Animal Health and Welfare Aspects of Avian Influenza European Food Safety Authority. The ANNEX to this paper (Adopted 13/14 Sept 2005) is actually more interesting to pet owners. It provides in depth discussions of H5N1 and other highly pathogenic avian flu viruses from the aspect of other animals. Includes:
Pet bird issues on Pages 33-38.
A study of the life of other pathogenic avian influenza, not specifically H5N1, in feces is on Pages 65-67.
Erasmus MC the Virology Lab at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam the Netherlands led by Dr. Osterhaus is a leading facility in researching the potential impact of cats in H5N1 transmission to other cats, people, and other animals.
Google Earth has an Avian Flu Feed. Install from Google Earth and load the
Bird Flu layer from DadenLimited
HEWS / WFP-ODAP (United Nations World Food Programme) Incidence Tracking Maps (see lower right side of page for the latest maps. They currently update about twice a week. The maps are about 1 MegaByte in size.