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]