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]

Bird flu on state’s agenda. California officials said they are working with local agencies to prepare for the avian flu, which has the potential for coming to the state later this year. [News Source]

A ‘dirty boot’ was enough to breach bird flu defences. Infected faeces from a wild bird carried into a chicken shed on a workman’s boot are thought to be the most likely source of a bird flu outbreak on a farm in Norfolk. [News Source]

Panic could overwhelm communications in pandemic. Telephone and Internet services could be overwhelmed and shut down in the early stages of a bird flu pandemic as people panic and try to work from home, according to a report released on Thursday. [News Source]

Report says flu masks may not help. If a worldwide flu epidemic strikes, face masks should be considered a defense of last resort since there's little evidence about whether the masks can prevent influenza infection. [News Source]

Avian flu scare may involve less lethal strain. Vets and government officials investigating Britain's third avian flu scare in just over six months were last night preparing to begin culling up to 35,000 chickens on a poultry farm in Norfolk. [News Source]

Doctors check poultry farm staff in latest bird flu crisis. 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 the UK. [News Source]

Vietnam to unveil advanced plan to fight bird flu. Vietnam, the country hardest-hit by avian flu but free of the disease for six months, will present a model plan on containing the virus at an Asia-Pacific conference next week. [News Source]

Experts see hurdles to reusing masks in event of a flu pandemic. If a flu pandemic strikes, there will be no safe way to decontaminate a disposable face mask so it can be reused, a panel of medical experts said yesterday. [News Source]