Thai Officials Investigate Possible Person-to-Person Bird Flu
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Officials in Thailand announced today that a 32-year-old woman had been hospitalized with avian influenza and that two of her family members had already died of a flu
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Thailand has confirmed that a woman who died earlier this month was a victim of bird flu and said she may have contracted the disease from her daughter, raising the possibility of human-to-human transmission.
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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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HANOI -- Vietnam yesterday confirmed the sixth human death from bird flu in three weeks, and Thailand recorded its first case among poultry this year as health specialists expressed concern about a possible repeat of last year's devastating outbreak.
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BANGKOK A day after Thai and international officials confirmed the first probable human-to-human transmission of a virulent strain of avian influenza in this country, public health systems around the globe were scrambling to prepare for a possible pandemic
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A THAI woman was yesterday diagnosed with bird flu after her sister and niece died with symptoms of the virus, raising the possibility that the illness had passed from human-to-human for the first time.
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A fatally ill Thai girl probably spread  deadly bird flu to her relatives last year in what would mark  the first documented case of human-to-human transmission of the  feared virus, medical investigators said on Monday.
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A Thai woman who died of bird flu may be the first in the latest outbreak to catch it from human contact.
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A World Health Organization official has warned of the likelihood of more human deaths from the bird flu virus, after the death of a teenage boy in Thailand this week.
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Pakistani authorities and World Health Organization experts were trying to determine on Tuesday whether bird flu had passed from human to human after the country reported its first human death from the virus.
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Vietnam has detected seven confirmed and possible bird flu infections in humans so far, but is concerned about more cases cropping up among its scattered small farms, a health ministry official said on Monday.
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Pakistani authorities and World Health Organisation experts were trying to determine on Tuesday whether bird flu had passed from human to human after the country reported its first human death from the virus.
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Indonesia is investigating a possible   cluster of bird flu cases after a man died and his brother and   sister were hospitalized, one of them testing positive for bird   flu, a doctor said on Tuesday.
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The Thai government on Monday announced that a woman has been confirmed of bird flu infection, a second patient of the epidemic since the second wave of avian influenza hit the kingdoms three months ago.
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The eight individuals in Pakistan who are suspected to have bird flu probably have a combination of infections from poultry and limited person-to-person transmission from close contact, a top World Health Organization expert said on Tuesday. Keiji Fukuda, coordinator of WHO's global influenza program, said while unconfirmed, any human-to-human spread seemed similar to previous outbreaks in Thailand and Indonesia -- affecting close family members caring for sick loved ones.
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Hotels and travel agents in Thailand have asked the government to clarify the status of bird flu to reassure tourists. The Thai travel industry wants worldwide distribution
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BANGKOK - Thailand is battling a second major outbreak of the deadly avian influenza, or bird flu, as a nine-year-old girl and a dog have both tested positive for the virus.