Regulators Expand Area Testing For Bird Flu Virus (The Morning News) LITTLE ROCK - The state Livestock and Poultry Commission anticipates weeks more testing for Avian influenza on chickens in a portion of Northwest Arkansas following a positive test for the virus last week, the agency's director said Tuesday. [News Source]

West Fork Farm Quarantined Due To Avian Influenza Threat (KHBS – KHOG Fort Smith – Fayetteville) The area surrounding a Northwest Arkansas farm responsible for a recent avian flu threat is now quarantined after one chicken tested positive for a strain of avian influenza. [News Source]

South Asian nations for early warning system on bird flu (Calcutta News) South Asian countries have decided to work together to fight trans-boundary animal diseases and develop an early warning system to tackle bird flu. Recent outbreaks of bird flu in West Bengal and Tripura have been blamed on Bangladesh, where the disease broke out earlier. [News Source]

Bird Flu Testing Continues (KARK Little Rock) The Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission say testing continues in northwest Arkansas after a low path Avian Influenza was found near West Fork in Washington County. [News Source]

H5N1 avian flu: Call for wild bird early warning system FWi (Farmers Weekly Interactive) Bernard Matthews Foods has urged the UK government and poultry industry to work together in establishing an early warning system for migratory birds that may carry H5N1 avian flu. [News Source]

South Asian nations for early warning system on bird flu (New Kerala) New Delhi, June 10: South Asian countries have decided to work together to fight trans-boundary animal diseases and develop an early warning system to tackle bird flu. Recent outbreaks of bird flu in West Bengal and Tripura have been blamed on Bangladesh, where the disease broke out earlier. [News Source]

SAARC nations call for joint action on bird flu and other diseases (Islamic Republic News Agency) India - SAARC - Veterinary Diseases A two-day SAARC conference of Chiefs of Veterinary Services began in New Delhi with a call to tackle bird flu and other trans-boundary animal diseases jointly. [News Source]

Confirmed H7N7 Avian Influenza In Oxfordshire Poultry Farm, UK (Medical News Today) Following confirmation of the avian influenza virus subtype as H7N7, the Health Protection Agency has reviewed actions taken in the Oxfordshire poultry farm outbreak. [News Source]

Battling bird flu by the numbers (EurekAlert!) LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, May 27, 2008—A pair of Los Alamos National Laboratory theorists have developed a mathematical tool that could help health experts and crisis managers determine in real time whether an emerging infectious disease such as avian influenza H5N1 is poised to spread globally. [News Source]