Vietnam boy tests positive for bird flu: doctors (AFP via Yahoo! News) A three-year-old boy in Vietnam has tested positive for potentially deadly bird flu, doctors said Thursday. [News Source]

Technology Could Improve Vaccines For Both Seasonal Flu And Bird Flu (Medical News Today) A new computerized method of testing could help world health officials better identify flu vaccines that are effective against multiple strains of the disease. Rice University scientists who created the method say tests of data from bird flu and seasonal flu outbreaks suggest their method can better gauge the efficacy of proposed vaccines than can tests used today. [News Source]

Sexy ads aim to boost toilet use. In Kenya, a nonprofit organization called Ecotact has called on Miss Kenya, along with the country's vice president, a popular comedian, and local religious leaders to promote, visit, and use the new public toilets of Kibera. [News Source]

China bird flu effort in question after new cases. A probe into an outbreak of bird flu at a Hong Kong chicken farm and carcasses popping up in city waters have raised questions over whether the H5N1 virus is going undetected in southern China. [News Source]

ATCC Develops And Isolates Novel Avian Flu Monoclonal Antibodies (Medical News Today) ATCC® (American Type Culture Collection) researchers have developed a panel of novel monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against avian influenza viruses. These antibodies could lead to a rapid diagnostic test for the infection, ATCC announced yesterday. The organization has filed a patent covering the development of these novel antibodies. [News Source]