Lessons From Turkey’s Bird Flu Outbreak (Science Daily) Rapid responses by Turkey's health authorities and key health personnel were critical in bringing the 2006 bird flu outbreak under control, according to new research. Those involved cite poverty and families sharing their homes with poultry as factors behind the virus' transfer to humans. [News Source]

Staff at bird flu farm yet to be vaccinated (Daily Telegraph) The handling of the bird flu outbreak has come under fire as it emerged that vaccinations for poultry workers will not be completed for another two months. [News Source]

Dead turkeys cleared of avian flu (Times Online) Turkeys found dead on a second farm near the outbreak of the deadly avian flu virus did not have the disease. Tests on ducks and geese that were reared with the infected turkeys at Redgrave Park Farm, near Diss, for Gressingham Foods, were also negative for the H5N1 virus. [News Source]

Bird flu outbreak in Saudi Arabia (UPI) The Saudi Agriculture Minister Friday announced roughly 90,000 chickens succumbed to avian flu at a poultry farm near Riyadh. [News Source]

Bird flu deal hangs in the balance. Governments will meet next week at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, to try and rebuild the global system for sharing flu viruses after protests by Indonesia earlier this year. [News Source]

Public urged to help in wake of bird flu alert. Maggie Dunne, service manager for Shetland Island Council's environmental health department, urged the public in Shetland to contact the department if they find 10 or more dead birds. [News Source]

Dutch duckling imports are at centre of bird flu inquiry. Imported day-old ducklings from the Netherlands are now being investigated as a possible route for the H5N1 avian flu virus arriving in Britain. [News Source]

Bird flu outbreak ‘false alarm’ (BBC News) Turkeys suspected of having bird flu on a second Suffolk farm have been given the all-clear, the farm's operators say. [News Source]

Bird flu outbreak ‘false alarm’ (BBC News) Turkeys suspected of having bird flu on a second Suffolk farm have been given the all-clear, the farm's operators say. [News Source]

Turkeys on second farm test negative for avian flu FWi (Farmers Weekly Interactive) These dead turkeys were on one of the four additional units currently being culled by DEFRA vets as a precautionary measure. It means that DEFRA's testing has shown no evidence of avian flu at any of the five farms other than Redgrave Park [News Source]

BANGLADESH: Return of the bird flu threat (IRIN) DHAKA, 15 November 2007 (IRIN) - Avian flu has re-emerged in Bangladesh after four months, with five reported new outbreaks in poultry farms across the country since October. [News Source]