China confirms human case of bird flu (AP via Yahoo! News) China reported a new human case of bird flu on Thursday, and the World Health Organization disputed Indonesia's claim that the two were close to resolving a dispute over sharing virus samples that could be used to develop a commercial vaccine. [News Source]

Early Prediction Tool for Bird Flu (RedNova) The University of Iowa and Iowa Health Prediction Market have developed a system to collect and analyze data if a human-to-human bird flu outbreak occurred. [News Source]

China confirms human case of bird flu (AP via Yahoo! News) China reported a new human case of bird flu on Thursday, and the World Health Organization disputed Indonesia's claim that the two were close to resolving a dispute over sharing virus samples that could be used to develop a commercial vaccine. [News Source]

Early prediction tool for bird flu (UPI) The University of Iowa and Iowa Health Prediction Market have developed a system to collect and analyze data if a human-to-human bird flu outbreak ... [News Source]

Early prediction tool for bird flu (EARTHtimes.org) The University of Iowa and Iowa Health Prediction Market have developed a system to collect and analyze data if a human-to-human bird flu outbreak occurred. [News Source]

Iowa Health Prediction Market Opens Trading On Avian Flu Market (Newswise) A new tool can help public health officials better predict when a bird flu pandemic will strike and plan ways to stem its effects. A collaboration of the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business and Carver College of Medicine, the Iowa Health Prediction Market has launched the Avian Flu Market [News Source]

China confirms new human bird flu case (UPI)

Chinese authorities said a 44-year-old woman who kept five chickens at her home is China’s latest human case of bird flu. The woman lives in the eastern …

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Kuwait reports two new bird flu cases (AFP via Yahoo! News) Two new cases of the H5N1 strain of bird flu have been detected in Kuwait, one in a chicken and the other in a falcon, a health ministry official said on Thursday. [News Source]

Futures market created for bird flu (WOI-TV Des Moines) ATLANTA Think bird flu will become a worldwide threat this summer? [News Source]

Bird flu market takes flight. Starting today, doctors and other health experts will be able to "bet" on the likelihood of an avian flu pandemic using a new predictive market at the University of Iowa. [News Source]

Aristocrat’s coffin could hold key to bird flu. The body of an English aristocrat who died almost 90 years ago is to be exhumed in the hope that it could help the fight against bird flu and other potential pandemics. [News Source]

China reports new human bird flu case. 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 the country in about seven weeks. [News Source]