Five Malaysians in hospital after bird flu outbreak (AFP via Yahoo! News) Five Malaysians are in hospital with flu symptoms after an outbreak of deadly avian influenza among poultry in their village, the health minister said Friday. [News Source]

Bird flu virus in Indonesia has not mutated, official (Antara News) The bird flu (Avian Influenza-AI) virus existing in Indonesia has so far not mutated so the public need not fear it can be passed on by animals other than poultry, an Agriculture Ministry official said. [News Source]

Five Malaysians in hospital after bird flu outbreak (AFP via Yahoo! News) Five Malaysians are in hospital with flu symptoms after an outbreak of deadly avian influenza among poultry in their village, the health minister said Friday. [News Source]

Deadly flu virus mutating rapidly: WHO. The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu is mutating unpredictably and at a rapid pace, a senior WHO official has warned Asia Pacific health ministers. [News Source]

Bird flu resurfaces in Vietnam. Two cases of human infection of bird flu have been reported in Vietnam. There had been no fresh reports of the illness since 2005. [News Source]

IBM offers software to track bird flu. IBM said Thursday that it is giving health authorities and others around the world expanded access to free software it partly developed in San Jose to help track bird flu and other infectious diseases. [News Source]

New bird flu case in England (Meat News) A new case of low pathogenic bird flu has been discovered on a non-commercial small holding near St Helens, Lancashire, England. Lab tests on the birds show positive results for low-pathogenic avian influenza. [News Source]

Market link to bird flu at farm (icWales) Bird flu has been discovered at a farm which bought birds from a market linked to an earlier outbreak, the government has revealed. [News Source]

Bird flu at farm confirmed (Channel 4) Bird flu has been discovered at a farm which purchased birds from a market linked to an earlier outbreak, the Government has revealed. [News Source]

Bird flu “climate of fear” could hit Asia economies (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Asia-Pacific health ministers said on Friday that a "climate of fear" that accompanies the outbreak of infectious diseases such as bird flu could have a devastating impact on Asia's economies. [News Source]

Malaysia hospitalizes five after bird flu outbreak (EARTHtimes.org) Kuala Lumpur - Five Malaysians living in a village where officials recently detected an outbreak of the deadly avian influenza have been hospitalized after they showed flu-like symptoms, health officials said Friday. The five, including an 11-month ol... [News Source]

Low pathogenic avian flu found in Lancashire FWi (Farmers Weekly Interactive) A smallholding near St Helens in Lancs has poultry which has tested positively for low pathogenic H7 avian influenza. “This is an extensive exercise, and this is the only premises to date with evidence of infection." [News Source]