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[Health News Blog * Health News and Information *] The BBC reports that the British Veterinary Association has warned that Bird Flu will spread into the U.K. Health experts are concerned about bird flu not only for the economic damage caused from sick livestock but from the human loss if bird flu were to acquire the ability to spread human to human.

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http://newszealand.blogspot.com [Daily New Zealand News] Birdflu could spread to NZ in just hours, says expert.: New Zealand virologist Lance Jennings says the bird flu virus in Vietnam is beginning to adapt to humans and if it does, it could spread to New Zealand in a matter of hours. Since the Asian H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus first emerged in China and Hong Kong eight years ago, it has killed 37 people in Vietnam, 12 in Thailand and four in Cambodia.

Kolkatabirds.com[Kolkatabirds.com] Birds of Kolkata: Avian Influenza or Bird Flu and India: . Until recently, HPAI viruses had been isolated rarely from wild birds. Epidemiological studies suggest that, in some cases, wild birds are likely to have played a role in the transmission of H5N1 viruses to domestic poultry. Samples collected from clinically normal birds in the wild have not yet yielded any H5N1viruses. Infection with H5N1 HPAI does not necessarily cause clinical disease. Science and Nature journals report that the H5N1 viral strain is now being transmitted between migratory wild birds makes avian flu even more of a global threat than before.

http://www.drmartinwilliams.com [Drmartinwilliams.com] Info and links re bird flu, especially the nasty H5N1 variant in Asia: 12 February: "The major muations are in the domestic animals, but there are similarities with migratory bird isolates, indicating the birds introduced the virus, but the mutations probably happened on the farms and spreading was probbaly via smuggling or sale of contaminated birds. However, once the spreading begins, many transmission routes are possible and probable. 

Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.guardian.co.uk [Guardian.co.uk] Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Indonesia to cull chickens ...: The first humans to die from bird flu in Indonesia were a father and his two young daughters, who lived in a suburb of Jakarta. Tests confirmed they were infected with the H5N1 virus, Siti Fadilah Supari, the Indonesian health minister, said.

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