First bird-flu vaccine less effective than thought (CNN.com) WASHINGTON ( AP) -- The nation's first vaccine against bird flu is even less effective than previously thought, according to Food and Drug Administration documents released Monday. [News Source]

Egyptian health official denies new bird flu case (Reuters via Yahoo! News) An Egyptian Health Ministry official denied on Monday a report by the state news agency that a woman from the Nile Delta had tested positive for the deadly bird flu virus. [News Source]

Sanofi Bird-Flu Shot’s Benefit Isn’t Clear, FDA Says (Update3) (Bloomberg.com) Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Sanofi-Aventis SA's bird-flu shot triggered an immune response in less than half of the patients tested, raising questions about whether the shot could help prevent a pandemic. [News Source]

Sanofi Bird-Flu Shot’s Benefit Isn’t Clear, FDA Says (Update2) (Bloomberg.com) Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Sanofi-Aventis SA's bird-flu shot triggered an immune response in less than half of the patients tested, U.S. regulators said. [News Source]

U.S. experts to weigh Sanofi bird flu vaccine (Reuters via Yahoo! News) A panel of experts will meet on Tuesday to consider whether the Food and Drug Administration should approve Sanofi-Aventis' experimental bird flu vaccine, which could become the first such product cleared for the U.S. market. [News Source]

FDA tests bird-flu vaccine effectiveness (AP via Yahoo! News) The nation's first vaccine against bird flu is even less effective than previously thought, according to Food and Drug Administration documents released Monday. [News Source]

FDA staff questions Sanofi bird flu vaccine (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Data on Sanofi-Aventis' experimental bird flu vaccine shows higher doses worked better, but it is unclear whether those results prove the product's effectiveness, U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff said in documents released on Monday. [News Source]

Kuwait finds new cases of deadly bird flu in fowl (AFP via Yahoo! News) Kuwait has detected 12 new cases of the bird flu strain that is dangerous to humans in poultry at two farms in the Gulf emirate, the health ministry said Monday. [News Source]

African bird flu sparks record support for animal health (AFP via Yahoo! News) World concern for Africa's management of bird flu spurred unprecendented donor support for the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), president Barry O'Neil said Monday in Eritrea. [News Source]

FDA staff questions Sanofi bird flu vaccine (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Data on Sanofi-Aventis's experimental bird flu vaccine shows higher doses worked better, but it is unclear whether those results prove the product's effectiveness, U.S. regulatory staff said in documents released on Monday. [News Source]

Bird flu’s link with the crazy trade in poultry. We appear to have been incredibly lucky. Bird flu has struck a British poultry factory farm and, although 159,000 turkeys were culled to halt the spread of the disease, the slaughterhouse has been disinfected and was up and running again within days of the outbreak. [News Source]

Bird flu kills chickens in northern Vietnam (AFP via Yahoo! News) A new bird flu outbreak has killed a number of chickens on a farm in northern Vietnam, a television news report Monday quoted the agriculture minister as saying. [News Source]