Dialling down immune response to bird flu won’t protect against death: study (CNews) TORONTO (CP) - New research suggests successful treatment of the H5N1 avian flu virus requires targeting the virus, not the overwhelming immune response it triggers. [News Source]

Phichit death not due to bird-flu (The Nation) Laboratory tests have ruled out bird flu in the death of a Phichit man over the weekend. [News Source]

China warns of more flood misery. Hundreds of thousands of villagers in east China's Huai river basin, already suffering the region's worst flooding in 50 years, have been told to brace for more heavy rains this week, state media reported on Monday. [News Source]

Veterinarians can alert officials of diseases. Because animals share our food and water supply and have greater contact with the elements, their sicknesses can provide an early alert to environmental problems, human disease and even bioterrorist attacks. [News Source]

Thai man dies of severe pneumonia, not bird flu (MCOT – TNA English News) BANGKOK, July 16 (TNA) - Thailand's Ministry of Public Health has confirmed that a 41-year-old man from the northern province of Phichit died of severe pneumonia, not avian influenza as earlier suspected. [News Source]

DEFRA warns of avian flu risk as migrating birds return to the UK Website EAS (Farmers Weekly Interactive) DEFRA has urged extra vigilance for the signs of avian flu as 100s of thousands of migrating birds begin to return to Britain from Europe. The highest risk is from birds that have passed through the Czech Republic, Germany and France, according to a risk assessment by DEFRA. [News Source]

Phichit man dies of liver virus disease, not bird flu: doctor (The Nation) Phichit - The Phichit Provincial Hospital announced Monday that a man who had bird-flu-like symptom died of liver virus disease, not bird flu. Doctor Suchart Theparak, deputy director of the hospital, said Wichian Boonraksa, 42, had not been in touch with any chicken. [News Source]