French bird flu scare evaporates
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French experts say 4,000 chickens found dead at a farm in north-eastern France did not die of bird flu.
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The EU confirms a new outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in Hungary.
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Fears of a global bird flu pandemic that once dominated headlines have largely vanished in the West, but four years after the virus began ravaging Asian poultry, it continues to quietly spread.
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Russia confirmed another outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu, potentially dangerous to humans, on a farm in a southern region on Wednesday and suspects two more outbreaks on farms near Moscow.
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Vietnam may face fresh outbreaks of the  deadly H5N1 bird flu virus next month as poultry is transported  around the country ahead of the Lunar New Year celebrations in  February, the World Health Organization said.
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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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Russian health officials confirmed on Monday that a bird flu outbreak near Moscow was caused by the dangerous H5N1 strain that can infect humans.
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The European Commission (EC) Sunday issued in Brussels a warning statement to airline passengers on bird flu check after two eagles carried last week to Belgium by a Thai man had been proven avian flu-infected.
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A 37-year-old Egyptian woman tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus and European officials on Wednesday debated whether they needed to take more action after an outbreak of the virus in British turkeys.
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FOUR employees of a bird-flu contaminated poultry farm and one person who helped disinfect the facility may have contracted the virus during an outbreak early this year in Japan, the Tokyo government said today.
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Officials are concerned about the possible spread of serious ailments such as cholera, typhoid and malaria and also issued warnings about the bird flu virus.
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JAPAN&#39;s Health Ministry said today that at least one person had been infected with the bird flu virus after an outbreak among chickens in February but there was no chance that this person would infect others.
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Vietnam may face fresh outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus next month as poultry is transported around the country ahead of the Lunar New Year celebrations in February, the World Health Organization said.
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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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BERLIN -- Tests have found that birds at a poultry farm in southern Germany died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, and some 160,000 birds were being slaughtered as a precaution, authorities said.
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Three swans found dead in eastern France carried the H5N1 bird flu that can be fatal to humans, tests confirm.
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NI poultry farmers are told to be extra vigilant following a bird flu outbreak in the east of England.