No more avian flu on Sask chicken farm; Canada declared free of disease (CNews) OTTAWA - Canada has been declared free of a highly infectious strain of avian flu by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The agency says there's been no sign of bird flu on a Saskatchewan farm since cleaning and disinfection were completed 90 days ago. [News Source]

No more avian flu on Sask chicken farm; Canada declared free of disease (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News) OTTAWA - Canada has been declared free of a highly infectious strain of avian flu by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. [News Source]

Indonesians hold major drill for bird flu pandemic. Indonesia launched a major bird flu drill Friday that will test the ability of the nation hardest hit by the virus to respond to a possible pandemic. [News Source]

Zoos go on high alert for avian flu (JoongAng Daily) Amid an ongoing string of avian influenza outbreaks at poultry farms that began in early April, Korean zoos have been put on emergency notice to prevent the spread of the disease. [News Source]

Hospital opens anthrax and bird flu unit. Royal Darwin Hospital has been given a state of the art containment laboratory to fight bio-threats such as anthrax and bird flu. [News Source]

Local team close to super flu vaccine. A flu vaccine 10 times more effective than those now available, with the potential to drastically boost the supplies of vaccine available in case of a pandemic, is in the final stages of human testing in Adelaide. [News Source]

Heading Off A Bird-Flu Pandemic: We Need Broadly Protective Vaccines That Can Be Rapidly Produced And Administered (Medical News Today) Widespread vaccination likely will be the cornerstone of public-health measures for controlling an H5N1 bird-flu pandemic, say Andrea Gambotto, M.D., assistant professor of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and his colleagues, in this week's edition of The Lancet. [News Source]

Indonesia runs massive bird flu drill (AFP via Yahoo! News) Hundreds of Indonesian villagers and health workers took part in a massive drill here Friday to prepare for a potentially devastating outbreak of human-to-human bird flu. [News Source]

Indonesia conducts large-scale bird flu drill (EARTHtimes.org) Bali, Indonesia - Indonesia, which has the highest death toll from bird flu of any country, kicked off a three-day emergency drill Friday to deal with a possible avian influenza pandemic. Several hundred government, health and law enforcement officia... [News Source]

India blames Bangladesh for bird flu spread (Gulf Times) GUWAHATI: Authorities battling an outbreak of bird flu in poultry in India’s remote northeast yesterday blamed Bangladesh for the spread, but many experts said India was not doing enough to contain the virus. [News Source]

Indonesia opens major exercise to prepare for possible bird flu pandemic (Philstar.com) BALI ( AP) -Indonesia opened a major bird flu simulation Friday that will test its preparedness for a potentially catastrophic pandemic. [News Source]

Expert addresses Avian Flu worries (The Williamsport Sun-Gazette) It's not so much if an avian influenza outbreak will happen in the United States - it actually comes down to when. Steven Parker, instructor of environmental technology at Pennsylvania College of Technology, addressed how the outbreak may occur and spread and how society can protect itself against an outbreak. [News Source]