Source: Reuters
By Stephanie Nebehay
GENEVA (Reuters) - At least three brothers in Pakistan were infected with the bird flu virus last year, and some human-to-human spread likely occurred, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
But the United Nations agency said the deadly disease had not gone beyond the family cluster near Peshawar, suggesting “limited human […]

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Source: Dawn
While poultry farmers and officials concerned in the Sindh and Karachi city governments are waiting for test reports pertaining to the recent large-scale deaths of birds, a surveillance team on bird flu collected samples from another farm in Gadap Town on Thursday.
Sources in the poultry industry claimed that samples were drawn on Thursday from […]

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Source: Dawn
By Faiza Ilyas
Far from the crowded eateries and bustling kitchens of the city of lights, a scene from a nightmare is played out: at an isolated spot near the beach in Bin Qasim Town, the air is heavy with the stench of decaying flesh as two tankers arrive loaded with the blood of slaughtered […]

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Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s health ministry said it was still investigating whether there was human transmission in the country’s first death from bird flu.
It said initials tests by the World Health Organisation (WHO), which sent a team here last week, had ruled it out but that Pakistan had sent samples to Geneva — the WHO’s […]

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Source: Associated Press
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Limited human-to-human bird flu transmission may have occurred in Pakistan, but no new infections have been reported for two weeks and there appears to be no threat of further spread, a top World Health Organization official said.

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Source: Reuters
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan is urging provincial authorities to obey health guidelines to stop any bird flu outbreaks after fears lapses in poultry culling methods led to eight people being infected with the H5N1 virus.

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Source: Herald Tribune
International health experts have been dispatched to Pakistan to help investigate the cause of South Asia’s first human bird flu cases and determine if the virus was transmitted from person to person, an official and local media said Sunday.
Pakistan’s Health Ministry said Saturday six people last month had tested positive for the H5N1 […]

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