Russia to determine bird flu strain by Sunday
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Poultry farms around Moscow were under tight control on Saturday as animal health officials determined whether the deadly H5N1 strain was responsible for the Russian capital's first outbreak of bird flu.
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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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The strain of bird flu which killed 2,600 turkeys in Suffolk has been identified as the H5N1 virus.
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The strain of bird flu which killed 2,600 turkeys in the UK is identified as the H5N1 virus.
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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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PENANG (MALAYSIA), AUG 23: The deadly H5N1 strain of Bird Flu will take several years to contain, the WHO warned on Monday, adding that claims in China that the virus was found in pigs is a worrying new development.
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BEIJING/KUALA LUMPUR  - The discovery of a deadly bird flu strain in Malaysia after cases elsewhere in Southeast Asia signaled a major winter outbreak was likely, international health experts said on Friday.
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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, a senior health official said Friday.
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Britain's food safety watchdog is investigating if meat infected with the avian flu virus entered the food chain following an outbreak of the disease on a farm run by Europe's largest poultry producer.
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BEIJING/KUALA LUMPUR  - The discovery of a deadly  bird flu strain in Malaysia after cases elsewhere in Southeast  Asia signaled a major winter outbreak was likely, international  health experts said on Friday.
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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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Federal laboratories will do more   tests to determine the avian influenza strain found in some   wild ducks in Montana but it does not appear to be the   contagious strain feared worldwide, U.S. officials said on   Thursday.
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Four people have tested positive for a mild strain of bird flu, British authorities said Friday
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China has suffered a new outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in poultry, a news report said Saturday, as experts tried to determine whether a Chinese man died of the disease in 2003, two years before the country reported any human cases.
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The bird flu strain found at a farm in Suffolk may be the same as the one in Hungary, the government says.
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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 H5 strain of the bird flu virus has been found in turkeys at a poultry farm in eastern England, the environment ministry said.