New Bird Flu Strain Detected In Nigeria, Says FAO (Scoop.co.nz) 11 August 2008 - A new strain of avian flu never before reported in Africa has been identified in Nigeria, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced today. [News Source]

Canopus Biopharma and Leading Chinese Researcher Team Up to Treat Avian Influenza, to Prevent Possible Pandemic (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance) An internationally renowned avian influenza expert today hailed "encouraging and exciting" results from experiments conducted by his research team. This study demonstrated impressive efficacy of a novel statin/caffeine combination, StatC in the treatment and prevention of H5N1, H1N1 and H3N2 in a mouse model. [News Source]

Canopus Biopharma and Leading Chinese Researcher Team Up to Treat Avian Influenza, to Prevent Possible Pandemic (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) An internationally renowned avian influenza expert today hailed "encouraging and exciting" results from experiments conducted by his research team. This study demonstrated impressive efficacy of a novel statin/caffeine combination, StatC in the treatment and prevention of H5N1, H1N1 and H3N2 in a mouse model. [News Source]

New bird flu strain found (TVNZ) A new strain of H5N1 bird flu has shown up among birds in Africa in a worrying development, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation reported. [News Source]

New bird flu strain found in Nigeria, UN’s FAO says (Reuters via Yahoo! News) A new strain of H5N1 bird flu has shown up among birds in Africa in a worrying development, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reported on Monday. [News Source]

Nigeria: New Bird Flu Strain Detected (AllAfrica.com) A strain of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza previously not recorded in sub-Saharan Africa has been detected in Nigeria for the first time, FAO said today. Nigeria has recently reported two new Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza outbreaks in the states of Katsina and Kano. [News Source]

Inverness Medical Innovations Receives USDA Licensure of the BinaxNOW(R) Avian Influenza Virus Type A Antigen Test Kit (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. , a leading provider of near-patient diagnostics, monitoring and health management solutions, announced today that it has received licensure from the United States Department of Agriculture to manufacture, market and distribute the BinaxNOW® Avian Influenza Virus Type A Antigen Test Kit. [News Source]

Thirteen Indonesian villagers clear of bird flu (News-Medical-Net) Health officials in Indonesia say 13 people from a village on Sumatra who were hospitalised with suspected bird flu, have all tested negative for the H5N1 virus. [News Source]

Indonesia probes bird flu ‘outbreak’ (TODAYonline) A couple tend to their child who is suspected to be infected with bird flu at a hospital in Medan on August 6, 2008. Indonesia has rushed a team of specialists to a village in Sumatra to confirm a suspected outbreak of bird flu which has affected at least 13 people, a health official said Thursday. [News Source]

Indonesian villagers test negative for bird flu: health ministry (TODAYonline) A couple tend to their child who is suspected to be infected with bird flu at a hospital in Medan on August 6, 2008. Thirteen people in Indonesia suspected of having bird flu have tested negative for the feared disease, the country's health ministry said Saturday. [News Source]