Department of Health setting up bird flu alarm system
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The Department of Health is setting up a surveillance system against bird flu to aid health workers to manage possible cases of the disease among humans, it was learned Saturday.
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Local health officials presented a bird flu shopping list to the federal government Monday that included face masks, oxygen equipment, IVs and other supplies.
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Plans are in place to deal with an outbreak of bird flu in Wales, says Environment Minister Carwyn Jones.
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The World Health Organisation has said it is concerned about the world&#39;s first probable human to human transmission of the bird flu virus.
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Government vets work through the night at a poultry farm in Suffolk to contain an outbreak of bird flu.
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Britain's farm ministry on Monday   unveiled a new bird flu strategy of testing more intensively in   areas and species where an outbreak is most likely to occur.
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The Martin County Health Department is offering flu vaccines to the public while supplies last. To be eligible, recipients must fall into one of the high-risk categories: those aged
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Dec 21, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - Overcoming the threat of avian influenza is the single most pressing agricultural and public health issue facing Southeast Asia, Singapore&#39;s minister of state for national development, Cedric Foo, said yesterday in opening a
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Scientists in Hong Kong and China  said on Wednesday they have developed a test to detect bird flu  infections in humans within hours, which could give health  officials an important tool for controlling the killer virus.
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MARK COLVIN: The World Health Organisation has issued a dire prediction that the bird flu virus could kill up to 100 million people around the world.
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Hong Kong makes it easier for health and poultry workers who fall ill with Sars or bird flu to claim compensation.
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Most health experts agree that Asian bird flu poses a grave danger and will likely spread unless urgent steps are taken. But some virologists caution that alarmist warnings could harm preparedness plans.
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Every country in the world must come up with a plan urgently to deal with an inevitable influenza pandemic likely to be triggered by the bird flu virus that hit Asia
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The World Health Organisation believes domesticated ducks may be the main transmitters of the H5N1 bird flu virus that killed 32 people in Asia this year.
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New methods are employed around Britain to check for possible outbreaks of bird flu in at-risk areas.
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HANOI  - Two experts from the World Health Organisation (WHO) arrived in Vietnam Sunday to help tackle the latest outbreak of deadly bird flu in the country, an official said.
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The World Health Organization warned Monday that countries should be on alert for bird flu because it is again on the move, with Pakistan reporting South Asia's first human infections and Myanmar logging its first human case.