New avian flu cases confirmed in Thailand, human transmission ...
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Sep 28, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - Thailand&#39;s avian influenza outbreak is drawing widespread international attention with the confirmation of two more human cases, one of which opens the possibility of human-to-human transmission.
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A Thai girl in a northern province died after being infected with the avian influenza virus, bringing to 11 the number of people killed from the disease in the country, an official at the Health Ministry said.
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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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The eight individuals in Pakistan who are suspected to have bird flu probably have a combination of infections from poultry and limited person-to-person transmission from close contact, a top World Health Organization expert said on Tuesday. Keiji Fukuda, coordinator of WHO's global influenza program, said while unconfirmed, any human-to-human spread seemed similar to previous outbreaks in Thailand and Indonesia -- affecting close family members caring for sick loved ones.
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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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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia found new cases of bird flu today in an infected area that had been under quarantine for three weeks, setting off a new round of culling poultry and screening people to contain the potentially deadly disease.
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ASIA&#39;S bird flu epidemic remained &quot;a crisis of global importance&quot;, the United Nations warned yesterday as Thailand went on national alert amid fears that the first human-to-human transmission had taken place.
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The World Health Organisation last night confirmed that it was examining a probable first full case of human-to-human transmission of bird flu in Thailand.
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A mathematical analysis has confirmed that H5N1 avian influenza spread from person to person in Indonesia in April, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
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BANGKOK: The human toll from bird flu has reached 31 with the confirmation in Thailand of the death of a nine-year-old girl. Indonesia also concedes it is among the countries still struggling with Asia&#39;s continuing outbreaks.
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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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Officials in Thailand announced today that a 32-year-old woman had been hospitalized with avian influenza and that two of her family members had already died of a flu
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A Thai woman who recently died of bird flu probably caught the disease from her daughter, the government has said. If true, she would be the first person in the latest outbreak to catch bird flu from another human.
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BANGKOK, Thailand Sept. 28, 2004 - A woman who died earlier this month of bird flu probably got the disease from her daughter, a Thai official said Tuesday, increasing concern the case is the first known human-to-human transmission of the disease.
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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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Cambodia detected new cases ofbird flu in a province near the capital, an official of the Agriculture Ministry confirmed on Wednesday.
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BANGKOK Officials in Thailand announced Monday that a 32-year-old woman had been hospitalized with avian influenza and that two family members of the sick person had already died of a flulike illness, raising the possibility that these deaths might