Imugene set to trial bird flu vaccines (The Age) Biotechnology company Imugene Ltd is about to trial two potential avian influenza vaccines on chickens to see if they protect the fowls from the potentially fatal illness. [News Source]

Imugene set to trial bird flu vaccines (AAP via Yahoo!7 News) Biotechnology company Imugene is about to trial two potential avian influenza vaccines on chickens to see if they protect the fowls. [News Source]

Imugene set to trial bird flu vaccines (AAP via Yahoo!7 Finance) Biotechnology company Imugene is about to trial two potential avian influenza vaccines on chickens to see if they protect the fowls. [News Source]

Is rural Virginia ready for the Avian Flu? (Northern Virginia Times Community) "We're due for a pandemic. Avian influenza could be it," said Kathy Hatter, emergency planner for the Rappahannock-Rapidan Health District, which includes Rappahannock County. "And we know when it comes it will be no small matter." [News Source]

Indonesia’s local test shows girl infected with bird flu (People’s Daily) Indonesia laboratory test indicated a six-year-old girl tested positive for avian influenza, a director at the Health Ministry said on Wednesday. [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]

WHO confirms 60th bird flu case in Indonesia, urges sequence sharing (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News) _ The World Health Organization on Wednesday confirmed the 60th case of human infection with the H5N1 strain of bird flu after a 6-year-old girl was tested positive of having the virus. [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]

PM seeks nationwide effort to prevent bird flu outbreaks (Viet Nam News) HA NOI — Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday urged leaders of cities and provinces to make all-out efforts to prevent avian flu from returning to the country. [News Source]

No intrahuman spread detected in Garut cases. Health Ministry officials said Tuesday there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission of H5N1 in several remote West Java villages where two people have died and a third has been sickened by the killer virus. [News Source]

CDC releasing gene blueprints. U.S. health officials have placed the genetic blueprints of more than 650 flu viruses into a public database, in an attempt to increase flu research and set an example for other nations. [News Source]

FAO Warns Caucasus at High-Risk for Bird Flu (Civil Georgia) Despite successful efforts to contain the spread of the deadly H5N1 virus, avian flu poses a threat to a growing number of countries and the Caucasus and southern Balkans are now considered “high-risk” areas, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on August 21. [News Source]