Expert says ground is more fertile for next pandemic, 90 years after Spanish flu. Could it really happen again? Influenza scientists repeat like a mantra that when it comes to flu pandemics, the question is not if, but when. [News Source]

Correction: Togo Bird Flu story (Las Vegas Sun) Tue, Sep 16, 2008 (11:03 a.m.) In a Sept. 15 story about tests confirming the presence of the H5N1 strain of bird flu virus at a poultry farm outside Lome, The Associated Press reported erroneously that this was the first outbreak of bird flu in the West African nation of Togo. [News Source]

Correction: Togo Bird Flu story (The Charlotte Observer) In a Sept. 15 story about tests confirming the presence of the H5N1 strain of bird flu virus at a poultry farm outside Lome, The Associated Press reported erroneously that this was the first outbreak of bird flu in the West African nation of Togo. Togo had an outbreak of the same bird flu virus last year. [News Source]

Correction: Togo Bird Flu story (AP via Yahoo! News) In a Sept. 15 story about tests confirming the presence of the H5N1 strain of bird flu virus at a poultry farm outside Lome, The Associated Press reported erroneously that this was the first outbreak of bird flu in the West African nation of Togo. [News Source]

Scientists working to protect NI from Bird Flu (EurekAlert!) ( Queen's University Belfast ) Queen's scientists are involved in two international projects aimed to protect Northern Ireland's agri-food industry from bird flu and African swine fever, a disease which kills pigs. [News Source]

Togo: Recent bird flu outbreak is deadly H5N1 (AP via Yahoo! News) Tests performed after an outbreak of bird flu in the West African nation of Togo have confirmed the presence of the virulent H5N1 strain of the virus, state media said Monday. [News Source]

Bird flu confirmed on poultry farm (Denver Post) Tests performed after the first ever outbreak of bird flu in the West African nation of Togo have confirmed the presence of the virulent H5N1 strain of the virus at a poultry farm housing more than 4,500 birds outside the capital, Lome, state media said Monday. [News Source]