The Health and Family Planning Commission of Guangdong Province (GDHFPC) announced the first human avian influenza A(H7N9) case of the year in a female child from Shenzhen. The 6-year-old girl is hospitalized...

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The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) has activated a multi-agency response plan following the confirmation of highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza in domestic birds in Benton County. WSDA...

Mike Coston is the Owner/Editor of Avian Flu Diary The Egyptian Ministry of Health has posted details on two additional H5N1 cases – both with onsets in late December –  which raises Egypt’s...

The Egyptian Ministry of Health has in the past two consecutive days confirmed two additional human H5N1 avian influenza (AI) cases, one from Helwan governorate of Cairo and one from Asyut province (computer...

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The Hong Kong Government today (December 30) found in a consignment of imported live chickens a number of samples tested positive in H7 avian influenza (AI) serological tests, whilst all swab samples collected...

The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health (DH) is today (December 30) closely monitoring an additional human case of avian influenza A(H7N9) in Shenzhen notified by...

With the enormous amount of news and information concerning avian influenza, or bird flu, avian cases and human, I thought it was necessary to bring back Mike Coston with Avian Flu Diary on the Outbreak...

Japanese officials have ordered the cull of more than 40,000 birds on a Miyazaki prefecture after for the second time in two weeks an H5 avian influenza outbreak has been reported. Preliminary genetic...

Various media accounts today (computer translated) say that at least four people in Libya have died from H5N1 avian influenza infections in recent days. The Libya Health Minister, Rida al-Awkali said three...

A Hong Kong woman with recent travel to the Longgang district of Shenzhen, China is being reported as the eleventh imported case of human H7N9 avian influenza, according to local media reports (computer...