Auburn Researchers Tout Bird Flu Vaccine Hopes (WSFA Montgomery) Scientists at Auburn University and Birmingham-based Vaxin say they have created an avian flu vaccine that can be rapidly produced. [News Source]

Threats from the wild. Exotic animals captured in the wild are streaming into the United States 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]

Okla. cities among least healthy in U.S. Oklahoma's two largest cities rank near the bottom in a new national survey of the country's healthiest cities. [News Source]

Proposed federal bio lab concerns some residents. Animal diseases such as bird flu, hoof and mouth, and mad cow could find a home near Lake Kegonsa under a plan by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. [News Source]

Factory farming breeds bird flu (The Trenton Times) Given the unprecedented human lethality of H5N1, the mutant strain of avian influenza spreading out of Asia, efforts have focused on mediating the impact of the next pandemic, but where did this virus come from in the first place? [News Source]

S. Korea bird flu won’t hurt India meal sales – trade (Yahoo! India News) NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's soymeal exports to major feedstock importer South Korea will not be affected by an outbreak of deadly bird flu in the Asian country, the head of an Indian trade body said on Friday. [News Source]

Thailand Mulls Possible Bird Flu Vaccine Use (Bernama) BANGKOK, Dec 1 (Bernama) -- A Thai Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives committee is reviewing the pros and cons of using bird flu vaccines to innoculate poultry against possible contagion, and should recommend whether or not to use the vaccine approach by late January, TNA reported Friday. [News Source]

SKorean soldiers guard bird flu zones amid cull (AFP via Yahoo! News) South Korean soldiers have guarded quarantine zones around two poultry farms hit by bird flu, as officials started slaughtering hundreds of thousands of birds in an expanded cull. [News Source]

SKorean soldiers guard bird flu zones amid cull (AFP via Yahoo! News) South Korean soldiers are guarding quarantine zones around two poultry farms hit by bird flu, as officials started slaughtering hundreds of thousands of birds in an expanded cull. [News Source]

Thailand mulls possible bird flu vaccine use (MCOT) BANGKOK, Dec 1 (TNA) - A Thai Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives committee is reviewing the pros and cons of using bird flu vaccines to innoculate poultry against possible contagion, and should recommend whether or not to use the vaccine approach by late January. [News Source]

Hunters’ game tested for avian flu (The Washington Times) RICHMOND (AP) -- Waterfowl hunters in Virginia are being enlisted in the fight against avian flu. The Department of Game and Inland Fisheries is scouting out hunters at wildlife management areas, popular hunting spots and boat ramps along Eastern Virginia's waterways. [News Source]

AU prof develops avian flu vaccine (Opelika-Auburn News) The recent outbreak of the avian flu in Korea can have worldwide repercussions on the health of poultry, birds and humans, even influencing research being done at Auburn University. [News Source]