A 9-year-old Chinese girl diagnosed with bird flu was still listed in critical condition on Sunday as health authorities tried to prevent the disease from spreading. China warned of the threat of a massive avian flu outbreak among birds in the country on Saturday as it reported two new human cases — the girl in [...]

France confirmed on Friday the presence of an H5 bird flu virus at a farm in the east of the country where thousands of turkeys had died and said results of tests for the H5N1 strain were expected soon. The outbreak was discovered on Thursday at the farm with 11,000 turkeys in the department of [...]

“ONE of Britain’s leading veterinary experts called last night for the vaccination of backyard poultry and hobby birds to protect the country from the avian flu virus.” Times Online “Tests show swans clear of bird flu.” Scotsman “Spanish flu is thought to have killed about 50 million people in 1918.  Six years ago, Prof Peter [...]

British officials are not doing enough to stop bird flu from coming into the country, some experts have claimed. Virologist John Oxford said the UK was equipped to deal with an outbreak, but officials were “not prepared to act to stop one coming in the first place”. Earlier, ministers warned the public and poultry farmers [...]

A dead duck found in France had the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the agriculture ministry said on Saturday, confirming the first case of the virus in France. “Yes, it’s H5N1,” a spokeswoman for the farm ministry said. The wild duck was found dead on Monday near Lyon in a region famous for the quality [...]