A man has died of bird flu in Vietnam, in the first confirmed human death from the virus there since 2005, health officials said. Bird flu has killed 43 people in Vietnam and officials have warned of more human cases as the virus spreads rapidly in poultry in many provinces. Scientists fear the virus could mutate to a form which could be easily passed from human to human, triggering a pandemic. His family raised fighting cocks and ducks, state media said. Man dies of bird flu in Vietnam....

About 57% of Indonesia's avian flu patients had contact with dead or infected poultry, 29% lived near poultry farms where sick or dead poultry were reported, and 1% had contact with poultry feces, the commission said. Helens in northwestern England, in the wake of a recent low pathogenic H7N2 avian flu outbreak in Wales, showed that poultry there were infected with the same subtype. In other developments, English officials yesterday reported another outbreak of the low pathogenic H7N2...

EVERYDAY foods are full of potent healing ingredients that boost energy, help prevent disease, and make us feel and look better. Mawji has this to say: "Each time a campaign on healthy diet is launched, everyone would be motivated to follow the programme. That means, eating breakfast each morning, refueling your body with a meal or snack every four to five hours and choosing the right foods. Food after all, is body fuel, and adding high energy choices to your diet will keep your engine...

Childers is just a few months removed from taking over as president and chief lobbyist of The Poultry Federation, an industry-created group that acts as a lobbyist, information source and general booster for the poultry industry in Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Childers is just a few months removed from taking over as president and chief lobbyist of The Poultry Federation, an industry-created group that acts as a lobbyist, information source and general booster for the poultry industry...

Now, there are many foods ranging from Spam-looking meat products to liquid cheeses that claim to be organic, but couldn't possibly be healthy for me or the environment. Much of what is sold as organic in our grocery stores is mass-produced, using similar water-intensive and soil-degrading practices as chemical agriculture, only without the chemicals. This sounds reasonable enough; however, when you look closer you see that their idea of organic may be a little different than the sun-lit...