http://http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/birdfludeaths.php/ News on bird flu/avian flu deaths from around the world http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4429AFP - Health authorities in India on Saturday confirmed a fresh outbreak of deadly bird flu after thousands of chickens died, officials said. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4429Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:38:28 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4408Reuters - A 16-year-old girl died of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu on Monday, the 23rd fatality and 51st case of the disease among humans in Egypt, state news agency MENA said. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4408Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:08:21 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4416AFP - A two-year-old Indonesian girl has died of bird flu, the country's 113th fatality from the disease, the World Health Organisation said Wednesday. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4416Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:56:48 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4422Authorities in Hong Kong say over 80,000 chickens will be culled after a poultry farm was found to have chickens infected with avian influenza (bird flu). The last time bird flu was detected in Hong Kong was in 2002. About 60 dead chickens were found in the farm, according to York Chow, Health Secretary. Tests have confirmed the birds died from the H5N1 virus - the most virulent strain. He added that all chickens within a 2-mile (3-km) radius of the infected farm will be culled. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4422Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:00:00 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4334AFP - Tests on an Indonesian girl reported to have died of bird flu proved negative for the deadly strain of the virus, the health minister said Thursday. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4334Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:14:48 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4336Reuters - A 15-year-old Indonesian girl has died of bird flu in central Java, a health official said on Wednesday, bringing the country's death toll from the disease to 113. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4336Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:04:34 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4337AP - Indonesian health officials say a 15-year-old girl has died of bird flu. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4337Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:10:21 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4318The body of an aristocrat who died nearly 90 years ago has been exhumed in the hope that it will help combat a future flu pandemic. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4318Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:46:07 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4369Scientists funded by the Wellcome Trust are to examine what is preventing the H5N1 avian influenza virus from causing a human pandemic and what mutations are required to realise its deadly potential. The research could hold the key to early identification of a potential influenza pandemic, and to developing drugs and a vaccine. Since its reappearance in 1997, the H5N1 influenza virus has caused disease and death in millions of birds around the globe. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4369Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:00:00 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4287AP - An Indonesian cargo worker died of bird flu, relatives confirmed Thursday, raising the unofficial toll in the world's hardest hit nation to 111 in three years. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4287Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:27:41 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4256Reuters - The Indonesian health ministry has reported two deaths from bird flu in recent weeks, easing concerns about whether Jakarta would share information about the disease, the World Health Organization said on Thursday. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4256Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:31:25 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4376The majority of deaths during the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 were not caused by the influenza virus acting alone, report researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. Instead, most victims succumbed to bacterial pneumonia following influenza virus infection. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4376Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:15:00 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4216AFP - Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari refused Friday to say how many Indonesians had died of bird flu and insisted it was no longer necessary to announce the toll on a case-by-case basis. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4216Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:35:20 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4184AP - A teenager died of bird flu last month, becoming Indonesia's 109th victim, but the government decided not to announce the death right away. It is part of a new policy aimed at improving the image of the nation hardest hit by the disease. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4184Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:22:31 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4185Reuters - Indonesia has changed its policy on reporting bird flu cases and will only announce the death toll from the disease every six months, the health minister said on Thursday. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4185Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:24:58 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4137The Spanish flu outbreak of 1918 killed between 30 and 50 million people. In the infected patients, the ultimate cause of death was acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). This fatal condition is a massive reaction of the body during which the lung becomes severely damaged. ARDS can be induced by various bacterial and viral infections, but also by chemical agents. These could be toxic gases that are inhaled or gastric acid when aspirated. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4137Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:00:00 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4141The government of South Korea is investigating fresh outbreaks of bird flu, including one only 70 kilometers from the capital, Seoul.According to Yonhap News Agency, South Korea's Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said on Monday that the latest outbreak was reported after sudden deaths in birds on a chicken farm in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, less than 70 km from Seoul. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4141Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4144Testsindicate that a father diagnosed with bird flu in China probably caughtthe disease from his son, only increasing concern about transmission ofthe virus between humans. This was published early online and in theApril 2008 issue of The Lancet. As of April 2, 2008,there have been 376 cases of infection with the highly pathogenic avianinfluenza A (H5N1) virus with 238 deaths reported in 14 differentcountries since November 2003. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4144Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:00:00 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4145H5N1 Bird flu (avian flu) did kill some family members in Peshawar, north-west Pakistan last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed after carrying out tests at its WHO H5 Reference Laboratory in Cairo, Egypt, and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza in Atlanta, USA. Last year the north-west and southern areas of Pakistan were hit by bird flu. Tens of thousands of birds were destroyed in an attempt to stem the spread of the disease. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4145Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:00:00 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4149The Ministry of Health in Viet Nam has confirmed a new case of human infection of H5N1 avian influenza. The case has been confirmed by the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE). The case is an 11 -year old male from Thanh Liem district, Ha Nam province. He developed symptoms on 4 March was hospitalized on 9 March and died on 14 March. The case had contact with sick and dead poultry prior to his illness. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4149Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:00:00 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4097The UN expresses concerns that Indonesia is failing to cope with its rising bird flu death toll. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4097Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:11:51 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4030AFP - A young Egyptian woman has died of bird flu, becoming the 20th victim of the deadly virus in Egypt over the past two years, the health ministry announced on Tuesday. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4030Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:49:41 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4031Reuters - An Egyptian woman aged 25 has died of bird flu, the 20th death in Egypt from the disease since the virus arrived in the country in early 2006, the state news agency MENA said on Tuesday. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4031Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:24:09 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4034AFP - There are no indications that bird flu is becoming a bigger problem in China despite the deaths of three people from the disease this year, the World Health Organisation said Wednesday. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4034Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:02:57 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4035Reuters - All three Chinese who died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu this year had contact with sick poultry, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday, adding there was no evidence of transmission between humans. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4035Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:04:08 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4037Reuters - China and Pakistan have announced bird flu outbreaks among poultry, a day after two women, one in China and one in neighboring Vietnam, died of the virus. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4037Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:25:01 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4038Reuters - China has reported a bird flu outbreak in poultry in the southwestern province of Guizhou, state media reported late on Monday, the same day a woman died from bird flu in the south. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4038Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:57:44 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4039Reuters - Bird flu has killed a woman teacher in northern Vietnam, the fourth death from the H5N1 virus this year, state-run Voice of Vietnam radio reported on Tuesday. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4039Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:54:14 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4050The Ministry of Agriculture in China has confirmed there is an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in Tibet, the second this year. This follows confirmation that a a 22 year old man from central China died of the virus last month. Chinese authorities said the Tibetan outbreak started on 6th February, in a small community on the outskirts of Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, which lies in the Himalayas. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=4050Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:00:00 GMThttp://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=3995China's health ministry confirms that a man has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in central Hunan province. http://www.ukbirdflunews.com/News/article.php?itemid=3995Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:28:36 GMT