India swoops on homes in night raids to halt bird flu
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KOLKATA, India  - Veterinary staff in eastern India are capturing chickens in night-time raids on the backyards of homes to surprise villagers unwilling to part with their poultry as an outbreak of bird flu spread.
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Vietnam culled 450 ducks in its largest city on Thursday, its latest attempt to stop the spread of the bird flu virus that has killed 34 people across Asia and ravaged the region's poultry industry.
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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.
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The H5 strain of the bird flu virus has been found in turkeys at a poultry farm in eastern England, the environment ministry said.
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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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The influenza B type disease which was spreading in the Southern part of the country is now under control, the Health authorities claimed yesterday.
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The government is determined to eradicate bird flu, Environment Secretary David Miliband says.
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Bird flu has infected five more people in  Vietnam, two of whom are under treatment in Ho Chi Minh City  where riot police are manning checkpoints for poultry vehicles  and authorities have issued warnings to travel agents.
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Hard-hit Thailand plans a campaign to  change poultry farming methods as it seeks to stamp out the  deadly bird flu virus before migrating wildfowl return during  the northern winter, a senior minister said on Thursday.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra declared a war on bird flu, saying the disease must be eliminated by the end of next month, the state-run Thai News Agency reported on Thursday.
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Millions of volunteers led by emergency teams fanned out across Thailand today in a new drive to fight bird flu after the prime minister gave officials 30 days to eradicate the epidemic.
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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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Authorities in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal begin investigating the death of thousands of poultry birds.
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A massive army of volunteers wearing protective plastic bags over their flip flops is taking the Thai Prime Minister&#39;s battle against bird flu to its source: Thailand&#39;s chicken coops and live markets.
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KOLKATA, India  - India has put 26 people in isolation with bird flu symptoms and hundreds more people are being monitored, officials said on Friday as Pakistan and Thailand reported outbreaks of bird flu in poultry.
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KOLKATA, India  - An outbreak of bird flu in India's most densely populated state could spiral out of control, officials said on Tuesday, as the disease spread to a seventh district.
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KOLKATA, India  - Bird flu spread to two new districts in an eastern Indian state, officials confirmed on Saturday, as veterinary staff struggled to cull thousands of birds in the face of resistance from farmers.