Dhaka - Bangladesh has culled about 25 000 more chickens over the past four days as bird flu spread to eight additional farms, officials said on Tuesday. CS Karim, adviser to the interim government and head of the fisheries and livestock ministry said on Monday all affected farms would be given money to restart their businesses. He said efforts by veterinary and health officials had prevented bird flu spreading through all of the country's 64 districts. Indian authorities were testing dead...

MORRISTOWN - Atlantic Health security and medical professionals will meet with businesses and organizations on Tuesday to discuss preparations for pandemic flu outbreaks, bomb threats and other events. Seminar addresses disaster planning Atlantic Health personnel seek to build partnerships to deal with bomb threat, flu outbreak. Schwarz-Miller will discuss how to prepare for a pandemic outbreak of influenza, SARS and bioterrorism attacks, including general information about avian flu and...

There are two forms of avian influenza - low and high pathogenic. The Webbs have a mix of pet and breeder birds: two geese, Gloria Swanson and Henri; three Umbrella Cockatoos, Nikki, Big Bird and Wild Thing; a Moluccan Cockatoo, Saffron; a Bluefront Amazon parrot, Pepper; three Mexican Red Headed parrots; two African Gray parrots; two Red Lored parrots; two Yellow Head parrots and two Muscovy ducks. If you put your pet bird outside, even in a cage, you should have a double enclosure to...

China confirms birdflu outbreak among poultry Sat 19 May 2007 7:00 AM ET (Adds details in paragraphs 5 to 7) BEIJING, May 19 (Reuters) - China has confirmed an outbreak of the H5N1 birdflu virus among poultry in the central province of Hunan, but no cases of human infection in the area hit, state media reported on Saturday. China confirms birdflu outbreak among poultry Sat 19 May 2007 7:00 AM ET (Adds details in paragraphs 5 to 7) BEIJING, May 19 (Reuters) - China has confirmed an outbreak...

According to the SCCBF spokesman, attempts to combat bird flu in Egypt have been severely hampered by the continued practice of raising poultry domestically in rural areas. Thirty-four cases of bird flu in humans have been reported in Egypt since February 2006 of which 20 made a full recovery. Al-Ahram Weekly was among an Egyptian delegation, headed by Abdel-Rahman Shaheen, official spokesman at the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP), invited by the US State Department for a one week...

Jakarta- A 26-year-old woman has died of bird flu in Indonesia, bringing the country's world-leading death toll from the H5N1 avian influenza virus to 76, a health official confirmed Monday. He said local health officials quoted the victim's husband as saying that several days before she became ill, several of their backyard chickens were founded dead. Afraid the other chickens would also die, the victim killed, cooked and consumed the remaining chickens. The government also placed tight...