Hong Kong’s top health official sees low human bird flu threat (People’s Daily) Hong Kong's top health official said on Wednesday the risk of human cases of avian influenza in Hong Kong is low thanks to the city's safeguards against the disease following a bird flu outbreak at a duck farm in neighboring Guangdong Provi ... [News Source]

World better equipped to fight flu pandemic. World readiness for an influenza pandemic has improved after an "extraordinary global response" to the bird flu threat of recent years. [News Source]

NEPAL: Bird flu action plan on course (AlertNet) Source: IRIN Bird flu preparedness efforts are being strengthened in Nepal, after recent incidents of the H5N1 virus in nearby India raised alarm among local communities, particularly in the southeast. [News Source]

S. Korea eases bird flu quarantine restrictions (Straits Times) SEOUL - SOUTH Korea has eased bird flu quarantine restrictions because a month has passed since the last confirmed case, officials said on Wednesday. The agriculture ministry said restrictions on the movement of birds, people and vehicles were lifted in 15 of the 19 districts hit by avian flu. [News Source]

Avian Flu Testing Expands (Times Record) About 50 farms with backyard flocks of ducks, turkeys, chicken and other poultry species are being tested for the low-pathogenic Avian influenza H7N3 virus found on a neighboring commercial poultry farm near West Fork, said Jon Fitch, director of the Livestock and Poultry Commission. [News Source]