China bird flu victim ate sick chickens-officials (AlertNet) Source: Reuters (Recasts with details, quotes) HONG KONG, Feb 25 (Reuters) - A woman in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus, which she probably contracted from sick ... [News Source]

Indians trace jump of bird flu virus to humans (Hindustan Times) Close on the heels of the bird flu outbreak in Bengal, an Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team led by Indian-born Ram Sasisekharan has explained just how bird flu spread to humans in 1918, leading to a pandemic that killed 50-100 million people worldwide. [News Source]

New bird flu outbreak in Pakistan (New Kerala) Islamabad, Feb 24: Pakistani health officials Sunday confirmed a new outbreak of bird flu at a farm outside the southern city of Karachi. [News Source]

More fowls culled as bird flu rages on in Bangladesh (Hindustan Times) Bangladesh's health workers culled more than 58,000 fowls across the country in the past 24 hours as bird flu ravaged the country's poultry industry, officials in Dhaka said on Sunday. [News Source]

Pakistan finds new bird flu outbreak near southern city of Karachi (EARTHtimes.org) Islamabad - Pakistani health officials on Sunday confirmed a new outbreak of bird flu at a farm outside the southern city of Karachi. It was the third outbreak of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in the Karachi area this month, but limited only to fowl... [News Source]

Bird flu strikes another Bangladesh district (Straits Times) DHAKA - BIRD flu has spread to another district in Bangladesh despite massive culling by authorities to fight the deadly outbreak, officials said, bringing the number of affected districts to 44 out of the country's 64. [News Source]

Bird flu strikes another Bangladesh district (AlertNet) Source: Reuters DHAKA, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Bird flu has spread to another district in Bangladesh despite massive culling by authorities to fight the deadly outbreak, officials said, bringing the number of affected ... [News Source]

As bird flu mutates, scientists worry (Pioneer Press) WASHINGTON - 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 avian influenza, as it's also known, remains a serious threat to human and animal health. [News Source]

Bangladesh’s poultry industry losses over $580 mln due to bird flu (People’s Daily) Bangladesh's poultry industry has counted a loss of more than 41 billion taka (about 586 million U.S. dollars) in the last one year due to the outbreak of avian influenza or bird flu, leading newspaper The Daily Star reported Sunday. ... [News Source]