- Reuters - South Korea on Saturday reported a suspected bird flu outbreak at a duck farm in Yesan city, south of Seoul, the first since the latest confirmed case about five months ago, local media reported. - 
AFP - The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new test that can rapidly diagnose and identify human influenza infections and human bird flu, the agency announced.
- PR Newswire -
The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) collaborated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the development of a new test for influenza, which received 510(k) clearance today by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The test can accurately detect and identify all commonly circulating human influenza viruses as well as avian influenza A (H5N1) viruses. It operates using PCR (polymerase chain reaction), a highly sensitive laboratory method, and can produce results within four hours.
- Reuters - A fast new genetic flu test from Applied Biosystems Inc and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday. - Reuters - China has agreed to
lift a bird flu-related ban on U.S. imports of poultry products
from six states but remains closed to all imports of U.S. beef,
U.S. trade officials said on Tuesday. - AP - In a Sept. 15 story about tests confirming the presence of the H5N1 strain of bird flu virus at a poultry farm outside Lome, The Associated Press reported erroneously that this was the first outbreak of bird flu in the West African nation of Togo. - AP - Tests performed after an outbreak of bird flu in the West African nation of Togo have confirmed the presence of the virulent H5N1 strain of the virus, state media said Monday. - 
Reuters - An Indonesian man from Tangerang, a
satellite town near the capital Jakarta, has died of bird flu,
bringing the country's death toll from the disease to 112, a
Health Ministry official said on Thursday.
- AP - An outbreak of bird flu has been confirmed in the West African nation of Togo for the first time since last year, the Health Ministry said Tuesday. - 
AFP - With nearly half the world's human bird flu deaths, concern is building over Indonesia's refusal to share virus samples and its health minister's increasingly strident denunciations of global "conspiracies".
