Bird Flu (Avian Influenza) & Flu Pandemics

U.S. researchers report that birds from Latin America -- not from the north -- are most likely to bring deadly bird flu to the main U.S., suggesting the government might miss the H5N1 virus because biologists have been looking in the wrong direction.

ANKARA, Turkey (CNN) -- A 12-year-old girl who died Sunday has tested positive for the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu, health officials said, bringing Turkey's death toll from the virus to four and the number of its human cases to 20.
 

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey reported another human case of bird flu on Tuesday as authorities sealed off areas around major cities Ankara and Istanbul while they culled poultry to halt the advance of the deadly virus.

Will Stewart is bracing for a disaster: a flu pandemic that scientists and public health experts say in a worst-case scenario could cause worldwide calamity, kill millions of people and disrupt the global economy.