Japanese Man Tests Positive For Bird Flu
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TOKYO, Dec. 22 -- Japan reported its first case of bird flu in a human on Wednesday -- a man who got the disease from birds. Bird flu has swept through farms across Asia this year, forcing officials to cull more than 100 million birds.
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A farmer in China's southeastern province of Fujian has been infected with the H5N1 form of bird flu, state media said on Thursday, the first human case in the country in about seven weeks.
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Health officials in Vietnam on Friday confirmed a farmer has been infected with the deadly bird flu virus, the first human case in the country since late 2005.
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A vet reportedly involved in clearing up at a British factory farm after the potentially deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was detected has tested negative for the disease, officials have said.
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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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BANGKOK - Thailand is battling a second major outbreak of the deadly avian influenza, or bird flu, as a nine-year-old girl and a dog have both tested positive for the virus.
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Japan's Health Ministry said on Wednesday  that at least one person had been infected with the bird flu  virus after an outbreak among chickens in February but that  there was no chance that this person would infect others.
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A dead gray heron found near Hong Kong&#39;s border with mainland China has tested positive for bird flu, in the third such case in the territory this year, the government said Monday.
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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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Independent tests carried out in Italy have confirmed the presence for the first time of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in poultry from the west African nation of Togo, officials said Wednesday.
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A new case of H5 type Avian Influenza had been detected at Teluk Baru Village, near Kota Baharu, capital of the northern state of Kelantan, a senior veterinary official said Sunday.
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Five people in Japan may have been infected with the bird flu virus after an outbreak among chickens in February, but there is no risk they will develop symptoms and no
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FOUR employees of a bird-flu contaminated poultry farm and one person who helped disinfect the facility may have contracted the virus during an outbreak early this year in Japan, the Tokyo government said today.
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Questions must be raised as to why it has taken such a long time to determine that former employees at a poultry farm in Kyoto Prefecture struck early this year by a massive outbreak of bird flu were infected with the virus during the incident.
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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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Health officials have tested three people for the potentially deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu after an outbreak in eastern England, and all have proved negative.
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A fourth swan at a Dorset swannery tests positive for the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu.