Egypt: 4 Women Die of Bird Flu (New York Times) Bird flu has killed four Egyptian women in the past week, according to Egyptian health officials and the World Health Organization. [News Source]

Plan in place if bird flu carrier arrives in UAE (Khaleej Times) ABU DHABI — Cases of humans contracting the deadly bird flu virus have been registered in most continents, especially Asia, but no such cases have reached the UAE so far, authorities have said. [News Source]

Bird flu alert along Indo-Bangla border (Express India) With yet another outbreak of avian flu in Bangladesh, Meghalaya... [News Source]

Bird flu hits geese flocks in southern Vietnam: officials (PhysOrg) Bird flu has hit two more poultry farms in southern Vietnam, forcing the slaughter of hundreds of geese last week, animal health officials in the communist country said Wednesday. [News Source]

Bird flu infects new Bangladesh farm (Reuters via Yahoo! News) The H5N1 bird flu virus has been detected in another poultry farm in northern Bangladesh, forcing authorities to cull nearly 300 chickens, officials said on Wednesday. [News Source]

Egypt culls some 1,600 birds suspected of having avian influenza (Zawya) Cairo, January 01, SPA -- Egypt has culled 1,599 domestic poultry suspected of contracting bird flu in its latest efforts to prevent further spread of the fatal disease in the populous Middle East and North Africa country, Xinhua quoted official MENA news agency as reporting Tuesday. [News Source]

Four die of bird flu in Egypt in less than a week (News-Medical-Net) The deaths of two women in Egypt from bird flu on Monday has now brought the death toll in the Arab country from the deadly virus to four in less than a week. [News Source]

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-01-02 06:12 GMT: Bird flu hits geese farms in southern Vietnam – officials (Interactive Investor) HANOI (Thomson Financial) - Bird flu has hit two more poultry farms in southern Vietnam, forcing the slaughter of hundreds of geese last week, animal health officials in the communist country said Wednesday. [News Source]