Commentary: The Coming Catastrophe - Avian Flu
(Caribbean Net News)
Published on Monday, July 30, 2007
By Dr Gilbert Morris

Health and illness -- or sickness beyond being generally unwell -- will be the main issue of our new millennium. And in a manner of speaking, we are off to a good start. The Avian (Bird) Flu (H5N1) threatens to repeat the 1918 global pandemic that killed 40 million people.

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UN Helps Indonesia With Bird Flu Rapid Response
(Scoop)
Friday, 27 July 2007, 8:18 am
Press Release: United Nations


UN helps Indonesia set up rapid response teams to control spread of bird flu
Without involving rural communities in the fight against bird flu, Indonesia will not be able to control the highly contagious disease, which has ravaged millions of poultry and already killed more humans in the archipelago than anywhere else in the world, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today.

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India finds H5N1 in poultry after 1-year hiatus

Jul 25, 2007 (CIDRAP News) – Animal health officials in India announced today that samples from chickens at a poultry farm in the remote northeastern Manipur state were positive for the H5N1 avian flu virus, signaling the country's first outbreak in more than a year.

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USDA lab confirms low-path H5N1 Strain in Virginia turkeys


Jul 17, 2007 (CIDRAP News) – The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) today confirmed that turkeys at a Virginia farm were exposed to the low-pathogenic North American strain of the H5N1 avian flu virus.

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Jakarta still ‘probing the source of avian flu death' Published: Friday, 13 July, 2007, 01:54 Doha Time (Gulf Times)

JAKARTA: Medical officials in Indonesia are still trying to pinpoint the source of infection after a 6-year-old boy died of bird flu at the weekend, a health official said yesterday.

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In a Bird Flu Hot Spot, Community Radio Reporters Learn How to Cover the Virus

(Internews)
(July 12, 2007) Indonesian radio journalists learned how to stay safe while reporting on avian flu, how to conduct interviews with empathy, and how to communicate the risks of the virus accurately—all at a recent workshop in Bandung, West Java. Organized by Internews Network, the workshop was the first training tailored for Indonesia’s community radio stations in how to cover avian flu.

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