USDA bird flu plan needs test (AP via Yahoo! News) The Agriculture Department cannot ensure its response plan for a bird flu outbreak will work, largely because many aspects of the plan have not been tested, an inspector general's report said Friday. [News Source]

USDA bird flu plan needs test (The San Luis Obispo Tribune) The Agriculture Department cannot ensure its response plan for a bird flu outbreak will work, largely because many aspects of the plan have not been tested, an inspector general's report said Friday. The USDA would be responsible for preventing or minimizing a bird flu outbreak among domestic animals. An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza would create havoc in the egg and poultry ... [News Source]

USDA bird flu plan needs test (The Charlotte Observer) The Agriculture Department cannot ensure it will respond effectively to a bird flu outbreak because it has not tested many of the policies put in place as part of a national preparedness plan, an inspector general's report said Friday. The USDA would be responsible for preventing or minimizing a bird flu outbreak among domestic animals. An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza could ... [News Source]

USDA Bird Flu Plan Needs Test (CBS News) The Agriculture Department cannot ensure it will respond effectively to a bird flu outbreak because it has not tested many of the policies put in place as part of a national preparedness plan, an inspector general's report said Friday. [News Source]

Drug-resistant flu is found in Europe. A small number of flu viruses resistant to Tamiflu, a top antiviral drug, have been detected in Europe, health authorities said this week. [News Source]

Bangladesh hit by bird flu outbreak. Livestock officials slaughtered more than 27,000 chickens and ducks in northern Bangladesh after bird flu was confirmed at a poultry farm near the border with India, a report said Friday. [News Source]

Bird flu continues march 4 years later. Fears of a global bird flu pandemic that once dominated headlines have largely vanished in the West, but four years after the virus began ravaging Asian poultry, it continues to quietly spread. [News Source]

◊Is bird-flu really a threat to public health? (Greater Kashmir) Dr. S. Muhammad Salim Khan on the disease of bird-flu and apprehensions about getting it through consumption of poultry products On-going outbreaks of highly pathogenic bird flu (avian influenza) due to infection with H5N1 virus in poultry in Asia and, more recently, in some states of India, especially West Bengal have raised concerns about multiple sources of infection and the risk to humans ... [News Source]

Pak reports bird flu outbreak at Karachi poultry farm (The Times of India) KARACHI: Pakistan on Friday reported an outbreak of the avian flu, prompting authorities to cull a large number of birds at a poultry farm in Karachi, where 5,500 chickens died of the deadly disease earlier this week. [News Source]

Pak reports bird flu outbreak at Karachi poultry farm (The Times of India) The H5N1 strain of avian influenza had been found in samples taken a poultry farm in Karachi, where 5,500 chickens died of the deadly disease earlier this week. [News Source]

Pak reports new bird flu outbreak at Karachi poultry farm (NDTV) Are the affected poultry breeders justly compensated? Pakistan on Friday reported a new outbreak of the avian flu, prompting authorities to cull a large number of birds at a poultry farm in this southern port city, where 5,500 chickens died of the deadly disease earlier this week. [News Source]

Pak reports new bird flu outbreak at Karachi poultry farm (Chennai Online) Karachi, Feb 1 Pakistan today reported a new outbreak of the avian flu, prompting authorities to cull a large number of birds at a poultry farm in this southern port city, where 5,500 chickens died of the deadly disease earlier this week. [News Source]