Officials continue to monitor for bird flu strain (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Officials continue to test birds and poultry in Saskatchewan to ensure there are no more cases of an avian flu virus found last month, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said on Thursday. [News Source]

Officials continues to monitor for bird flu strain (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Officials continue to test birds and poultry in Saskatchewan to ensure there are no more cases of an avian flu virus found last month, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said on Thursday. [News Source]

US Announces Boost For FAO’s Bird Flu Program (Medical News Today) The United States will support FAO's avian influenza control and prevention program with an additional US$38 million, FAO announced. The United States is one of the biggest donors to the agency's program. With the new funding, US support to the FAO avian influenza program has reached a total of about $63 million. [click link for full article] [News Source]

Officials continues to monitor for bird flu strain (Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News) Officials continue to test birds and poultry in Saskatchewan to ensure there are no more cases of an avian flu virus found last month, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said on Thursday. [News Source]

Avian flu: State to ensure locals are safe (The Herald) ZIMBABWE is on the alert to ensure that locals are safe from avian flu, which recently broke out in South East Asia and Europe, the Deputy Minister of Health and Child Welfare, Dr Edwin Muguti, has said. [News Source]

Report: Kids overlooked in flu pandemic. Children would likely be both prime spreaders and targets of a flu pandemic, but they're being overlooked in the nation's preparations for the next super-flu, pediatricians and public health advocates reported. [News Source]

Vietnam reissues bird flu poultry breeding ban (TODAYonline) A flock of ducks looks for left seeds on a newly harvested rice field in the northern province of Hung Yen in June 2007. Vietnam's prime minister has reissued a poorly-observed ban on poultry breeding in cities, the government said Thursday, amid fears of new bird flu outbreaks in the coming winter season. [News Source]

Vietnam reissues bird flu poultry breeding ban (AFP via Yahoo! News) Vietnam's prime minister has reissued a poorly-observed ban on poultry breeding in cities, the government said Thursday, amid fears of new bird flu outbreaks in the coming winter season. [News Source]

Tamiflu survives sewage treatment. Tamiflu—currently the most effective pharmaceutical weapon against a potential bird-flu pandemic—survives sewage treatment, according to a new study. Researchers warn this could prompt the virus to mutate into a drug-resistant strain. [News Source]

Bird flu plans failing children, report says. U.S. plans for an influenza pandemic have failed to take into account children, who will likely be among the biggest spreaders of the disease and its most vulnerable victims, health experts said on Wednesday. [News Source]

Vietnam reissues bird flu poultry breeding ban (Sharewatch) HANOI (Thomson Financial) - Vietnam's prime minister has reissued a poorly-observed ban on poultry breeding in cities, the government said Thursday, amid fears of new bird flu outbreaks in the coming winter season. [News Source]

Preparations under way for bird flu season (Baltimore Examiner) Masked hospital staff quickly checked in and evaluated coughing volunteers during an avian flu simulation at the University of Maryland Medical Center on Wednesday. [News Source]