangdong Province, China in 1996, H5N1 (Bird Flu) has received much attention as the fear of a global spread of the …

13 June » Indonesia’s new bird flu policy angers families
Forbes - NY,USA
By ZAKKI HAKIM and ROBIN McDOWELL 06.13.08, 1:52 PM ET Ali Usman’s wife died of bird flu 10 days ago, but he still has not been officially notified by the …

12 June » Bird-flu detectives focus on vaccines
South China Morning Post (subscription) - Hong Kong
“There is no documentation that eating chickens you will catch avian flu,” he said. Some 4000 chickens from affected markets had been sold. …

11 June » Some Bird Flu Strains Have Acquired Properties That Might Enhance …
Kansas City infoZine - Kansas City,MO,USA
Health officials have also been closely monitoring a different avian influenza virus, H5N1, which began spreading among birds and poultry in Asia in 2003 …

10 June » H5N1 avian flu: Call for wild bird early warning system
FarmersWeekly - UK
Mr Hall believes the common Pochard is the most likely candidate for carrying and harbouring the H5N1 avian flu virus. “Looking at wild birds testing …

09 June » WHO concerned by Indonesia’s plan to announce bird flu deaths …
Daily Gleaner - Fredericton,New Brunswick,Canada
Indonesia’s health minister announced that her country will no longer report H5N1 avian flu deaths as they occur - a threatened policy shift experts said …

08 June » Chickens found with avian influenza, shares fall
Stockhouse - Vancouver,BC,Canada
Harless said poultry are routinely tested for avian influenza and other diseases, and Tyson Foods has previously said it tests heavily for avian flu, …

07 June » Hong Kong bans China poultry as bird flu hits city (Roundup)
Monsters and Critics.com - USA
The H5N1 bird flu virus was found on swabs on chicken faeces from the market in Po On Road which was Saturday declared an infected area and sealed off to …

06 June » We Are Developing Capacity - Ugandan Avian Flu Official
Voice of America - USA
By Douglas Mpuga East Africa continues to face the threat of an avian flu outbreak because the region lies on the path of a migratory bird route from East …

05 June » Indonesia will stop announcing bird flu deaths
The Associated Press -
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A teenager died of bird flu last month, becoming Indonesia’s 109th victim, but the government decided not to announce the death …

04 June » Bird flu case confirmed as H7 strain
Reuters UK - UK
LONDON (Reuters) - An outbreak of bird flu at a chicken farm in southern England is a virulent strain, the farm ministry said on Wednesday. …

03 June » Bird flu strain ‘highly pathogenic’
The Press Association -
Dr Colin Butter, of the Institute of Animal Health, said highly pathogenic H7, like the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain which has been found on several …

02 June » Bird flu drugs successes in Hong Kong
Radio Australia - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
During the experiment, the scientists infected mice with lethal doses of the H5N1 virus and did not start treating them until 48 hours after they were …

01 June » Study shows hybrids of bird flu and human flu viruses fit well …
The Canadian Press - TORONTO
TORONTO — An experiment mating H5N1 avian flu viruses and a strain of human flu in a laboratory produced a surprising number of hybrid viruses that were …

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.

RELATED LINKS

Return to main Pandemic Influenza site

——————-