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- '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.
'Indonesia confirms 74th bird flu death (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Bird flu killed a 29-year-old man in Indonesia after he came into contact with dead chickens, taking the country's human death toll from the disease to 74, the health ministry said Saturday.
'THIS WEEK IN MICHIGAN HISTORY: American robin selected as state bird (Detroit Free Press)
On April 8, 1931, the American robin was declared the official state bird of Michigan. According to the Michigan Department of History, Arts and Libraries, the robin was selected as the result of a contest held by the Michigan Audubon Society.
'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.
'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.
'Bird returning as Iberia Parish Fire District chief (The Daily Iberian)
The man who has led firefighting efforts in rural Iberia Parish for most of the last two decades is stepping down. Iberia Parish Fire District No. 1 Chief Sam Bird, 55, is retiring next week after more than a dozen years with the fire district.
'Teenage Egyptian girl catches bird flu (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A 15-year-old girl in Cairo has been diagnosed with bird flu, the 34th person in Egypt to be infected with the disease, the health ministry said Sunday.
'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.
'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.
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