Bird flu not only pandemic risk, U.S. experts warn (Reuters via Yahoo! News) While many health experts see the H5N1 bird flu virus as a likely cause for an influenza pandemic, another influenza virus could just as likely mutate into a global killer, U.S. health experts said on Tuesday. [News Source]

Bird flu panic grips Siliguri (Calcutta News) Siliguri/Bird flu scare has gripped Siliguri in north Bengal following the death of over 2,000 poultry birds even as the West Bengal animal husbandry department said the birds died for reasons other than the H5N1 virus as avian influenza is medically known. [News Source]

Japan declared free of bird flu (Japan Today) TOKYO — The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on Tuesday declared Japan a country free of avian influenza as three months have passed without any new outbreak since the latest disinfection procedures. [News Source]

Ghana: GAWU Worries Over First Case of Avian Influenza (AllAfrica.com) THE GENERAL Agricultural Workers' Union (GAWU) of Ghana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) has expressed worry over the announcement that bird flu has hit Ghana from a farm at Tema. [News Source]

India tests chickens for bird flu after deaths. Indian authorities were testing dead poultry for bird flu in an eastern state after more than 3,000 birds were found dead, officials said on Tuesday. [News Source]

APEC reps meet in capital to review bird flu action plan (Viet Nam News) HA NOI — Representatives from the 21 member countries of APEC are in Ha Noi to review their efforts in implementing a regional action plan on combating avian flu. [News Source]

Bird flu panic grips Siliguri (New Kerala) Siliguri/Kolkata, May 8: Bird flu scare has gripped Siliguri in north Bengal following the death of over 2,000 poultry birds even as the West Bengal animal husbandry department said the birds died for reasons other than the H5N1 virus as avian influenza is medically known. [News Source]

World Bank grants Uzbekistan $3 mln for bird flu prevention (Russian Information Agency Novosti) TASHKENT, May 8 (RIA Novosti) - The World Bank has approved a $2.96 mln grant for Uzbekistan to help the Central Asian republic with bird flu prevention measures, the WB office in the Uzbek capital said Tuesday. [News Source]

Epidemic is killing pigs in southeastern China. A mysterious epidemic is killing pigs in southeastern China, but the Chinese government is providing little information about it, or about the contaminated wheat gluten that has caused deaths and illnesses in other animals. [News Source]

Nigeria: Avian Flu – Lagos Destroys 652,000 Birds (AllAfrica.com) THE Lagos State Government and Federal Government agencies have destroyed a total 652,000 birds including chickens as part of the efforts to curtail the spread of the deadly Avian Influenza popularly called bird flu in the state. [News Source]

Japan declared free of bird flu (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News) _ The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on Tuesday declared Japan a country free of avian influenza as three months have passed without any new outbreak since the latest disinfection procedures. [News Source]

India tests chickens for bird flu after deaths (Reuters via Yahoo! India News) KOLKATA (Reuters) - Authorities were testing dead poultry for bird flu in West Bengal after more than 3,000 birds were found dead, officials said on Tuesday. [News Source]