Grid Computing Offers New Hope In Race Against Bird Flu (Medical News Today) Last month a collaboration of European and Asian researchers launched a new attack against the deadly bird flu virus, harnessing the combined power of more than 40,000 computers across 45 countries to boost the pace of anti viral drug discovery. [click link for full article] [News Source]

Mechanism behind person-to-person bird flu transmission revealed (ANI via Yahoo! India News) Washington, October 5 (ANI): A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has identified a key step that the H5N1 avian flu virus must take to facilitate its easy transmission from one person to another. Lead researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virologist at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, has revealed that a single change a viral surface protein enables the H5N1 ... [News Source]

Border agents seize hunters’ birds amid Canada bird flu scare, although virus isn’t the one that’s caused worldwide … (Crookston Daily Times) ST. PAUL (AP) - U.S. Customs officials in Minnesota and North Dakota seized more than 4,100 birds from hunters re-entering the United States from Canada following an outbreak of avian flu at a commercial chicken farm near Regina, Saskatchewan. [News Source]

Hunters can take steps to protect against bird flu (Fargo Forum) While bird flu poses little risk for hunters, it is still a good idea to practice good hygiene when handling dead fowl. [News Source]