International Business News - Bird http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif South Korea plans to declare itself free of bird flu this week, more than three months after a series of outbreaks led authorities to slaughter nearly 8.5 million birds, an official said Sunday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080817/south-korea-to-declare-itself-free-of-bird-flu.htm Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:25:16 EDT An Indonesian cargo worker died of bird flu, relatives confirmed Thursday, raising the unofficial toll in the world's hardest hit nation to 111 in three years. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080717/indonesian-man-dies-of-bird-flu.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:19:51 EDT South Korea said Monday it has lifted all special restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of bird flu after a series of recent outbreaks. The Agriculture Ministry said in a statement it has slaughtered about 8.5 million birds to combat outbreaks of the disease that began in early April. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080630/skorea-lifts-bird-flu-restrictions.htm Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:24:50 EDT Mexico is banning poultry imports from Arkansas because of a bird flu outbreak. Mexico's Agriculture Department says poultry meat, fertilized eggs, song birds and messenger pigeons are banned indefinitely. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080626/mexico-bans-arkansas-poultry-imports.htm Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:22:24 EDT Australia has approved a locally made bird flu vaccine for humans that researchers hope will provide some protection if the current virus mutates into a new form that triggers a pandemic, the government said Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080617/australian-government-approves-bird-flu-vaccine.htm Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:49:50 EDT Caroll Spinney's slim but charming book, "The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch): Lessons from a Life in Feathers," published in 2003, is full of career advice even non-puppeteers can put to work. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080616/on-the-job-lessons-from-big-bird-puppeteer.htm Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:47:35 EDT On the street, Caroll Spinney is a 74-year-old of modest proportions. On the job, transformed into Big Bird, he stands 8 feet 2 inches tall and is 6 years old. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/72902-being-big-bird.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080616/hes-big-bird-caroll-spinney-loves-every-feather.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080616/hes-big-bird-caroll-spinney-loves-every-feather.htm Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:32:41 EDT Illegal bird poaching in Cyprus this spring continued a "deeply disturbing" trend that saw 1.1 million birds trapped over the past year, conservationists said Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080613/cyprus-illegal-bird-trapping-continuing.htm Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:56:19 EDT Ali Usman's wife died of bird flu 10 days ago, but he still has not been officially notified by the government. Desperate for information, he scours the newspapers, which until last month aggressively wrote about deaths in the country hardest hit by the disease, but finds nothing. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080613/indonesias-new-bird-flu-policy-angers-families.htm Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:52:44 EDT The first experimental bird flu vaccine made from lab-grown cells instead of chicken eggs shows promise in blocking the highly lethal virus, scientists report. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080611/experts-bird-flu-vaccine-made-from-cells-looks-promising.htm Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:10:35 EDT Health officials ordered the slaughter of all live poultry in Hong Kong's street markets on Wednesday after detecting one of the largest outbreaks of the bird flu virus in years. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/68929-hong-kong-bird-flu.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080611/hong-kong-to-kill-all-market-chickens.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080611/hong-kong-to-kill-all-market-chickens.htm Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:14:17 EDT Hong Kong health workers slaughtered 2,700 poultry in a market Saturday after chickens were found to be carrying the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus, officials said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080607/bird-flu-detected-in-hong-kong-market.htm Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:47:23 EDT Australian officials say they are having success with a captive breeding program aimed at saving an endangered native bird, the regent honeyeater. Twenty-seven of the yellow and black birds were fitted with radio transmitters and released May 1 into Chiltern Mount Pilot National Park in Victoria state. The site, about 300 miles (500 kilometers) southwest of Sydney, was picked because it is home to the box and ironbark forests the birds prefer. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080606/endangered-bird-in-australia-making-comeback.htm Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:24:49 EDT A Long Island woman has been found by police with her skin crawling with nearly invisible bloodsucking parasites from an infested bird's nest in her home. She's been taken to a hospital quarantine unit. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080606/woman-with-bug-infested-bird-nest-is-quarantined.htm Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:28:45 EDT A teenager died of bird flu last month, becoming Indonesia's 109th victim, but the government decided not to announce the death right away. It is part of a new policy aimed at improving the image of the nation hardest hit by the disease. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/63868-indonesia-bird-flu.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080605/indonesia-hushes-up-bird-flu-deaths.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080605/indonesia-hushes-up-bird-flu-deaths.htm Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:22:31 EDT A little strategically placed makeup quickly turns the wimpiest of male barn swallows into chick magnets, amping up their testosterone and even trimming their weight, new research shows. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/63283-bird-testosterone.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080604/marked-up-birds-become-sexier-exude-testosterone.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080604/marked-up-birds-become-sexier-exude-testosterone.htm Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:26:40 EDT A little strategically placed makeup quickly turns the wimpiest of male barn swallows into chick magnets, amping up their testosterone and even trimming their weight, new research shows. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/62459-bird-testosterone.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080603/marked-up-birds-become-sexier-exude-testosterone.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080603/marked-up-birds-become-sexier-exude-testosterone.htm Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:01:55 EDT After a contest that ruffled a few feathers, Israel has chosen its national bird. At a ceremony in Jerusalem on Thursday, Israel's appropriately dovish President Shimon Peres announced that the hoopoe is now the ornithological symbol of the country. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080529/israel-chooses-a-national-bird.htm Thu, 29 May 2008 19:51:54 EDT Bangladesh's Health Ministry says the nation's first human case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected. The Directorate General of Health Services statement says a child was infected by the virus in January. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080522/bangladesh-reports-1st-human-h5n1-case.htm Thu, 22 May 2008 09:18:34 EDT GlaxoSmithKline said Monday that it has received permission from European regulators to market a human bird flu vaccine, the first pharmaceutical to receive a license for pre-pandemic use in all 27-member European Union states. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080519/glaxo-gets-approval-for-bird-flu-vaccine.htm Mon, 19 May 2008 10:06:44 EDT