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- 'Girl dies of bird flu in Cambodia (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A 13-year-old girl has died of bird flu in Cambodia, the country's seventh fatality from the H5N1 virus, the health ministry and the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Friday.
'Drop a line at bird site (Akron Beacon Journal)
The site: www.ebird.org. Why let others have all the birding fun? Using the easy interface at eBird, a joint project of the National Audubon Society and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, you can post your bird observations for pleasure, while scientists, educators and others use the information for research. More than 4.3 million bird observations in North America were recorded at the site in 2006.
'Man from Indonesia's Central Java dies of bird flu (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
A 29-year-old Indonesian man from Central Java province has died of bird flu, a health ministry official said on Saturday, taking the human death toll from the virus in the country to 74.
'Two more bird flu deaths in Asia (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Teenage girls in Cambodia and Indonesia have died of bird flu as the virus continues to stalk across Asia, the region hardest-hit since the disease emerged in 2003, health officials said Friday.
'Egyptian toddler has bird flu (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A two-year-old Egyptian girl has been diagnosed with bird flu, the 33rd human case of the disease reported in the country, the official news agency MENA reported Friday.
'Indonesia reports another bird flu death (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Indonesia's human death toll from bird flu has risen to 74 and it must intensify the fight against the virus after a spate of fatalities, the country's government said Friday.
'Bird and the Bee take flight with music-first attitude (Boston Globe)
About the only subject that gets the members of the Bird and the Bee to talking is their agreement that, all told, they'd rather be doing something else. The duo -- singer Inara George and multi-instrumentalist Greg Kurstin -- are not particularly shy or diffident; they'd just prefer to be at work creating another song, rather than talking to journalists ...
'Results swoop in from Bird Count (Jonesboro Sun)
JONESBORO -- Ever seen a ruddy duck? How about an American kestrel, Eurasian collared-dove or Carolina wren? There are at least one of each in Jonesboro, according to The Great Backyard Bird Count.
'Bird flu kills Indonesian teen, toll at 74 (USA Today)
An Indonesian teenager died of bird flu in the bustling capital, bringing the toll in the country hardest hit by the virus to 74, a health ministry official and doctor said Friday.
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