Officials checking more poultry for bird flu (KFSM Ft. Smith-Fayetteville) Hogeye- Thousands of chickens have been destroyed after a strain of the avian flu was detected at a Northwest Arkansas farm. Officials have a staging area set up in Hogeye, just North of Strickler where the contaminated birds were found to search out non-commercial poultry for testing. [News Source]

Progress on bird flu vaccine. Researchers are reporting preliminary success with a vaccine against a possible "bird flu" pandemic, using a process they say could deliver the product in half the time required by older technology. [News Source]

No High Risk Avian Influenza Viruses Found In Canada’s Wild Birds (Medical News Today) The Government of Canada is committed to preventing the introduction of avian influenza in Canada's domestic poultry flocks. Canada's 2007 Interagency Wild Bird Influenza Survey confirmed no findings of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Canada's wild bird population. [News Source]