No human-to-human cases of bird flu transmission (Vietnam Net) VietNamNet Bridge - The World Health Organization (WHO) has not discovered any case of avian influenza being transmitted from one human being to another, the Preventive Medicine Department of Vietnam says. [News Source]

Bird flu update: 3 September 2007 (SciDev.net) Below is a roundup of the key developments on the spread of the bird flu virus (H5N1) and the threat it poses to human health. Each title is a link to the full article. [News Source]

Indonesia dismisses human transmission on bird flu (People’s Daily) Indonesia confirmed that there has been no human-to-human transmission of avian influenza virus in the country, Health Minister Siti Fadilah Syupari said here Monday. The minister told a press conference that thousands people had been ... [News Source]

Bird flu researchers gather in Bangkok (Moldova.org) Expert researchers in Bangkok say there are no studies to confirm whether wild birds are carriers of the H5N1 bird flu virus. Researchers gathered this week in Bangkok in hopes of figuring out better ways to track how the disease is spreading, the Voice of America reported Monday.Researchers are worried that the data they have been using might be unreliable because there is no uniform system of ... [News Source]

Bird flu researchers gather in Bangkok (EARTHtimes.org) Expert researchers in Bangkok say there are no studies to confirm whether wild birds are carriers of the H5N1 bird flu virus. Researchers gathered this week in Bangkok in hopes of figuring out better ways to track how the disease is spreading, the Voice ... [News Source]

Bird flu researchers gather in Bangkok (UPI) Expert researchers in Bangkok say there are no studies to confirm whether wild birds are carriers of the H5N1 bird flu virus. [News Source]

Indonesia dismisses human-to-human bird flu report (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Indonesia rejected on Monday a study by U.S. researchers that concluded that the H5N1 bird flu virus had spread from person to person during an outbreak last year, saying it was misleading. [News Source]

Scientists Not Sure Whether Wild Birds Are Carrying Avian Influenza Virus (Voice of America) Researchers say studies do not confirm whether wild birds are carriers of the H5N1 bird flu virus. VOA's Luis Ramirez reports from Bangkok, where experts are gathering this week to figure out better ways to track how the disease is spreading. [News Source]

Ordinance to institutionalize fight vs bird flu pushed (Sun Star) ALARMED by the possible health effects of the dreaded bird flu, several members of the Provincial Board of Negros Oriental pushed for the institutionalization of the campaign against the entry of the dreaded bird flu in the province. [News Source]

The Potential Avian Flu Pandemic (Foreign Relations) What is avian flu? “Bird flu,” as it is more commonly known, is a highly contagious virus that spreads among birds, particularly poultry, and passes from one geographic region to another through migration of the natural host species—aquatic ducks and geese—as well as by animal smuggling. [News Source]

Minister denies bird flu in RI spreading by human-to-human transmision (Antara News) Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari denied here Monday that bird flu (Avian Influenza/AI) in Indonesia has begun to spread by human-to-human transmission. [News Source]

WHO confirms five human bird flu cases in Vietnam. The World Health Organization has confirmed five human bird flu cases in Vietnam, four of them fatal. [News Source]