South and Southeast Asian countries are grappling with new outbreaks of bird flu as winter weather sweeps across the region. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the latest outbreaks are still confined primarily to poultry, but one new human death has been reported in Vietnam.

Indian officials are struggling to contain a serious outbreak of bird flu that has spread across nearly half of the eastern state of West Bengal.

A 32-year-old Indonesian woman has been killed from bird flu at her home after being forced to check out of a hospital by her family while raising the country’s death toll to 95.

Egypt's health ministry has announced a second bird flu death in less than a week.

A fresh, eighth, outbreak of H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed in the north of the country, where the deadly virus was discovered earlier this month, the chief sanitary official said on Saturday.

The international science community is not doing enough to track the many avian influenza viruses that might cause the next pandemic, a UC Davis researcher says in today's issue of the journal Nature.

Romanian authorities had to slaughter 90 hens and ducks on a small farm in Romania's eastern Danube Delta to prevent bird flu from spreading.

Officials in Burma say a new outbreak of bird flu has been detected among chickens in an eastern district near the Chinese border.

The government reported Monday that a second case of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was found in eastern England.

A deadly bird flu virus may have spread to another site in Britain, with suspicious deaths at a turkey farm in Suffolk, the farm ministry said.

On account of an outbreak of bird flu in Canada Ukraine banned imports of Canadian poultry. The ban on all poultry and poultry products will be lifted when "the situation is brought under control," Agriculture Ministry official Anatoliy Osadchiy said.

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that 73% of avian flu outbreaks in the UK would not spread beyond the initial infected farm, but larger outbreaks are more likely to involve the duck meat industry.