Vietnam reports fourth bird flu death this year (Channel NewsAsia) HANOI: A 23-year-old woman from northern Vietnam has died of bird flu, the health ministry said Tuesday, the country's fourth such death since the start of the year. [News Source]

Vietnam reports fourth bird flu death this year (ABS-CBNNEWS.com) HANOI - A 23-year-old woman from northern Vietnam has died of bird flu, the health ministry said Tuesday, the country's fourth such death since the start of the year. [News Source]

Woman dies of suspected avian flu in Guangdong (China Daily) GUANGZHOU: A woman in Guangdong province died of suspected bird flu Monday morning, the provincial health department said. It is the third human death involving bird flu this year, following two cases confirmed last week, one in Hunan province and the other in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. [News Source]

Bird flu spreads alarmingly as more fowls culled in Bangladesh. 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 said Sunday. [News Source]

China reports bird flu outbreak in poultry (China Daily) BEIJING - An outbreak of bird flu in poultry has been reported in China's southwestern mountainous province of Guizhou, the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) said Monday. [News Source]

Bird flu still serious threat, scientists say (The Monterey County Herald) 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 that avian influenza, as it's also known, remains a serious threat to human and animal health. [News Source]

China bird flu victim ate sick chickens: officials (Reuters via Yahoo! News) A woman in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus, which she probably contracted from sick poultry she kept in her backyard, Hong Kong government health officials said on Monday. [News Source]

Bird flu kills woman in southern China (EARTHtimes.org) Beijing - A 44-year-old woman infected with H5N1 avian influenza died Monday in southern China's Guangdong province, the provincial health bureau said. The woman, identified only by the surname Zhang, had contact with dead poultry during her work in ... [News Source]

Bird flu hits another Bangladesh district (AlertNet) Source: Reuters DHAKA, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Bangladesh, struggling to combat avian influenza, confirmed on Monday the H5N1 virus had spread to another district, taking the number of affected districts to 45 out of 64 ... [News Source]

Fresh bird flu outbreak near Karachi (Gulf Times) ISLAMABAD: Pakistani health officials yesterday confirmed a new outbreak of bird flu at a farm outside the southern city of Karachi. [News Source]