Bird Flu

After laboratory examinations found strains of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza, the Indian health ministry confirmed outbreak of bird flu last week. ...  

GLOBAL - Summary of Bird Flu / Avian Influenza related news from across the world.  

BHUTAN - The government has warned the public of possibility of an outbreak og highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) following its spread across Assam, the adjacent border area with India.  

will discuss sensitive questions about virus sample sharing and access to vaccines in case of a flu pandemic. Indonesia, the country most affected by H5N1 bird flu, has resisted providing viral samples to the international community because it argues  

US - The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has released a draft of its risk assessment for contracting highly pathogenic avian influenza from eating poultry products, shell eggs, and egg products, a tool that could be used to reduce human illness from the virus and help target messages to...  

Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza is currently affecting flocks in Asia, parts of Europe and Africa and experts fear it may mutate into a form that ...  

GLOBAL - Summary of Bird Flu / Avian Influenza related news from across the world.  

GLOBAL - Summary of Bird Flu / Avian Influenza related news from across the world.  

GLOBAL - Summary of Bird Flu / Avian Influenza related news from across the world.  

A case involving the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 occurred on a poultry farm in Thailand on Oct. 27. It was confirmed by the country's government ...  

4 -– Bird flu has appeared in the southernmost province of Ca Mau and central Nghe An province, but no new cases of humans contracting avian influenza A ...  

Bird flu has become an epidemic in parts of the world. Many times, contracting the virus has led to the premature deaths of many of the victims of the virus. Unfortunately, detection of bird flu (avian flu) is not always easy as many of the flu symptoms ar  

Bird flu is an infection caused by the viruses that come from birds. This type of influenza is also known as the avian flu. This virus is deadly because it can infect not only birds, but it can infect human beings too. And if this spread of disease is on a  

The Assam government has sounded a health alert and banned the sale of poultry following the spread of the deadly bird flu virus to newer areas, officials here said Wednesday. "Samples of dead birds tested positive for avian influenza in a numbe read more  

So far there has been no compelling evidence that links eating cooked poultry, eggs, or egg products to avian influenza infections in humans, ...