Latest Bird Flu News

Alaska is front line vs. avian virus.
Friday June 16th 2006, 8:00 am

Within sight of an Arctic radar station built for Cold War warnings of air attacks from Soviet Siberia, government scientists are stalking birds that could be carrying a new menace from Asia: the H5N1 avian influenza virus. [News Source]

Indonesian Bird Flu Patient Has Neurological Tests (Update3) (Bloomberg.com)
Friday June 16th 2006, 6:05 am

June 16 (Bloomberg) -- Jones Ginting, the only survivor of seven members of an Indonesian family infected with bird flu, is being investigated for rare neurological symptoms associated with the illness. [News Source]

Charting the course of possible bird flu (The Star-Ledger)
Friday June 16th 2006, 1:24 am

Page 4 of the 88-page "U.S. Interagency Strategic Plan" for dealing with avian flu in wild birds contains a sentence that's good news to New Jersey waterfowl hunters. [News Source]

Indonesian Bird Flu Patient Has Neurological Tests (Update2) (Bloomberg.com)
Friday June 16th 2006, 1:05 am

June 16 (Bloomberg) -- Jones Ginting, the only survivor of seven members of an Indonesian family infected with bird flu, is being investigated for rare neurological symptoms associated with the illness. [News Source]