By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 03 March 2006 watch Combating Bird Flu Migratory birds Last year, avian flu was confined to four countries in Asia. Today, the virus is reported in 33 nations on three...
By Deborah Block Washington, DC 24 January 2006 watch Bird Flu Database report A computer database in the United States is helping researchers find a human vaccine for the bird flu virus -- a disease...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 23 January 2006 Lee Jong-Wook The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Lee Jong-Wook, says the risk of an avian influenza pandemic is real and not exaggerated. Dr....
By Luis Ramirez Beijing 19 January 2006 U.N. experts are warning that Africa is a likely new location for the emergence of bird flu, and they say the spread of the virus onto the African continent cou...
By Paige Kollock Washington, D.C. 12 January 2006 watch Bird Flu report In the last week, at least 12 people in Turkey have been infected with bird flu. While UN officials fear the virus may spread fr...
By Steve Herman Tokyo 12 January 2006 Experts at an international conference on avian influenza are being told their governments must do more to ensure early detection of the virus if a global human p...
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 11 January 2006 Officials collect chickens in October to fight an outbreak of avian flu in Kiziksa village, in western Turkey The U.N. food and agriculture agency is warnin...
Turkish health minister Recep Akdag says preliminary tests show five more people are infected with the bird flu virus. The cases were detected in four provinces, raising the number of suspected and co...
By Amberin Zaman Ankara 05 January 2006 Turkish officials say two teenagers are believed to have died from bird flu. If the cases are confirmed to be the deadly H5N1 strain, they would be the first hu...
AGRICULTURE REPORT – February 19, 2002: Bird Flu in Hong Kong By George Grow This is the VOA Special English AGRICULTURE REPORT. Health workers in Hong Kong are attempting to halt the spread of a vi...