Deadly bird flu reported in Cameroon. Cameroon has become the fourth African country to be struck by the deadly bird flu virus, the government announced Sunday. [News Source]

Potential for ventilator shortage in event of bird flu pandemic. If bird flu causes widespread illness in the US, the nation's hospitals would not have enough ventilators, the machines that pump oxygen into sick patients' lungs. [News Source]

70% of health problems are environment related. The Environmental Health Officers Council of Nigeria has called on Nigerians to pay particular attention to their environment as 70% of health problems in Nigeria are environment related. [News Source]

The price of cheap chicken is bird flu. The industrial farming methods that make ever-cheaper chicken possible may also have created the lethal strain of bird flu virus, H5N1, that threatens to set off a global pandemic. [News Source]