WHO confirms Iraq’s third avian flu case (CIDRAP) Sep 19, 2006 (CIDRAP News) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has retrospectively recognized Iraq's third human case of H5N1 avian influenza, involving a 3-year-old boy who was hospitalized with a mild illness in March and recovered. [News Source]

Houston Companies Urged To Prepare For Bird Flu Pandemic (CattleNetwork.com) HOUSTON (Dow Jones)--Although a much-feared global outbreak of avian flu has so far not surfaced, Houston public health officials Tuesday urged local businesses to prepare emergency response plans should a pandemic hit the global energy center. [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]

Rwanda: Rwanda Hosts Bird Flu Regional Workshop (AllAfrica.com) Veterinarians from eleven African countries are undergoing a one-week training session on how to fight the spread of Bird Flu (Avian influenza) in the region. [News Source]

WHO tries to focus on bird flu but remains vigilant elsewhere. WHO is struggling to maintain the public's focus on the risk of a bird-flu pandemic without letting a single -- and still largely hypothetical -- threat overshadow the rest of its ambitious public health agenda. [News Source]

Iraqi boy was country’s third bird flu case: WHO (Reuters via Yahoo! News) A three-year-old Iraqi boy in Baghdad has been confirmed as having survived a mild case of bird flu last March, the first confirmed human infection in the capital, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. [News Source]