Bird flu detected in Victoria At least 10,000 ducks will have to be destroyed to contain an outbreak of bird flu in Victoria [News Source]

Bird flu found in Victoria Bird flu has been detected in two locations north-west of Melbourne. [News Source]

Study finds virus to be fast learner on infecting. Viruses regularly evolve new ways of making people sick, but scientists usually do not become aware of these new strategies until years or centuries after they have evolved. The report is being published in the midst of a controversy over a deadly bird flu virus that researchers manipulated to spread from mammal to mammal. [News Source]

Mexico ups swine flu screening as cases increase. Mexico's newspapers are warning of an alarming increase in swine flu for the first time since a pandemic shut down much of the country three years ago, while the government insists there's no need for another international scare. [News Source]

Bird flu researchers to pause Scientists who created easier-to-spread versions of the deadly bird flu are temporarily halting research. [News Source]

Bird flu outbreak sparks duck cull AT least 10,000 ducks will have to be destroyed to contain an outbreak of bird flu at two Victorian farms. [News Source]

Chicken products safe, despite bird flu Despite the discovery of bird flu at two Vic duck farms, the chicken industry says products are safe. [News Source]

Tripura begins culling to contain bird flu With a fresh outbreak of bird flu at a government-run farm in western Tripura, authorities Friday started culling more than 1,600 poultry birds to contain spread of the infection, officials said here. [News Source]

Chicken safe to eat, despite bird flu THE discovery of bird flu at two Victorian duck farms is not a food safety risk and chicken products are still safe to eat, peak body says. [News Source]

Bird flu investigator says continuation of research remains 'urgent' despite moratorium Research into transmissible bird flu strains remains "urgent" despite flu investigators' recent declaration of a "60-day moratorium on avian flu transmission because of the current controversy," Yoshihiro Kawaoka of Tokyo University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, "a lead researcher on one of two recent studies showing how H5N1 can be transmitted through airborne droplets" among ferrets ... [News Source]

Bird flu: 10,000 ducks to be put down Farms quarantined after avian flu is detected at two sites north-west of Melbourne. [News Source]

Bird flu: 10,000 ducks to be put down Farms quarantined after avian flu is detected at two sites north-west of Melbourne. [News Source]