The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) worries that pet fairs could bring the bird flu into Britain and spread it across the country, according to a BBC report.

Authorities continue to emphasize that the risk of an Avian pandemic is low, Dutch farmers have been ordered to keep poultry locked up inside, British doctors have been briefed on a nightmare scenario of a human pandemic and France is stockpiling drugs to protect its population

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) worries that pet fairs could bring the bird flu into Britain and spread it across the country, according to a BBC report.

Authorities continue to emphasize that the risk of an Avian pandemic is low, Dutch farmers have been ordered to keep poultry locked up inside, British doctors have been briefed on a nightmare scenario of a human pandemic and France is stockpiling drugs to protect its population

A cholera outbreak in northeastern Nigeria kills 30 people.

The state government says medical teams have already started working to check the spreading of the bacterial infection of the intestine

Officials with the United Nations warn a cholera epidemic, rapidly spreading throughout West Africa, has already claimed 500 lives and infected thousands more.

Herve Ludovic de Lys, head of the UN humanitarian coordination office in the region, says the outbreak needs an immediate response

Yvonne Lee - All Headline News Staff Reporter

Baltimore, MD (AP) - Chinese health officials are partnering up with a U.S. institute to battle AIDS in a country that officials fear will see a tenfold increase in HIV infection over the next five years