Officials Testing Birds For Avian Flu Virus (WTOL News 11) CRANE CREEK STATE PARK -- Even though it's not a public health crisis, the fact that a bird in our area tested positive for a type of bird flu has officials on alert and taking action. [News Source]

Officials Testing Birds For Avian Flu Virus (WTOL News 11) CRANE CREEK STATE PARK -- Even though it's not a public health crisis, the fact that a bird in our area tested positive for a type of bird flu has officials on alert and taking action. [News Source]

Officials prepare for future flu season. If an influenza pandemic were to take place, it would travel fast and could incapacitate between 15 and 35 percent of the work force, said Tom Russo of the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control. [News Source]

China confirms new H5N1 human case. The Chinese Ministry of Health on Monday confirmed a man had died from the H5N1 bird flu virus in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. [News Source]

White House: lesser bird flu may be here. Scientists have discovered possible bird flu in two wild swans on the shore of Lake Erie -- but it does not appear to be the much-feared Asian strain that has ravaged poultry and killed at least 138 people elsewhere in the world. [News Source]

Bird flu strain is found in Michigan. Officials announced Monday that two wild swans at a Michigan game preserve carried a low pathogenic type of bird flu, but stressed that it posed no threat to humans or the state's poultry industry. [News Source]

2 Michigan swans seem infected with nonlethal avian flu strain. Two swans in Michigan appear to have been infected with an avian flu of the A(H5N1) type, government agricultural officials announced yesterday, but the virus is not the same lethal strain that has killed millions of birds and 139 people in Asia and the Middle East. [News Source]

Bird-flu viruses are discovered in two wild swans in Michigan. If the two samples are confirmed to be a low-pathogenic H5N1 virus, it would mark that virus's return to the U.S. after 20 years. [News Source]

Two wild swans have bird flu virus, but not the virus (USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News) Federal officials say the discovery of a bird flu virus in two wild swans in southeastern Michigan poses no threat to public health or the poultry industry. Tests results released on Monday found H5 and N1 subtypes in the birds, but not the highly pathogenic avian influenza that is in other parts of the world. [News Source]

Two suspected bird flu cases dismissed (MCOT) CHIANG MAI, Aug 15 (TNA) - The Ministry of Public Health on Tuesday confirmed only two people have died from bird flu in Thailand this year and said lab tests on two suspected cases confirmed they did not have the deadly avian flu virus. [News Source]

Officials suspect bird flu in Michigan (Chicago Tribune) But strain in 2 swans is likely non-lethal Two swans in Michigan appear to have been infected with an avian flu of the H5N1 type, government agricultural officials announced Monday, but the virus is not the same lethal strain that has killed millions of birds and 139 people in Asia and the Middle East. [News Source]

Nation is bird flu free (Gulf Times) NEW DELHI: India declared itself free of bird flu after nearly four months of reporting no cases of avian influenza in poultry, a senior animal husbandry official said oyesterday. [News Source]