Two more birds in Hong Kong test positive for avian flu (AFP via Yahoo! News) Initial tests have shown two dead birds found in Hong Kong were infected with the milder strain of H5 avian flu, the agriculture department has said. [News Source]

Bird Flu Takes Flight (Time Magazine) Bird Flu Takes Flight [News Source]

Two more birds test positive for avian flu (TODAYonline) A chicken vendor cleans his stall at a market in Hong Kong. Initial tests have shown two dead birds found in Hong Kong were infected with the milder strain of H5 avian flu, the agriculture department has said. [News Source]

Two more birds test positive for avian flu (AFP via Yahoo! News) Initial tests have shown two dead birds found in Hong Kong were infected with the milder strain of H5 avian flu, the agriculture department has said. [News Source]

Medical College Wins Grant to Develop Rapid Outpatient Device to Detect Bird Flu and Bioterror Agents (Newswise) In response to the federal government's high priority for accelerated research to combat bird flu and bioterrorism, the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee has been awarded a five-year, $8.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to develop a rapid, miniaturized, automated diagnostic device to test for avian flu and the ... [News Source]

Moderately drug resistant form of bird flu detected in Egypt: WHO (AFP via Yahoo! News) Two human cases of H5N1 bird flu reported in Egypt last month had a mutated form of the virus that reduces the effect of treatment with the frontline anti-flu drug Tamiflu, the World Health Organisation said. [News Source]

Moderately drug resistant form of bird flu detected in Egypt: WHO (AFP via Yahoo! News) Two human cases of H5N1 bird flu reported in Egypt last month had a mutated form of the virus that reduces the effect of treatment with the frontline anti-flu drug Tamiflu, the World Health Organisation said. [News Source]

Bird Flu (News From Bangladesh) Early this week Thailand suffered its first outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus in six months. This year Vietnam also faced a rash of the same outbreaks and Indonesia, the world capital of Bird Flu, had four human deaths due to the same flu. [News Source]

More Bird Flu Deaths in Humans Reported as Milestone Is Passed (U.S. Department of State) Indonesian health authorities are reporting another human death from a dangerous strain of avian influenza -- the fourth in that nation in 2007, according to case histories compiled by the World Health Organization (WHO). Indonesia’s latest deaths push its fatalities from this strain of bird flu -- H5N1-- to 61, the highest number for any of the 10 countries where humans have become infected with ... [News Source]

Bird flu outbreak in Japan highly virulent (AFP via Yahoo! News) Japan confirmed that the bird flu virus in its latest outbreak was an especially virulent strain, killing all animals in laboratory testing. [News Source]

Bird flu mutations in Egypt suggest antiviral resistance. Mutations in the bird flu virus have been found in two people in Egypt, in a form that might be resistant to the medication most commonly used to treat the deadly disease, according to laboratory tests approved by WHO. [News Source]

Scientists reveal how world’s worst flu killed victims. The victims of the deadliest flu pandemic in history were killed when their bodies unleashed an uncontrolled immune reaction as a protective mechanism. [News Source]