bird flu

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- A Vietnamese official on Thursday confirmed the country's second human death from bird flu in less than a month, after it went nearly two years with no reported fatalities....

Vietnam reports 2nd bird flu death in a month Test results confirm that a 26-year-old woman died of the disease Jan. 28 after being hospitalized in southern Soc Trang province, said Truong Hoai Phong, director of the provincial health department.

China reports second bird flu death in a month The patient died Sunday in Guizhou province in the southwest after being hospitalized on Jan. 6, the health ministry said in a brief statement.

Scientists who created a more deadly strain of bird flu as part of attempts to prevent the virus's spread, halt work amid fears it could be used by terrorists.

Vietnam reports 1st bird flu death in 2 years HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has recorded its first human bird flu death in nearly two years, and although the victim worked at a duck farm the H5N1 virus has yet to be found in poultry there, officials said Thursday.

Vietnam, Cambodia report bird flu deaths Associated Press

2 more dead birds in HK test positive for H5N1 HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities say two more dead birds have tested positive for a dangerous strain of bird flu, adding to health worries in the city.

BEIJING (AP) -- Local health authorities say a bus driver has tested positive for the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong where two birds were confirmed to have the same virus last week....

Chinese bus driver infected with bird flu dies BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese bus driver who tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus died Saturday in a city bordering Hong Kong, health officials said, in the country's first reported case of the disease in humans in 18 months.

GENEVA (AP) -- The World Health Organization is warning that dangerous scientific information could fall into the wrong hands after U.S. government-funded researchers engineered a form of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus more easily transmissible between humans....