Burma working on a flu-communication program
A news release from UNICEF: Local officials learn how to raise awareness about bird flu in Myanmar. Excerpt:More than 60 health and livestoc...

India H5N1-free since May
Via The Financial Express: No bird flu case since May: government. Excerpt:Despite no reports of any bird flu cases from samples collected f...

Pandemic flu and opportunistic bacteria
Via Mike the Mad Biologist, some good points: Influenza: Preparing for the follow-on bacteria. Excerpt:As I've mentioned before, bacterial v...

Philippines: Good pandemic plans, awful writing
Via the Philippine Information Agency: RDCC-2 conducts contingency planning on bird flu. Excerpt:The Regional Disaster Coordinating Council ...

South Africa: WHO describes a new virus
At Avian Flu Diary, Mike Coston has a report from the World Health Organization, identifying the cause of the mystery outbreak in South Afri...

An update on Dr. Supari
Via AFP, a long report on Siti Fadilah Supari: Indonesia's bird flu warrior takes on the world. Excerpt:Addressing the crowd, Supari accused...

Unity (1918): A pandemic in literature
Scoop.co.nz has recently published a report about a Canadian play: Pandemic in Newtown.The play, Unity (1918), is about the impact of the Sp...

Bird flu bird brains and Bush brains
I am still trying to retrieve my lower jaw from the floor, where it fell after reading this: Read the rest of this post... Read the commen...

The ban on vaccines for terrorists
A couple of flu bloggers have posted trenchant comments about the US government's recently revealed ban on sending bird-flu vaccines to sta...