Bird Flu Probe in Indonesia Intensifies on Human Link (Update1) (Bloomberg.com) May 24 (Bloomberg) -- Indonesian and World Health Organization officials probing bird flu cases on the island of Sumatra intensified their investigation after finding that the disease may have been spread among at least seven family members. [News Source]

WHO suspects human bird flu transmission (Reuters via Yahoo! News) An Indonesian man who died of bird flu after nursing his sick son may have caught the virus in a case of direct human-to-human transmission, but the virus did not spread very far if this did happen, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. [News Source]

Scientists Study New Technique to Vaccinate Birds Against Avian Flu (Voice of America) Scientists have developed an efficient, cheap way to vaccinate birds against avian influenza and possibly prevent the spread of the deadly H5N1 strain to humans. They have devised a method of combining avian flu vaccine with a vaccine already widely used against another very common bird virus. [News Source]

Tree-Hugging Capitalists. Big venture firms are now eying a new wave of startups: those devoted to slowing the advance of global warming, starvation and disease. [News Source]

Skeptics say bird flu threat overblown. For months, the warnings have been relentless: Bird flu could jump species and kill tens of millions of people, a pandemic to rival the 1918 Spanish flu. Economies would collapse. Not everyone is convinced, however. [News Source]

Madison lab is ‘border patrol’ for deadly flu in migrant birds. On Wednesday, agents will start searching their first detainees - wild birds from Alaska that may be harboring bird flu. [News Source]

Human-to-human spread suspected in latest Indonesian bird-flu death. The World Health Organization appears to be edging closer to suggesting that an Indonesian man who died from H5N1 avian flu Monday may have been infected by his 10-year-old son. [News Source]

Vaccines protect birds from bird flu, other virus. A bird flu vaccine piggybacked onto a widely used vaccine against another bird virus could be a quick and easy way to protect poultry against the H5N1 avian influenza virus. [News Source]

2 vaccines for avian flu in poultry reported. Combination vaccines that could point the way to a more efficient and cost- effective means of battling bird flu have been created by separate teams of researchers. [News Source]

No corporate crisis mode. After SARS, West Nile and Y2K, businesses won't panic in preparation for possible bird flu pandemic. [News Source]

BioSante Pharmaceuticals Presents CaP-adjuvanted Bird Flu Vaccine Data at Vaccine Discovery and Commercialization (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill.----May 23, 2006--BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that Dr. Steve Bell, vice president of research and pre-clinical development, presented a case study highlighting the potential of BioVant, the Company's calcium phosphate nanoparticle-based vaccine adjuvant, in influenza virus vaccines, including H5N1 avian influenza, or bird flu. [News Source]

Liberia: Unicef, Radio Stations Partner Against Bird Flu, Cholera (AllAfrica.com) Twenty-four community radio stations across the country have ended a three-day information dissemination workshop on Avian Influenza and Cholera Prevention and Control in Bong County with a pledge to work along with National Task Force and UNICEF on Avian flu to prevent the outbreak of the disease in Liberia, a UNICEF release said. [News Source]