Yahoo! News: Bird Flu Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2552 science Bird Flu en-us Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:43:00 GMT 5 Yahoo! News 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2552 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif Health Experts Say U.S. Is Prepared for Swine Flu Pandemic (CQPolitics.com) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090630/pl_cq_politics/politics3156999 cq/20090630/politics3156999 CQPolitics.com politics Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:43:00 GMT CQPolitics.com - Two public health experts painted a relatively rosy picture Tuesday of the United States' ability to respond to the swine flu pandemic, saying the country had learned from earlier mistakes and from plans developed during the avian flu scare several years ago. Will two flus mix in Indonesia? Experts worry (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090629/hl_nm/us_flu_birdflu nm/20090629/us_flu_birdflu Reuters health Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:14:56 GMT Reuters - Indonesia's first cases of the new H1N1 flu have raised concerns that if the virus spreads it could combine with the entrenched and deadly H5N1 avian influenza to create a more lethal strain of flu. WHO says H1N1 virus is stable, not yet mutating (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090625/hl_nm/us_flu_who nm/20090625/us_flu_who Reuters health Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:12:36 GMT Reuters - The World Health Organization said Thursday that the H1N1 virus was stable and there was no sign yet of it mixing with other influenza viruses. Bird Flu Virus Can Survive Two Years in Landfill (HealthDay) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090606/hl_hsn/birdfluviruscansurvivetwoyearsinlandfill hsn/20090606/birdfluviruscansurvivetwoyearsinlandfill HealthDay health Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:49:11 GMT HealthDay - FRIDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- Poultry carcasses infected with the bird flu virus can remain infectious in municipal landfills for as long as two years, say Nebraska researchers. Pigs an underestimated source of flu: study (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/birdflu/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090604/hl_nm/us_flu_pigs nm/20090604/us_flu_pigs Reuters health Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:11:47 GMT Reuters - Global health officials underestimated the risk that pig herds might be a source of new influenza strains, choosing instead to focus on the threat of bird flu, researchers in Mexico said on Thursday.