Bird flu detected in northwestern Bangladesh (People’s Daily) Some 6,000 chickens were culled at Sahapur village in Sadar sub-district in Bangladesh's northwestern Bogra district, 170 km of capital Dhaka Tuesday night following the detection of avian influenza virus in a poultry farm. The private ... [News Source]

Early Warning Of Bird Flu Possible With Development Of Lab-On-Chip Testing (Medical News Today) Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) and Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have successfully developed a miniaturized device that can be used to detect the highly pathogenic avian flu (H5N1) virus. [click link for full article] [News Source]

Preparations made in case of avian flu pandemic (Carolinian) UNCG is making preparations in case of flu pandemic. The focus is on the influenza A virus, more commonly known as the avian flu. This virus is most common in poultry, but can also be spread to humans. The universities in the University of North Carolina system are taking part in a tabletop exercise this upcoming week to test the effectiveness of the plan. [News Source]

Bird flu virus detected in northwestern Bangladesh (IANS via Yahoo! India News) Dhaka, Sep 26 (Xinhua) Some 6,000 chickens have been culled at Sahapur village in Sadar sub-district in Bangladesh's northwestern Bogra district, 170 km of capital Dhaka, following the detection of avian influenza virus in a poultry farm. [News Source]

Scientists develop new rapid H5N1 avian flu test Website EAS (Farmers Weekly Interactive) A new testing kit that can detect the avian flu virus in poultry in less than four hours has been developed by scientists in Singapore. The kit could help health officials control the spread of the deadly virus and are designed to show avian flu infections in both animals and humans. [News Source]