India may approach OIA due to no bird flu reports (Express India) With no reports of bird flu cases close to the last three months in the country, India is considering an approach to the France-based Organisation for Animal Health for according it 'the avian influenza free country' soon. [News Source]

Alarm as Indonesia thumbs nose at West over bird flu (AFP via Yahoo! News) With nearly half the world's human bird flu deaths, concern is building over Indonesia's refusal to share virus samples and its health minister's increasingly strident denunciations of global "conspiracies". [News Source]