China shares bird flu samples, denies new strain report (Reuters via Yahoo! News) China agreed on Friday to share long-sought bird flu virus samples with international health authorities, after rejecting scientists' findings that a new, vaccine-resistant strain was circulating in the country. [News Source]

China rejects report on bird flu mutation as ‘unscientific’ (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News) _ China on Friday strongly rejected a report by a team of U.S. and Hong Kong researchers faulting it for having allowed a new variant of the H5N1 strain of bird flu virus to emerge, calling its findings "utterly groundless." [News Source]

China denies new bird flu strain (TVNZ) China's chief veterinarian on Friday roundly rejected claims a new, vaccine-resistant bird flu strain had been found in the country and slammed the research paper's science as unauthentic. [News Source]