Bird flu kills one in Vietnam (PhysOrg)
Bird flu has killed a 20-year-old Vietnamese man in the country's first confirmed avian flu case in two years, it was reported Sunday.

Bird flu kills first human since 2005 (Southern Highland News)
Bird flu has killed a 20-year-old Vietnamese man, the first death in the country from the virus since late 2005, state-run television reported. The man died last week in the northern province of Ha Tay neighbouring Hanoi, Deputy Health Minister Trinh Quan Huan was quoted as saying.

New bird flu virus information developed (Moldova.org)
U.S. and Taiwanese scientists have developed a hot pocket identification technology that might lead to better avian flu drugs.The researchers, responding to heightened concern about a possible bird flu epidemic, identified what they said are critical new insights into the architecture of a key enzyme in the H5N1 avian influenza virus that enables the virus to spread.Rommie Amaro and colleagues at ...