No bird flu outbreak among poultry reported, customers still cautious (People’s Daily) There had been no reports of bird flu outbreak among poultry since January in the provinces where eight human infections were found, China Daily reported on Friday. "There is no epidemic outbreak of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza in the seven provinces where the human bird flu cases were identified," the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) said in a statement to the newspaper. The conclusion was ... [News Source]

No outbreak among poultry reported, says ministry (China Economic Net) "There is no epidemic outbreak of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza in the seven provinces where the human bird flu cases were identified," it said in a statement to China Daily. [News Source]

China suspected of covering up bird flu outbreak. The accusations came after at least 21 dead birds, including ducks and chickens, washed up on beaches in Hong Kong. At least three of them have tested positive for the H5N1 avian flu virus. [News Source]

Recession prompts bird flu concerns; seasonal flu slow. Seasonal flu aside, specialists have another worry — bird flu: The global recession could threaten work to keep the deadly H5N1 strain in check in birds, which in turn limits its spread to people. [News Source]

Fresh avian flu outbreaks hit Vietnam, Egypt (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy) Feb 5, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – Veterinary officials in Vietnam and Egypt have found more H5N1 avian influenza in poultry, and officials in Hong Kong are investigating the source of infected poultry that have washed up on island beaches. [News Source]

B.C. avian flu strain same as 2005 outbreak (Global TV Regina) OTTAWA - Officials testing birds on farms within a three-kilometre radius of Abbotsford, a city in the British Columbia Fraser Valley, say the virus that led to a cull of thousands of turkeys last week is the H5N2 strain of avian flu. [News Source]

Hong Kong to Close Nature Reserve on Suspected Avian Flu Birds (Bloomberg) Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong’s government said it will close Mai Po Nature Reserve for 21 days after it found three bird carcasses that may have contracted the deadly H5 strain of avian influenza. [News Source]

Dead birds on Hong Kong beaches test positive for avian flu (The Sun) Three birds believed to have washed up on beaches in Hong Kong after dying in China have tested positive for H5N1, the bird-flu strain that can be deadly in humans, officials said Thursday. [News Source]