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- 'Orlando Street Troubled by Bird Droppings (AP via Yahoo! News)
The foul-smelling white substance cakes lamp posts, covers sidewalks and park benches and stains the bushes and trees. Parked cars become spattered in a matter of minutes along "bird poop alley."
'North American nations to coordinate bird flu response (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The United States, Canada and Mexico agreed in a statement here to coordinate their response to any outbreak of bird flu in the region.
'Tests confirm fourth Swiss bird flu case in wildfowl (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Laboratory tests have confirmed the presence of the dangerous strain of H5N1 bird flu in a wild duck in Switzerland, the fourth case so far in wildfowl.
'Egyptian Is Jordan's First Bird-Flu Case (AP via Yahoo! News)
Jordanian health officials announced the kingdom's first human case of the bird flu Friday in a 31-year-old worker believed to have contracted the deadly strain in his home village in Egypt.
'23rd human bird flu death confirmed in Indonesia (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Indonesia's 23rd bird flu fatality has been confirmed by tests carried out by the World Health Organisation (WHO), while local tests showed another patient is infected.
'Indonesian man tests positive for bird flu (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
An Indonesian man has tested positive for the bird flu virus, one day after the government confirmed the country's 23rd human death from the disease, a health official said on Saturday.
'First human case of H5N1 bird flu in Jordan (AFP via Yahoo! News)
An Egyptian worker has been detected in Jordan as suffering from the the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, the first reported human case of the virus in the country.
'U.S. Has Developed Bird Flu Vaccine, but It is Only Moderately Effective (RedNova)
By Marie McCullough The federal government has developed a human vaccine against the H5N1 bird flu, but it is only moderately effective, hard to make, and probably not protective against emerging strains of the fearsome virus.
'Groups urge Latin American pact against bird flu (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Latin American and Caribbean countries are among the least well-prepared in the world for bird flu and must work quickly to get ready for its arrival, international officials said on Friday.
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