Via crofsblogs' H5N1 blog, a link to an article from Hong Kong's The Standard that reports 350,000 wild birds tested worldwide have tested negative for the H5N1 virus:
During global wildlife surveillance, 300,000 to 350,000 "healthy, wild birds have been sampled looking for this virus," said Scott Newman, the international wildlife coordinator for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=6&art_id=52725&sid=15216482&con_type=1&d_str=20070904
The same article mentions that researchers presenting at the Avian Influenza and Wildlife Surveillance conference in Bangkok this week report that the information on wild bird transmission of H5N1 is inconclusive. From Flulab.com:
Experts meeting in [Bangkok] say they have been dealing with data that might be unreliable because there is no uniform system of checking H5N1 infection among wild birds. The Food and Agriculture Organization brought together more than 70 experts from 12 countries.
http://www.flulab.com/overview.php?a=2007-09-03-fl29
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