Latest News (TVNZ) A 30-month old Egyptian girl has contracted the bird flu virus, bringing the number of avian flu cases in the country to 60, a World Health Organisation spokesman says. [News Source]

Egyptian girl contracts bird flu – WHO (AlertNet) Source: Reuters CAIRO, March 27 (Reuters) - A 30-month old Egyptian girl has contracted the bird flu virus, bringing the number of avian flu cases in the country to 60, a World Health Organisation spokesman said on ... [News Source]

Two-year-old diagnosed with bird flu in Egypt (Russian Information Agency Novosti) CAIRO, March 27 (RIA Novosti) - A two-year-old girl has been diagnosed with bird flu in Egypt, a health ministry spokesman said on Friday. Egypt's first case of bird flu was first recorded in 2006, and 60 people have since become infected with the deadly virus, 23 of them have died. [News Source]

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]

Anti-Bird Flu Work Intensified (Korean Central News Agency) Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- The government of the DPRK is pushing ahead with the anti-bird flu work as a permanent one. [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]

Amid avian flu outbreak, RP sets ban (Yehey!) By Ira Karen Apanay, Senior Reporter The Department of Agriculture temporarily banned the entry of birds and poultry products from Japan and the Czech Republic following confirmed outbreaks of the Avian Influenza virus, or bird flu there. [News Source]

Amid avian flu outbreak, RP sets ban (The Manila Times) The Department of Agriculture temporarily banned the entry of birds and poultry products from Japan and the Czech Republic following confirmed outbreaks of the Avian Influenza virus, or bird flu there. [News Source]

DA halts importation of birds and poultry from Japan, Czech Republic. The importation of birds and poultry from Japan and the Czech Republic will be temporarily suspended as part of efforts to keep the Philippines free of Avian Influenza or bird flu, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Wednesday. [News Source]