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Here are the top Bird Flu stories for this month, October 2008 - (more news on our main web-site)

Note: Alerts are the top, daily news headlines, with the keywords of H5N1, Avian (bird) influenza (or combination thereof). These are from major news organizations all over the world. We have sorted these in month pages since January 2006.

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11 October » Germany Kills 1400 Farm Fowl After First Bird Flu Case in 2008
Bloomberg - USA
A duck tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu, Elke Reinking, a spokeswoman for Germany’s Friedrich Loeffler Institute, said in a telephone …

10 October » Bird Flu Returns to Germany
Deutsche Welle - Germany
Bird flu has returned to Germany, with the H5N1 influenza virus breaking out among farm ducks in the eastern state of Saxony, officials said Thursday. …

09 October » Deadly by the Dozen: 12 Diseases Climate Change May Make Worse
Scientific American - USA
Bird flu: H5N1 infections are becoming the rule rather then the exception in farmed poultry worldwide, and even wild birds are showing signs of infection …

07 October » Avian flu hits central Vietnam
Earthtimes (press release) - London,UK
Hanoi - Authorities have detected the H5N1 avian flu virus in ducks in the central Vietnamese province of Nghe An, the third outbreak of bird flu in Vietnam …

06 October » DEC gets assistance from duck hunters
WatertownDailyTimes.com - NY, United States
There are multiple strains of avian influenza, or bird flu. But only one is dangerous for birds and humans. According to the World Health Organization, …

05 October » S.Korea reports new case of suspected bird flu
Reuters UK - UK
In May, South Korea culled all domestic fowl in the Seoul area in a bid to contain bird flu after confirming 31 cases of the deadly H5N1 strain in poultry …

04 October » Emergency manager warns of flu outbreak possibilities
Fort Scott Tribune - Fort Scott,KS,USA
According to www.pandemicflu.gov, the avian flu is caused by influenza viruses that occur naturally among wild birds. The highly pathogenic H5N1, …

03 October » Stopping Pandemic Bird Flu
MIT Technology Review - Cambridge,MA,USA
Avian influenza, caused by a variant of the H5N1 virus, has afflicted hundreds of millions of birds worldwide. The virus mutates quickly: some of the …

02 October » Suspected bird flu victim dies
Bangkok Post - Thailand
Although an avian flu outbreak has never occurred in the district, Phichit was listed as an avian influenza epidemic zone, he said. …

01 October » TOGO: 17000 poultry killed in latest flu outbreak
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
LOME, 30 September 2008 (IRIN) - Some 17000 birds died or have been culled since the outbreak of the H5N1 avian flu virus on 9 September on three poultry …

Alerts are the top, daily news headlines with the keywords of H5N1, Avian (bird) influenza (or combination thereof). Since our goal is to forecast or calculate, we view these headlines as interesting indicators. Scanning over the whole year gives you a broad picture of what is going on in the world.