France testing dead birds for flu
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French authorities say they cannot rule out bird flu as they test samples from 4,000 chickens that died on a farm.
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Researchers have developed a new test that can detect bird flu infections in humans within hours. The new rapid test is a significant step forward in what could prove to be the catalyst for an overdue pandemic.
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Spanish state radio said on Friday the  country&#039;s first case of H5N1 bird flu had been confirmed in a  great crested grebe in the city of Vitoria but officials said  test results were still not available.
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The strain of bird flu which killed 2,600 turkeys on a UK farm is identified as the H5N1 virus.
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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, as samples were being taken Saturday from another farm in the area.
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Britain is to step up its efforts to combat the spread of bird flu by introducing strategic testing for the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus, the environment agency has announced.
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Tests have confirmed the presence of the H5N1 bird flu strain in poultry found dead in two suburban Moscow districts, an agriculture official said Saturday, in the first such outbreak to be recorded so close to the Russian capital.
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Biosecurity stepped up and workers given Tamiflu as vets test more dead birds in Dorset
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NEW YORK  - A multinational team of researchers has developed a system that can detect the bird flu virus on a throat swab specimen in less than 30 minutes.
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Scientists in Hong Kong and China said on Wednesday they have developed a test to detect bird flu infections in humans within hours, which could give health officials an important tool for controlling the killer virus.
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Samples from a dead Nigerian woman believed to be sub-Saharan Africa's first fatality from bird flu arrived on Thursday at a laboratory in Britain for testing, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.
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The European Commission says a strain of bird flu which killed 2,600 turkeys in Suffolk is the H5N1 virus.
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UK scientists have developed two tests for avian flu to safeguard against an outbreak.
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Tests have confirmed that three swans  found dead in eastern France were killed by the H5N1 bird flu  virus, the French agriculture ministry said on Thursday,  France&#39;s first cases of the disease in over a year.
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Aventis-Pasteur and Chiron Corp are due to start human testing of a vaccine against bird flu as early as this month, a World Health Organization (news - web sites) official said on Saturday, to try to prevent a pandemic that could kill
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The strain of bird flu which killed 2,600 turkeys in Suffolk has been identified as the H5N1 virus.
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Israeli investigators have found preliminary signs of bird flu in dead chickens from a kindergarten petting zoo, government officials said on Thursday.