Hungary offers Indonesia loan for bird flu vaccine
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Hungary has offered loans to Indonesia to build a plant to develop and produce a birdflu vaccine for humans using Indonesia's H5N1 avian flu virus strain, a senior industry ministry official said on Friday.
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BANGKOK - The World Health Organization on Friday urged Asian countries to provide full disclosure and strengthen the information-sharing to curb the bird flu outbreak.
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Two more Indonesians were confirmed as suffering from bird flu on Tuesday and Pakistan reported its first case in a year after finding the deadly virus in a small flock of chickens near the capital Islamabad.
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on  Friday it had made available up to $325 million in emergency  lending for tsunami relief efforts in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and  Maldives. The Manila-based lending institution said about $175  million could be diverted from existing projects in the three  countries, while up to $150 million in new low-cost loans could  be drawn.
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Hungary says there is no evidence a UK bird flu outbreak was caused by poultry from the country.
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Bangkok, Oct. 12 (VNA) - Thai Deputy Prime Minister Chatturon Chaisaeng has admitted that Thailand is in the middle of its second series of bird flu outbreaks.
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Signs were growing that an outbreak of lethal H5N1 bird flu in Britain arrived from Hungary, despite previous denials by a European poultry baron of a link between his plants in the two countries.
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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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Group of Eight countries will discuss the   launch of a pilot project to finance development of a vaccine   against pneumococcus for poor countries, the Italian Treasury   said on Tuesday.
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Indonesia is investigating a possible   cluster of bird flu cases after a man died and his brother and   sister were hospitalized, one of them testing positive for bird   flu, a doctor said on Tuesday.
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A severe bird flu pandemic among   humans could cost the global economy up to $2 trillion, the   World Bank said on Sunday, sharply raising earlier estimates.
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The European Commission said on Tuesday it was satisfied with investigations carried out by Hungary into the origin of the lethal strain of H5N1 bird flu found in that country and a possible link to a case in Britain.
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Health ministers and officials from 13 countries are meeting in the Thai capital, Bangkok to try to fight a growing threat from bird flu.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) on  Friday urged governments to provide funds to drug makers  developing vaccines against a feared influenza pandemic, which  could kill millions of people.
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Theresa Torres, Reporter. Sharing its neighborsâ fears of a bird-flu pandeÂ­mic after the first probable case of human-to-human infection was reported in Thailand, the Philippine government on Wednes
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An Indonesian woman who bought a live chicken from a market died from bird flu on Christmas Day, the Health Ministry bird flu centre said on Wednesday, taking the total number of deaths from the disease in Indonesia to 94.
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Indonesian poultry farmers, following a bird flu outbreak, are facing another mysterious disease that has killed thousands of chickens in the past few days.