Pakistan Has Eight Suspected Human Cases of Bird Flu (Update4) (Bloomberg.com) Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Five members of a family in Pakistan are among eight people who may be the country's first human cases of bird flu, the World Health Organization said. At least one brother died. [News Source]

Researcher Doubts U.S. Program To Track Avian Flu In Wild Birds (Science Daily) Government monitoring for H5N1 focuses on migrating waterfowl in Alaska. According to an expert, a more effective system to detect the appearance of H5N1 would track wild birds all along the Atlantic and Pacific "flyways" of North America. An investigator, closely following the spread of the avian influenza known as H5N1, said that U.S. government monitoring efforts easily could miss the entry ... [News Source]

Bird flu kills first human in Pakistan, child first case in Myanmar (AFP via Yahoo! News) Bird flu hit two countries Saturday as it was confirmed that a man who died culling infected birds in Pakistan became the country's first human fatality, while a seven-year-old girl became Myanmar's first human case. [News Source]

One dead, five infected with bird flu in Pakistan (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Pakistan has recorded its first human death from bird flu and five other people have been infected with the deadly H5N1 virus, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. [News Source]

Myanmar reports 1st human bird flu case. The World Health Organization has confirmed Myanmar's first human case of bird flu and praised the secretive country for its quick and open handling of the infection. [News Source]

Saudi culls 13,500 ostriches amid new bird flu outbreak (AFP via Yahoo! News) Saudi Arabia's agriculture ministry has ordered 13,500 ostriches to be destroyed following a new outbreak of bird flu in the kingdom, the Al-Watan newspaper reported on Saturday. [News Source]

Pakistan reports first avian flu in humans (CTV.ca) Officials in Pakistan have informed the World Health Organization of the country's first suspected human cases of H5N1 avian flu infection. [News Source]

Pakistan reports first avian flu in humans (CTV.ca) Officials in Pakistan have informed the World Health Organization of the country's first suspected human cases of H5N1 avian flu infection. [News Source]

Bird flu kills man (Daily Telegraph) A man who worked on a poultry farm with infected birds has died from the bird flu virus, while six others were confirmed to have been infected with a strain of the avian influenza. [News Source]

Bird flu resurfaces in Asia, human deaths reported (USA Today) Bird flu has resurfaced in parts of Asia, with human deaths reported in Indonesia and China and fresh outbreaks plaguing other countries during the winter months when the virus typically flares. [News Source]