Bird flu hits Vietnam poultry, action slow (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News) HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam has detected the lethal H5N1 bird flu virus in chickens and ducklings in two Mekong Delta provinces, the country's first infections since August, the Agriculture Ministry said. [News Source]

Bird flu found in Vietnamese poultry (AFP via Yahoo! News) Authorities in Vietnam have detected an outbreak of bird flu in poultry in two provinces in the southern Mekong delta, after the deaths of several thousand birds, officials have announced. [News Source]

Vietnam confirms bird flu outbreak (AP via Yahoo! News) Thousands of poultry died of bird flu in the past two weeks in southern Vietnam, the government said Wednesday, in the country's first reported outbreak in a year. [News Source]

Vietnam confirms bird flu outbreak (CNN.com) HANOI, Vietnam (Reuters) -- Vietnam has detected the lethal H5N1 bird flu virus in chickens and ducklings in two Mekong Delta provinces, the country's first infections since August, the Agriculture Ministry said in a report. [News Source]

Bird flu found in Vietnamese poultry (AFP via Yahoo! News) Authorities in Vietnam have detected an outbreak of bird flu in poultry in two provinces in the southern Mekong delta, after the deaths of several thousand birds, officials have announced. [News Source]

Vietnam reports new bird flu outbreaks (AAP via Yahoo!7 News) Vietnam has reportedly detected the H5N1 bird flu virus in chickens and ducklings in two Mekong Delta provinces, the country's first infections since August. [News Source]

Vietnam confirms bird flu outbreaks among poultry (USA Today) Vietnam on Wednesday confirmed bird flu outbreaks among its domestic poultry for the first time in a year. Some 5,500 young ducks and 500 chickens have died in the past two weeks in two southern Mekong Delta provinces, and the test results came in positive for the lethal H5N1 bird flu virus. [News Source]

Vietnam finds first bird flu outbreaks since August (AlertNet) Source: Reuters (Adds comments, details) HANOI, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Vietnam has detected the lethal H5N1 bird flu virus in chickens and ducklings in two Mekong Delta provinces, the country's first infections since ... [News Source]

France tests dead birds, does not suspect bird flu. Officials are carrying out tests to see what caused the deaths of some 4,000 chickens on a farm in northeastern France, but initial indications did not point to bird flu. [News Source]

S. Korea rejects US call for beef talks. South Korea has rejected a U.S. request to discuss American beef and poultry imports this week as part of broader free trade talks, calling the forum inappropriate. [News Source]

Africa: FAO Crisis Centre Experts in South Korea Studying Risk of Avian Flu Spread (AllAfrica.com) A nine-person team from the joint FAO/OIE Crisis Management Centre (CMC) is in the Republic of (South) Korea on a 10-day mission collecting epidemiological data from rural areas south of the capital, Seoul, where three recent outbreaks of avian influenza in domestic poultry occurred. [News Source]

U.N. team studying bird flu outbreaks in South Korea (USA Today) A team of experts from a U.N. crisis management center is studying the spread of bird flu in South Korea after three outbreaks this month forced the country's authorities to cull more than a million poultry, a U.N. food agency said Tuesday. [News Source]