NEWS SCAN: Avian flu prevention, PCA roof leak, meningitis in Africa, USDA’s social networking tools (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy) North Korea reports H5N1 prevention strategies North Korea yesterday said its nationalized approach to preventing avian influenza has helped it avoid outbreaks and infections, despite the circulation of the H5N1 virus in other nations, Korea News Service (KNS) reported yesterday. [News Source]

Bird flu quarantine on British Columbia farms ends (AG Weekly) VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) _ A bird flu-related quarantine has been lifted on 22 poultry farms in the Fraser Valley east of Vancouver. The restrictions were lifted after three weeks of surveillance and testing by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. [News Source]

Poultry products banned. The Philippine government has issued a temporary ban on poultry products and wild birds from France, Japan and the Czech Republic, and animals susceptible to the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) from Taiwan and Lebanon. [News Source]

Nigeria: Borno – NGO Begins Campaign Against Spread of Bird Flu (AllAfrica.com) Maiduguri — A leading Inter- Governmental Organisation in Migration (IOM) has embarked on massive mobilisation campaign in some selected poultry producing Local Government Areas of Borno state, as part of moves to check spread of Avian influenza popularly called bird flu. [News Source]