Mild Strain of Human Bird Flu in Britain
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Four people have tested positive for a mild strain of bird flu, British authorities said Friday
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Leading scientists in Hong Kong have found that the H5N1 bird flu virus can infect cells in the upper airway of humans and need not penetrate deep in the lungs to cause infection.
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The strains of H5N1 bird flu viruses found in Britain and Hungary are "essentially identical", scientists say.
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New methods are employed around Britain to check for possible outbreaks of bird flu in at-risk areas.
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The strains of H5NI bird flu viruses found in Britain and Hungary are "essentially identical", scientists say.
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LONDON, Feb. 3 -- The deadly H5N1 Asian strain of bird flu, which has killed 165 people since 2003, has been confirmed on a commercial turkey farm in eastern England, health authorities said Saturday.
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Experts stress that the UK outbreak of bird flu on a farm in Suffolk poses no immediate risk to human health.
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KUALA LUMPUR - Three children and their mother from a village hit by the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain have been admitted to hospital for medical checks after coming down with flu-like symptoms, but three others suspected of contracting the virus have been
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Four people test positive for a mild strain of bird flu which was first found at a north Wales smallholding.
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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.
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Not the really scary one, though Bird flu has been confirmed at a farm in Wales, but it is not the virulent and potentially-fatal-for-humans strain H5N1, but another, called H7N2. There is now a 1km exclusion zone around the farm.â¦
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Kuwait confirmed on Tuesday 12 cases of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in turkeys and chicken on Tuesday, but said the birds did not belong to poultry farms.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has been hit by a new outbreak of bird flu suspected to be the same strain which has killed 27 people across Asia and devastated poultry industries.
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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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An outbreak of bird flu on a big English turkey farm should pose no risk to the public or to the poultry industry, a government minister said Monday as investigators continued trying to identify the source of the infection.
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Scientists say the number of cases of humans being infected with bird flu may have been underestimated.
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Four people have tested positive for bird flu linked to a low-risk strain found in chickens which died on a farm in north Wales, a senior health official said Friday.