The Flu News Blog

Bird flu hot topic at disease conference - Big Pond News
Australia’s readiness to deal with an outbreak of bird flu will be one of the key areas under discussion today at a conference of infectious disease experts. As the nation’s stockpile of antiviral drugs for flu nears its use-by date, delegates at the

Del. ponders possible tie to N.Y. fowl - Baltimore Sun
Delaware went another day without a new case of avian influenza, but New Jersey health officials said yesterday that the virus has popped up in four live bird markets there. The virus, which makes regular appearances at markets with live poultry, is

Mystery illness strikes Canadian train - Daily Telegraph
Around 300 passengers and crew have not been allowed to leave the train while the station where it is being held in the town of Foleyet, 500 miles northwest of Toronto, was evacuated. Local police said that seven passengers who boarded the Toronto

Bird flu yet to hurt industry - Baltimore Sun
While the avian influenza outbreak continues to reverberate on the Delmarva Peninsula - with the latest case discovered in Maryland Saturday - it has thus far not rippled to the supermarket shelf. Despite the slaughter of more than 400,000 chickens