Indonesia to declare bird flu a national disaster
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Indonesia will declare bird flu a national disaster following a fresh flare-up in the country, which has the world's highest human death toll from the virus, the planning minister said on Wednesday.
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The human death toll from bird flu in Indonesia has risen to 100 - almost half of the total worldwide fatalities.
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The World Health Organization is warning Bird Flu will be the most likely cause of the next deadly flu pandemic. During a meeting in Bangkok on Bird Flu, Dr.
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A 16-year-old Indonesian boy from Central Java has died from bird flu, taking the country's death toll from the virus to 104, the health ministry said on Saturday.
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SOUTHEAST Asia must unite to combat the spread of a deadly bird flu virus which has the potential to become the next human influenza pandemic, global health experts warned here Monday.
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Malaysia went on a nationwide alert against bird flu Thursday after officials confirmed that a deadly strain of the disease, blamed for the deaths of 27 people in Asia, had been found in a tiny northern village.
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Every country in the world must come up urgently with a plan to deal with an inevitable influenza pandemic likely to be triggered by the bird flu virus that hit Asia this year, a top global health expert said on Friday.
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likely to be triggered by the bird flu virus that hit Asia this year, says a top global health expert. &quot;No country will be spared once it becomes a pandemic,&quot; he told a news conference on Friday.
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Thai and international health officials  were due to hold an emergency meeting on Monday to review a  case in which there is a "very remote possibility" bird flu was  passed from human to human, a senior WHO official said.
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Hard-hit Thailand plans a campaign to change poultry farming methods as it seeks to stamp out the deadly bird flu virus before migrating wildfowl return during the
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Indonesia's agriculture ministry said  Wednesday tests showed a bird flu strain that had killed  millions of chickens in the country could not be transmitted to  humans.
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SINGAPORE (dpa) - An Asean taskforce set up to deal with the bird flu threat targeted on Tuesday eight &quot;action areas&quot; including drawing up emergency preparedness plans to respond quickly to new outbreaks.
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Thailand declared war on bird flu yesterday as Asia&#39;s death toll in the epidemic rose to 30. The announcement came as Vietnam confirmed another fatality, amid concern that the virus had passed from human to human.
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Global health experts have warned Southeast Asia it must unite to combat the spread of bird flu. The World health Organisation says the virus has the potential to become the next human influenza pandemic.
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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang  Yudhoyono has formed a national team led by the energy minister  to tackle an unfolding environmental disaster caused by mud  pouring from an exploratory oil well.
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Hard-hit Thailand plans a campaign to  change poultry farming methods as it seeks to stamp out the  deadly bird flu virus before migrating wildfowl return during  the northern winter, a senior minister said on Thursday.
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The U.N. health agency described the deaths of six Indonesian family members from bird flu as the most important development in the spread of the virus since 2003, saying the size of the cluster and difficulties in determining the source were worrying.