Bird flu kills 64th person in Indonesia (Moldova.org) Health officials in Indonesia say a 20-year-old woman has become that country's 64th human victim of the avian influenza.The BBC reported Sunday that the woman died in West Java, one day after being diagnosed with the bird flu virus. The woman had direct contact with infected chickens, and two of her neighbors are hospitalized with bird flu symptoms, the report said. Bird flu has killed 64 people ... [News Source]

Who pays to stop a pandemic? Bird flu has not yet turned into a pandemic, but it is already killing the meager hopes of some of the world's poorest people for a marginally better life. [News Source]

Miliband defends import decision. Environment Secretary David Miliband has defended the decision to allow imports of turkey meat from Hungary to continue, even after an outbreak of bird flu was confirmed in the UK. Blocking imports would have breached European Union rules and invited continent-wide retaliation against the British poultry industry, he said. [News Source]

USDA may allow China to import chickens to U.S.. The U.S. Department of Agriculture wants to allow China, where 14 people have died of bird flu since 2003, to sell chicken to the United States. [News Source]

Scandal over ‘bird flu’ imports. The government allowed Bernard Matthews to continue importing turkey meat from a bird flu-hit region of Hungary even though it suspected the area was the source of the British outbreak. [News Source]

Matthews plant linked to Hungary outbreak. An investigation was launched last night into claims that a farm less than 20 miles from the epicentre of the Hungarian bird flu outbreak supplied meat to the Bernard Matthews subsidiary there. [News Source]

Turkey meat danger ‘ignored’ by Defra. The UK government allowed turkey meat from an area of Hungary affected by bird flu to be imported by Bernard Matthews despite concern that the area was the source of the British outbreak, it was claimed last night. [News Source]

Poultry import ban is urged. The Government was under mounting pressure last night to introduce tighter restrictions on imports of raw meat from countries infected by bird flu, as investigators worked around the clock to see if any contaminated food was on sale in British shops. [News Source]

Bird flu virus kills Indonesian. A 20-year-old woman in Indonesia who tested positive for bird flu has died, becoming the country's 64th human victim, a health official said. [News Source]

Not made in Britain. Very few of us actually know exactly what we are eating and where it comes from. The fact is that under current food-labelling rules, companies are allowed an enormous amount of leeway to confuse, at best, or even to mislead consumers. And most take full advantage of it. [News Source]

Grubby scandal shames our poultry industry. The Observer's website revealed last week that ministers were kept in the dark about the Hungarian connection to Bernard Matthews's turkeys. Now the fall-out from H5N1 will hit shoppers, politicians and a multi-billion-pound business [News Source]

Wash your hands! The CDC's guidelines instruct American communities on how they might slow the spread of a bad flu in the absence of viable drugs or vaccines. Such rules are desperately needed. [News Source]