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Here are the top stories for March 2008 regarding H5N1 Avian Bird Flu

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31 March » INTERVIEW-Proper surveillance can stop flu pandemic-expert
Reuters - USA
Guan, who studied the H5N1 bird flu virus after it showed up in people in Hong Kong in 1997 and has tracked its footprints all over the world ever since, …

30 March » Culling begins in Bird flu hit areas in WB
Times of India - India
Jalpaiguri, Malda and Murshidabad were declared bird flu-hit in a fresh outbreak of avian influenza during the last fortnight.

29 March » France raises bird flu risk level on Swiss case
Reuters - USA
Veterinary authorities in Switzerland said on Thursday a duck from Sempachersee lake had been infected with H5N1. It was Switzerland’s 33rd case of bird flu …

28 March » Bird flu hits Jalpaiguri, culling to begin today
Expressindia.com - New Delhi,India
The FAO report, “Mapping H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Risk in Southeast Asia: Ducks, Rice and People”, is published in the latest issue of the …

27 March » Ducks and rice major factors in bird flu outbreaks, say UN agency
UN News Centre -
“Mapping H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza risk in Southeast Asia: ducks, rice and people” also finds that these factors are probably behind persistent …

26 March » New Disposable Lab-on-Chip Identifies Flu Viruses
Enews 2.0 - London,England,UK
… a portable lab-on-chip application which can detect and identify all the major influenza viruses, including the deadly bird flu virus H5N1. …

25 March » H5N1 source: China, gene study suggests
WorldPoultry.net - Doetinchem,Netherlands
Researchers have now suggested that southern China may have been the source for much of the spread of the H5N1 bird flu virus. Reuters has reported that flu …

24 March » Avian (Bird) Flu Continues to Spread!
24-7PressRelease.com (press release) - USA
… GA, March 23, 2008 - Program Director Dan Weiner announced today that with the continued concern about the potential effects of the Avian Flu H5N1 virus …

23 March » Report: Bird flu detected in Turkish village, all poultry culled
International Herald Tribune - France
AP ISTANBUL, Turkey: Authorities detected bird flu in chickens at a village in northwestern Turkey and culled 1000 birds, state-run media said Saturday. …

22 March » Tests bring positive results for Iomai’s bird flu vaccine
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Iomai Corp. scored in clinical trials that showed that a single dose of bird flu vaccine, coupled with its skin patch, was enough to protect patients from …

21 March » Vietnamese launch human trial of bird flu vaccine
FierceBioResearcher - Washington,DC,USA
A Vietnamese company is beginning a human trial of a new bird flu vaccine. Vabiotech, a subsidiary of Vietnam’s National Institute of Hygiene and …

20 March » What You Need To Know About Bird Flu
CityNews - Toronto,Canada
There are dozens of known flu strains, named for two proteins each virus carries. H5N1 refers to an avian flu strain that emerged in Hong Kong in 1997, …

19 March » Bird flu may mutate to human form in Indonesia: FAO
Reuters - USA
Avian influenza mostly attacks birds but its deadly H5N1 strain has killed 235 people around the world among 372 known cases since its outbreak in 2003 in …

18 March » Bird flu kills Vietnamese boy
Earthtimes - London,UK
The latest death raised Vietnam’s human death toll from bird flu to five since the beginning of this year, and to 52 since H5N1 first appeared in the …

17 March » The end of backyard poultry
The Daily Star - Dhaka,Bangladesh
OUTBREAKS of bird flu (Avian influenza H5N1) in Bangladesh and West Bengal are continuing. Most families living in rural Bengal own chickens which roam …

16 March » Hong Kong reports 1 new flu outbreak as worry shifts to mainland …
International Herald Tribune - France
Hong Kong also occasionally finds wild birds with bird flu, the latest a peregrine falcon that the government on Friday said contracted the deadly H5N1 …

15 March » Bird flu expert urges vigilance in China
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Chinese expert on respiratory diseases says the H5N1 bird flu virus has shown signs of mutation and urged vigilance at a time when …

14 March » Half-done vaccination poses high bird-flu risk
Saigon Times Daily - Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam
However, test on blood samples from the creatures proved negative for H5N1, said park director Truong Quoc Bich. To prevent bird flu from further spreading, …

13 March » Bird flu mutated - deadly to humans
WorldPoultry.net - Doetinchem,Netherlands
The bird flu virus has mutated, making it easier for the virus to infect humans, reports NaturalNews. According to a study conducted by researchers at the …

12 March » Bird flu ’showing signs of mutation’
NEWS.com.au - Australia
ONE of China’s top doctors has disclosed that the H5N1 bird flu virus has shown signs of mutation and can kill human victims more easily if treatment is not …

11 March » EGYPT: New human bird flu case raises fears
IRINnews.org - New York,NY,USA
A 25-year-old woman from Fayyum, the 45th case, died on 4 March, bringing the total number of avian flu deaths to 20. For a country the size of Egypt …

10 March » 8-year-old boy becomes Egypt’s 47th case of bird flu
International Herald Tribune - France
Egypt is one of the countries most affected by the bird flu outside Asia, where the outbreak began in 2003. The country lies on a main route for migratory …

09 March » Bird Flu: Bad days for fast food shops in city
The New Nation - Bangladesh
The only reason: bird flu. But experts say there is nothing to be scared in taking chicken items as the bird flu virus, H5N1, cannot survive in food that is …

08 March » Hong Kong holds avian flu drill
Xinhua - China
… Airport and airline held an exercise against avian influenza here Friday as a dead bird was later test positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of virus. …

07 March » Bird flu pandemic still possible, warns world expert
Daily Mail - UK
The deadly strain of bird flu first reached Britain’s shores in April 2006, when a swan with the H5N1 strain was found dead. There was a further outbreak …

06 March » FACTBOX-WHO figures for bird flu cases in humans
Reuters - USA
March 5 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed the death of a 25-year-old Egyptian woman from the H5N1 bird flu virus. …

05 March » Egyptian woman dies of bird flu, 20th in country
Reuters - USA
CAIRO, March 4 (Reuters) - An Egyptian woman aged 25 has died of bird flu, the 20th death in Egypt from the disease since the deadly virus arrived in the …

04 March » Reports of Increased Survival in Bird Flu Patients Taking Tamiflu
BourSonews - Paris,France
BASEL, Switzerland, March 3 /PRNewswire/ — Physicians from countries worst-affected by the deadly bird flu (H5N1 influenza virus) have reported an increased …

03 March » Indonesian father and son suspected of bird flu infection: doctor
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
A nine-year-old boy and his father have been admitted to a hospital in Indonesia, suspected of having bird flu, a medic said Sunday. …

02 March » Egyptian woman tests positive for bird flu-MENA
Reuters - USA
Their deaths ended a 5-month pause in human cases in Egypt and brought to 19 the number of Egyptians who have died of the H5N1 bird flu virus since it …

01 March » Preparing for a pandemic
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
Although the Avian flu has killed millions of birds in Asia, as well as other animals, it has not spread in great numbers to human beings. …

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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