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Indonesian girl dies of bird flu (AFP via Yahoo! News)


Indonesian girl dies of bird flu (AFP via Yahoo! News)
An eight-year-old Indonesian girl has died of bird flu, raising the country's death toll from the disease to 63, a health ministry official has said.

Call For Antiviral Drugs For Bird Flu To Be Shared (Medical News Today)
New predictions about bird flu, involving the use of a mathematical model, suggest that international cooperation to share antiviral drugs might be the best way to deal with an emerging pandemic.'Bird flu'(avian H5N1 influenza) has not triggered a worldwide human epidemic yet because it rarely passes between people. [click link for full article]


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