India to seek bird flu strain samples from Bangladesh (Calcutta News) Indian authorities want samples of the bird flu strain in Bangladesh to see if the 'real root of the current outbreak' of avian influenza in West Bengal lies in that country. [News Source]

India to seek bird flu strain samples from Bangladesh (New Kerala) New Delhi, Jan 29 : Indian authorities want samples of the bird flu strain in Bangladesh to see if the "real root of the current outbreak" of avian influenza in West Bengal lies in that country. [News Source]

SRI LANKA: Government restricts poultry imports to avert bird flu (AlertNet) Source: IRIN Sri Lanka is curbing poultry imports and stepping up surveillance of migratory birds in a bid to avert an outbreak of avian influenza (bird flu) which has flared up in neighbouring countries. [News Source]

Bird flu out of control: experts. Confirmation of the 100th human bird flu death in Indonesia shows the virus is out of control in the country most ravaged by outbreaks of the disease, experts said on Tuesday. [News Source]

Indonesia bird flu deaths hit 100. The human death toll from bird flu in Indonesia has risen to 100 - almost half of the total worldwide fatalities. [News Source]

Thousands of miles from home, and possibly carrying avian flu. Ornitholologists have long known that waterfowl migrate huge distances. But it is rarely possible to be sure where any flock's route begins and ends--information useful to tracking the spread of avian flu. [News Source]

SRI LANKA: Government restricts poultry imports to avert bird flu (IRIN) COLOMBO, 29 January 2008 (IRIN) - Sri Lanka is curbing poultry imports and stepping up surveillance of migratory birds in a bid to avert an outbreak of avian influenza (bird flu) which has flared up in neighbouring countries. [News Source]

China reports bird flu outbreak in poultry in Tibet (Straits Times) BEIJING - CHINA has detected an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu in poultry in Tibet, a government website said on Tuesday. 'The National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory confirmed the virus as a subtype of the H5N1 strain,' it said. [News Source]

Government Helps Protect Backyard Birds From Avian Influenza (Medical News Today) A national campaign, led by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), is underway to promote Bird Health Basics-simple steps that owners of backyard flocks and pet birds can take to help protect their birds from dangerous diseases, such as avian influenza and exotic Newcastle disease. [News Source]

eFoodSafety’s Citroxin found effective against avian influenza (Pharmaceutical Business Review) eFoodSafety.com has reported successful studies illustrating Citroxins ability to eradicate the H5N1 avian influenza also known as bird flu virus in a chick embryo model. [News Source]

MCOT English News : H5N1 bird flu detected in two Thai provinces (MCOT – English News By Thai News Agency) CHIANG MAI, Jan 29 (TNA) – Thailand's Livestock Development Department (LDD) confirmed that the avian influenza (bird flu) virus detected in Nakhon Sawan and Phichit provinces is the deadly H5N1 strain. [News Source]

Indonesian bird flu death toll reaches 100 (Japan Today) JAKARTA — The human death toll from bird flu in Indonesia reached 100 late Monday after tests showed a 23-year-old woman who died Sunday had been infected with the often-deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza, the Health Ministry said. [News Source]