Bangladesh steps up vigilance as bird flu spreads
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In less than a year, bird flu has spread to nearly half of Bangladesh's 64 districts, threatening the livelihoods of millions of people reliant on the poultry industry and driving up food prices.
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Health officials Thursday investigated new bird deaths in eastern India to check whether bird flu was spreading to additional areas despite a poultry cull aimed at curbing the disease.
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International health experts have been dispatched to Pakistan to help investigate the cause of South Asia's first outbreak of bird flu in people and determine if the virus could have been transmitted through human contact, officials said Sunday.
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The bird flu virus endemic in Asia  appears to be evolving in ways that increasingly favor the  start of a deadly human influenza outbreak, the World Health  Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday.
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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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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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Authorities begin culling thousands of poultry birds in the Indian state of West Bengal, suspecting an outbreak of the deadly bird flu.
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New methods are being employed around Britain to check for possible outbreaks of bird flu in areas considered to be at risk.
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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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SINGAPORE (dpa) - An Asean taskforce set up to deal with the bird flu threat targeted on Tuesday eight &quot;action areas&quot; including drawing up emergency preparedness plans to respond quickly to new outbreaks.
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BANGKOK : Thailand launched its month-long war on bird flu with more than 900,000 volunteers carrying out house-to-house checks for signs of the disease, a senior health official said.
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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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The World Health Organization warned Monday that countries should be on alert for bird flu because it is again on the move, with Pakistan reporting South Asia's first human infections and Myanmar logging its first human case.
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Health ministers and officials from 13 countries are meeting in the Thai capital, Bangkok to try to fight a growing threat from bird flu.
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ASIA&#39;S bird flu epidemic remained &quot;a crisis of global importance&quot;, the United Nations warned yesterday as Thailand went on national alert amid fears that the first human-to-human transmission had taken place.
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The bird flu epidemic in the Indian state of West Bengal spreads  closer to the capital, Calcutta, officials say.
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Malaysia went on a nationwide alert against bird flu Thursday after officials confirmed that a deadly strain of the disease, blamed for the deaths of 27 people in Asia, had been found in a tiny northern village.