Avian Flu Preparedness Plan Nearly Ready (KHNL News 8 Honolulu) HONOLULU (KHNL) - The state is just weeks away from finishing up an action plan in case the bird flu is found in Hawaii. This is a rough draft of the avian flu preparedness plan. City, county, state, and federal agencies all worked together to come up with a plan. [News Source]

Bird flu futures market has health experts betting on spread (CNN.com) ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Think bird flu will become a worldwide threat this summer? Wanna put some money on that? [News Source]

‘My turkey is completely safe’ claims Bernard Matthews. Bernard Matthews stressed "my turkey is completely safe to eat" in adverts taken out in several national newspapers in the wake of the bird flu outbreak at Matthews's Norfolk farm. [News Source]

Restrictions lifted at turkey plant. Restriction zones will be lifted around the Bernard Matthews turkey unit in Holton which was hit by an outbreak of avian flu earlier this year. [News Source]

Poultry processed at bird flu plant (Meat News) UNITED KINGDOM: Turkey and chicken meat was processed at Bernard Matthews' plant during avian influenza restrictions. [News Source]

Thailand Reports Bird-Flu Death of Lao Girl in Northeast (RedNova) Text of report in English by Thai newspaper The Nation website on 9 March [Unattributed report: "Laotian girl, 15, dies of bird flu"] A 15-year-old Laotian girl died from bird-flu at a hospital in Nong Khai on Wednesday, becoming the second Laotian to die from the H5N1 virus. [News Source]

Vietnam isolates Hanoi bird flu site, virus strikes south (AFP via Yahoo! News) Vietnamese health workers Friday moved to contain a bird flu outbreak in the capital Hanoi as the H5N1 virus spread to a fifth location within three weeks, in the country's southern Mekong Delta. [News Source]

Coffin may contain key to bird-flu fight (The Washington Times) LONDON -- Scientists looking for ways to combat bird flu have been given permission to exhume the body of a British diplomat who died nearly 90 years ago in one of the largest influenza pandemics of the 20th century. [News Source]