New UK tactics against 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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UK scientists have developed two tests for avian flu to safeguard against an outbreak.
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Eleven of 26 people who may have been in contact with bird flu in north Wales show flu-like symptoms.
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HONG KONG - China is gearing up to fight possible outbreaks of bird flu this winter and is training scientists and health workers across the country to diagnose the deadly disease in humans and animals, a top scientist said.
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Southeast Asian countries have approved a plan to combat bird flu that aims to curb the spread of the disease and reduce the likelihood it will lead to a more deadly human pandemic.
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LONDON -- Britain is confronting Europe's biggest outbreak of bird flu with a massive slaughter of turkeys -- and worried consumers are asking whether the disease will hit humans next.
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The Department of Health is setting up a surveillance system against bird flu to aid health workers to manage possible cases of the disease among humans, it was learned Saturday.
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Global health experts have warned Southeast Asia it must unite to combat the spread of bird flu. The World health Organisation says the virus has the potential to become the next human influenza pandemic.
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A series of measures are being taken to prevent animal epidemics since a bird flu outbreak in the country in the spring. Local governments have reinforced the monitoring of bird flu.
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Hong Kong authorities may ban the slaughtering of poultry by retailers in a bid to prevent a bird (avian) flu pandemic. The WHO has warned that the next global pandemic may come from a mutated bird flu virus.
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China ordered strengthened poultry disinfection measures yesterday under a bird flu alert during the wildfowl migration season and as Thailand announced its first probable case of human-to-human transmission.
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Britain gassed tens of thousands of turkeys and extended restrictions on the movement of poultry on Sunday to try to prevent the spread of deadly bird flu from a farm in eastern England.
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Experts urged governments on Thursday to do more to prepare for a possible influenza pandemic and beef up surveillance on the spread of bird flu in all animals and humans.
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Patients and staff in two hospitals are offered anti-viral treatment by officials fighting a bird flu outbreak.
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Britain scrambled to contain its first  outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu in  domestic poultry on Saturday after the virus was found at a  farm run by Europe's biggest turkey producer.
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Britain scrambled to contain its first outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu in domestic poultry on Saturday after the virus was found at a farm run by Europe's biggest turkey producer.
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The UK is drawing up plans to deal with a possible outbreak of bird flu, amid warnings that it poses a significant threat.