LONG OVERDUE UPDATES PART 2

As we said below, we're now back from a month off. Thanks again to the thousands of regular readers who've remained patient and continued to visit this site, waiting for the new news. We'll get to that in the next post, but for now we'll continue to update with the news we missed from the second half of August.

And here are the headlines :

CITIES ACROSS INDONESIA HIT BY OUTBREAKS OF BIRD FLU : MASS POULTRY CULLS, HUMAN DEATH TOLL RISES RAPIDLY


SCIENTISTS PLEDGE TO CREATE UNITED WORLD DATABASE OF BIRD FLU KNOWLEDGE


UN FINALLY CONFIRMS LAOS-THAILAND OUTBREAK WAS DUE TO A NEW STRAIN OF AVIAN INFLUENZA


800,000 VOLUNTEERS GO DOOR TO DOOR IN THAILAND TO 'BUST' BIRD FLU


AUGUST 26 : CHINESE BIRD FLU VACCINE - CLAIMS THAT IT TESTS SAFE TO USE, BUT WILL IT BE EFFECTIVE?


AUGUST 23 : BE PREPARED....FOR THE WORST CASE PANDEMIC FLU SCENARIO


AUGUST 21 : INDONESIA - MOTHER, DAUGHTER BOTH DIE OF BIRD FLU WITHIN DAYS OF EACH OTHER


AUGUST 19 : INDONESIA - FIVE DEAD IN THREE WEEKS, BUT AUTHORITIES DENY REPORTS OF NEW BIRD FLU VIRUS 'CLUSTER'


AUGUST 17 : SCOTTISH SCIENTISTS CLAIM VACCINATING POULTRY CAN HELP BIRD FLU VIRUS TO SPREAD


AUGUST 16 : SOUTH KOREA BANDS UNITED STATES POULTRY IMPORTS OVER BIRD FLU FEAR


AUGUST 15 : LIBERIA ALARMED BY BIRD FLU ON THE IVORY COAST


AUGUST 14 : NIGERIA - FEAR OF BIRD FLU OUTBREAKS GRIP THE COUNTRY

CZECH SCIENTISTS CLAIM A MINOR VICTORY IN THE SEARCH FOR A VACINNE


JACKIE CHAN HIRED BY UN TO WARN THE WORLD ABOUT AVIAN INFLUENZA


WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL SUPERCOMPUTER TO STUDY SPREAD OF BIRD FLU


WORLD BANK CLAIMS BIRD FLU POSES DANGEROUS THREAT TO INDONESIA'S ECONOMY, URGES WEALTHY NATIONS TO BOOST AID TO FIGHT VIRUS SPREAD


AS BIRD FLU VIRUSES DIVERSIFY THEIR STRAINS, TARGETED VACCINES GROW LESS LIKELY


WORLD OVERDUE FOR PANDEMIC FLU, OUTBREAK IMMINENT WARNS EXPERT