World may have averted bird flu pandemic: expert (AFP via Yahoo! News) The world may have already averted a bird flu pandemic by widespread chicken culls and the isolation of infected humans, Australia's chief medical officer has said. [News Source]

World may have averted bird flu pandemic: expert (AFP via Yahoo! News) The world may have already averted a bird flu pandemic by widespread chicken culls and the isolation of infected humans, Australia's chief medical officer has said. [News Source]

Checks of migratory birds show no avian flu in U.S. A multimillion dollar national effort to screen North American migratory birds for potentially deadly strains of avian influenza has so far come up empty -- and if the United States is lucky, things will stay that way. [News Source]

Bird flu vaccine has short shelf life. Some of the first doses of bird flu vaccine in the nation's stockpile are growing weaker with age. If the shots are needed anytime soon, there will be enough for a million fewer people than previously thought. [News Source]

YOLO BYPASS / Checks of migratory birds show no avian flu in U.S. (San Francisco Chronicle) A multimillion dollar national effort to screen North American migratory birds for potentially deadly strains of avian influenza has so far come up empty -- and if the United States is lucky, things will stay that way. In California, thousands of... [News Source]

Sophy Beta-Glucan Shown To Enhance Efficacy Of Vaccines Against Avian Flu, Other Viruses (Medical News Today) Agawa-gun, Kochi Prefecture-based Sophy Inc. held a press conference today in Tokyo to announce the results of a joint research project on the prevention of infection with avian flu and other viruses by teams in Vietnam and Sri Lanka in cooperation with the Kochi Medical School at Kochi University. [click link for full article] [News Source]