FAO helps train Cambodian veterinarians on bird flu surveillance (People’s Daily) The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is training veterinarians and the rapid response teams from 24 provinces on surveillance of bird flu and outbreak response, said a press release on Friday. A series of three training courses a ... [News Source]

Avian flu outbreak might cancel state fair’s live fowl exhibit (Shelbyville Daily Union) By Mannix Porterfield THE REGISTER-HERALD (BECKLEY, W.V.) BECKLEY, W.V. — Children flocking to the poultry exhibit at the West Virginia State Fair next month might find it devoid of any live fowl, courtesy of a scare generated by an avian flu outbreak in Virginia. [News Source]

6-year-old dies of bird flu (Disaster News Network) A 6-year-old Indonesia boy has died of bird flu, bringing the death toll from avian influenza in the country to 81, the World Health Organization reported. [News Source]

More bird flu in Czech Republic (Meat News) CZECH REPUBLIC: Czech state vets discover two new cases of avian influenza. Veterinary officers in the Czech Republic have found bird flu on two more farms within a three-kilometre zone around Norin, east Bohemia, where the infection occurred at a broiler farm at the end of June. [News Source]

FAO helps train Cambodian veterinarians on bird flu surveillance. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is training veterinarians and the rapid response teams from 24 provinces on surveillance of bird flu and outbreak response, said a press release on Friday. [News Source]

SA bans German poultry products. South Africa has banned the import of poultry products from Germany after an outbreak of a potentially fatal H5N1 strain of bird flu, an official statement said on Thursday. [News Source]

Turkeys don’t show signs of deadly flu. Turkeys at a farm in Virginia do not appear to have been exposed to the highly deadly strain of avian flu seen in other parts of the world, the Agriculture Department said Wednesday. [News Source]

South Africa: Bird-Flu Scare Gives Poultry Producers Little Cause to Crow (AllAfrica.com) SA's ban on poultry products imported from Germany, which reported an outbreak of bird flu earlier this week, was not expected to hugely benefit local producers, said the Southern African Poultry Association yesterday. [News Source]

FAO helps train Cambodian veterinarians on bird flu surveillance (People’s Daily) The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is training veterinarians and the rapid response teams from 24 provinces on surveillance of bird flu and outbreak response, said a press release on Friday. A series of three training courses ... [News Source]