Indonesian Ministry of Health confirms the nation’s 78th Bird-Flu fatality.

The Ministry of Health of Indonesia, has announced a new case of human infection of H5N1 avian influenza.
A 45-year-old male from Grobogan district, Central Java Province developed symptoms on 17 May, was hospitalized on 26 May and died in hospital on 28 May.
Initial investigations into the source of his infection indicate exposure to dead poultry.
Of [...]

Another Bird-Flu death in Indonesia!

Ibu Mazak, our reporter in Jakarta tells us that according to an Indonesian health ministry official, a 45-year-old Indonesian man from Grobogan, central Java, has died of bird flu.
Reuters news agency is said to have confirmed the above and we hope to bring you more on this news item shortly.

URGENT Bird-Flu Contact request- Were you recently at the Chelford Market in Cheshire?

Were you recently at the Chelford Market in Cheshire?
If so, then DEFRA (The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) would like for you to urgently contact them.
The investigation into the source of the H7N2 low pathogenic avian influenza outbreak in North Wales is ongoing.
As part of the tracing exercise, and epidemiological investigation, Defra would like [...]

221 people in Wales are now being tested for the Bird-Flu!!!

The National Public Health Service for Wales (NPHS) has identified 221 people, who may have had contact with the avian flu!!!
36 persons in the household setting
14 persons in school
171 persons in the workplace setting (including patients and staff at two hospitals)
12 avian flu contacts have been identified who have or have had symptoms of a [...]

Did you hear about the Pandemic Flu Leadership SUMMIT?

Good news people!
All of the top VIP Bird Flu experts are at a “Pandemic Flu Leadership Summit”as I write this.It is an impressive list of members, including even Pierre Omidyar, the Founder and Chairman, eBay!
Watch this space to find out the result of the SUMMIT.

4 Brits have the Bird-Flu. Then, 9 Brits down with Bird-Flu. Now its 11 Brits with Bird-Flu!!

At first it was announced that 4 Brits have the Bird-Flu.
Then, we were told that 9 Brits were down with Bird-Flu.
Now it is confirmed that at least 11 Brits have the H7N2 strain of the Bird-Flu!!
No need to worry though?
BBC reports that the officials investigating two possible cases of bird flu in north Wales have traced 26 [...]

“Welsh Bird-Flu no risk for us Scots” says the new Scottish health minister!

Shona Robison, the Member of the Scottish Parliament for Dundee East, who is now the new public health minister for Scotland, denied that there was any risk to health for the Scots, from the bird flu outbreak in Wales, calling it “negligible”. 
She said: “I want to reassure the public in Scotland that the risk to public health [...]

Will the Welsh Bird-Flu infested farm get as much money as Bernard Matthews did?

Now that an infestation of Bird Flu has been confirmed in a Welsh farm in the UK, many people are wondering as to how much money would be paid by the British tax payer, to the Welsh farm, for er.. getting the Bird Flu.  
It is well known that if you run a “farm” in the UK [...]

Human To Human H5N1 (Bird-Flu) in Vietnam?????

After slaughtering chicken, man catches H5N1

Via

VietNamNet Bridge – An H5N1 avian influenza victim is now being treated at Bach Mai hospital in Hanoi.

It seems that there has been a very serious development in the H5N1 virus saga, if the above mentioned story from VietNamNet Bridge is true.

To begin with, it is bad enough that Vietnam [...]

Do you know where eggs come from???

Do you know where your eggs come from???

Here is a short and shocking video, showing the “Ohio Fresh Eggs Investigation”.
It may change the way you buy your eggs!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okTFzbsSFGs

Contraband Bird Flu Anti-viral Drugs???

Than Htike Oo, writing for Mizzima News, (they specialize in Burma-Related News) reports that Bird Flu Anti-viral drugs worth 20 million Thai baht, were seized from a Burmese national on the Thai-Burmese border check point in Mae Sai on Wednesday (today)!

While the Burmese national was briefly arrested and later released at about 2 p.m. (local time), the anti-viral drugs [...]

China letting Bird-Flu mutate in Pigs???

up to 300 pigs in Guangdong province died over the last 10 days from a mystery disease that saw the pigs stop eating, develop fevers and begin hemorrhaging, the New Express paper reported.

A pig carcass is seen in a canal in Baizhu county of Zhaoqing, southern China’s Guangdong province May 8, 2007.
A mysterious epidemic is [...]

An Oldie Bird-Flu Video from Jon Stewart!

This is an oldie Bird Flu video from Jon Stewart, dating back from October 2005.
The video is as funny today, as it was then.
Also, the Bird Flu is still as much of a problem today, as it was back then!

http://www.answerblogs.com/blogs/videoblog/archives/2005/10/jon_stewart_vid.html

Crow Culling Season in Singapore!

“Crows are a public health nuisance” says the The National Environment Agency (NEA), “They are scavengers and are attracted to areas where food is readily accessible. In the course of scavenging, they pollute our surroundings by scattering food waste from refuse bags and leftovers. As they are extremely protective of their nesting sites and their young, they [...]

Bird Flu and the confused birds of Kuwait?

Did Bird Flu cause a loss of the sense of direction in the birds in Kuwait???

Debin Davis from Kuwait, writes about some strange goings on in his blog, “Yet another day”:
“Since the last few days, the birds around Kuwait.. am talking about the small ones which you would usually see around the palm trees and grass lawns.. [...]

Bird Flu Video with just the basic facts.

There is so much “information” regarding the Bird Flu virus in all the media today that it is hard to separate the poissible from the fantastic!
There are those who think that the Bird Flu is nothing but a hoax created to spread fear all over the world. Then there are many who remind us of [...]