Bird flu virus is Asian strain
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Government experts confirm the H5N1 bird flu virus outbreak at a Suffolk turkey farm is the Asian strain.
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Malaysian agricultural officials have confirmed that a deadly strain of bird flu virus has infected poultry in the country.
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Bird flu virus belonging to the H5N1 strain has been found in pigs on several farms in China. It has not yet been confirmed whether the pigs are infected or have merely come into contact with the disease.
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A wild bird which died of avian flu in Hong Kong is being tested for the lethal strain that has killed 32 people in Southeast Asia this year.
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The H5N1 strain of bird flu swept through 10 Asian countries early this year, resulting in the death or slaughter of over 100 million chickens and the deaths of more than 20 people.
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The avian influenza virus that swept across East Asia early this year has reemerged in at least four countries in the region despite optimism among health and agriculture officials that the disease had been eradicated through the mass slaughter of chickens.
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KAMPUNG PASIR PEKAN, Malaysia  - A strain of bird  flu blamed for 27 deaths in Asia this year has been found in  Malaysia for the first time, the government said on Thursday as  hundreds of birds were culled to contain the outbreak.
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Asia&#39;s deadly bird flu has been found in a dog for the first time in Thailand, authorities said yesterday, as the country battles a second major outbreak of the virus this year.
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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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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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IT&#39;S official: Two chickens in Kelantan have been found to have the H5N1 strain of the bird flu bug.
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Four people have tested positive for a mild strain of bird flu, British authorities said Friday. The cases &#151; which are not the feared H5N1 strain, but the less dangerous H7N2 subtype &#151; were reported after poultry died at a small farm in north Wales.
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A deadly strain of bird flu blamed for 27 deaths in Asia this year has been found in two dead chickens in Malaysia, a government official said on Thursday.
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MALAYSIA yesterday announced new bird flu cases and said a veterinary worker had been hospitalised with a fever and cough. Officials said eight birds had died from the H5 strain of avian flu in three villages
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A deadly strain of bird flu has been found in nine species of wild birds in Thailand, an official said Tuesday. The discovery comes amid worries that the H5N1 virus could mutate to a form that could spread
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The bird flu virus endemic in Asia  appears to be evolving in ways that increasingly favor the  start of a deadly human influenza outbreak, the World Health  Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday.
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Bird flu has resurfaced in parts of Asia, with human deaths reported in Indonesia and China and fresh outbreaks plaguing other countries during the winter months when the virus typically flares.