Culling in bird-flu hit town to be completed Sunday (Calcutta News)
The slaughtering of 44,000 poultry birds in West Bengal's bird flu-hit Malda district is expected to be completed by Sunday, an official said. 'We expect to finish by Sunday the culling drive within a three km-radius from the epicentre of the fresh bird flu outbreak in English Bazaar town.

India expands culling zone to stop bird flu (Independent Online)
Veterinary staff has begun killing thousands of chickens after a fresh bird flu outbreak in India.

Booster patch helps bird flu vaccine: study (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
A skin patch helped boost a bird flu vaccine so well that people appear to be protected by a single dose, researchers at biotechnolgy firm Iomai said on Thursday.