Warning of new bird flu danger
( THE AGE )
August 31,2007

BIRD flu has spread between several humans, according to a new study of deaths in Indonesia last year.

WHO confirms 5 Vietnam H5N1 cases, lists lab test criteria
Lisa Schnirring Staff Writer


Aug 31, 2007 (CIDRAP News) – The World Health Organization (WHO) today recognized five human H5N1 influenza cases from Vietnam dating back to late May, after publishing formal criteria for accepting positive test results for H5 flu viruses from national laboratories.

New poultry scare
Migrant birds have tested positive for the H7 strain of bird flu, reports Reem Leila
( AL- AHRAM )

The H7 strain of the bird flu virus has been detected in Egypt for the first time. Nine migrant birds, all of them ducks, tested positive for the virus when 6,432 samples were taken from the approximately one million birds that annually migrate over Al-Manzalah Lake in the Sharqiya governorate from central and eastern Europe. The recently identified H7 strain is thought to pose little risk, certainly in comparison with the virulent H5N1 strain of the virus.