Bird flu in South Korea prompts culling of 17,000 ducks (News-Medical-Net) A bird flu scare in South Korea has prompted Japan to ban all imports of poultry from there. [News Source]

Biotech company gets funding for avian flu vaccine (The Fort Collins Coloradoan) InViragen, a small biotechnology company in Fort Collins, received a two-year $600,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to work with the University of Wisconsin to develop a safe and effective avian flu vaccine. [News Source]