Exotic pets in U.S. may pose health risk. Exotic animals captured in the wild are streaming into the U.S. by the millions with little or no screening for disease, leaving Americans vulnerable to a virulent outbreak that could rival a terrorist act. [News Source]

Bird Flu: a Disconnect Between Government, Science, and Common Sense (PR Web via Yahoo! News) Dallas, Texas (PRWeb) November 22, 2006 -- Is the American public being told the complete truth from officials about a possible bird flu pandemic? [News Source]

Bird flu spreads in South Korea (AFP via Yahoo! News) South Korea, battling its first outbreak of bird flu for three years, has confirmed the potentially deadly H5N1 virus has been found on a second poultry farm. [News Source]

Va. hunters’ game tested for avian flu (USA Today) Waterfowl hunters in Virginia are being enlisted in the fight against avian flu. [News Source]

S. Korea finds 2nd bird flu case (CNN.com) SEOUL, South Korea/JAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) -- South Korea on Tuesday confirmed a second outbreak of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, after saying on Saturday it had its first outbreak for three years of the strain that is potentially deadly to humans. [News Source]

South Korea Reports Second H5N1 Bird Flu Outbreak (Update1) (Bloomberg.com) Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Bird flu killed about 200 chickens at a South Korean farm, the second outbreak of the H5N1 avian influenza strain in three days, fueling concerns that the virus may be spreading in the country again after three years. [News Source]

Bird flu shows signs of spreading in South Korea (AFP via Yahoo! News) The potentially deadly H5NI strain of bird flu has apparently spread to a second poultry farm in South Korea, health authorities have said, as a cull of tens of thousands of chickens continued around the first farm. [News Source]

Va. hunters’ game tested for avian flu (AP via Yahoo! News) Waterfowl hunters in Virginia are being enlisted in the fight against avian flu. [News Source]

Bird Flu: Emergency Planning (WXII-TV Winston-Salem) To understand the threat of bird flu, experts say you have to understand just what Avian influenza is. There are different types of strains that pose different types of dangers. [News Source]

Food imports source of international spats. The"War of foods" is intensifying across the world as farm products freely cross borders, diseases spread and the security of food supply emerges as a hot issue in this era of globalization. [News Source]

Vermont prepares for worst-case flu pandemic. If a much-feared worldwide pandemic flu hits Vermont with all its fury, public gatherings could be banned and schools closed. Hospital wards would be set up in tents or gymnasiums. [News Source]

State bankers prepare for bird flu (The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area) The North Carolina Bankers Association is planning a seminar designed to help financial institutions prepare for a possible pandemic, including a possible outbreak of avian influenza or "bird flu" in humans. [News Source]