Indonesia defends decision on bird flu. Indonesia defended its decision to stop sharing bird flu samples with the World Health Organization, saying Wednesday it did not want the agency passing them on to drug companies to develop vaccines the cash-strapped country could not afford. [News Source]

Stem-cell fast food – from NASA to nourishment. It sounds like a sci-fi nightmare: giant sheets of grayish meat grown on factory racks for human consumption. But it's for real. Using pig stem cells, scientists have been growing lab meat for years, and it could be hitting deli counters sooner than you think. [News Source]

The plague of bird flu will erupt out of Java, not Suffolk. The west has failed to back up its rhetoric by helping countries that will be on the front line of any human pandemic. [News Source]

Bootifull. With thousands of turkeys squashed together in sheds, desperately fighting for space, it is not surprising that a few dozen dead turkeys at their farm in Holton, Suffolk, didn't set any alarmbells ringing. [News Source]

From bird to person. New types of influenza virus must be detected and combated while they are still diseases of birds, not humans. [News Source]

Nigeria: A Human Death From Bird Flu (AllAfrica.com) The recent confirmation of the death of a 22-year-old woman in Lagos through the contraction of the avian influenza disease, commonly called "bird flu" is a serious cause for concern. Bird flu was first reported in Nigeria in 2006 when Sambawa Farms in Kaduna was affected. [News Source]

Uganda: Country to Start Bird Flu Scare Trials (AllAfrica.com) EXPERTS on Avian Influenza (bird flu) in Uganda, are to conduct public scare simulations to test the level of readiness in case a pandemic of the deadly virus broke out. [News Source]

Outbreak of avian flu in Egypt claims fifth victim (The Daily Star Lebannon) A teenage girl has become the fifth Egyptian to die of bird flu in six weeks, a health official said Tuesday, amid fears of a global surge in infections by the deadly virus. Nour Nadi, 17, from the impoverished province of Fayyoum, 100 kilometers south of Cairo, died Monday of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza. [News Source]

Egypt: Human Toll From Avian Influenza Continues in Nigeria, Egypt (AllAfrica.com) The first human death from avian influenza in Africa has been reported in Nigeria, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), and the highly pathogenic Asian strain of bird flu has been found for the first time in the United Kingdom. [News Source]