Doctors to confirm exact cause of suspected avian flu death (Itar-Tass) MOSCOW, April 17 (Itar-Tass) -- Doctors are planning to confirm on Friday that the death of a Chinese woman in a Russian train on Wednesday was pneumonia rather than initially suspected avian flu. [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]