A WHO report confirmed the mutation of the H5N1 bird flu virus in a family cluster in Sumatra Island, Indonesia on Friday. The virus, infecting eight members of a family and killing seven, looks like it has mutated in a 10-year-old boy....

AP - A World Health Organization investigation showed that the H5N1 virus mutated in an Indonesian family cluster on Sumatra island, but bird flu experts insisted Friday it did not increase the possibility of a human pandemic.

Reuters - A Chinese man who died of pneumonia in 2003 and was at first classified as a SARS victim may have in fact died of avian influenza, Chinese researchers reported on Wednesday.

AP - Beijing scientists said in a medical journal Wednesday that a man in mainland China died of bird flu in November 2003 — two years before the communist country reported any human infections to the World Health Organization.

Indonesia has requested the international community for help in fighting the bird flu, saying that it lacks the resources to fight the spread of the H5N1 virus spreading in the country. Peter Roeder, an animal expert from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said that Indonesia would need a...

Reuters - Many people who contracted the H5N1 bird flu virus in Indonesia were ignorant and never warned about the disease and children are the ones most vulnerable, medical experts said on Wednesday.

AP - Indonesia appealed Wednesday for international help in fighting bird flu, warning it lacks the resources to stop an increasingly rapid spread of the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus in the country.

AP - The Bush administration lacks a comprehensive plan for testing and monitoring bird flu in commercial poultry, a federal audit says.

AP - Families of veterans who die during a bird flu outbreak shouldn't count on burying their loved ones in any of the 120 national cemeteries. The Department of Veterans Affairs foresees closing the military graveyards in a pandemic because of staffing problems.

Reuters - A case of bird flu in the eastern Canadian province of Prince Edward Island was not the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain, a Canadian source said on Tuesday.

The World Health Organization on Monday confirmed an Indonesian teenager who died last week was killed by bird flu. The death of the 14-year-old boy has pushed up Indonesia's bird flu death toll to 39.

AP - A 14-year-year-old boy died of bird flu, officials said Tuesday, raising the country's death toll to at least 39 people.

AP - Two dozen scientists from around the world gathered in high-tech classrooms and laboratories in central Iowa on Monday to learn how to diagnose avian influenza and control its spread.

Deadly Bird Flu virus (H5N1) has been brought into New Zealand by scientists to work on the suspected case.

Reuters - Canada has detected a case of H5 avian flu in the eastern province of Prince Edward Island and plans further testing over the weekend to determine the strain and virulency, a provincial health officer announced on Friday.

AFP - Indonesia has confirmed its 38th death from bird flu after tests by a WHO-accredited laboratory found that a seven-year-old girl who died this month was infected.

AP - International tests have confirmed that a 7-year-old girl died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu earlier this month, bringing Indonesia's death toll from the virus to at least 38, a health official said Thursday.

The House passed a $94.5 billion bill Tuesday to pay for continuing U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, hurricane relief, bird flu preparations and border security at home.

AP - The House passed a $94.5 billion bill Tuesday to pay for continuing U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, hurricane relief, bird flu preparations and border security at home.

AP - Nearly 350 miles above the Arctic Circle, a traditional Eskimo feast to celebrate a successful whale hunt is in the making. On the table, chopped-up chunks of wild fowl are ready for the pot — all except for a lovely king eider duck.