China reopens to most US poultry; beef still banned. China has agreed to lift a bird flu-related ban on U.S. imports of poultry products from six states but remains closed to all imports of U.S. beef, U.S. trade officials said on Tuesday. [News Source]

Scientists working to protect Northern Ireland from Bird Flu. Queen’s University Belfast 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]

Type of bird flu virus found in NZ wild ducks (Otago Daily Times) Wild mallard ducks in New Zealand have tested positive for a "low pathogenic" form of bird flu. The virus, known as LPAI H5N, is closely related to viruses found in the past and has been here for some time, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) biosecurity staff said. [News Source]

Scientists Working To Protect Northern Ireland From Bird Flu (Medical News Today) Queen's University Belfast 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. Working with colleagues from other EU-member states and the Far East in the FLUTEST project they are providing improved diagnosis and early warning systems for bird flu. [News Source]

Type of bird flu virus found in NZ wild ducks (NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News) Wild mallard ducks in New Zealand have tested positive for a "low pathogenic" form of bird flu. [News Source]

Emory to help evaluate bird flu vaccines (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Emory University will help evaluate promising new vaccines against an "H5" bird flu virus thought to be a possible pandemic threat in the future, school officials said. [News Source]

Togo confirms H5N1 bird flu outbreak (Yahoo! Asia News) LOME (Reuters) - Laboratory tests have confirmed a fresh outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in Togo after around 4,000 poultry died at a village in the small West African state last week, the government said on Wednesday. [News Source]

Togo confirms H5N1 bird flu outbreak (AlertNet) Source: Reuters LOME, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Laboratory tests have confirmed a fresh outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in Togo after around 4,000 poultry died at a village in the small West African state last week, the ... [News Source]

Togo: Recent bird flu outbreak is deadly H5N1 (Boston Globe) 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]