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Tests Find Bird Flu Kills in IndonesiaHendersonville Times-News - Preliminary tests have found that bird flu has killed another person in Indonesia, as the country struggles to get a grip on a spike in cases, a local health official said Wednesday. The latest victim was a 15-year-old boy from West Java who was […]

Experts weigh bird flu threatSan Gabriel Valley Tribune - On farms in Vietnam and Korea, a deadly virus suddenly felled tens of thousands of chickens and a handful of people. In the end, more than 100 million poultry died from the disease or were slaughtered to contain it, but it still managed to spread […]

KUBU SIMBELANG, INDONESIA: WHO puts drug maker on alert as bird flu Tacoma News Tribune - The biggest case yet of humans infecting others with bird flu prompted the World Health Organization to put the maker of the anti-viral drug Tamiflu on alert for possible shipment of the global stockpile for the first […]

No new bird flu in JordanAME Info, United Arab Emirates - 5 hours agoAn Agriculture Ministry report has found that there are no new cases of bird flu in Jordan, reported the Jordan Times. The technical …
Schools key in bird flu responseCape Cod Times, MA - 6 hours ago… and other locations in Southeastern Massachusetts wouldn’t have enough […]

U.S. Shipping Tamiflu to AsiaFOX News - GENEVA The United States is sending a stockpile of the antiviral drug Tamiflu to Asia as a first defense against a possible flu pandemic, the U.S. health chief said Monday. Mike Leavitt , U.S. secretary of health and human services, said
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