Third bird flu case this year in Vietnam (EARTHtimes.org) Hanoi - A Vietnamese man has tested positive for the H5N1 avian influenza virus, the third confirmed case of bird flu in Vietnam this year, hospital sources said Monday. The patient is a man in his 30s from the province of Ninh Binh, 100 kilometres s... [News Source]

In Brief: Egypt monitors migrant birds for deadly avian flu strain (AlertNet) Source: IRIN Egypt has begun implementing its first programme to monitor the movement of migrant birds in the country in a bid to discover if they are able to transmit the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu subtype or not, media reports said. [News Source]