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EGYPT: Bird flu cases among young children raise concerns
Cairo :: Egypt | 8 months ago
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An 18-month-old child contracted the H5N1 bird flu virus on 10 March, bringing the number of human cases in Egypt to 58 since records began in 2006, and prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to ask for a study to be undertaken of the causes...She...
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Deadly bird flu found in Bavarian wild duck
Brussels :: Belgium | 8 months ago
Credibility The virus was discovered in a wild duck shot during a hunt near Starnberg in Bavaria, the first case found in a wild bird for over a year, the Commission said in a statement. Around 250 people have died of the human form of avian flu since 2003, according...
Tags: bird flu, wild duck, duck shot, Bavaria, European Commission
Vietnam officials face bird flu outbreaks
Hanoi :: Vietnam | 9 months ago
Credibility Vietnam officials say they are closely monitoring bird flu cases that have killed 54 people, including two this year, since 2003. Representatives of the Preventive Medicine and Environment Agency said they would team with the National Institute of Hygiene...
Tags: bird flu, slaughter, Voice of Vietnam, pigs, swine flu
Govt to aid flu-hit poultry industry: Matia
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 9 months ago
Credibility Dhaka, March 5 (bdnews24.com)-Agriculture minister Matia Chowdhury Thursday said the government would extend all out assistance to the country's poultry industry in its recovery from a bird flu storm. She said avian influenza had hit the employment generating...
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Virus mix-up by lab could have resulted in pandemic
Vienna :: Austria | 9 months ago
Credibility It's emerged that virulent H5N1 bird flu was sent out by accident from an Austrian lab last year and given to ferrets in the Czech Republic before anyone realised. As well as the risk of it escaping into the wild, the H5N1 got mixed with a human strain,...
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Scientists Use Smallpox Vaccine to Fight Bird Flu
Hong Kong :: China | 9 months ago
Credibility Scientists from Hong Kong and the United States say they have developed an experimental bird flu vaccine by modifying a vaccine once used to treat smallpox. They told a news conference in Hong Kong Sunday that initial tests on mice showed the new vaccine...
Tags: University of Hong Kong, bird flu, flu vaccination, h5n1 bird, smallpox vaccination, United States, mice showed, Malik Peiris, South Africa, IOL
Asahi Shimbun, Japan: A quail farm in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, is disinfected Friday after the discovery of H7 bird flu.(TOSHIYUKI TAKEYA/ THE ASAHI SHIMBUN)
Toyohashi :: Japan | 9 months ago
Credibility H7 bird flu was detected at a quail farm in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, the first time the highly pathogenic virus has been found in Japan in 84 years, officials said Friday. None of the quails on the farm has died, leading farm ministry officials to...
Tags: bird flu, Aichi Prefecture, h7 bird, Toyohashi
Vietnam has 54th death from bird flu
Hanoi :: Vietnam | 9 months ago
Credibility A 32-year-old Vietnamese man infected with the H5N1 bird flu strain has died in hospital in the capital Hanoi, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday, quoting the health ministry. The man contracted the virus in Ninh Binh province, some 90...
H7 bird flu virus detected in Aichi Pref.
Tōkyō :: Japan | 9 months ago
Credibility The H7 bird flu virus has been detected at a quail farm in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, the prefectural government and the farm ministry said Friday. As the infected quails have not died, the virus ''may be of attenuated virulence,'' the Agriculture,...
Tags: Aichi Prefecture, bird flu, Japan, quail farm, h7 bird, flu virus
Non-lethal bird flu found on turkey firm's farms
Budapest :: Hungary | 9 months ago
Credibility Non-lethal bird flu strain found on Bernard Matthews farms Turkey company and Defra stress it is not the H5N1 virus that led to cull of 152,000 birds in 2007 Poultry at Bernard Matthews farms have again have tested positive for bird flu , the company...
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