State to test avian flu and pandemic preparedness (WCAX 3) MONTPELIER, Vt. -- The state will test its plans to respond to avian flu and a flu pandemic. In a two-week exercise this month, the state will respond to the mock discovery of bird flu on a poultry farm in southern Vermont. The drill also will include the quarantine of students at two colleges. [News Source]

Avian anxiety. Some New York commercial real-estate owners and landlords are beginning to contemplate a scenario they hope to avoid: how to respond if avian flu threatens to contaminate their properties. [News Source]

Power washing. The threat of a worldwide plague--with the potential to kill millions--can be stopped, or at least slowed, with nothing more sophisticated than a vigorous hand-washing? [News Source]

WHO Chief urges G8 to focus on diseases. The Group of Eight summit is a prime opportunity for world leaders to show they are seriously committed to fight the spread of infectious diseases. [News Source]

State to test avian flu and pandemic preparedness (WCAX 3) MONTPELIER, Vt. -- The state will test its plans to respond to avian flu and a flu pandemic. In a two-week exercise this month, the state will respond to the mock discovery of bird flu on a poultry farm in southern Vermont. The drill also will include the quarantine of students at two colleges. [News Source]

State to test avian flu and pandemic preparedness (WCAX 3) MONTPELIER, Vt. -- The state will test its plans to respond to avian flu and a flu pandemic. In a two-week exercise this month, the state will respond to the mock discovery of bird flu on a poultry farm in southern Vermont. The drill also will include the quarantine of students at two colleges. [News Source]

World Bank outlines economic effects of bird flu (Food Production Daily) 12/07/2006 - A World Bank report outlines the dire economic effects avian influenza is having on Europe’s poultry flocks and consumers’ falling purchases of the meat. [News Source]

State to test avian flu and pandemic preparedness (The Barre Montpelier Times Argus) MONTPELIER -- The state will test its plans to respond to avian flu and a flu pandemic. ... - Associated Press [News Source]

U.K. Seeks 10 Million Vaccine Doses to Mitigate Bird Flu Risk (Bloomberg.com) July 12 (Bloomberg) -- The U.K. is seeking 10 million extra doses of vaccine that may be used to immunize poultry against bird flu after the lethal H5N1 strain of the virus was reported for the first time in Spain last week. [News Source]

State to test avian flu and pandemic preparedness (WCAX 3) MONTPELIER, Vt. -- The state will test its plans to respond to avian flu and a flu pandemic. In a two-week exercise this month, the state will respond to the mock discovery of bird flu on a poultry farm in southern Vermont. The drill also will include the quarantine of students at two colleges. [News Source]