Hong Kong to extend deadline for plan to buy out live poultry sellers to reduce bird flu (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News) Hong Kong extended the deadline for poultry retailers to give up their licenses to sell live birds in exchange for cash, after the plan fell short of its goal of shutting down 85 percent of the vendors to minimize the threat of bird flu, officials said Friday. [News Source]

Rockeby gets orders for bird flu tests (The West Australian) Rockeby Biomed Ltd has received orders for its H5N1 bird flu tests on humans from several South East Asian, European, and North African countries, worth $242,000, the company says. [News Source]

Teams use airport to stage bird flu drill (Honolulu Star-Bulletin) Local, state and federal workers and military and civilian health care personnel worked as a team in a bird flu drill yesterday at Honolulu Airport. [News Source]

ASEAN states to test readiness on bird flu pandemic (AFP via Yahoo! News) Bird flu chiefs from across Southeast Asia have agreed to assess the ability of their governments to respond to a deadly human pandemic of the virus, an Indonesian official said Wednesday. [News Source]

SKorea to start year-end monitoring for bird flu (PhysOrg) South Korea is to start year-round monitoring for bird flu after being hit by its worst outbreak earlier this year, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday. [News Source]

SKorea to start year-round monitoring for bird flu (TODAYonline) Quarantine officials in Seoul. South Korea will start year-round monitoring for bird flu after this year's outbreak -- the country's worst -- began later than normal, the agriculture ministry said [News Source]

SKorea to start year-round monitoring for bird flu (AFP via Yahoo! News) South Korea will start year-round monitoring for bird flu after this year's outbreak -- the country's worst -- began later than normal, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday. [News Source]

Fear over pandemic disease effort. More needs to be done to protect against outbreaks of infectious diseases, a House of Lords Intergovernmental Organisations Committee report says. [News Source]

Bird flu mutates during race against time to find vaccine (Baltimore Examiner) Avian flu - the H5N1 virus experts think could out-kill the infamous 1918 pandemic flu - mutates every time it infects a human, according to new research out of Thailand. [News Source]

Minalin poultry trade ready vs bird flu (Sun Star) MINALIN -- The season for migratory birds is fast approaching but the Municipal Government here said its plan are all set to meet the possible dangers of the avian influenza (AI) virus, commonly known as bird flu. [News Source]

Minalin poultry trade ready vs bird flu (Sun Star) MINALIN -- The season for migratory birds is fast approaching but the Municipal Government here said its plan are all set to meet the possible dangers of the avian influenza (AI) virus, commonly known as bird flu. [News Source]

Vical says its DNA vaccine for bird flu works. A DNA-based vaccine against avian influenza can safely stimulate the immune system to levels expected to protect against flu, San Diego-based Vical Inc reported on Thursday. [News Source]