Avian flu vaccine produces limited success. Researchers claimed only partial success Thursday in the largest human trial of an avian flu vaccine. [News Source]

Avian flu vaccine falls short in trial. Setting back plans to shield the nation from a potential bird flu pandemic, the first study of a human vaccine showed that even a massive dose failed to protect nearly half of those inoculated. [News Source]

Country remains bird flu-free zone says minister. Lebanon "remains free of the killer H5N1 bird flu epidemic" rapidly spreading across the globe, according to Agriculture Minister Talal Sahili. [News Source]

Norway PM feeds own kids salmon banned by Russia. Saying he often fed salmon to his own children, Norway's prime minister expressed hopes on Wednesday Russia would resume imports of fresh Norwegian fish which Moscow banned due to worries about toxic metals. [News Source]

`The mark of the beast.’ Government officials say tracking animals is all about protecting public health. But former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore thinks the tracking system is a dire threat to personal liberty. [News Source]

Smoking’s still bad for you. Every few weeks we get a story that upends everything you were told last year. The only item that never gets its properties revised is the humble cigarette. [News Source]

Avian flu over the cuckoo’s nest. Is it Mother Nature or Father Human Greed whom we have to blame for avian flu? [News Source]

Razor-thin birds wash up on shore. Like last year, scientists say, this year's bird deaths appear related to changes in the marine food web that they still don't understand but that look as if they are related to unusual weather. [News Source]

How serious is the risk? Over the last year, it has been impossible to watch TV or read a newspaper without encountering dire reports about bird flu and the possibility of a pandemic, a worldwide epidemic. [News Source]

The 1918 flu killed millions. Does it hold clues for today? As another bird flu spreads across the globe, killing domestic fowl and some wild birds and, ominously, infecting and killing more than 100 people as well, many scientists are looking back to 1918. [News Source]

Local labs wary of bird flu. A network of medical laboratories set up as an early warning system against bioterrorism is joining the battle against bird flu. [News Source]

Officials urge businesses, local officials, households to prepare for pandemic. Businesses, local officials and even individuals who don't think they need to prepare for a predicted global outbreak of dangerous flu could be in for a bad surprise. [News Source]