Vietnam Bird Flu Death Toll Climbs to 27
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Two Vietnamese children who died in early August were infected with the killer strain of bird flu that swept through Asia's poultry this year, bringing the region's human death toll to 27, Vietnam confirmed Monday.
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Bird flu has killed a nine-year-old  Thai girl, raising the country's death toll from the disease to  11, a Health Ministry spokeswoman said on Monday.
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Vietnam has just faced two new outbreaks of bird flu which either killed or led to the forced culling of more than 850 fowls in the southern province of Ca Mau, the local newspaper Labor reported Wednesday.
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KAMPUNG PASIR PEKAN, Malaysia  - A strain of bird  flu blamed for 27 deaths in Asia this year has been found in  Malaysia for the first time, the government said on Thursday as  hundreds of birds were culled to contain the outbreak.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed five human bird flu cases in Vietnam, four of them fatal, the U.N. agency said in a statement.
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The death toll from flooding in southern Vietnam's Mekong Delta has claimed 27 lives, while another nine people were killed after heavy storms lashed the region.
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HANOI -- Vietnam has deployed riot police at bird flu checkpoints around Ho Chi Minh City, officials said yesterday, as the lethal virus claimed another victim, raising the country's recent death toll to 10.
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KAMPUNG PASIR PEKAN, Malaysia  - A strain of bird  flu blamed for 27 deaths in Asia this year has been found in  Malaysia, the government said on Thursday, as hundreds of birds  were gassed and their carcasses burned to contain the outbreak.
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Bird flu has spread to ducks and chickens near Vietnam's border with China, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday.
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Among three recent human deaths in Vietnam&#39;s northern Thai Nguyen province, two were initially reported to have contracted an unidentified dangerous virus, local newspaper Labor reported Monday.
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BANGKOK: The human toll from bird flu has reached 31 with the confirmation in Thailand of the death of a nine-year-old girl. Indonesia also concedes it is among the countries still struggling with Asia&#39;s continuing outbreaks.
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A strain of bird flu blamed for 27 deaths in Asia this year has been found in Malaysia, the government said on Thursday, as hundreds of birds were gassed and their carcasses burned to contain the outbreak.
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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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Bird flu has killed a nine-year-old Thai girl, raising the country&#39;s death toll from the disease to 11, a Health Ministry spokeswoman said on Monday.
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Vietnam confirmed a new bird flu death to bring Asia&#39;s human toll to 30 yesterday, while Thailand rued its flawed efforts to control the epidemic after reporting its first likely case of the virus jumping from one person to another.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesia's death toll  from the weekend's tsunami soared past 27,000 on Wednesday, but  was expected to climb higher with many bodies still buried  under mud and rubble.
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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.