Effective Booster Shot A Bit Of Good News Against Bird Flu (Science Daily) An initial priming shot given in advance of a booster shot may be an effective way to protect people against bird flu, researchers say in a presentation at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. [News Source]

Human Bird Flu Infection Confirmed In Egypt (Medical News Today) A 39-year-old woman has H5N1 bird flu infection, according to Egypt's Ministry of Health. The last time a person became ill with bird flu in Egypt was in May, 2006.The woman comes from the Gharbiya governorate in the Nile Delta. On September 30th she developed bird flu like symptoms and was taken to hospital on 4th October, where she developed pneumonia. [click link for full article] [News Source]

Indonesia’s bird flu death toll rises to 52 (Reuters via Yahoo! News) An Indonesian man who had been suffering from bird flu for days died early on Thursday, a hospital official said, taking Indonesia's death toll from the disease to 52. [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]

Egypt: Another Human Case of Bird Flu (AllAfrica.com) Egyptian health officials on Thursday blamed the most recent case of human bird-flu infection in Egypt on poor observance of government regulations aimed at stamping out the virus. [News Source]

U.S. pandemic flu plan: Hole up at home. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is pitching a plan to use primative infection-control measures to deal with a killer flu outbreak at medical meetings and aims to send it out for review by the end of the year. [News Source]

EU to expand avian flu monitoring of wild birds. The European Union will expand monitoring of wild birds during migration seasons to strengthen its defences against the potential spread of bird flu. [News Source]

FAO opens new bird flu crisis unit (AFP via Yahoo! News) The UN food agency FAO has opened a new crisis unit to enable a rapid response to outbreaks of bird flu and other animal or plant diseases threatening human health. [News Source]

BIRD FLU EDUCATION (Meat News) THAILAND: UNICEF helps Thailand with preventive education over avian influenza in schools. [News Source]

EGYPT: Another human case of bird flu (AlertNet) Source: IRIN Egyptian health officials on Thursday blamed the most recent case of human bird-flu infection in Egypt on poor observance of government regulations aimed at stamping out the virus, after it was confirmed on Wednesday that a 39-year old woman in the Nile Delta province of Gharbiya had contracted avian influenza. [News Source]

Common sense on clean air at last. The announcement from Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office of the Conservative government's long-awaited response to the arbitrary and unworkable Kyoto protocol was certainly welcome news. [News Source]

Those greenhouse gases just keep rolling along. Canada's Conservatives have acknowledged what the Liberals would not: that there is no earthly way Canada can meet Mr.Chrétien's 1997 commitment to Kyoto by the deadline of 2012. [News Source]