While the count of illness and deaths from the WHO World Health Organization is not always up to date on the count for Asian Avian H5N1 Bird Flu.    We have posted it hear and will continue to update on a monthly basis in order to bring you the latest information on the H5N1 Flu.

COUNTRY           CONF'D LOCALLY / (DEATHS)    

Azerbaijan             13 / (5)                            
Bangladesh              1 / (0)                                 
Cambodia                8 / (7)                           
China                  38 / (25)                           
Djibouti                1 / (0)                             
Egypt                  63 / (23) *                       
Indonesia             142 / (116)                           
Iran                    2 / (2)                              
Iraq                    3 / (2)                                
Japan                   1 / (0)                               
Jordan                  1 / (0)                               
Laos                    2 / (2)                                
Myanmar                 1 / (0)                                
Nigeria                 2 / (1)                               
Pakistan                3 / (1)                            
South Korea             9 / (0)                               
Thailand               25 / (17)                              
Turkey                 21 / (4)                                
Vietnam               110 / (54)                           
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Total                 445 / (259)                            

note: A 33 year old woman from Egypt is critically ill with H5N1. 

Here is some more info coming today from Indonesia... the true number of cases occurring in Indonesia at this moment could be anything. The numbers leaking out aren't out of line with what we'd expect at this time of year, but what happened last year might bear no relation to what is happening this year. The possibility that bird flu is truly disappearing from Indonesia is only a remote and unlikely possibility. Indonesia remains a hot spot for poultry infection with influenza A/H5N1, the disease is endemic and solidly entrenched, government control efforts (except on the information front) ineffective, and exposure widespread. The ture number of cases could also be in line with past experience, which is probably the horse to bet on. But -- and this is a very BIG "but" -- there could be mini-clusters and sporadic cases all over the place that Indonesia's government and Health Minister, Siti Fadillah Supari, is just not inclined to tell us about.