AHRI dispatched two staffs to study the diagnoses and researches of avian influenza (AI) including reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), the analysis of nucleic acid sequencing, intravenous pathogenicity index (IVPI), chicken embryo inoculation, hemagglutination assay (HA), Hemagglutination inhibition test (HI), plaque assay and real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).