Ignorance of dangers hampers India bird flu fight
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KOLKATA, India  - Indian health workers urged villagers at the centre of a bird flu outbreak to stop dumping dead fowl in ponds on Friday, as ignorance about the virus hampers efforts to contain its spread.
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India's efforts to eradicate polio nationwide have hit a hurdle in eastern Bihar state where poor, conservative communities are refusing to have their children immunized because they don't trust the medicine or its distributors.
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Asia faces an outbreak of  unprecedented proportions as it grapples with avian influenza,  which the World Health Organization warns could develop into a  pandemic unless detection and prevention methods are improved.
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When a new strain of bird flu jumped species to infect humans, scientists dreaded a global epidemic. Now they have warned governments to prepare for the worst.
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The Indian government confirmed on Tuesday that the latest outbreak of bird flu in poultry in the country's east was of the virulent H5N1 strain.
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The World Health Organization or WHO warns that bird flu might be transmitted from ducks to humans, even though they show no external signs of having the disease.
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Confirmation of the 100th human bird flu death in Indonesia shows the virus is out of control in the country most ravaged by outbreaks of the disease, experts said Tuesday.
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BANGKOK, Thailand Officials of the World Health Organization say they fear the bird flu virus in Southeast Asia could become a worldwide pandemic capable of killing anywhere from two to seven (m) million people.
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The World Health Organization (WHO)  Thursday cast doubt on Indonesia's claim that a bird flu strain  that had killed millions of chickens in the country could not  be transmitted to humans.
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LONDON, Feb. 3 -- The deadly H5N1 Asian strain of bird flu, which has killed 165  people since 2003, has been confirmed on a commercial turkey farm in eastern England, health authorities said Saturday.
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Authorities begin a mass poultry cull in India's West Bengal state after confirming an outbreak of bird flu.
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Bird flu spreads in the Indian state of West Bengal, as authorities battle to cull birds and control the outbreak.
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The potential transmission of bird flu between humans is the World Health Organization&#39;s worst fear, said Francois Xavier Meslin, the group&#39;s chief of animal diseases.
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The World Health Organisation is concerned that Indonesia has stopped sharing information about bird flu.
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Thailand, rattled by fears a girl  passed bird flu to her mother, said Monday it has no evidence  of human-to-human transmission of the deadly H5N1 virus in the  country.
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Ignorance is fuelling the spread of hepatitis B in Asia, where patients are failing to get proper treatment and not enough is done to reduce transmission of the virus from mother to child, an expert said.
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Asian countries need half a billion dollars more to combat a possible bird flu pandemic, India's health minister said, as health and agriculture experts from 11 Asian countries met in New Delhi.