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]

ANU, China team up to fight bird flu (ABC via Yahoo!7 News) Australian National University researchers are joining forces with scientists in China to find treatments for avian influenza. [News Source]

No avian flu in state, says Modi (The Times of India) Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi said no case of avian flu has been reported from any part of Bihar. [News Source]

Bird Flu Affects Half Of Bangladesh Districts (Medical News Today) Avian influenza (bird flu) has spread to infect birds in half of Bangladesh's 64 districts, say Bangladeshi officials. The two latest outbreaks took place in Gopalganj and Sylhet, according to the Ministry of Health. Some dead crows which were later found to be infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus strain had been found in the port of Chittagong. [News Source]

Bird flu scare in Assam, 85,000 poultry being culled (Hindustan Times) Assam has began culling an estimated 85,000 poultry following a directive by the central health ministry after the outbreak of bird flu in adjoining West Bengal last month, officials on Sunday said. [News Source]

Avian flu pandemic threat remains real (Pioneer Press) Last year, for the first time since avian flu emerged as a global threat, the number of human cases was down from the year before. [News Source]