Deadly bird flu hits Britain (News-Medical-Net)
Flu viruses can remain infectious for about one week at human body temperature, over 30 days at 0 °C (32 °F), and indefinitely at very low temperatures (such as lakes in northeast Siberia). Most influenza strains can be inactivated easily by disinfectants and detergents.
Deadly bird flu hits Britain (News-Medical-Net)
Officials in Britain have confirmed that the bird flu strain detected in turkeys on a farm in Norfolk is the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus
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Deadly Strain of Bird Flu Confirmed in British Turkeys (Environment News Service)
LONDON, UK , November 13, 2007 (ENS) - British animal health officials have today confirmed that avian influenza detected in turkeys on a farm near Diss on the Norfolk-Suffolk border is the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of the virus.
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Indonesia Confirms Bird Flu Death, Raising National Toll to 91 (Bloomberg.com)
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- A 31-year-old man who died on Nov. 6 was killed by the bird flu virus, raising Indonesia's death toll to 91, a health ministry official said.
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Man dies of bird flu, raising Indonesian death toll to 91 (The Jakarta Post)
JAKARTA (AP): An Indonesian man died of bird flu, bringing the death toll in the country worst hit by the virus to 91, a top Health Ministry official said Saturday.
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Indonesia: Man Dies Of Bird Flu, Raising Indonesian Death Toll To 91 (Sin Chew Jit Poh)
JAKARTA, INDONESIA: An Indonesian man died of bird flu, bringing the death toll in the country worst hit by the virus to 91, a top Health Ministry official said Saturday (10 Nov).
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90th bird flu death recorded in Indonesia (Disaster News Network)
A 30-year-old Indonesian woman has died of bird flu, the 90th death reported in that country since 2005, the World Health Organization reported Monday.
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Indonesian woman dies of bird flu: health official (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
An Indonesian woman has died of bird flu, taking the country's death toll from the disease to 90, an official at the health ministry's bird flu centre said on Monday.
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Indonesian woman dies of bird flu (Tenterfield Star)
An Indonesian woman has died of bird flu, taking the country's death toll from the disease to 90, an official at the health ministry's bird flu centre says.
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Indonesian woman dies of bird flu (TVNZ)
An Indonesian woman has died of bird flu, taking the country's death toll from the disease to 90, an official at the health ministry's bird flu centre said.
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Indonesian woman dies of bird flu (AAP via Yahoo!7 News)
An Indonesian woman has died of bird flu, taking the country's death toll from the disease to 90, an official says.
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Deadly bird flu hits Britain (News-Medical-Net)
Later flu pandemics were not so devastating. They included the 1957 Asian Flu (type A, H2N2 strain) and the 1968 Hong Kong Flu (type A, H3N2 strain), but even these smaller outbreaks killed millions of people. In later pandemics antibiotics were available to control secondary infections and this may have helped reduce mortality compared to the Spanish Flu of 1918.
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