iJET Releases Year-in-Review Report on Avian Flu and Pandemic Planning (SYS-CON Media) iJET Intelligent Risk Systems, a leading provider of global intelligence, operating risk management technology and integrated emergency response services, today announced the publication and general availability of Avian Influenza and Pandemic Planning 2006: Year in Review. The free summary report provides an overview of global developments and initiatives regarding avian flu and aims to help ... [News Source]

Bird flu resurfaces in north Nigeria’s main city (AFP via Yahoo! News) An outbreak of the deadly N5H1 strain of bird flu has resurfaced among poultry in northern Nigeria's commercial capital Kano, veterinary officials have said. [News Source]

Reports on suspected SARS patients ‘groundless.’ Media reports that over a dozen people have been hospitalized for possible SARS, or bird flu infections at a local hospital in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province were denounced Monday as untrue and groundless. [News Source]

Avian Flu Talk: Suspected Bird Flu Patients Continue to Rise (PR Web) The most recent reports in Indonesia indicate that the number of suspected cases is still increasing, but the Public Health Ministry has been slow to confirm these reports. (PRWeb Jan 22, 2007) [News Source]

iJET Releases Year-in-Review Report on Avian Flu and Pandemic Planning (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) iJET Intelligent Risk Systems, a leading provider of global intelligence, operating risk management technology and integrated emergency response services, today announced the publication and general availability of Avian Influenza and Pandemic Planning 2006: Year in Review. [News Source]

Avian Flu Talk: Suspected Bird Flu Patients Continue to Rise (PR Web via Yahoo! News) (PRWeb) January 22, 2007 -- There has been a lot of discussion lately on the Avian Flu Talk message board regarding reports from national media sources, which are now indicating that the number of bird flu patients is continuing to rise since the avian flu virus re-emerged last month after a near 6 week hiatus. [News Source]

Egypt on high alert as bird flu virus becomes more resistant (AFP via Yahoo! News) Egypt is on high alert after the H5N1 strain of the avian flu became more resistant to the Tamiflu antiviral drug predominantly used to combat the disease, the health minister has been quoted as saying. [News Source]

Awareness not enough to combat bird flu (Asia Times) KANCHANBURI, Thailand - The upsurge in bird-flu outbreaks in Southeast Asia has raised a paradoxical question: Does high community awareness about the cause and handling of the potentially fatal disease lead to behavioral change that could prevent the global spread of the H5N1 virus? [News Source]

South Korea to cull 660,000 animals to stem bird flu (AFP via Yahoo! News) South Korean health officials have announced plans to slaughter more than 660,000 poultry and pigs to try to stem a new outbreak of potentially deadly bird flu. [News Source]

Bird flu returns (Radio Singapore International) The avian flu has returned to Indonesia with four recent deaths from the virus. The Republic, along with the World Health Organization, is bracing for the worst. [News Source]