Girl admitted in Meghalaya hospital with bird flu symptoms (IE via Yahoo! India News) The state Health Department was sent into a tizzy after a girl with suspected symptoms of bird flu was admitted at the Civil Hospital here on Thursday. [News Source]

US grant for bird flu battle (The Times of India) The US consulate has announced a grant of Rs 4.4 million ($110,000) to tackle bird flu in the state. [News Source]

FACTBOX-Bird flu’s spread around the globe (AlertNet) Source: Reuters Feb 21 - The World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed on Thursday the death of a 27-year-old Vietnamese man from Ninh Binh province from the H5N1 strain of Avian flu. The WHO has also confirmed two ... [News Source]

Danger zone UK as animal infections threaten the population. Animal diseases, like bird flu and Sars, are the biggest threat to human health in the future and Britain is a hot spot for new infections, leading scientists said yesterday. [News Source]

Bird flu remains dangerous as it continues to mutate. Like the rumble of distant thunder, bird flu continues to spread across Asia, Africa and Europe. Although it’s been out of the news lately in the United States, scientists say that avian influenza, as it’s also known, remains a serious threat to human and animal health. [News Source]

China reports second bird flu fatality in a month (Russian Information Agency Novosti) MOSCOW, February 21 (RIA Novosti) - A man died of the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain in southern China in the second confirmed case in a month, China's Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday. [News Source]

Next plague likely to emerge from poor tropical countries. Presenting the first-ever map of "hotspots" of new infectious diseases, scientists predict that the next pandemic is likeliest to come out of poor tropical countries, where burgeoning human populations come into contact with wildlife. [News Source]

Bird flu continues to mutate rapidly (The Charlotte Observer) Like the rumble of distant thunder, bird flu continues to spread across Asia, Africa and Europe. Although it's been out of the news lately in the United States, scientists say that avian influenza, as it's also known, remains a serious threat to human and animal health. The lethal H5N1 version of the virus is mutating rapidly and rampaging through bird flocks throughout those parts of the world, ... [News Source]

Nigeria: Bird Flu - Experts Caution On Bio-Security (AllAfrica.com) Poultry farmers in Kebbi State have been warned on dangers of absence of bio-security facilities in their farms which could cause outbreak of avian influenza, otherwise known as bird flu. [News Source]