Latest Bird Flu News

Indonesian man dies of bird flu, brings toll to 112.
Friday September 12th 2008, 7:00 pm

An Indonesian man from Tangerang, a satellite town near the capital Jakarta, has died of bird flu, bringing the country's death toll from the disease to 112, a Health Ministry official said on Thursday. [News Source]

Idaho bird-flu outbreak a ‘wake-up call’, coalition warns (Meat News)
Friday September 12th 2008, 3:47 pm

LOS ANGELES – Californians for SAFE Food, a coalition of public health and food-safety experts, labor unions, consumers, family farmers and veterinarians, said reports of a bird-flu outbreak in Idaho over the weekend serve as reminders to California voters of the dangers of Prop. 2. [News Source]

Indonesian man dies of bird flu, brings toll to 112 (The Star)
Friday September 12th 2008, 12:17 pm

JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian man from Tangerang, a satellite town near the capital Jakarta, has died of bird flu, bringing the country's death toll from the disease to 112, a Health Ministry official said on Thursday. [News Source]

Togo: Officials to Slaughter More Poultry to Fight Bird Flu Spread (AllAfrica.com)
Friday September 12th 2008, 1:59 am

Officials have quarantined Agbata village in southern Togo, and plan to cull all poultry within a three kilometre radius, as they await lab confirmation of which avian flu virus killed 3,000 birds there on 09 September. [News Source]

Ducks pond residents to be part of routine avian flu test (Bozeman Daily Chronicle)
Friday September 12th 2008, 12:48 am

Please don’t feed the ducks. That’s the request from the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks as it gears up to test the waterfowl in and around the popular duck pond at Montana State University for avian flu. [News Source]