In the absence of news reports, bird flu might seem to have flown the coop. Unfortunately, it never actually went away--and is now worse than ever. "There are more flu infections in more countries ...
South Korean agriculture officials boosted the country's bird flu risk level to 'orange' this week after recent outbreaks on poultry farms.
Bird flu has spread to the hilly Darjeeling district of eastern India which has been hit by avian influenza several times already this year, a minister said Saturday.
(AP) -- South Korean officials said Monday they have killed all poultry in Seoul, the capital, to curb the spread of bird flu following a new outbreak of the disease in the city.
... cases of the disease and suggests that a single drug approach is likely to be ineffective in case of a bird flu pandemic in humans. The findings by a team at the Medical Research Council's National ...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesia's health minister says she will give all genetic information about her country's bird flu virus to a new global database....
South Korea on Sunday mobilised army soldiers for the second time to help battle an outbreak of bird flu, which has already led to the culling of more than seven million poultry, officials said.
British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline says it has received regulatory approval to sell its H5N1 bird flu vaccine to European countries.
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- Bangladesh's Health Ministry says the nation's first human case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected....
... , the basis of a pandemic like the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed an estimated 50 million people.
... epidemiological surveillance data collected during Bird Flu outbreaks in certain parts of the world. ...
ATLANTA, May 28 (UPI) -- A study led by U.S. researchers suggests H5N1 is not the only strain of bird flu that could cause a pandemic.
WASHINGTON, June 2 (UPI) -- The University of Maryland-College Park has received $5 million from the U.S. Agriculture Department to renew bird flu research efforts, the agency said.
SPRINGDALE, Ark., June 4 (UPI) -- Tyson Foods said it will destroy 15,000 chickens in Arkansas that were exposed to a low-pathogenic strain of bird flu.
An outbreak of the H7 strain of bird flu at a farm in central England is "highly pathogenic," officials said Wednesday.
... , Indonesia (AP) -- A 15-year-old girl died of bird flu last month, becoming Indonesia's 109th victim, but the government decided to keep the news quiet. It is part of a ...
