Bird flu, WHO and Indonesia (News-Medical-Net) The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that Indonesia will no longer require an outside laboratory to confirm test results for bird flu. [News Source]

Canada stockpiling avian flu vaccines as hedge against outbreak in poultry (CP via Yahoo! Canada News) TORONTO (CP) - Canada is putting together a stockpile of 10 million doses of avian flu vaccine. But this one isn't for people. [News Source]

Online bird flu response training offered (Moldova.org) The U.S. government is making available a three-day training course to teach public health responders how to deal with an avian influenza outbreak.The online course offered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists provides a standardized curriculum for local and state health system first responders concerning how to identify and ... [News Source]

Online bird flu response training offered (UPI) The U.S. government is making available a three-day training course to teach public health responders how to deal with an avian influenza outbreak. [News Source]

Indonesia lifts bird flu sample ban. Indonesia said on Tuesday it had resumed sharing samples of the H5N1 bird flu virus from infected humans with the World Health Organisation. [News Source]

Bird flu did not kill chickens (Kuensel) Update 16 May, 2007 - It was not bird flu that killed several thousand chickens in a farm in the neighbouring Indian state of West Bengal, according to officials of the department of livestock. [News Source]