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Here are the top Bird Flu stories for October 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 October » Lifewatch: Flu test
WECT-TV6 - Wilmington,NC,USA
“It’s very important to detect very early that it’s the normal flu or if it’s avian flu, also known as the H5N1 virus,” said Mark Stevenson, president of …

30 October » Making Cents in Penny Stocks
Motley Fool - USA
But the beaten-down biotech is developing a new type of bird flu vaccine. Since 2005 it has invested more than $100 million in developing multiple vaccines, …

29 October » Wild birds carry avian flu viruses to US: report
Reuters UK - UK
USGS and US Fish and Wildlife Service experts have been testing birds in Alaska for any evidence they may be carrying highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu with …

28 October » Egypt conference on avian and human influenza : “We must remain …
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
It is not because the media do not write stories anymore about pandemic and bird flu that the public should believe there is no threat. …

27 October » US Pledges Additional $320 Million in Fight Against Bird Flu
Voice of America - USA
She warned against complacency in fighting avian flu, which the United Nations says could cause a pandemic. The US pledge brings to about $950 million …

26 October » Bird flu fight hindered by fatigue -UN agency
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa
Almost half of the reported deaths from the H5N1 strain of bird flu have occurred in Indonesia, according to World Health Organisation data. …

25 October » Global plan to tackle bird flu threat
Smash Hits - India
Over the last decade, the bird flu virus, H5N1, has spread across most of Asia and Europe and parts of Africa. In some countries - including Indonesia, …

24 October » Drive-thru flu shots will serve as training exercise
Randolph Leader - Roanoke,AL,USA
Currently, a virus of most concern is circulating in Asia, Europe and Africa and it is called H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu). This virus is only missing …

22 October » UN reports broad, but untested bird flu planning
International Herald Tribune - France
Almost all of the 148 countries that provided data on the spread of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus ahead of an international conference this week in Egypt …

21 October » Dead bird confirmed with avian flu in China’s Hong Kong
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
HONG KONG, October 20 (RIA Novosti) - A dead crow, which was found in one of Hong Kong’s central parks, has tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus, …

20 October » Bangladesh finds more bird flu
Straits Times - Singapore
DHAKA - BANGLADESH authorities said on Sunday they have detected fresh bird flu at a poultry farm four months after the deadly virus was last reported in …

19 October » Students learn how to to tackle avian influenza
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
Bird flu or avian influenza is a poultry disease, but experts fear that the virus — H5N1 — could mutate and become able to be transmitted from human to …

18 October » Flu Pandemic May Cost World Economy Up to $3 Trillion (Update3)
Bloomberg - USA
The spread of the H5N1 avian-influenza strain across Asia, Africa and Europe prompted the development of vaccines and the slaughter of poultry from …

17 October » Double flu jab recommended against bird flu pandemic
Entertainment and Showbiz! - Baroda,India
It is not feasible to predict the actual pandemic influenza strain, but global health authorities have identified H5N1 avian influenza as a strain with the …

16 October » Deadly bird flu virus found at German farm: EU
AFP
BRUSSELS (AFP) — German authorities were culling poultry at a farm in Germany after the discovery of a case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, the European …

15 October » US controls bird flu vaccines over bioweapon fears
guardian.co.uk - UK
Yet deep inside an 86-page supplement to United States export regulations is a single sentence that bars US exports of vaccines for avian bird flu and …

14 October » ASIA: Countries lagging in flu pandemic plans, UN warns
IRINnews.org - New York,NY,USA
Since the re-emergence of the highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza virus in poultry in 2003, 387 cases of human avian flu have been recorded, of whom 245 died, …

13 October » Preventing an Outbreak: McCain and Obama on Pandemics
Popular Science - New York,NY,USA
Pandemic flu didn’t pop up on any politicians’ radar until 2004, when a major breakout of highly deadly H5N1 avian bird flu began killing birds and people …

12 October » Viet Nam seeks world help with avian-flu vaccination
Viet Nam News - Hanoi,Vietnam
“Viet Nam is facing challenges controlling avian flu, including the need to find a way to successful move beyond subsidised vaccination of poultry, …

11 October » Germany Kills 1400 Farm Fowl After First Bird Flu Case in 2008
Bloomberg - USA
A duck tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu, Elke Reinking, a spokeswoman for Germany’s Friedrich Loeffler Institute, said in a telephone …

10 October » Bird Flu Returns to Germany
Deutsche Welle - Germany
Bird flu has returned to Germany, with the H5N1 influenza virus breaking out among farm ducks in the eastern state of Saxony, officials said Thursday. …

09 October » Deadly by the Dozen: 12 Diseases Climate Change May Make Worse
Scientific American - USA
Bird flu: H5N1 infections are becoming the rule rather then the exception in farmed poultry worldwide, and even wild birds are showing signs of infection …

07 October » Avian flu hits central Vietnam
Earthtimes (press release) - London,UK
Hanoi - Authorities have detected the H5N1 avian flu virus in ducks in the central Vietnamese province of Nghe An, the third outbreak of bird flu in Vietnam …

06 October » DEC gets assistance from duck hunters
WatertownDailyTimes.com - NY, United States
There are multiple strains of avian influenza, or bird flu. But only one is dangerous for birds and humans. According to the World Health Organization, …

05 October » S.Korea reports new case of suspected bird flu
Reuters UK - UK
In May, South Korea culled all domestic fowl in the Seoul area in a bid to contain bird flu after confirming 31 cases of the deadly H5N1 strain in poultry …

04 October » Emergency manager warns of flu outbreak possibilities
Fort Scott Tribune - Fort Scott,KS,USA
According to www.pandemicflu.gov, the avian flu is caused by influenza viruses that occur naturally among wild birds. The highly pathogenic H5N1, …

03 October » Stopping Pandemic Bird Flu
MIT Technology Review - Cambridge,MA,USA
Avian influenza, caused by a variant of the H5N1 virus, has afflicted hundreds of millions of birds worldwide. The virus mutates quickly: some of the …

02 October » Suspected bird flu victim dies
Bangkok Post - Thailand
Although an avian flu outbreak has never occurred in the district, Phichit was listed as an avian influenza epidemic zone, he said. …

01 October »  TOGO: 17000 poultry killed in latest flu outbreak
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
LOME, 30 September 2008 (IRIN) - Some 17000 birds died or have been culled since the outbreak of the H5N1 avian flu virus on 9 September on three poultry …

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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