SKorea confirms fourth bird flu case (TODAYonline) A spray gun sterlizes a quail farm in Gimje, 260 kilometers southwest of Seoul, on December 11 where South Korean health officials detected the bird flu virus for the third time in a month. [News Source]

SKorea confirms fourth bird flu case (AFP via Yahoo! News) South Korea's agriculture ministry has confirmed a fourth case of bird flu at a duck farm in the southwest of the country. [News Source]

SKorea confirms bird flu outbreak at duck farm (Sharewatch) The ministry said late Thursday that poultry deaths on Dec 11 at the farm at Asan, 90 kilometers south of Seoul, had been confirmed as a highly pathogenic form of avian influenza. [News Source]

Bird flu hits Indonesia’s tsunami-battered Aceh (People’s Daily) Avian Influenza has infected tens of thousands of fowls in Aceh province, which was devastated by tsunami in December 2004, an Indonesian Health Ministry official said here Thursday. [News Source]

Another pathogenic bird flu outbreak confirmed in S.Korea (People’s Daily) The South Korean government confirmed Thursday that a new case of a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza was found at a duck farm in the southwestern part of the country. [News Source]

US disease control centre to work with NIV on bird flu virus (Indian Express via Yahoo! India News) WHEN diseases break out, the US-based Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) is at the forefront lending its expertise and resources to conduct investigations. Having worked closely with scientists from city-based National Institute of Virology (NIV) on the Nipah virus, both organisations will interact yet again on the Avian influenza H5N1 virus. The CDC will also collaborate with the ... [News Source]

Garrett: Progress and Problems With Bird Flu Policy (Foreign Relations) Laurie Garrett , CFR senior fellow for global health, says global commitments to end bird flu mean the world is in a better position to handle a potential avian flu pandemic than it was two years ago. [News Source]

Risk Of Avian Flu Spread Being Studied By FAO Crisis Centre Experts In South Korea (Medical News Today) 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. [click link for full article] [News Source]

New outbreak of bird flu hits duck farm in South Korea (USA Today) Officials plan to slaughter tens of thousands of poultry after a new outbreak of bird flu was confirmed in central South Korea, an Agriculture Ministry official said Thursday. [News Source]

Thailand will launch new anti-bird flu campaign (New Kerala) BANGKOK, Dec 21: Thailand's Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives is set to upgrade its tough anti-bird flu measures next year to prevent any new bird flu outbreak, a senior official said. [News Source]