Guarding the henhouse. Bird flu could hit the U.S. in the next few months. But poultry farmers are gearing up to beat it back. [News Source]

Donald Rumsfeld makes $5m killing on bird flu drug. Donald Rumsfeld has made a killing out of bird flu. The US Defence Secretary has made more than $5m from selling shares in the biotechnology firm that discovered and developed Tamiflu. [News Source]

Cranes watched for avian flu. Sandhill cranes, northern pintail ducks and some geese are among the key species that wildlife officials will be monitoring for the arrival of avian flu in the central United States. [News Source]

Labs shouldn’t hoard flu data: Researcher. A leading scientist in the field of genetic sequencing is calling on publicly funded U.S. researchers and research organizations to throw open their collections of H5N1 avian flu viruses. [News Source]

Communities warned to prepare for bird flu outbreak. Americans better get ready to deal with the near-certainty of some type of an avian flu outbreak domestically, according to a Lehigh Valley infectious disease expert. [News Source]