Annals Publishes GenoMed’s Approach to Avian Influenza (RedNova) GenoMed™ (OTC Pink Sheets:GMED), the Next Generation Disease Management company whose business is public health™, announced today that its approach to avian influenza ("bird flu") has been published by the prestigious journal Annals of Internal Medicine. [News Source]

World can’t yet let down its guard on bird flu. The threat of a bird flu pandemic is transforming poultry industry practices around the world, but health officials must remain on high alert for five to 10 more years, a top UN official said. [News Source]

Global flu fight needs $10bn, says WHO. Governments need to invest up to $10bn to meet future demand for pandemic flu vaccines and avert a potential public health crisis, a World Health Organisation study warned yesterday. [News Source]

Annals Publishes GenoMed’s Approach to Avian Influenza (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) ST. LOUIS----GenoMed , the Next Generation Disease Management company whose business is public health, announced today that its approach to avian influenza has been published by the prestigious journal Annals of Internal Medicine. [News Source]

East Bridgewater committee prepares for bird flu pandemic (The Enterprise) EAST BRIDGEWATER — With no current vaccine for the avian flu, if the unthinkable happened and there was an outbreak in town, it could take up to five months for the vaccine to arrive and it may come in very small doses. [News Source]

TANZANIA: Zanzibar destroys more eggs to keep bird flu at bay (AlertNet) Source: IRIN Authorities in Zanzibar have incinerated another consignment of chicken eggs smuggled from mainland Tanzania, in the hope of keeping their islands free of avian flu. [News Source]

WHO urges a boost to flu vaccine production. The world is several billion doses short of the flu vaccine production capacity needed to guard against a possible global influenza pandemic, the WHO warned on Monday. [News Source]

UN Official: Bird Flu Taking Increasing Toll Worldwide (CattleNetwork.com) UNITED NATIONS (AP)--More than 30 countries reported outbreaks of bird flu this year and the number of people dying every month is increasing, but the world escaped an immediate influenza pandemic possibly because of the energetic global response to warnings a year ago, the U.N. bird flu chief said Monday. [News Source]

Bird flu falls off media radar as cases mount (Contra Costa Times) Less than a year ago, Americans could barely turn on the television, surf the Internet or pick up a newspaper without finding a doomsday story about deadly avian flu. [News Source]

US: Global vigilance needed to counter bird flu (AngolaPress) UNITED NATIONS, 10/24 - While the deadly bird flu virus had not spread as widely as feared in Africa, vigilance was still needed across the world to counter its advance and deal with its impact on humans, a senior UN official said on Monday. [News Source]

Bird flu still seen as a threat (Kansas City Star) Less than a year ago, it was impossible to turn on the TV, surf the Internet or pick up a newspaper without finding a doomsday story about avian flu. [News Source]