Vietnam, South Korea, Nigeria battle avian flu (CIDRAP) Dec 22, 2006 (CIDRAP News) – More poultry have died of H5N1 avian influenza in Vietnamese provinces where the virus recently re-emerged, and the disease has spread to another province in South Korea and 3 more Nigerian states, according to news reports. [News Source]

Vietnam, UN to launch awareness campaign as bird flu spreads (AFP via Yahoo! News) Vietnam and the United Nations have announced they will launch an awareness campaign on the risks posed by bird flu as the virus continues to spread in two southern provinces. [News Source]

World death toll of a flu pandemic would be 62 million. An influenza pandemic of the type that ravaged the globe in 1918 and 1919 would kill about 62 million people today, with 96 percent of the deaths occurring in developing countries. [News Source]

New flu pandemic could kill 81 million. A flu virus as deadly as the one that caused the 1918 Spanish flu could kill as many as 81 million worldwide if it struck today, a new study estimates. [News Source]

Flu ‘could wipe out 62 million.’ The 1918 pandemic claimed 50 million lives, and experts in The Lancet predict the toll today would be higher than this, despite medical advances. [News Source]

Global flu pandemic would probably kill 62m, study says. Around 62 million people in the world are likely to die if there is a flu pandemic and more than 70,000 of those deaths will be in the UK, according to a statistical analysis published today. [News Source]

Asian nations scramble to prevent bird flu from spreading. Asian countries scrambled Friday to limit the spread of bird flu following a fresh outbreak among poultry in South Korea, as health officials remained uncertain over whether human deaths from bird flu in Indonesia have permanently dropped. [News Source]

Warning: A flu pandemic today could kill as many as 80 million people. New tally of deaths from the 1918 flu outbreak shows that developing countries would be hardest hit. [News Source]

More Nigerian states hit by bird flu infection (Reuters via Yahoo! News) The deadly H5N1 bird flu virus has spread in the last few weeks to two new states in Nigeria and reappeared in two others where it was believed to have been contained, officials said on Friday. [News Source]

South Korea reports new bird-flu outbreak (IANS via Yahoo! India News) Seoul, Dec 22 (DPA) A highly infectious form of bird flu was discovered in a duck in a South Korean farm - the fourth to be hit with avian influenza in a month, the agriculture ministry said Friday. [News Source]

New bird flu outbreak in Asia (ITV.com) A poultry farm in South Korea has been hit by bird flu, with some 6,000 chickens suspected to have died from the virus. The H5N1 strain of avian influenza was discovered in the south west part of the country lying on a path for migratory birds. [News Source]

South Korea reports new bird-flu outbreak (New Kerala) Seoul, Dec 22: A highly infectious form of bird flu was discovered in a duck in a South Korean farm - the fourth to be hit with avian influenza in a month, the agriculture ministry said Friday. [News Source]