Vietnam halts bird flu vaccination due to new type The Vietnamese government said it had halted the nationwide vaccination of poultry against bird flu, saying a new type of the H5N1 virus had rendered the vaccine ineffective. [News Source]

Vietnam warns vaccines ineffective vs new type of bird flu The Vietnamese government said it had halted the nationwide vaccination of poultry against bird flu, saying a new type of the H5N1 virus had rendered the vaccine ineffective. [News Source]

Vietnam halts bird flu vaccination due to new type HANOI (Reuters) - The Vietnamese government said it had halted the nationwide vaccination of poultry against bird flu, saying a new type of the H5N1 virus had rendered the vaccine ineffective. [News Source]

Vietnam halts bird flu vaccination due to new type HANOI (Reuters) - The Vietnamese government said it had halted the nationwide vaccination of poultry against bird flu, saying a new type of the H5N1 virus had rendered the vaccine ineffective. [News Source]

Winter flu death toll topped 600. Last winter's flu outbreak – mainly of the swine flu strain – claimed 602 lives in the UK, with more than 70% of the deaths among 15- to 64-year-olds. [News Source]

Vaccines: The real issues in vaccine safety. Hysteria about false vaccine risks often overshadows the challenges of detecting the real ones. [News Source]

More swine flu deaths last winter than during pandemic. Official figures show there were at least 562 deaths linked to the H1N1 virus during the most recent “season” compared with 474 in the global outbreak of 2009. The young and the middle-aged bore the burnt of the cases with 50 children and nine pregnant women dying across the UK, according to the Health Protection Agency. [News Source]

Avian flu spreads in S.Africa despite ostrich slaughter An avian flu outbreak that has halted ostrich meat exports from South Africa has spread to a total of eight farms despite the preventive slaughter of 10,000 birds, officials said Tuesday. [News Source]

Avian flu spreads in S.Africa despite ostrich slaughter An avian flu outbreak that has halted ostrich meat exports from South Africa has spread to a total of eight farms despite the preventive slaughter of 10,000 birds, officials said Tuesday. [News Source]

South Africa culls 10,000 ostriches to halt avian flu South Africa has culled 10,000 ostriches but an outbreak of avian flu which resulted in the halt of ostrich-meat exports to the European Union is "on-going," the department of agriculture said on Tuesday. South Africa suspended exports of ostrich meat to the European Union last month after H5N2 avian flu was detected among birds in the Western Cape Province. [News Source]

South Africa Slaughters 10,000 Ostriches to Contain Outbreak of Avian Flu South Africa culled 10,000 ostriches and may need to slaughter more to contain an outbreak of avian flu in the Western Cape province that has affected an area covering 70 percent of the ostrich industry, the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said. [News Source]

South Africa Culls 10,000 Ostriches to Halt Avian Flu Virus, Beeld Reports South Africa is culling as many as 10,000 ostriches after the bird flu virus spread to five farms in the Western Cape province, Beeld reported, citing Anton Kruger of the South African Ostrich Business Chamber. [News Source]