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]

Flu testing begins on migratory birds. Wildlife biologists have begun testing migratory birds in Maine for avian influenza as part of a national readiness program to detect the deadly virus. [News Source]

Alaska on alert for avian flu. Within sight of an Arctic radar station built for Cold War warnings of air attacks from Soviet Siberia, government scientists are stalking birds that could be carrying a new menace from Asia: the H5N1 avian influenza virus. [News Source]

Canada Probes Bird Flu-Infected Gosling for Lethal H5N1 Virus (Bloomberg.com) June 17 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian officials are investigating a gosling infected with bird flu on a farm on Prince Edward Island to determine whether it might represent the country's first outbreak of the lethal H5N1 strain. [News Source]