Bird flu scare spreads in Nepal Kathmandu (The Kathmandu Post/ANN) - A day after Nepali officials confirmed bird flu in Bhaktapur (east of Kathmandu) and quarantined the area, many locals in and around Madhyapur Thimi Municipality on Wednesday complained of symptoms similar to that of bird flu. [News Source]

Bird flu scare spreads in Nepal Kathmandu (The Kathmandu Post/ANN) - A day after Nepali officials confirmed bird flu in Bhaktapur (east of Kathmandu) and quarantined the area, many locals in and around Madhyapur Thimi Municipality on Wednesday complained of symptoms similar to that of bird flu. [News Source]

Bird flu-like virus killing Jharkhand crows The Centre has sent an alert to the Jharkhand government to remain cautious about a possible poultry infection, after a mysterious bird flu-like virus is believed to have killed between 500 and 1,000 crows in Jamshedpur, Bokaro and parts of Hazaribagh. [News Source]

Canada kept detection of salmon virus secret. A decade before this fall's salmon-virus scare, a Canadian government researcher said she found a similar virus in more than 100 wild fish from Alaska to Vancouver Island. But Canadian officials never told the public or scientists in the United States about those tests. [News Source]

Research into more virulent and lethal strains of the bird flu worries some scientists If this sounds a bit like something out of a horror novel, it’s because this sounds a lot like what starts the evens of the horror classic from Stephen King called The Stand. Apparently, researchers working on bird flu have created a strain of the bird flu virus that is lethal and easily spread through [...] [News Source]

Public urged not to panic over bird flu outbreak in Nepal Kathmandu (The Kathmandu Post/ANN) - Over 300 chickens and ducks were slaughtered in Madhyapur Thimi Municipality in Bhaktapur district (east of Kathmandu) on Tuesday following a Bird flu (H5N1 virus) outbreak at a small-scale poultry farm. [News Source]

Scientists Create Lethal Human Strain of Avian Flu In Test Tube-Now Seek to Publish Formula For How It’s Done ? It?s a topic that has kept many a parent up at night. The H5N1 flu- more frequently referred to as avian or bird flu- has long been identified as one of those great threats to public health throughout the world. Should the bug ever mutate into a form that passes as easily between humans ... [News Source]

FLU NEWS SCAN: Egyptian H5N1 case, avian flu outbreaks, US flu update Egyptian woman on ventilator with H5N1 infection A 31-year-old woman in Egypt is in critical condition with an H5N1 avian flu infection, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported today. [News Source]

Climate change boosts a lethal disease. For 17 years, the Hendra virus smoldered in its host bat population, only rarely crossing to humans. Then it exploded, likely triggered by heavy rains and floods in Australia earlier this year. And that has public health doctors nervous about climate change. [News Source]

New Bird Flu Research a ‘Bad Idea’? Scientists created a man-made, highly virulent and contagious form of H5N1, the bird flu virus as part of their vaccine research. Now, some scientists are concerned that if the findings fall into the wrong hands, they could be used to create a lethal bioweapon. [News Source]

Avian Influenza H5N1 Re-breaks Out In Vietnam’s Central Highlands HANOI, Nov 29 (Bernama) -- Local authorities in Vietnam's Central Highlands Dak Lak province instructed destroying a flock of more than 1,300 ducks and 9,800 duck eggs due to their infection to the avian influenza H5N1, reported the local Agriculture and Rural Development Department on Tuesday. [News Source]

Avian Influenza H5N1 Re-breaks Out In Vietnam’s Central Highlands HANOI, Nov 29 (Bernama) -- Local authorities in Vietnam's Central Highlands Dak Lak province instructed destroying a flock of more than 1,300 ducks and 9,800 duck eggs due to their infection to the avian influenza H5N1, reported the local Agriculture and Rural Development Department on Tuesday. [News Source]