Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) (KCBD-TV) Type A influenza viruses can infect several animal species, including birds, pigs, horses, seals and whales. Influenza viruses that infect birds are called “avian influenza viruses.” [News Source]

Canada finds bird flu case, plans further testing (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Canada has detected a case of H5 avian flu in the eastern province of Prince Edward Island and plans further testing over the weekend to determine whether it is the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain, government officials announced on Friday. [News Source]

Canada finds bird flu, unclear what virus strain (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Canada has detected a case of H5 avian flu in the eastern province of Prince Edward Island and plans further testing over the weekend to determine the strain and virulence, government officials announced on Friday. [News Source]

Red Cross bird flu appeal draws meagre response, despite need to prepare (AFP via Yahoo! News) The meagre response by donors to an international Red Cross appeal to help prepare for a feared flu pandemic sparked by avian influenza is preventing the organisation from stepping up efforts, it said. [News Source]

Internews Addresses Health and Safety of Reporters Covering Avian Flu (Internews) (June 16, 2006) “Though human-to-human transmission of avian flu still has not been confirmed scientifically, you need to take precautions while covering the issue in the field,” Professor Luhur Suroso, the avian influenza team head in Medan’s Adam Malik Hospital, told journalists at an Internews training in North Sumatra on June 12. [News Source]

Samples from birds to be tested for avian flu. A state lab in Anchorage is ready to join a nationwide effort to detect early on whether a deadly bird flu virus has reached the North American continent. [News Source]

Pall of gloom over Hong Kong. Ironically, the most urgent threat to Hong Kong's competitiveness - the city's increasingly foul air - is intimately tied to the phenomenal growth on the mainland, particularly in the Pearl River Delta in neighboring Guangdong province. [News Source]

Red Cross bird flu appeal draws meagre response, despite need to prepare (AFP via Yahoo! News) The meagre response by donors to an international Red Cross appeal to help prepare for a feared flu pandemic sparked by avian influenza is preventing the organisation from stepping up efforts. [News Source]

Red Cross bird flu appeal draws meagre response, despite need to prepare (AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) The meagre response by donors to an international Red Cross appeal to help prepare for a feared flu pandemic sparked by avian influenza is preventing the organisation from stepping up efforts. [News Source]

Experimental Bird Flu Vaccine Shows Promise (Elite TV) A team of scientists are testing a new bird flu vaccine that can be mass produced and has proven effective in tests on laboratory animals at preventing the spread of the deadly H5N1 strain of the avian flu. [News Source]

Better, faster, greater protection with new avian flu vaccine (EARTHtimes.org) A new avian flu vaccine is in the testing process and claims to protect faster and more numbers due to its formulation as a spray. This trial H5N1 avian influenza vaccine might boost the immune system's resistance to bird flu with just a single dose in contrast to other vaccines available that require more shots per person. [News Source]

Another death in Indonesia deepens fears of bird flu’s spread. The death of a 38th person from avian flu in Indonesia was confirmed yesterday by the World Health Organization and the situation in that country continued to worsen. [News Source]