Bird Flu Discovered In Southern South Korea (Malaysian National News Agency (BERNAMA)) SEOUL, April 5 (Bernama) -- A case of bird flu has been discovered at a duck farm in southwestern South Korea, just three days after an outbreak was confirmed at a chicken farm in the same region, South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted the government as saying Saturday. [News Source]

‘Ducks cause of bird flu outbreaks’ (The Times of India) NEW DELHI: Endless paddy fields and large duck populations — not the number of chickens raised — are the major factors behind outbreaks of highly pathogenic bird flu in southeast Asian countries, a report has said. [News Source]

Cameroon: Poultry Farmers, Communicators Drilled On Bird Flu Prevention (AllAfrica.com) Although the panic generated by the news of the recent outbreak of the Bird Flu Virus in Northern Cameroon has since died down, there has been the need to put up strategies to prevent or handle it, if it does occur again. [News Source]

Bird Flu Human Deaths Confirmed, Pakistan (Medical News Today) H5N1 Bird flu (avian flu) did kill some family members in Peshawar, north-west Pakistan last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed after carrying out tests at its WHO H5 Reference Laboratory in Cairo, Egypt, and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza in Atlanta, USA. Last year the north-west and southern areas of Pakistan were hit by bird flu. [News Source]

Avian flu strain has the potential to infect humans (JoongAng Daily) Confirming the outbreak of a deadly bird flu with the potential to infect humans, the government yesterday began destroying more than 300,000 chickens inside a quarantined zone in Gimje, North Jeolla. [News Source]

South Korea kills 300,000 chickens after new bird-flu case (EARTHtimes.org) Seoul - South Korean authorities said Friday they were employing all means possible to prevent the spread of avian influenza after reports of a new case of the dangerous animal disease. Almost 300,000 birds at the affected chicken farm in the town Gi... [News Source]

Fatal bird flu cases in Pakistan. The first case of human-to-human transmission of avian flu in Pakistan has been confirmed. Tests carried out by the World Health Organisation show that bird flu killed some members of a family in north-west Pakistan late last year. [News Source]

Official claims first human-to-human transmission of bird flu (EARTHtimes.org) Islamabad - A man in northern Pakistan passed the deadly bird flu virus to two of his brothers, and the virus killed one of them, in the first known human-to-human transmission in Pakistan, a health official said Friday. It was definitely person-to-... [News Source]

Pakistan claims first human-to-human transmission of bird flu (The Nation – Thailand’s English news) Islamabad - A man in northern Pakistan passed the deadly bird flu virus to two of his brothers, and the virus.... [News Source]

Ten volunteers given second bird-flu injection (Việt Nam News) HA NOI — Ten volunteers were given a second injection of the experimental made-in-Viet Nam avian influenza vaccine yesterday. All the volunteers, who work for the vaccine producer, the Ha Noi’s Vaccine and Biological Products Company No 1, reported no ill effects. [News Source]

S Korea culls thousands of chickens to fight bird flu outbreak (Hindustan Times) South Korea has started culling thousands of chickens after an outbreak of bird flu was confirmed to be the deadly H5N1 strain, officials said on Friday. [News Source]

Fatal bird flu cases in Pakistan (BBC News) The first cases of people dying from bird flu in Pakistan are confirmed by the World Health Organisation. [News Source]