China confirms human case of bird flu (AP via Yahoo! News) A farmer in southeast China has contracted the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, state media reported Thursday. [News Source]

China reports new human bird flu case (CNN.com) BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- A farmer in China's southeastern province of Fujian has been infected with the H5N1 form of bird flu, state media said on Thursday, the first human case in about seven weeks. [News Source]

Proposed bird-flu vaccine said a stopgap (AP via Yahoo! News) Even as U.S. health officials decide whether to approve the first bird flu vaccine, Sanofi Aventis SA and others are studying ways of fending off a pandemic with even better shots. [News Source]

Chinese Woman Contracts Bird Flu, New Outbreaks Elsewhere in Asia (Voice of America) China has confirmed a new human case of bird flu, the first in seven weeks. Government-run media reported Wednesday that a 44-year old woman from southeastern Fujian province contracted the H5N1 strain of the avian flu virus. [News Source]

Dead aristocrat may hold key to bird flu (USA Today) Scientists want to exhume the body of a British diplomat who died of Spanish flu during the 1919 pandemic in hopes of discovering clues to fight a possible future global outbreak sparked by the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus. [News Source]

China confirms new human bird flu case (AFP via Yahoo! News) China on Wednesday confirmed a human case of bird flu, the country's first for seven weeks, the Hong Kong government's media service reported. [News Source]

House curbs wildlife bill before passing it. The House of Delegates set limits on a proposed ban on baiting or feeding wildlife where the state Division of Natural Resources fears a possible disease outbreak. [News Source]

Panel endorses first vaccine for avian flu. The first vaccine against avian flu for the United States was endorsed by a FDA advisory panel yesterday, but merely as a stopgap measure until better vaccines are developed. [News Source]

Body in lead coffin may hold key to fighting pandemic. Nearly 90 years after his death, researchers hoping to find the best way of treating the predicted bird flu pandemic have been given the go-ahead to exhume the body of a celebrated politician and diplomat who was a victim of the Spanish flu epidemic. [News Source]

Flu remedy linked to spate of teen deaths. In the wake of at least 18 juvenile fatalities, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has asked the Japanese importer of Tamiflu, an anti-viral drug regarded as the most important shield against bird flu in humans, to collect information about the patients who take it. [News Source]

Proposed bird-flu vaccine said a stopgap. Even as U.S. health officials decide whether to approve the first bird flu vaccine, Sanofi Aventis SA and others are studying ways of fending off a pandemic with even better shots. [News Source]

Sweden boosts bird flu security measures (AFP via Yahoo! News) Sweden said Wednesday it was ordering poultry and other birds in captivity in the southern third of the country to be kept indoors because of recent outbreaks of the H5N1 bird flu strain in Europe and the imminent migration season. [News Source]