Uganda: Government Takes Action On Bird Flu (AllAfrica.com) ALL poultry owners in Uganda are required to register their chickens, including indigenous breeds, with the parish chiefs. The measure is meant to prepare for a possible bird flu outbreak now that the disease has spread to South Sudan. [News Source]

Tamiflu doses languish as public forgets bird flu threat (NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News) Thousands of doses of bird flu medication are languishing on pharmacy shelves nationwide, as the people who ordered them in the midst of pandemic hysteria two years ago have forgotten all about collecting them. [News Source]

Bird flu: new chapter is unfolding. The bird flu virus may become endemic in parts of Europe, with ducks and geese more of a vector for spreading it than previously thought, the UN said on Thursday. [News Source]

Preparing to battle a crisis in the future. Haunted by the knowledge that influenza killed 50 million people in 1918, scientists and public health officials continue to seek ways to head off the next great pandemic. [News Source]

The overlooked pandemic. Few nowadays are familiar with what transpired during an event that some call the "forgotten pandemic." It was long neglected by historians even though as many as 50 million died worldwide. [News Source]

Nigeria: UNICEF/NOA Sensitizes FCT Communities on Bird Flu (AllAfrica.com) The National Orientation Agency (NOA) in collaboration with UNICEF last Tuesday and Wednesday organized a sensitization workshop for communities in three area councils of AMAC, Kuje and Bwari in the FCT on the avian influenza, popularly called bird flu. [News Source]

Bird Flu Virus In Europe – A Hidden Danger (Medical News Today) The avian influenza virus H5N1 could become entrenched in chickens and domestic ducks and geese in parts of Europe, FAO warned. The agency stressed that healthy domestic ducks and geese may transmit the virus to chickens and play a more important role in the persistence of the virus in the region than previously thought. [click link for full article] [News Source]

Bird flu outbreaks might involve duck meat (UPI) British scientists have determined a major avian influenza outbreak would most likely involve the United Kingdom's duck meat industry. [News Source]

Bird flu outbreaks might involve duck meat (EARTHtimes.org) British scientists have determined a major avian influenza outbreak would most likely involve the United Kingdom's duck meat industry. The University of Liverpool study also determined 73 percent of avian flu outbreaks in the United Kingdom probably would... [News Source]

FACTBOX-Bird flu’s spread around the globe (AlertNet) Source: Reuters Oct 25 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation confirmed on its Web site on Thursday the death from bird flu of an Indonesian toddler from Tangerang, west of the capital Jakarta. The outbreak of ... [News Source]

Spreading bird flu ‘puts UK farms in danger’. Controls will probably prevent the large-scale spread of bird flu from one farm to another in Britain but there is still a significant chance that the virus will escape, British researchers said on Wednesday. [News Source]

Bird-flu May Become Endemic in Parts of Europe (Environmental News Network) MILAN - Bird flu virus may become endemic in parts of Europe, with ducks and geese more of a vector for spreading it than previously thought, the U.N. said on Thursday. "It seems that a new chapter in the evolution of avian influenza may be unfolding silently in the heart of Europe," Joseph Domenech, chief veterinary officer of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said in a statement. [News Source]