Indonesia Offering Samples of Bird Flu for Vaccines (New York Times) Indonesia will resume sending avian flu virus samples to the World Health Organization as soon as it is guaranteed access to affordable vaccines against the disease, the country announced. [News Source]

US finds no sign of H5N1 in wild bird survey. Tests on nearly 75 000 wild ducks, gulls and other birds have turned up no sign of dangerous H5N1 avian influenza in the United States, a federal agency said on Thursday. [News Source]

Poor countries hold out for bird vaccine. Indonesia has launched a high-stakes bid to ensure it gets a vaccine against pandemic flu. [News Source]

New Swiss influenza database to test promises of access. The world will soon know whether dozens of scientists and health experts meant business when they pledged to share crucial data on bird flu 6 months ago. [News Source]

Bird-flu vaccine is a fact; Need for it is questionable. The existence of a bird-flu vaccine raises a number of questions. Will it be effective against a mutation of H5N1? If so, should it be administered only after a pandemic is indicated? [News Source]

COTE D IVOIRE: Stepping up surveillance on bird flu (AlertNet) Source: IRIN Côte d'Ivoire has stepped up its surveillance of poultry to detect possible outbreaks of avian influenza following the death of a Nigerian woman who contracted the illness last month. [News Source]

World moves closer to having bird flu vaccine - WHO (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News) GENEVA (Reuters) - The world has moved significantly closer to developing vaccines against a bird flu pandemic, but is still not able to make them in the amounts needed, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday. [News Source]

World moves closer to having bird flu vaccine: WHO (Reuters via Yahoo! News) The world has moved significantly closer to developing vaccines against a bird flu pandemic, but is still not able to make them in the amounts needed, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. [News Source]

WHO: Avian Flu Vaccines Promising, Capacity A Concern (CattleNetwork.com) ZURICH (Dow Jones)--The World Health Organization said Friday that while advances in developing a vaccine against bird flu are encouraging, the lack of manufacturing capacity remains a cause for concern. [News Source]

Bird flu: Global database set to open up access to virus genome (AFP via Yahoo! News) A Swiss institute will shortly launch the world's first global, publicly-accessible database on strains of the H5N1 avian influenza virus, a virologist has said. [News Source]

Bird flu update: 16 February 2007 (Food Standards Agency) Today's Food Standards Agency update on the bird flu outbreak at the Bernard Matthews farm in Holton, Suffolk, includes details of yesterday's briefing to the FSA's Open Board Meeting in London, and the publication of a joint final investigation report by the FSA, Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Health Protection Agency, and Meat Hygiene Service. [News Source]

Bangladesh mystery deaths not caused by bird flu (AFP via Yahoo! News) A probe into the unexplained death of three people in northwestern Bangladesh has ruled out bird flu as the cause, an official has said, although the deaths remain a mystery. [News Source]