Birdflu found on farm was not H5N1. The strain of bird flu found on a farm in eastern England is H7, not the lethal H5N1, and tests show the virus is low pathogenicity, officials said on Friday. [News Source]

‘Low risk’ message over bird flu (icScotland) A cull of chickens at the centre of a bird flu outbreak was continuing as officials reassured the public of the "extremely low" risk to human health. It comes after a poultry worker at the Norfolk farm affected by the H7 strain of avian flu contracted the virus in the form of conjunctivitis. [News Source]

Avian Influenza And Influenza Of Avian Origin In Mammals (England) Order 2006 (Medical News Today) The Avian Influenza and Influenza of Avian Origin in Mammals (England) Order 2006 Adobe acrobat pdf file (202 KB) came into force on 27 April 2006. It implements the majority of the requirements of Council Directive 2005/94/EC on the control of avian influenza. It replaces the Diseases of Poultry (England) Order 2003 as far as it relates to avian influenza... click link for more info. [News Source]

Conjunctivitis Caused By H7 Avian Influenza In Poultry Worker, UK (Medical News Today) The Health Protection Agency (HPA) has confirmed that a poultry worker is suffering from conjunctivitis caused by H7 avian influenza. The individual works on the Norfolk poultry farm confirmed as having an outbreak of (low pathogenic) H7N3 avian influenza. H7N3 does not transmit easily from poultry to people, so the risk to those in contact with the infected poultry is considered low... click [News Source]

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]