Bird flu kills 23 tigers
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THE bird flu epidemic, which has killed 31 people in SouthEast Asia this year, killed 23 tigers at a zoo in eastern Thailand, a government official said yesterday.
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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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HANOI/KUALA LUMPUR  - Malaysia declared itself  free of bird flu on Thursday, but another death prompted  Vietnam to step up its fight against the virus that has killed  34 people across Asia and ravaged the region's poultry  industry.
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The animals died at Sriracha Tiger Zoo after being fed the carcasses of chickens infected with the disease. The zoo has been forced to close its doors to the public while authorities investigate.
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The deadly H5N1 bird flu has killed a  young man in Thailand, raising the death toll from the virus in  Asia to 29 this year, Health Minister Sudarat Keyuraphan said  on Thursday.
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One man died of suspected bird flu in Vietnam over the weekend and three people were hospitalized as news reports showed the virus has spread across the entire country.
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Thai authorities say tests have confirmed 23 Tigers have died of bird flu at a private zoo in the eastern province of Chonburi. Thirty other tigers at the zoo, which houses hundreds of big cats, are said to be ill with the disease.
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The World Health Organization has confirmed two more cases of bird flu in Indonesia, one of them fatal, bringing the country's death toll from the virus to 48.
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An eight-year-old Indonesian boy died of bird flu on Friday, the health ministry said, bringing the country's death toll from the virus to 97.
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Another outbreak of bird flu was suspected in southern Japan on Tuesday after 23 chickens were found dead at a farm, fueling concern about a string of cases in the country's poultry industry.
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A bird flu virus killed 26 people in Asia and prompted widespread slaughter of poultry several months ago. Now a new study says it can also infect cats.
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A boy in southern Vietnam has died from the lethal strain of bird flu that has killed 22 people in the communist nation since late 2003.
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Health and veterinary workers in Bangladesh have culled nearly 25,000 fowls after bird flu was confirmed at three poultry farms in the country, officials said on Thursday.
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Health officials in Thailand are to cull dozens of tigers at a private zoo to stem an outbreak of bird flu among the big cats. As many as 80 could be killed after seven tigers died, raising the death toll at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo to 30.
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A deadly strain of bird flu blamed for 27 deaths in Asia this year has been found in two dead chickens in Malaysia, a government official said on Thursday.
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China found a deadly strain of bird flu in pigs as early as 2002, before a regional outbreak in poultry that killed 27 people, Agence France-Presse reported.
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Thailand ordered a cull of 40 tigers suspected of suffering from bird flu Wednesday after seven more of the big cats died, bringing the tiger death toll at an infected zoo to 30.