Vietnam finds more bird flu-infected fowl. Vietnam, worried about a recurrence of the H5N1 bird flu which has already killed 42 of its people, has found more ducks and geese infected with a strain of avian influenza, state media reported on Friday. [News Source]

S.J. man tells of West Nile. West Nile virus is still relatively new to California and almost unheard of by many - including San Joaquin County's latest West Nile patient, the second in the county this year. [News Source]

Indonesia Confirms Second Human Bird Flu Death in Days (U.S. Department of State) Pet pigeons kept inside the home may be the cause of bird flu infection for a 17-year-old girl in Jakarta, Indonesia, who died on August 8, according to a report issued by Indonesia’s Ministry of Health and confirmed by the World Health Organization.  The young woman’s case is the 44th human death from avian influenza in Indonesia, and comes just one day after a 16-year-old boy died of the [News Source]

AED Leads Worldwide Effort to Prevent the Spread of Avian Flu (U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News) The Academy for Educational Development (AED), a Washington-based nonprofit organization, is leading a worldwide effort to help the U.S. Agency for International Development in the prevention and control of avian influenza. The effort is part of the U.S. government's global emergency response to avian influenza. [News Source]

Bird-flu testing migrates to Calif. Shorebirds, species that feed and roost along beaches, estuaries, ponds and lakes, are the first arrivals in the contiguous 48 states from breeding grounds in Alaska, where they mingled this spring with birds from Asia and could have acquired the H5N1 virus. [News Source]

Bird flu monitoring expands nationally. Monitoring of wild migratory birds to prevent a deadly bird flu virus is expanding to cover the entire nation and U.S. territories in the Pacific. [News Source]

State takes measures to protect food sources. North Carolina, the nation's second-largest producer of turkeys, has strengthened protection of its $68 billion agriculture industry in the face of bird flu and other threats. [News Source]

Bird flu: Who’s next? Bangladesh!The Role of Public Administration (News From Bangladesh) In comparison to malaria and diarroeal diseases, which together kill over 3 million people every year, bird flu has killed very few people. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the H5N1 virus may mutate into a new human flu virus against, which humans have no immunity. [News Source]

In the fight against bird flu (Financial Express) The World Health Organisation (WTO) is the agency most active in coordinating the fight against bird flu. [News Source]

Arlington finds more West Nile. Arlington County public health officials announced Wednesday that another mosquito batch, collected recently near the McCoy Park area in North Arlington, has tested positive for West Nile virus. [News Source]

U.S. to Expand Monitoring of Wild Birds for Avian Flu (Fox News) Agriculture and Interior Departments are boosting funds to state agencies to collect fecal and tissue samples from 75,000 to 100,000 migrating wild birds as part of coordinated efort to detect the deadly H5N1 stran of Avian flu. [News Source]