Eastday-Avian flu medicine ready for trial runs (Eastday.com) A bird flu medicine for humans that is being brought to the domestic market by Shanghai scientists and two pharmaceutical firms in Jiangsu Province has received approval for clinical tests from the State Food and Drug Administration. [News Source]

Egyptian girl has bird flu, second case this season. An Egyptian girl of 21 months has contracted bird flu and is in hospital in stable condition, a health ministry official said on Monday. [News Source]

China says no evidence of bird flu virus mutation. China does not have evidence to suggest that the bird flu virus has mutated into a form which can be spread by humans, the Health Ministry said on Monday, after a woman died last week in Beijing. [News Source]

Vietnam finds bird flu in chicken smuggled from China: report (TODAYonline) A poultry vendor sits next to a basket full of slaughtered chicken and ducks at a market in downtown Hanoi in March 2008. Vietnam has detected bird flu in chicken smuggled from China as the illegal trade picks up ahead of the lunar New Year later this month, state media reported Tuesday. [News Source]

Vietnam finds bird flu in chicken smuggled from China: report (AFP via Yahoo! News) Vietnam has detected bird flu in chicken smuggled from China as the illegal trade picks up ahead of the lunar New Year later this month, state media reported Tuesday. [News Source]

Culling continues in bird flu-hit Assam, West Bengal (Calcutta News) Over 480,000 poultry birds have been culled in the bird flu-hit areas of West Bengal and Assam as officials further intensified their awareness campaign to prevent recurrence of the disease in new areas. [News Source]

Culling continues in bird flu-hit Assam, West Bengal (New Kerala) New Delhi, Jan 13 : Over 480,000 poultry birds have been culled in the bird flu-hit areas of West Bengal and Assam as officials further intensified their awareness campaign to prevent recurrence of the disease in new areas. [News Source]

Two-year-old girl becomes latest bird flu victim in Egypt (Russian Information Agency Novosti) CAIRO, January 13 (RIA Novosti) - A new case of avian flu has been confirmed in a young girl in Egypt, the deputy health minister said. Nasser al-Sayyed said on Monday tests confirmed that a two-year-old girl, who lives outside Cairo, had contracted the deadly H5N1 virus. [News Source]

Bird flu found in chicken from China (Philippine Daily Inquirer) HANOI -- Vietnam has detected bird flu in chicken smuggled from China as the illegal trade picks up ahead of the lunar New Year later this month, state media reported Tuesday. [News Source]