Fighting Bird Flu at Home: How to Prepare for the Possible P (Fox News) For all the hype and global planning, much of the care for bird flu patients will fall to individuals and take place in the home; how to prepare your household. [News Source]

WHO assesses Sudan’s avian flu, confirms 2 cases elsewhere (CIDRAP) Apr 19, 2006 (CIDRAP News) – A World Health Organization (WHO) team is reported to be in Sudan today to help the impoverished country respond to H5N1 avian influenza, which was confirmed there for the first time yesterday. [News Source]

Yolo gets ready for bird flu (The Davis Enterprise) Published Apr 16, 2006 - 18:30:13 CDT. It seems almost every year, there’s a new disease that might have the ability to threaten humanity. For the last several years, H5N1, or bird flu, has been waiting in the wings, watching as SARS and West Nile virus took their turns on the stage. [News Source]

We can’t afford bird flu plans, hospital heads say. The U.S. government may be urging local officials and hospitals to get ready for a bird flu pandemic, but top hospital executives said on Tuesday they cannot do everything that is being called for. [News Source]

Avian-flu concerns push bans on drugs for animals. Finding alternatives to antibiotics has become more urgent as concerns grow that their use in farm animals builds up resistance in bacteria, ultimately creating new "super bugs" that can defy antibiotics used for humans. [News Source]

We can’t afford bird flu plans, hospital heads say (Reuters via Yahoo! News) The U.S. government may be urging local officials and hospitals to get ready for a bird flu pandemic, but top hospital executives said on Tuesday they cannot do everything that is being called for. [News Source]