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- 'Bird causes power outage in Bethel Park (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
A large bird crashed into a recloser, a device that acts as an automatic circuit breaker when an animal or tree branch touches a power line.
'Bird flu virus mutating into human-unfriendly form (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The H5N1 bird flu virus has mutated to infect people more easily, although it still has not transformed into a pandemic strain, researchers said on Thursday.
'Hygienic lab scientist to do bird flu training, blog for GazetteOnline (The Gazette)
Trisha Kreman, a public health microbiologist at University Hygienic Laboratory, is traveling to India as one of five scientists selected to train laboratory technicians to test for bird flu.
'Mutated bird flu eases human-to-human spread (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Bird flu has mutated so that it can more easily spread to humans and a change in a single amino acid could radically increase its virulence, according to two new studies.
'Bird vs. plane Bird strikes costly, deadly to pilots (The Frederick News-Post)
It's a bird. It's a plane. It's ... both. Airplanes and birds share the skies every day. For birds, meeting a plane in the sky can be deadly. For planes, it's damaging and costly.
'Risk of a bird flu outbreak remains on high alert (Vietnam Net)
VietNamNet Bridge - Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is temporarily under control in Viet Nam, however the risk of a bird flu outbreak is still on high alert.
'Bird, Taurasi together again (Republican-American)
The championships just seem to follow them everywhere they go. Especially when they go together. Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi ? the two players in UConn women's basketball history chosen No. 1 overall in the WNBA draft ? left the Huskies with five national championships between them.
'Bird flu likely behind death in Indonesia (UPI)
Health officials in the Indonesian province of Riau said they suspect that a man who died there Friday had been infected with the bird flu virus.
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