Bird flu outbreak on northern poultry farm The poultry virus bird flu has been confirmed on a battery egg farm in Criel, north east of Amsterdam, the farm ministry confirmed on Friday. [News Source]

Bird flu outbreak hits Dutch chicken farm Dutch authorities were slaughtering thousands of chickens at a poultry farm in central Netherlands after an outbreak of a bird flu variety there, an agriculture ministry spokesman said. [News Source]

NEWS SCAN: H5N1 death in Egypt, CSL flu-vaccine probe called ‘inadequate,’ H1N1 vaccine and pregnancy, measles spread Egyptian man dies of H5N1 avian flu Egypt's Ministry of Health has confirmed that a 27-year-old man has died of H5N1 avian flu, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) today. [News Source]

SLU Part Of Study Into Possible Bird Flu Vaccine (AP) - Researchers at Saint Louis University are looking for volunteers to participate in a study of an investigational vaccine for avian influenza - the so-called bird flu. [News Source]

SLU part of study into possible bird flu vaccine Researchers at Saint Louis University are looking for volunteers to participate in a study of an investigational vaccine for avian influenza - the so-called bird flu. [News Source]

SLU part of study into possible bird flu vaccine Researchers at Saint Louis University looking for vaccine for avian influenza - the so-called bird flu [News Source]

Migratory bird monitoring intensified THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Eastern Visayas is expanding its migratory bird monitoring in an effort to detect avian influenza in seven survey sites in the region. Arnulito Viojan, avian influenza prevention program (AIPP) focal person, said they are intensifying their migratory bird population survey in old and new identified sites to detect birds carrying ... [News Source]

Asbestos victims fear GOP fight will cost them Medicare. Julie Johnson grew up in Libby, Mont., a picturesque Rocky Mountain community that was unknowingly poisoned for decades by asbestos from a mineral mine six miles away. Federal officials in 2009 declared the area the first national public health emergency and have called it the nation’s worst environmental disaster. [News Source]

Contaminated food for thought. If it is to deal effectively with outbreaks of infectious diseases, Germany must streamline its convoluted systems for reporting and communication. [News Source]

Facts about the danger of bird flu I AM writing as a member of the RSPB, the Wildlife Trust, and a voluntary member of the Ely Riverside Committee. Bird Flu is very much in the news now that it has been discovered in one mute swan in Scotland, in fact in the constituency of Sir Menzies Cam [News Source]

Egypt reports 5 H5N1 infections, 3 fatal Jun 16, 2011 (CIDRAP News) – Egypt recently announced five new H5N1 avian influenza infections that occurred in May, three of them fatal, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today. [News Source]

Ensuring cleaner, safer food. The E. coli episode tells us that the potential for mishaps is greater in an inter-linked world with several producers and consumers. Apart from regulation to check contamination, producers need policy incentives for quality control. [News Source]