Scientists from Nottingham Trent University in Britain are developing a device that can detect an outbreak of bird flu in two hours.

The technology works by identifying molecules from a swab of human saliva or animal tissue, before identifying with what kind of bird flu strain it is infected, researchers said

The bird flu detected in Nigeria last month is a new strain of the deadly H5N1 virus that has not been recorded in Africa previously.

Laboratory tests from Nigeria and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Italy found the virus from "backyard poultry" in Katsina and Kano states to be an H5N1, clade 2, EMA3

A new, faster-to-make whole-virus bird flu vaccine may protect against multiple bird flu strains, early studies in humans suggest. The new H5N1 vaccine appears to be safe, more effective than the one currently approved for human use and also able to be manufactured much more quickly than conventional vaccines, researcher said.

Current flu vaccines are grown in fertilized hens' eggs and the long process takes 22 weeks. Due to this drawback, the vaccine can only be manufacture seasonally, when the eggs are available

Bangladesh health authorities confirmed on Thursday that a 16-month-old boy who became infected with bird flu had recovered after treatment. The south-Asian country has become the 15th country to have a human case of H5N1 avian influenza, according to news services.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta confirmed on Wednesday that child is from Dhaka, the capital; an Agence France-Presse (AFP) report quoted Saluddin Khan, a government official, as saying

Children are the worst affected by the Israeli attacks on Palestine, with 60 percent of them being anemic.

These facts were revealed during the annual meeting of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, the main decision-making body of the World Health Organizations. Arab health ministers have sent an urgent letter to the WHO requesting that a fact-finding team investigate the appalling health conditions in the occupied territories