Copyright (c) 2008 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2552 Bird Flu en-us Thu, 15 May 2008 18:54:33 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2552 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080515/ap_on_re_as/bird_flu_new_database ap/20080515/bird_flu_new_database AP Thu, 15 May 2008 18:54:33 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080515/ap_on_re_as/bird_flu_new_database"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080507/i/ra4022002883.jpg?x=130&y=128&q=85&sig=dcCD1kIAt4sTMXYXIJtMzg--" align="left" height="128" width="130" alt="Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari addresses the 60th World Health Assembly at the UN headquarters in Geneva in this May 15, 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/Files" border="0" /></a>AP - Indonesia announced Thursday it would start sharing all information about its bird flu cases with a new global database to monitor whether the disease is mutating into a dangerous pandemic strain.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080515/ap_on_re_as/bird_flu_new_database"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080507/i/ra4022002883.jpg?x=130&y=128&q=85&sig=dcCD1kIAt4sTMXYXIJtMzg--" align="left" height="128" width="130" alt="photo" title="Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari addresses the 60th World Health Assembly at the UN headquarters in Geneva in this May 15, 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/Files" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080515/hl_afp/healthfluskorea afp/20080515/healthfluskorea AFP Thu, 15 May 2008 09:29:56 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080515/hl_afp/healthfluskorea"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080515/capt.cps.nel48.150508112924.photo00.photo.default-512x380.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=zMVOZCTcktCp49HQqOdQfg--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="A researcher works on developing a human bird flu vaccine. South Korea will build its own factory to produce human bird flu vaccine, as authorities battled the country's worst outbreak among poultry.(AFP/File/Str)" border="0" /></a>AFP - South Korea will build its own factory to produce human bird flu vaccine, health officials said Thursday as authorities battled the country's worst outbreak among poultry.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080515/hl_afp/healthfluskorea"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080515/capt.cps.nel48.150508112924.photo00.photo.default-512x380.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=zMVOZCTcktCp49HQqOdQfg--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="photo" title="A researcher works on developing a human bird flu vaccine. South Korea will build its own factory to produce human bird flu vaccine, as authorities battled the country's worst outbreak among poultry.(AFP/File/Str)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080514/sc_nm/birdflu_drugs_dc nm/20080514/birdflu_drugs_dc Reuters Wed, 14 May 2008 18:06:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080514/sc_nm/birdflu_drugs_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080514/2008_05_14t130649_450x313_us_birdflu_drugs.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=8aSX1L50um49nir1Zr5sdw--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="An Indonesian pharmacy worker conducts research to produce Oseltamivir capsules, a local version of Tamiflu, at the country's Kimia Farma laboratory in Bandung, west Java, February 17, 2006. (Dadang Tri/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Governments need to stockpile different sorts of flu drugs -- not just Roche Holding AG's Tamiflu -- to counter the danger of resistance in a pandemic triggered by bird flu, British experts said on Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080514/sc_nm/birdflu_drugs_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080514/2008_05_14t130649_450x313_us_birdflu_drugs.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=8aSX1L50um49nir1Zr5sdw--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="An Indonesian pharmacy worker conducts research to produce Oseltamivir capsules, a local version of Tamiflu, at the country's Kimia Farma laboratory in Bandung, west Java, February 17, 2006. (Dadang Tri/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080513/ap_on_he_me/skorea_bird_flu ap/20080513/skorea_bird_flu AP Tue, 13 May 2008 02:14:17 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080513/ap_on_he_me/skorea_bird_flu"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080515/capt.46ebb86fb473487da88d043919a8c041.indonesia_bird_flu_new_database_jak104.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=IE5X4wBn_O79t.QQJL.jlg--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Indonesia says it will start sharing all information about its bird flu cases with a new public database, a move experts say will help monitor the disease following the country's yearlong standoff with the World Health Organization.(AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)" border="0" /></a>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.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080513/ap_on_he_me/skorea_bird_flu"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080515/capt.46ebb86fb473487da88d043919a8c041.indonesia_bird_flu_new_database_jak104.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=IE5X4wBn_O79t.QQJL.jlg--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="photo" title="Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Indonesia says it will start sharing all information about its bird flu cases with a new public database, a move experts say will help monitor the disease following the country's yearlong standoff with the World Health Organization.(AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080510/wl_sthasia_afp/healthfluindia afp/20080510/healthfluindia AFP Sat, 10 May 2008 06:40:13 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080510/wl_sthasia_afp/healthfluindia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080510/capt.cps.ndd89.100508083940.photo00.photo.default-512x335.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=CIAukcL71meqCCCqvoq_Ig--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Health workers in a poultry farm in eastern India in April 2008. 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.(AFP/File/Diptendu Dutta)" border="0" /></a>AFP - 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.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080510/wl_sthasia_afp/healthfluindia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080510/capt.cps.ndd89.100508083940.photo00.photo.default-512x335.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=CIAukcL71meqCCCqvoq_Ig--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="Health workers in a poultry farm in eastern India in April 2008. 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.(AFP/File/Diptendu Dutta)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080506/ts_nm/risk_bird_flu_dc nm/20080506/risk_bird_flu_dc Reuters Tue, 06 May 2008 14:26:50 GMT Reuters - The risk of a human influenza pandemic remains real and is probably growing as the bird flu virus becomes entrenched in poultry in more countries, health officials warned on Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080506/hl_nm/birdflu_who_dc nm/20080506/birdflu_who_dc Reuters Tue, 06 May 2008 13:15:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080506/hl_nm/birdflu_who_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080506/2008_05_06t134022_450x300_us_birdflu_who.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=c3mphe3DZhBqIEi1Niks2A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A worker injects a chicken with bird flu vaccine at a farm in Suining, Sichuan province, February 26, 2008. (Stringer/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The risk of a human influenza pandemic remains real and is probably growing as the bird flu virus becomes entrenched in poultry in more countries, health officials warned on Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080506/hl_nm/birdflu_who_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080506/2008_05_06t134022_450x300_us_birdflu_who.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=c3mphe3DZhBqIEi1Niks2A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A worker injects a chicken with bird flu vaccine at a farm in Suining, Sichuan province, February 26, 2008. (Stringer/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080506/hl_nm/birdflu_korea_dc nm/20080506/birdflu_korea_dc Reuters Tue, 06 May 2008 06:00:06 GMT Reuters - South Korea's worst outbreak of bird flu has spread to the capital with agriculture ministry officials saying on Tuesday four dead birds raised at a Seoul district government office had tested positive. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080505/wl_asia_afp/healthflujapan afp/20080505/healthflujapan AFP Mon, 05 May 2008 10:25:13 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080505/wl_asia_afp/healthflujapan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080505/capt.cps.nbx96.050508122449.photo00.photo.default-432x512.jpg?x=109&y=130&q=85&sig=NUiYPGcQbpwEWo4TscMf8A--" align="left" height="130" width="109" alt="A Japanese health official disinfects a poultry farm in 2007 after a suspected bird flu outbreak in Takahashi. A dead swan tested positive for bird flu in northern Japan, less than a week after officials announced the first detection of the deadly virus in 13 months.(AFP/JIJI PRESS/Okayama Prefecture Government)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A dead swan tested positive for bird flu in northern Japan on Monday, the environment ministry said, less than a week after officials announced the first detection of the deadly virus in 13 months.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080505/wl_asia_afp/healthflujapan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080505/capt.cps.nbx96.050508122449.photo00.photo.default-432x512.jpg?x=109&y=130&q=85&sig=NUiYPGcQbpwEWo4TscMf8A--" align="left" height="130" width="109" alt="photo" title="A Japanese health official disinfects a poultry farm in 2007 after a suspected bird flu outbreak in Takahashi. A dead swan tested positive for bird flu in northern Japan, less than a week after officials announced the first detection of the deadly virus in 13 months.(AFP/JIJI PRESS/Okayama Prefecture Government)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080502/hl_afp/healthfluthailand afp/20080502/healthfluthailand AFP Fri, 02 May 2008 16:02:37 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080502/hl_afp/healthfluthailand"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080502/capt.cps.nbl02.020508171211.photo00.photo.default-512x363.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=5JQhBMb3C6GqydERTFVCpw--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="A farmer tends his ducks on a rice field in Kanchanaburi province western Thailand. Thailand on Friday declared itself free of bird flu after no outbreaks of the deadly virus were reported over the past 90 days.(AFP/File/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Thailand on Friday declared itself free of bird flu after no outbreaks of the deadly virus were reported over the past 90 days.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080502/hl_afp/healthfluthailand"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080502/capt.cps.nbl02.020508171211.photo00.photo.default-512x363.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=5JQhBMb3C6GqydERTFVCpw--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="photo" title="A farmer tends his ducks on a rice field in Kanchanaburi province western Thailand. Thailand on Friday declared itself free of bird flu after no outbreaks of the deadly virus were reported over the past 90 days.(AFP/File/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080429/hl_nm/birdflu_egypt_dc nm/20080429/birdflu_egypt_dc Reuters Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:03:32 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080429/hl_nm/birdflu_egypt_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080515/capt.46ebb86fb473487da88d043919a8c041.indonesia_bird_flu_new_database_jak104.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=IE5X4wBn_O79t.QQJL.jlg--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Indonesia says it will start sharing all information about its bird flu cases with a new public database, a move experts say will help monitor the disease following the country's yearlong standoff with the World Health Organization.(AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Over a quarter of Egyptians who are aware of the dangers of the H5N1 bird flu virus continue to raise birds at home despite warnings that this could spread the deadly disease, a government poll showed on Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080429/hl_nm/birdflu_egypt_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080515/capt.46ebb86fb473487da88d043919a8c041.indonesia_bird_flu_new_database_jak104.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=IE5X4wBn_O79t.QQJL.jlg--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="photo" title="Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Indonesia says it will start sharing all information about its bird flu cases with a new public database, a move experts say will help monitor the disease following the country's yearlong standoff with the World Health Organization.(AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080429/sc_nm/birdflu_japan_dc nm/20080429/birdflu_japan_dc Reuters Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:52:34 GMT Reuters - Japan on Tuesday confirmed four swans found last week were infected with the H5N1 strain of bird flu. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080429/sc_nm/birdflu_nepal_dc nm/20080429/birdflu_nepal_dc Reuters Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:23:34 GMT Reuters - Nepal has issued a bird flu alert and is testing poultry along the border with India, where the virus rages despite the culling of tens of thousands of chickens since 2006, officials said. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080425/wl_asia_afp/healthfluindonesia afp/20080425/healthfluindonesia AFP Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:09:19 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080425/wl_asia_afp/healthfluindonesia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080425/capt.cps.mzr50.250408110833.photo00.photo.default-512x371.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=VmZFbs.F24O6hIFZHJqPlg--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="An Indonesian health worker inspects a patient during a bird flu drill in Tukaddaya.(AFP/File/Sonny Tumbelaka)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Hundreds of Indonesian villagers and health workers took part in a massive drill here Friday to prepare for a potentially devastating outbreak of human-to-human bird flu.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080425/wl_asia_afp/healthfluindonesia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080425/capt.cps.mzr50.250408110833.photo00.photo.default-512x371.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=VmZFbs.F24O6hIFZHJqPlg--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="photo" title="An Indonesian health worker inspects a patient during a bird flu drill in Tukaddaya.(AFP/File/Sonny Tumbelaka)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080422/sc_nm/birdflu_indonesia_usa_dc nm/20080422/birdflu_indonesia_usa_dc Reuters Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:35:24 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080422/sc_nm/birdflu_indonesia_usa_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080421/2008_04_21t163750_450x287_us_birdflu_indonesia_usa.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=r25eRvIM4vfc.QtfrUQUcA--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="A chicken to be transported to a local market is seen in Jakarta March 24, 2008. (Crack Palinggi/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Talks between Indonesia and the United States over the future of a U.S. naval medical lab have become entangled in an international dispute over how to share crucial bird flu samples, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said on Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080422/sc_nm/birdflu_indonesia_usa_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080421/2008_04_21t163750_450x287_us_birdflu_indonesia_usa.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=r25eRvIM4vfc.QtfrUQUcA--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="photo" title="A chicken to be transported to a local market is seen in Jakarta March 24, 2008. (Crack Palinggi/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080422/hl_nm/birdflu_india_dc nm/20080422/birdflu_india_dc Reuters Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:56:55 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080422/hl_nm/birdflu_india_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080422/2008_04_22t045434_450x336_us_birdflu_india.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=PFYqsBBKzNn29TtUK0Dj_A--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Health workers and a villager carry poultry to cull in India's northeastern state of Tripura, April 8, 2008. Authorities in a remote northeastern state of India prepared to cull thousands of chickens after a fresh outbreak of bird flu in poultry was detected on Tuesday, officials said. (Stringer/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Authorities in a remote northeastern state of India prepared to cull thousands of chickens after a fresh outbreak of bird flu in poultry was detected on Tuesday, officials said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080422/hl_nm/birdflu_india_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080422/2008_04_22t045434_450x336_us_birdflu_india.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=PFYqsBBKzNn29TtUK0Dj_A--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="Health workers and a villager carry poultry to cull in India's northeastern state of Tripura, April 8, 2008. Authorities in a remote northeastern state of India prepared to cull thousands of chickens after a fresh outbreak of bird flu in poultry was detected on Tuesday, officials said. (Stringer/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080420/wl_asia_afp/myanmarhealthflu afp/20080420/myanmarhealthflu AFP Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:25:32 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080420/wl_asia_afp/myanmarhealthflu"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080420/capt.cps.myn03.200408122442.photo00.photo.default-512x356.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=dWmhu1bQBB_0kEptlQRkZQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="Myanmar villagers feed pigeons along a street in Yangon in 2007. Myanmar's military government has declared the country bird-flu free after three months without an outbreak of the deadly virus.(AFP/File/Khin Maung Win)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Myanmar's military government on Sunday declared the country bird-flu free after three months without an outbreak of the deadly virus, state media reported.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080420/wl_asia_afp/myanmarhealthflu"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080420/capt.cps.myn03.200408122442.photo00.photo.default-512x356.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=dWmhu1bQBB_0kEptlQRkZQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="Myanmar villagers feed pigeons along a street in Yangon in 2007. Myanmar's military government has declared the country bird-flu free after three months without an outbreak of the deadly virus.(AFP/File/Khin Maung Win)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080418/hl_afp/healthfluindonesiadrillpandemic afp/20080418/healthfluindonesiadrillpandemic AFP Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:27:17 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080418/hl_afp/healthfluindonesiadrillpandemic"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080418/capt.cps.myf43.180408192638.photo00.photo.default-512x379.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=3cfHTKHRv4sUEEFl3lHoqw--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="A woman stands next to a poultry cage at a market in Denpasar on Bali island. More than 60 million Indonesians could be infected with deadly bird flu if the virus mutates into a form transmissible between humans, an official said Friday.(AFP/SONNY TUMBELAKA)" border="0" /></a>AFP - More than 60 million Indonesians could be infected with deadly bird flu if the virus mutates into a form transmissible between humans, an official said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080418/hl_afp/healthfluindonesiadrillpandemic"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080418/capt.cps.myf43.180408192638.photo00.photo.default-512x379.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=3cfHTKHRv4sUEEFl3lHoqw--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="photo" title="A woman stands next to a poultry cage at a market in Denpasar on Bali island. More than 60 million Indonesians could be infected with deadly bird flu if the virus mutates into a form transmissible between humans, an official said Friday.(AFP/SONNY TUMBELAKA)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080418/ts_afp/healthusfluvaccine afp/20080418/healthusfluvaccine AFP Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:23:52 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080418/ts_afp/healthusfluvaccine"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080418/capt.cps.myd21.180408132225.photo00.photo.default-412x512.jpg?x=104&y=130&q=85&sig=6BGuJ1uoG7_Ki8PhGxFpmg--" align="left" height="130" width="104" alt="A new bird flu vaccine being developed by US researchers could provide broader protection, last longer and be easier to mass produce than existing vaccines. Study author Suresh Mittal (seen in this file photo) and his colleagues used a mutated version of a common cold virus to deliver genes from two types of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza.(AFP/File/Jeff Haynes)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A new bird flu vaccine being developed by US researchers could provide broader protection, last longer and be easier to mass produce than existing vaccines.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080418/ts_afp/healthusfluvaccine"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080418/capt.cps.myd21.180408132225.photo00.photo.default-412x512.jpg?x=104&y=130&q=85&sig=6BGuJ1uoG7_Ki8PhGxFpmg--" align="left" height="130" width="104" alt="photo" title="A new bird flu vaccine being developed by US researchers could provide broader protection, last longer and be easier to mass produce than existing vaccines. Study author Suresh Mittal (seen in this file photo) and his colleagues used a mutated version of a common cold virus to deliver genes from two types of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza.(AFP/File/Jeff Haynes)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080418/hl_nm/birdflu_vaccine_dc nm/20080418/birdflu_vaccine_dc Reuters Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:54:57 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080418/hl_nm/birdflu_vaccine_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080515/capt.46ebb86fb473487da88d043919a8c041.indonesia_bird_flu_new_database_jak104.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=IE5X4wBn_O79t.QQJL.jlg--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Indonesia says it will start sharing all information about its bird flu cases with a new public database, a move experts say will help monitor the disease following the country's yearlong standoff with the World Health Organization.(AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - An experimental bird flu vaccine that uses a common cold virus and bits of DNA from the H5N1 virus appears to stimulate an immune response in mice, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080418/hl_nm/birdflu_vaccine_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080515/capt.46ebb86fb473487da88d043919a8c041.indonesia_bird_flu_new_database_jak104.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=IE5X4wBn_O79t.QQJL.jlg--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="photo" title="Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Indonesia says it will start sharing all information about its bird flu cases with a new public database, a move experts say will help monitor the disease following the country's yearlong standoff with the World Health Organization.(AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters)