India starts culling avian flu-infected chickens (Asia News Network) ulling of avian flu-affected chickens began yesterday (December 16) in Malda district of West Bengal, India, where bird flu outbreak was confirmed on Monday. Malda DM Sreedhar Ghosh said 16,000 birds ..... [News Source]

India starts culling avian flu-infected chickens (Asia News Network) Culling of avian flu-affected chickens began yesterday (December 16) in Malda district of West Bengal, India, where bird flu outbreak was confirmed on Monday. [News Source]

Mainland, HK, Macao SARs test emergency response to avian flu (China Daily) HONG KONG - Health authorities of the mainland, Hong Kong and Macao Tuesday conducted a joint exercise to test their co-operation and co-ordination in the event of a cross-boundary incident of avian flu involving human cases. [News Source]

Egyptian girl dies of bird flu. A 16-year-old girl died of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu on Monday, the 23rd fatality and 51st case of the disease among humans in Egypt, state news agency MENA said. [News Source]

Indian state to kill 200,000 fowl in bird flu cull. Indian authorities will slaughter 200,000 chickens in the northeast state of Assam in the next two days in a culling operation to tackle the threat of bird flu, officials said. [News Source]

Bird flu continues to spread in Bengal, outpacing culling (Hindustan Times) COMMENT ON THIS ! Your Views! The deadly H5N1 virus on Sunday spread to two more districts in West Bengal, confirmed barely an hour after the state government declared the bird flu situation as "under control". [News Source]

Govt to set up six more bird flu testing labs (The Times of India) The Centre will set up six more laboratories in different parts of the country to detect the avian influenza virus, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar said on Tuesday. [News Source]

China Culls Fowl in East China After Finding Bird Flu (Update1) (Bloomberg) Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- China culled 377,000 poultry in eastern Jiangsu province after finding the H5N1 strain of the avian-flu virus in chickens in the area, the Ministry of Agriculture said on its Web site. [News Source]

China Culls Fowl in East China After Finding Bird Flu (Update1) (Bloomberg) Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- China culled 377,000 poultry in eastern Jiangsu province after finding the H5N1 strain of the avian-flu virus in chickens in the area, the Ministry of Agriculture said on its Web site. [News Source]

Govt to Set Up Six More Bird Flu Testing Labs (Outlook India) As part of measures to check bird flu, the Centre will set up six more laboratories in different parts of the country to detect the avian influenza virus, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said today. [News Source]

China reports bird flu outbreak in eastern province (EARTHtimes.org) Beijing - Workers have culled nearly 400,000 birds after an outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza among poultry in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu, the agriculture ministry said on Tuesday. The presence of the H5N1 bird flu virus in dead birds was... [News Source]

Hit by avian flu again, West Bengal’s Malda begins culling (Calcutta News) Malda district of West Bengal has been hit by bird flu again - the second time this year. Culling of poultry has begun in the area, an official said Tuesday. [News Source]