Officials in northern Iraq said on Tuesday they were treating 12 patients suspected of having bird flu as a World Health Organization (WHO) team prepared to travel to the area to give urgent assistance. Iraq’s health minister said on Monday the country feared it had its first human bird flu victim after preliminary test results [...]

This is something I’m not sure what to make of – Roche (the makers of the antiviral drug Tamiflu) have released an application called the Desktop Flu Tracker that tracks flu outbreaks in the US and creates a “heat map” out of the data. Desktop Flu Tracker is compatible with Windows 98SE, ME, 2000 and [...]

Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases may have more serious impacts than previously believed, a major scientific report has said. The report, published by the UK government, says there is only a small chance of greenhouse gas emissions being kept below “dangerous” levels. It fears the Greenland ice sheet is likely to melt, leading sea levels [...]

European Union authorities have confirmed the presence of the deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu in a sample taken from poultry from northern Cyprus, the European Commission said on Sunday. The confirmation was the latest sign that the virus, found mostly in Asia, was spreading westwards to infect birds in Europe and humans on the [...]

As a rule it’s wide to take anything that a “Government think tank” says with a pinch of salt, and while the same applies here it’s quite interesting! Britons could face a future in which most people travel by bicycle or horse and air travel becomes a distant memory, a Government think tank said yesterday. [...]