Ames lab prepares for avian flu testing (Iowa Farmer) AMES (AP) -- The government’s elaborate network for diagnosing bird flu will eventually come down to a sprawling 640-acre campus in the Iowa countryside where strict security is the only hint of the crucial role scientists there could play. [News Source]

Expert: Plan for bird flu, ‘or lose”™ (Portsmouth Herald) SOMERSWORTH -- Public health officials discussed the potential impact an avian flu pandemic might have on businesses, but also offered ways they might minimize the damage. [News Source]

Bird Flu Fatalities Almost Triple, Spurring Need for Treatments (Bloomberg.com) June 28 (Bloomberg) -- Bird flu fatalities have almost tripled this year as the lethal virus spread across Asia, Europe and Africa, prompting calls for increased supplies of medicines to fight the virus and any pandemic it might spawn. [News Source]

Indonesia’s environment seriously degraded in 2005. As a consequence of the environmental degradation, Indonesia was hit by a number of natural disasters such as floods, landslides and disease outbreaks. [News Source]

Bird Flu Fatalities Almost Triple, Spurring Need for Treatments (Bloomberg.com) June 28 (Bloomberg) -- Bird flu fatalities have almost tripled this year as the lethal virus spread across Asia, Europe and Africa, prompting calls for increased supplies of medicines to fight the virus and any pandemic it might spawn. [News Source]

BioTech Medics, Inc. Answers Questions Over Testing of Patented SHBAN(TM) Solution as Avian Bird Flu Virus Anti-Viral (SYS-CON Media) BioTech Medics, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: BTMD)announced June 23, 2006, that it has contracted with Retroscreen Virology,at the University of London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine, London toconduct a study to determine the efficacy of viricidal SHBAN against AvianHSN1 Influenza NIBRG-14 Virus (also known as the Avian Bird Flu). [News Source]

Avian flu: What would it mean for Robeson? (The Robesonian) LUMBERTON - Until a few years ago, most people regarded “bird flu” as just that - a flu for birds. [News Source]

Mount Sinai School Of Medicine Licenses Avian Flu Vaccine To Avimex (Medical News Today) Mount Sinai School of Medicine today announced that it has entered into a territory limited license agreement with Avimex* Animal Health. The privately owned world-leader in the avian influenza H5 emulsified vaccine market will use Mount Sinai's patented live recombinant Newcastle disease technology that contains an insertion of the H5 gene, for use in Brazil, India, Japan, Mexico, and Taiwan. [News Source]

Ames lab prepares for avian flu testing (Iowa Farmer) AMES (AP) -- The government’s elaborate network for diagnosing bird flu will eventually come down to a sprawling 640-acre campus in the Iowa countryside where strict security is the only hint of the crucial role scientists there could play. [News Source]

Bird flu pandemic a 180-bln-euro risk to EU economy (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News) PARIS (Reuters) - A bird flu pandemic among humans could cost upwards of 180 billion euros in lost economic output in the European Union in the year that it strikes, according to a study for the European Commission. [News Source]

Hemispherx Biopharma to Present at The First International Conference on Avian Influenza in Humans at the Pasteur (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) PHILADELPHIA----June 27, 2006--Hemispherx Biopharma, Inc. announced today that Mr. Richard Piani, Lead Director on the Board of Hemispherx, will be presenting at the First International Conference on Avian Influenza in Humans at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France, June 29 and 30. [News Source]

New Zealand prepares for beef with US. The day New Zealand has to fight the United States for its beef trade with Japan is approaching. [News Source]