H9N2 avian flu strain has pandemic potential. Pandemic planners may have been looking at the wrong avian influenza virus as the source of the next worldwide flu epidemic. [News Source]

H9N2 bird flu threat understated in humans. The H9N2 bird flu strain, identified as a possible pandemic threat, could be infecting more humans than commonly thought, but its mild symptoms mean it often goes undetected. [News Source]

Bird Flu In Indonesia: Prevalence, Mortality, And Action (Medical News Today) In order to help Indonesia improve its high human mortality due to bird flu (H5N1 influenza), more effective diagnostic methods must be used and improved case management must be implemented to achieve faster treatment with antivirals, according to the authors of an article released on August 14, 2008 in The Lancet. [News Source]

FAO recommends cost-sharing to deliver bird flu vaccinations (Vietnam Net) VietNamNet Bridge - The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) recommended yesterday that Viet Nam consider moving from a fully publicly-funded bird flu mass-vaccination campaign, to a public-private funded one to ease the burden on the State as donations are on the decline, according to FAO’s senior avian influenza technical consultant Dr Tony Forman. [News Source]