Malaysia testing 3 people for bird flu; says outbreak isolated
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Malaysian officials on Saturday were testing three people who fell ill in a village hit by the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain, after international health officials warned that the virus appeared to be entrenched in parts of
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Malaysia reported a second outbreak of bird flu on Monday, setting back efforts to clear the country of a virus that has killed dozens of people in Asia and ravaged its poultry industry.
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BANGKOK -- Thailand said yesterday it had found its first known probable case of a human infecting another with bird flu, but insisted it was an isolated incident that posed little risk to the greater population.
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Four people have tested positive for a mild strain of bird flu, British authorities said Friday.
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BEIJING/KUALA LUMPUR  - The discovery of a deadly bird flu strain in Malaysia after cases elsewhere in Southeast Asia signaled a major winter outbreak was likely, international health experts said on Friday.
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KUALA LUMPUR - Three children exposed to the carcasses of culled chickens were hospitalised with flu-like symptoms on Wednesday as Malaysia mulled whether to widen a quarantine to cover an entire state near the Thai border to contain a spreading bird flu
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A Malaysian veterinarian and her three children have received a clean bill of health after tests for bird flu, leaving no suspected human cases of the deadly virus after an outbreak among poultry, the government said on Monday.
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A wild bird which died of avian flu in Hong Kong is being tested for the lethal strain that has killed 32 people in Southeast Asia this year.
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Three Malaysians who became ill after an outbreak of deadly (H5N1) bird flu hit their northern village do not have the disease. The three were hospitalized as a precautionary measure after they came down with flu symptoms.
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BEIJING/KUALA LUMPUR  - The discovery of a deadly  bird flu strain in Malaysia after cases elsewhere in Southeast  Asia signaled a major winter outbreak was likely, international  health experts said on Friday.
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KAMPUNG PASIR PEKAN, Malaysia  - Malaysia gassed  hundreds of screeching birds in a village near the Thai border  on Thursday, seeking a quick end to its first outbreak of bird  flu, a scourge that has killed 27 people in Southeast Asia this  year.
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The H5N1 bird flu virus has re-appeared in a third Thai province, the country's third outbreak this year after a six-month lull, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday.
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Malaysia says it has contained its first outbreak of a strain of bird flu virus that has claimed more than two dozen human lives in Southeast Asia this year.
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The unexpected discovery of a deadly bird flu strain in Malaysia after summer cases elsewhere in Southeast Asia indicated a major winter outbreak was likely, international health experts said on Friday.
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PEKANBARU, Riau: The province of Riau has banned the entry of chicken and eggs from Malaysia following reports on the spread of bird flu in the neighboring country, a local official said on Wednesday.
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The bird flu outbreak which has hit four districts in north state of Kelantan seems to be under control with no new cases in the past three days, a veterinary official said Friday.
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Indonesia's agriculture ministry said  Wednesday tests showed a bird flu strain that had killed  millions of chickens in the country could not be transmitted to  humans.