Bird-Flu Deaths Estimate Revised Upward; PANDEMIC DANGER (RedNova) By SCANLON, Sean The world's next flu pandemic could kill up to 62 million people, says a new study, as concerns mount among medical experts that vaccines developed to fight mutating bird flu will not work. [News Source]

Vietnam family tests negative for bird flu (AFP via Yahoo! News) A Vietnamese family has tested negative for bird flu, a health official said, after their hospital admission with respiratory ailments had sparked fears of a resurgence in human infections. [News Source]

N Korea Reportedly Builds Hospital Ward for Suspected Bird Flu Patients (RedNova) Text of report in English by South Korean news agency Yonhap Seoul, 31 December: North Korea has completed building a hospital ward for contagious diseases, mainly bird flu, with support from the World Health Organization, a pro-Pyongyang newspaper in Japan said Sunday. [News Source]

Vietnamese family tests negative for bird flu (Channel NewsAsia) HANOI : A Vietnamese family has tested negative for bird flu, a health official said Sunday, after their hospital admission with respiratory ailments had sparked fears of a resurgence in human infections. [News Source]

Vietnamese family in hospital with bird flu symptoms (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Four members of a Vietnamese family have been hospitalized with symptoms of bird flu after eating sick chickens in the country's south, where the disease re-emerged in poultry earlier this month. [News Source]

Vietnamese family in hospital with bird flu symptoms (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Four members of a Vietnamese family have been hospitalized with symptoms of bird flu after eating sick chickens in the country's south, where the disease re-emerged in poultry earlier this month. [News Source]

Three People Dead in Egypt, Raising Human Avian Flu Toll to 157 (U.S. Department of State) Three members of an extended family have died in Egypt after being infected with H5N1 avian influenza, bringing the human toll in that nation to 18 cases and 10 deaths since February, and the total worldwide since 2003 to 261 cases and 157 deaths. "Our understanding is that there is exposure to sick poultry, in this case ducks, by the people that became ill," John Rainford, a spokesman at World ... [News Source]

Three People Dead in Egypt, Raising Human Avian Flu Toll to 157 (U.S. Department of State) Three members of an extended family have died in Egypt after being infected with H5N1 avian influenza, bringing the human toll in that nation to 18 cases and 10 deaths since February, and the total worldwide since 2003 to 261 cases and 157 deaths. "Our understanding is that there is exposure to sick poultry, in this case ducks, by the people that became ill," John Rainford, a spokesman at World ... [News Source]

Three People Dead in Egypt, Raising Human Avian Flu Toll to 157 (U.S. Department of State) Three members of an extended family have died in Egypt after being infected with H5N1 avian influenza, bringing the human toll in that nation to 18 cases and 10 deaths since February, and the total worldwide since 2003 to 261 cases and 157 deaths. "Our understanding is that there is exposure to sick poultry, in this case ducks, by the people that became ill," John Rainford, a spokesman at World ... [News Source]

Three People Dead in Egypt, Raising Human Avian Flu Toll to 157 (U.S. Department of State) Three members of an extended family have died in Egypt after being infected with H5N1 avian influenza, bringing the human toll in that nation to 18 cases and 10 deaths since February, and the total worldwide since 2003 to 261 cases and 157 deaths. "Our understanding is that there is exposure to sick poultry, in this case ducks, by the people that became ill," John Rainford, a spokesman at World ... [News Source]

Three People Dead in Egypt, Raising Human Avian Flu Toll to 157 (U.S. Department of State) Three members of an extended family have died in Egypt after being infected with H5N1 avian influenza, bringing the human toll in that nation to 18 cases and 10 deaths since February, and the total worldwide since 2003 to 261 cases and 157 deaths. "Our understanding is that there is exposure to sick poultry, in this case ducks, by the people that became ill," John Rainford, a spokesman at World ... [News Source]

Three People Dead in Egypt, Raising Human Avian Flu Toll to 157 (U.S. Department of State) Three members of an extended family have died in Egypt after being infected with H5N1 avian influenza, bringing the human toll in that nation to 18 cases and 10 deaths since February, and the total worldwide since 2003 to 261 cases and 157 deaths. "Our understanding is that there is exposure to sick poultry, in this case ducks, by the people that became ill," John Rainford, a spokesman at World ... [News Source]