Bird flu reappears in Germany (AFP via Yahoo! News) A swan found dead in Dresden zoo in eastern Germany was infected with the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, the first such case in the country in nearly three months, local authorities said. [News Source]

New bird flu fears in Indonesia. Seven people from the same village have been hospitalised in Indonesia with suspected bird flu, officials say. [News Source]

New bird-flu clusters are feared in Indonesia. Seven Indonesians from the same village on Sumatra were being treated for bird-flu symptoms Wednesday, in what doctors and officials fear could be two new clusters of the virus. [News Source]

‘No cancer cluster’ in school building. Melbourne's RMIT University will re-open the top two floors of its business school building after a study found 16 tumours among staff working on those floors did not constitute a cluster of cancer cases. [News Source]

Public education remains vital to control bird flu: committee (Viet Nam News) HA NOI — Strengthening public education remained a pivotal measure to maintain the country’s success in controlling avian flu, health and agriculture officials agreed at a meeting in Ha Noi on Tuesday. [News Source]

GlobalOptions Group Offers Comprehensive Bird Flu Protection Kits (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) NEW YORK----Aug. 3, 2006--SafirRosetti and James Lee Witt Associates , two units of GlobalOptions Group , the international risk assessment and management group, have teamed up to create and offer a Bird Flu Protection Kit designed to help ensure worker safety at corporations, organizations, and government agencies. [News Source]

Human Bird Flu Cases Suspected in Thailand, Vietnam (Update2) (Bloomberg.com) Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Asia's bird flu threat intensified as suspected human cases were reported in Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam, indicating a fresh wave of outbreaks of the virus that began spreading in the region almost three years ago. [News Source]

Dutch report bird flu strain, begin culling to halt spread (Gulf Times) Dutch authorities culled 25,000 chickens at a farm infected with a low-pathogenic H7 bird flu strain yesterday and sealed off another 130 farms to prevent a major outbreak in one of the world’s top poultry exporter. [News Source]

Woman confirmed bird flu as 144 suspected in Thailand (People’s Daily) The initial test of a 61-year-old woman in central Thailand who fell ill with bird-flu-like symptoms showed positive for avian influenza, Thai officials and local media reported Thursday. [News Source]

Indonesia: 7 in Same Village Tested for Bird Flu (New York Times) The seven cases in the village of Sumber Mufakat, in the Karo district of Sumatra, have raised new concerns about human-to-human transmission of bird flu. [News Source]