Five people have ‘bird flu symptoms’ in India (AFP via Yahoo! News) Five people have been quarantined in eastern India with "clinical symptoms" of deadly avian flu following the country's worst ever outbreak of the virus, reports said Tuesday. [News Source]

Threat of bird flu spread increase in Nepal (People’s Daily) The threat of bird flu spread in Jhapa district in eastern Nepal have increased after the finding of avian influenza cases in Dinajpur and Birbhum areas of West Bengal of India, the National News Agency RSS reported on Monday. Accor ... [News Source]

Bird flu spreads to Malda (The Times of India) Malda, precariously surrounded by Bangladesh and South Dinajpur, has now become West Bengal's 7th district to be infected by the deadly bird flu virus. [News Source]

Deadly bird flu spreads in India. The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been spreading further in India’s state of West Bengal. There are now six districts in the grip of the deadly virus, which is outpacing culling operations. [News Source]

Unaware residents, officials hurdle bird flu battle. One year has passed since Jakarta administration passed its much-praised poultry restriction bylaw which banned backyard poultry farms and aimed to clean up the poultry industry, in efforts to prevent the spread of avian flu. [News Source]

EGYPT: Avian flu outbreak abating, says government (AlertNet) Source: IRIN Egypt's Supreme Committee to Combat Bird Flu - a government body - said on 19 January that infection rates among poultry in farms and homes had dropped sharply since the second week of January. [News Source]

Signs of India bird flu spreading, official warns (AFP via Yahoo! News) Villagers in eastern India are continuing to eat chickens killed by bird flu and there are signs the virus may be spreading among poultry, an official said. [News Source]

India Maintains Vigil as West Bengal Bird Flu Spreads (Update1) (Bloomberg.com) Jan. 21 (Bloomberg) -- India is maintaining a ``strict vigil'' on its eastern state of West Bengal to prevent an outbreak of avian flu from infecting humans after the disease spread to a new district today, the government said. [News Source]

Avian Influenza 101 (AskMen) Avian influenza 101 If history has been any example at all, the question is not “if” an influenza pandemic will arise, but “when,” as far as most infectious disease experts are concerned. [News Source]

India to step up bird flu cull: officials (AFP via Yahoo! News) Authorities in eastern India battling the country's worst ever outbreak of bird flu said Monday they needed to step up the slaughter of chickens and ducks to beat a spread in the virus. [News Source]