Egypt confirms bird flu virus resists Tamiflu (People’s Daily) The Egyptian Health Ministry Saturday confirmed that last month's two infections of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus resisted Tamiflu, the best known drug to treat avian flu among humans, the official news agency MENA reported. [News Source]

Indonesian Woman Dies From Bird Flu (Voice of America) Indonesia's Health Ministry announced Saturday the death of another woman from Avian influenza, raising the country's death toll to 62. Meanwhile, South Korean officials are planning to slaughter hundreds of thousands of poultry to contain their own bird flu outbreak. [News Source]

Bird flu prompts cull in South Korea. South Korean quarantine authorities are preparing to slaughter more than 270,000 poultry after an outbreak of a virulent strain of bird flu. [News Source]

Bird deaths pose no risk to public, officials say. County health officials said Friday that the parasitic infections responsible for the deaths of 63 birds on Congress Avenue almost two weeks ago pose no risk to humans in the Austin area. [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]

Egyptian Woman Dies Of Bird Flu; 11th Death In Country (Nasdaq) CAIRO(AP)--A 27-year-old Egyptian woman has died of bird flu, the country's 11th death from the avian flu strain, the state-run news agency reported. The woman, identified as housewife Warda Eid Ahmed from Beni Suef, about 90 kilometers south of Cairo, had tested positive for H5N1 strain. [News Source]

Indonesian Woman Dies of Bird Flu; Toll Rises to 62 (Update1) (Bloomberg.com) Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Bird flu killed a 19-year-old Indonesian woman who died yesterday, said Muhammad Nadhirin, a doctor at the Ministry of Health's avian flu control center, citing a laboratory test result that came out today. [News Source]

Infection specialist says people catching e. coli or bird flu is unlikely (McKinney Courier-Gazette) The avian influenza (bird flu) and escherichia coli have caused panics in the United States. But Tom Button, Medical Center of McKinney director of infection control, said the likelihood of catching either of these diseases is unlikely. [News Source]

Egypt reports new human bird flu death (People’s Daily) An Egyptian woman died of bird flu on Friday, bringing the death toll from the avian flu to 11, the official MENA news agency reported. [News Source]