Bird Flu Kills Indonesian, May Have Returned to Japan (Update2) (Bloomberg.com) Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Bird flu killed a 37-year-old woman in Indonesia and may have infected hundreds of poultry in Japan as the lethal virus resurfaces across Asia. [News Source]

Bird Flu Kills 59th Indonesian; Japan Probes Suspected Outbreak (Bloomberg.com) Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Bird flu killed a 37-year-old woman in Indonesia and may have infected hundreds of poultry in Japan as the lethal virus resurfaces across Asia. [News Source]

Avian flu prevention puzzle: linking knowledge, action (CIDRAP) Jan 11, 2006 (CIDRAP News) – An uptick in human cases of H5N1 avian influenza is focusing attention on the unsolved problem of crafting influenza-prevention messages that developing-world farmers—the group at highest risk for the disease—will trust and follow. [News Source]

Indonesia’s bird flu death toll rises to 59 (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News) _ A 37-year-old woman who had tested positive for for H5N1 strain bird flu died late Thursday, bringing Indonesia's death toll from avian influenza to 59, a Health Ministry senior official said. [News Source]

FACTBOX-Bird flu’s spread around the globe (Reuters via Yahoo! News) The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Thursday the death of an Indonesian teenager from bird flu. [News Source]

FACTBOX-Bird flu’s spread around the globe (AlertNet) Source: Reuters Jan 11 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed on Thursday the death of an Indonesian teenager from bird flu. China said on Wednesday that a farmer from the eastern ... [News Source]

Bird flu transmitted to a human. South Korean officials said Thursday that the bird flu virus had been transmitted to a human during a recent outbreak among poultry. [News Source]

New U.S. institute aims to bolster world health. Atlanta's Emory University launched a new global health institute on Wednesday in recognition that diseases from AIDS to bird flu cross all political and philosophical barriers. [News Source]

Conspiracists let theories fly about cause of bird deaths. Health officials were trying to pinpoint Wednesday what killed 63 birds Monday morning along Congress Avenue, and there was no shortage of theories being offered by concerned residents. [News Source]

Chinese Farmer Recovering But Indonesian Boy Dies From Bird Flu (Medical News Today) A 37 year old Chinese farmer is recovering but sadly, a 14 year old Indonesian boy died yesterday from contracting the H5N1 strain of bird flu.Health authorities in China say the farmer who contracted the H5N1 strain of bird flu in early December is making a full recovery. [click link for full article] [News Source]

Bird flu spreads in southern Vietnam (AFP via Yahoo! News) Vietnam has said a series of bird flu outbreaks among poultry has spread to a fifth southern province, raising fears of a nationwide resurgence of the deadly virus this winter. [News Source]

China Reports Bird Flu Case; Indonesian Boy Dies (New York Times) China reported its first human case of A(H5N1) avian flu in six months, a farmer from eastern Anhui who fell ill but made a full recovery. At the same time, a 14-year-old boy in Indonesia died of the disease, four days after being admitted to a Jakarta hospital. [News Source]