China confirms one more human H7N9 bird flu case in Jiangxi , brings total to 131
The National Health and Family Planning Commission of China notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of an additional laboratory-confirmed case of human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus, bringing More...
Chinese researchers make hybrid H5N1-H1N1 influenza strain thats easily transmissible, critics call it ‘appalling irresponsibility’
We remember just a year or two ago when researchers from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Erasmus MC in Rotterdam created mutated Avian influenza strains that could spread between ferrets and the subsequent More...
WHO reports six human H5N1 avian influenza cases during past six weeks
According to a World Health Organization (WHO) summary and assessment Friday, from March 12 to April 26, 2013, there were a total of six new laboratory confirmed human cases with avian influenza A(H5N1) virus More...
Bangladesh reports human H5N1 avian influenza death
The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research in Dhaka has reported the seventh case of human infection of H5N1 avian influenza, according to a IEDCR release. According to Bangladeshi health authorities, More...
China bird flu outbreak strikes fear into Indonesia badminton lovers
Who would have imagined that the H7N9 avian influenza outbreak in China would impact the badminton-loving peopel of Jakarta? Public domain image/Bodq at the wikipedia project Because of the halting of all Chinese More...
Vietnam reports human H5N1 bird flu death in four-year-old
The last time Vietnam reported a fatality from H5N1 avian influenza was January 2012, when a 26-year-old pregnant female from Soc Trang province died from the lethal viral disease. Avian influenza. Image/CDC However, More...
H7N9 avian influenza and novel coronavirus: Is there a pandemic potential?
With the recent emergence of two viruses not seen in human infections before, experts and the general public wonder, how serious could these infectious diseases be? Since April 2012, the novel (new) coronavirus More...
UN food security agency: China bird flu outbreak requires strong biosecurity measures
In response to the outbreak of H7N9 human avian influenza in China during recent weeks, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) says strong biosecurity measures are needed, according to More...
Cambodia reports 10th human bird flu case of 2013
In what is the worst outbreak of human avian influenza H5N1 in Cambodia since the viral disease was first identified in Jan. 2004, health officials in the Kingdom are reporting the 10th human case of the disease, More...
China reports four new avian influenza H7N9 cases, total cases at seven
In a follow up to a story yesterday, Chinese health officials are reporting four additional human cases of H7N9 bird flu, according to a Xinhua report April 2. H5N1 Avian InfluenzaImage/CDC The four new patients, More...
China: Two dead, one sickened from ‘novel’ strain of bird flu
Three people have been infected by a rare strain of avian influenza in China, which has resulted in two fatalities, according to a Xinhua news report Sunday. Image/CIA The cases from Shanghai and Anhui Province More...
Cambodia: Bird flu strikes again, ninth human case this year
The Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Kingdom of Cambodia said today that a ninth case of human bird flu, or avian influenza, has been confirmed, according to a Joint news release of the Ministry of Health of the More...
Guiyang, China man is second human bird flu death of 2013
In a follow-up from a story earlier this month, Chinese health authorities report the second fatality due to avian influenza, or bird flu of the year, according to a Voice of America report Saturday. H5N1 avian More...
Cambodia reports eighth human bird flu case of 2013, 2-year-old boy is the seventh fatality
A tw0-year-old boy from the Angkor Chey district of Southwestern Kampot province is the eighth case of human H5N1 avian influenza and seventh death attributed to the lethal virus since the beginning of the year, More...
Two cases of human bird flu confirmed in SW China
Coming on the heels of the report of the sixth human case of avian influenza, or bird flu in Cambodia in 2013, Chinese health officials are confirming two cases of the potentially lethal viral disease n southwestern More...
Cambodia reports sixth case of human bird flu of 2013
The Kingdom of Cambodia Ministry of Health (MoH) has confirmed another case of human avian influenza H5N1, or bird flu, which is the sixth case of the year, according to a MoH/World Health Organization (WHO) Joint More...
Two more bird flu cases reported from Cambodia, brings total to five for 2013
H5N1 avian influenzaImage/CDC In a follow-up to a story Friday, the Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Kingdom of Cambodia announced Tuesday that two new cases of avian influenza, the fourth and fifth, has been confirmed More...
Cambodian Health Ministry reports 3 new human bird flu cases
H5N1 Avian InfluenzaImage/CDC The Cambodian Ministry of Health (MoH) reported three new human cases of bird flu, or avian influenza, two of them fatal, in the first three weeks of this year, according to an Associated More...
Indonesia reports ninth human ‘bird flu’ death of 2012
H5N1 Avian InfluenzaImage/CDC A 4-year-old West Java boy is the latest case of human avian influenza H5N1 detected in 2012, according to a FluTrackers report Dec. 14. According to the timeline from the Indonesian More...
Indonesia reports eighth human bird flu death of 2012
The Ministry of Health of Indonesia has reported a new fatal human case of avian influenza (H5N1) in a man from Yogyakarta province on Java. According to a World Health Organization (WHO) Global Alert and Response More...
