Tangerang resident identified as bird flu sufferer
ANTARA News

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - A 30-year-old resident of Tangerang, a suburb west of Jakarta, has been positively infected with the bird flu virus and is currently being treated in a hopital in east Jakarta, the Health Ministry reported on Tuesday.

Media: Vietnamese man dies of bird flu
www.chinaview.cn 2008-01-23 09:31:01

HANOI, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- A 32-year-old man from Vietnam's northern Tuyen Quang province died from bird flu, local newspaper Youth reported Wednesday.

More H5N1 outbreaks in India; virus hits Turkish poultry
CIDRAP News

Jan 22, 2008 (CIDRAP News) – An animal health official in India said today that outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza in the country's West Bengal state have spread to seven districts, as authorities in Turkey announced that the virus struck a village in a Black Sea coastal province.

WHO catalogs H5N1 viruses, launches tracking system
CIDRAP News

Jan 22, 2008 (CIDRAP News) – Countries affected by H5N1 avian influenza have sent material containing 734 H5N1 virus isolates to the World Health Organization (WHO) over the past 5 years, and from now on the public will be able to track particular isolates that have been submitted and what is being done with them, according to the WHO.