FAO says Indonesia needs help fighting bird flu (The Star) MILAN (Reuters) - Major efforts have done little to control H5N1 avian influenza in Indonesia and the country needs more help in controlling the virus, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Tuesday. [News Source]

FAO says Indonesia needs help fighting bird flu (AlertNet) Source: Reuters (Writes through with additional quotes, details) MILAN, March 18 (Reuters) - Major efforts have done little to control H5N1 avian influenza in Indonesia and the country needs more help in ... [News Source]

FAO says Indonesia needs help fighting bird flu (Reuters via Yahoo! India News) MILAN (Reuters) - Major efforts have done little to control H5N1 avian influenza in Indonesia and the country needs more help in controlling the virus, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Tuesday. [News Source]

Bird Flu Deeply Entrenched In Indonesia — UN (Scoop.co.nz) 18 March 2008 - Despite major efforts to control the outbreak of avian influenza in Indonesia - the country worst hit by the virus - the situation there remains "grave," the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today. [News Source]

Vietnam plans human trials of bird-flu vaccine (New Kerala) Hanoi, March 18 : A Vietnamese pharmaceuticals company is to begin testing an avian influenza vaccine in humans this week, the company's director confirmed Tuesday. [News Source]

Bird flu in Indonesia could mutate into human form: UN agency (AFP via Yahoo! News) The bird flu situation is "critical" in Indonesia, where the virus could mutate and cause a human pandemic, the UN food agency warned on Tuesday. [News Source]

Why Asia’s Bird Flu Plans Are Grounded (Far Eastern Economic Review) The tick-tock of the bird flu time bomb got a little louder in recent weeks–and not only from a scientific standpoint. International organizations are finding it increasingly difficult to convince donors to fund highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) prevention. [News Source]

China reports new bird flu outbreak. China has reported a bird flu outbreak at a poultry market in the southern city of Guangzhou, state media said on Sunday, prompting neighbouring Hong Kong to suspend live poultry imports from the region. [News Source]

Bird flu may mutate to human form in Indonesia: FAO (Reuters via Yahoo! News) The bird flu virus, widespread in Indonesia, could mutate and cause a human influenza pandemic, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Tuesday. [News Source]

Bird flu on verge of human mutation - UN (News Interactive) THE bird flu situation is critical in Indonesia, where the virus could mutate and cause a human pandemic, the United Nations' food agency has warned. [News Source]

UN warns of ‘critical’ bird-flu situation in Indonesia (EARTHtimes.org) Rome - Indonesia's bird-flu or avian influenza situation remains critical and a high circulation of the virus that causes it could lead to mutations and threaten humans, a United Nations agency said Tuesday. Indonesia remains the nation worst hit b... [News Source]

Bird flu may mutate to human form in Indonesia-FAO (AlertNet) Source: Reuters MILAN, March 18 (Reuters) - The bird flu virus, widespread in Indonesia, could mutate and cause a human influenza pandemic, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Tuesday ... [News Source]