China's top health officials confirmed on Tuesday that the first lab-verified death from bird flu on the mainland of China took place in late 2003. The November 2003 case was two years before the October 2005 case in the Hunan Province, where a 9-year-old boy was incorrectly identified as the...

AP - Indonesia, which has had more human deaths from bird flu than any other country, defended its fight against the virus Wednesday, saying it had slaughtered or vaccinated almost 300 million chickens since 2004.

Reuters - China confirmed on Tuesday that the country's first human case of the H5N1 bird flu virus was in late 2003, two years earlier than originally reported, prompting the U.N.'s health agency to call for greater transparency.

Indonesia has confirmed reports of its human bird flu death toll now reaching 43. The disease's latest victim is a 16-year-old boy who died last Monday according to health ministry officials.

AFP - China has said its first confirmed human death from bird flu was in 2003, two years earlier than previously reported, suggesting the disease may have been present on the mainland before re-emerging in the rest of Asia.

Indonesia marks its 43rd bird flu death, which if confirmed by the WHO makes it the worst affected country.

AP - A 16-year-old Indonesian boy died from bird flu on Monday, officials said citing local test results. If confirmed, the death would bring the country's tally to 43, the highest in the world.

AFP - Thailand has reported its 16th bird flu death after test results confirmed that a 27-year-old man had died from the H5N1 virus, an official said.

Reuters - A leading virologist has urged countries battling new H5N1 bird flu outbreaks in animals to analyze the genetic makeup of the virus to trace its origins and better arm themselves to combat the disease.

AFP - A swan found dead in Dresden zoo in eastern Germany was infected with the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, the first such case in the country in nearly three months, local authorities said.

The Indonesian government on Thursday vowed to intensify its campaign against the bird flu in the North Sumatra, after three people were reported to have contracted the H5N1 virus in the region. Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare Aburizal Bakrie said the government will draw up special...

AFP - Six suspected bird flu patients in Indonesia, one of the nations hardest hit by H5N1, have been cleared of carrying the deadly virus.

AFP - Three children in Indonesia, one of the nations hardest hit by bird flu deaths, have been hospitalized on suspicion of having the virus, a senior health official said.

Health officials in Indonesia issued a bird flu alert Wednesday after seven people from the same village were confined to the hospital on suspicion of bird flu. Health ministry official Runizar Ruesin said the group is from Karo district in Northern Sumatra province, where seven members of one...

Bird Flu may have trouble spreading from human to human, after a test shows the process is more difficult than previously believed. Researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) attempted to combine the H5N1 bird flu with the common cold and found the virus had great...

AFP - Prime Minister Thaksin Shinwatra has insisted that the government could control the latest outbreak of bird flu, amid mounting concerns for critical industries like tourism and poultry exports.

AFP - Thailand's tourism industry has urged the government to wipe out the latest outbreak of bird flu before October, when peak season begins for the 12-billion-dollar business.

AP - Scientists combined genes from the notorious Asian bird flu with human flu but weren't able to create a strain that could be easily spread.

AP - Scientists combined genes from the notorious Asian bird flu with human flu but weren't able to create a strain that could be easily spread.

Reuters - Tyson Foods Inc. , the nation's top meat producer, reported a quarterly loss compared with a year-earlier profit on Monday due to large meat supplies and disruptions in beef and chicken exports due to mad cow disease and bird flu.