Donor nations cut international pledge to combat avian flu (PTI via Yahoo! India News) New Delhi, Dec 6 (PTI) Symbolising a lessening of the threat perception of an avian flu pandemic, donor countries, including the United States, today reduced their financial assistance for [News Source]

Indonesia investigating suspicious bird flu cases: official (TODAYonline) An officer from National Commision for Bird Flu gives information to the public during a bird flu handling simulation in Tangerang, outside Jakarta, December 12. Indonesian bird flu officials said they were investigating several recent avian influenza deaths where the victims were believed to have not come into contact with infected poultry. [News Source]

Indonesia investigating suspicious bird flu cases: official (AFP via Yahoo! News) Indonesian bird flu officials said Tuesday they were investigating several recent avian influenza deaths where the victims were believed to have not come into contact with infected poultry. [News Source]

Bird Flu: Fresh outbreak kills two says WHO (Adnkronos) Bird Flu: Fresh outbreak kills two says WHO (AKI) - At least two Pakistanis have died in a fresh outbreak of avian influenza - commonly known as bird flu - close to the country’s “poultry belt,” according to the United Nations World Health Organisation (WHO) Pakistani health officials informed the WHO of eight suspected human cases of infection with the highly contagious H5N1 virus – ... [News Source]

Indonesian officials urge long-term approach to fight bird flu (EARTHtimes.org) Jakarta - Indonesia, the world's worst-affected country from bird flu, needs to expand and intensify surveillance for both human and poultry cases in order to contain the deadly H5N1 virus, senior government officials said Tuesday. Cases of human inf... [News Source]

WHO team to investigate bird flu "human to human" transmission in Pakistan (ANI via Yahoo! India News) London, Dec 18 (ANI): A WHO (World Health Organization) team would soon be reaching Pakistan to investigate eight reported cases of bird flu in people living near the Afghan border in the country. The team of experts would establish whether the disease is spreading, and whether the cases were caused by human-to-human transmission. For this, it will track down, treat and test people who came ... [News Source]