Bird flu virus ‘unlikely to reach Australia’ (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) An international conference in Brisbane has been told that it is unlikely a deadly strain of the bird flu virus will ever reach Australia. [News Source]

Uganda: World Bank Gives Sh17 Billion to Fight Bird Flu (AllAfrica.com) THE World Bank has given Uganda $10m (about sh17b) to finance a four-year project aimed at preventing bird flu (avian and human influenza). [News Source]

Pacific Rim prepares for new avian flu (Moldova.org) The governments of Japan, China and South Korea are making joint preparations in the event of an outbreak of a new strain of avian flu.The three nations plan to conduct drills to determine whether information sharing and quarantine measures planned will be sufficient to deal with such an occurrence, The Yomiuri Shimbun reported Monday.The H5N1 avian influenza virus is said to have mutated into a ... [News Source]

DEFRA relaxes avian flu restrictions FWi (Farmers Weekly Interactive) DEFRA has lifted the Protection Zone introduced in response to the H7N7 avian flu outbreak on a free range unit near Banbury, Oxfordshire. [News Source]

SKorea lifts bird flu restrictions (AP via Yahoo! Finance) South Korea said Monday it has lifted all special restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of bird flu after a series of recent outbreaks. [News Source]

S. Korea lifts all restrictions imposed in wake of bird flu outbreaks (Straits Times) SEOUL - SOUTH KOREA has lifted restrictions imposed to curb an outbreak of bird flu which led to the culling of more than eight million birds, the agriculture ministry said on Monday. [News Source]

SKorea lifts bird flu restrictions (Las Vegas Sun) Mon, Jun 30, 2008 (1:39 a.m.) South Korea said Monday it has lifted all special restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of bird flu after a series of recent outbreaks. [News Source]

SKorea lifts bird flu restrictions (AP via Yahoo! News) South Korea said Monday it has lifted all special restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of bird flu after a series of recent outbreaks. [News Source]

Bird flu ’still a major threat’. The H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus has been out of the headlines for some time but experts say it still poses a potential threat. [News Source]

Bird flu control zones are lifted (BBC News) Control zones in and around an area affected by an outbreak of bird flu in Oxfordshire are lifted. [News Source]

Fatal strain of bird flu fails to land in Alaska (Anchorage Daily News) Asian bird flu and its connection to Alaska was big news a few years ago, when dozens of Alaska scientists started checking birds migrating from Asia. [News Source]

A game of chicken. Some fear that the government knows more than it is letting on about the presence of avian flu in southern China. Hong Kong insists all imports from China must come from specially licensed farms, but reporters from Next, a local magazine, discovered the rules being circumvented. [News Source]