Bird flu farm worker has eye infection (Financial Times) A poultry worker in Norfolk has an eye infection caused by Avian flu, the Health Protection Agency said last night. He works on the Norfolk farm where the H7 strain of bird flu was confirmed this week. [News Source]

Strain of avian flu detected in Camden County (Courier-Post) A strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, has been found in Camden County, but it is not believed to threaten humans, officials said Friday. The flu was found among chickens and ducks at a "live bird market," said the state Department of Agriculture, which did not identify the site. [News Source]

British poultry worker contracts H7N3 bird flu (AFP via Yahoo! News) A worker is suffering from conjunctivitis after contracting the usually mild H7N3 strain of bird flu from a poultry farm in eastern England, the Health Protection Agency said. [News Source]

Poultry Worker Has Bird Flu Infection (Sky News via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) A poultry worker has contracted an eye infection linked to chickens struck down with bird flu at a farm in Norfolk. The infected worker has the low pathogenic H7N3 strain of avian flu, which does not transmit easily from person to person, the Health Protection Agency said. [News Source]

Norfolk poultry worker hit by bird flu (ITV.com) A poultry worker at a Norfolk farm hit by bird flu has contracted an eye infection. The employee has a confirmed case of the H7 avian flu strain - which is not fatal to humans - in the form of conjunctivitis, the Health Protection Agency said. [News Source]

Avian flu might not be next pandemic (Lexington Herald-Leader) And now the good news: Avian influenza might not be the next pandemic to kill millions around the world. The H5N1 virus that causes bird flu has had ample opportunity to mutate into a faster-moving strain, but has not done so -- and that is reason for hope, said Frank Edens, an immunologist and physiologist who spoke yesterday to a Lexington audience. [News Source]

Face masks analyzed as aid in flu pandemic. A flu pandemic conjures up images of streets and buses full of people going about their business with masks covering the lower half of their faces. But how useful would those devices actually be? [News Source]

Workers under watch as bird flu hits farm. Workers at a poultry farm were being monitored by doctors last night as experts tried to trace the source of the latest bird flu outbreak to hit Britain. [News Source]

Tests to identify bird flu strain. Tests are due to identify the strain of bird flu that has killed scores of chickens at a Norfolk farm, prompting a cull of 35,000 birds. [News Source]

Bird flu: latest on the tests. Government officials were today due to release the results of tests on chickens infected with the bird flu virus at a Norfolk poultry farm. [News Source]

Chickens culled as bird flu detected. Tens of thousands of chickens were being slaughtered after dead birds on a Norfolk farm tested positive for bird flu. [News Source]

Wait for bird flu results continues. East Anglia's poultry industry in Norfolk, England was waiting last night for test results which will reveal the seriousness of a bird flu outbreak. [News Source]