Russia confirm two H5N1 bird flu cases
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Poultry farms around Moscow were under  tight control on Saturday when two cases of bird flu near the  capital were confirmed as being the deadly H5N1 strain.
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Domesticated ducks may be the main transmitters of the H5N1 bird flu virus that killed 32 people in two major outbreaks in Asia earlier this year, a senior World Health Organisation official said on Monday.
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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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Pakistan and South Korea reported new bird flu cases in poultry on Saturday, underlining findings by the United Nations that this season's wave of the virus came mostly from reared rather than migratory birds.
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Kuwait's health ministry on Monday confirmed outbreaks of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, potentially fatal to humans, at a zoo and a farm in the south of the country, the first in two years.
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Thailand announces its first cases of bird flu for the year, as Vietnam confirms another human death.
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The Public Health Ministry yesterday confirmed the second case of human bird flu in a new wave of the deadly disease and announced it was putting all parts of the country on high alert for the epidemic.
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Two Vietnamese women have tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus, but one has recovered while the other is in intensive care, a state-run newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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Doctors have given the all-clear to a worker tested for the potentially deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu on a British farm hit by the virus, the second negative test there.
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Vietnam said two children who died of bird flu this month had tested positive for the H5N1 strain, bringing to three the number of fatalities from the latest outbreak of a virus that killed 24 people across Asia earlier this year.
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Russia and Japan banned British poultry imports as Britain neared the end of a cull of 160,000 turkeys after the nation's first outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu in farmed poultry.
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Experts confirm the H5N1 bird flu virus outbreak at a Suffolk turkey farm is the Asian strain.
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The European Commission has confirmed that the bird flu virus detected at a turkey farm in eastern England was the virulent H5N1 strain.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has  confirmed five human bird flu cases in Vietnam, four of them  fatal, the U.N. agency said in a statement.
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One of Russia's main zoos  has closed down after the deaths of two geese sparked a bird  flu scare, but a local health expert ruled this out as the  cause of their deaths.
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Authorities in Thailand have confirmed the country&#39;s second known human case of bird flu since July. The woman, identified as Pranom, was found to have the H5N1 virus of avian influenza.
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A second worker at a Suffolk farm hit by bird flu is being checked for the H5N1 virus, health officials say.