French bird flu scare evaporates
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French experts say 4,000 chickens found dead at a farm in north-eastern France did not die of bird flu.
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One man died of suspected bird flu in Vietnam over the weekend and three people were hospitalized as news reports showed the virus has spread across the entire country.
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Two outbreaks of bird flu among poultry in Benin are the deadly H5N1 strain, the agriculture minister of the small West African state said.
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Bird flu virus may become endemic in parts of Europe, with ducks and geese more of a vector for spreading it than previously thought, the U.N. said on Thursday.
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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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KOLKATA, India  - India has put 26 people in isolation with bird flu symptoms and hundreds more people are being monitored, officials said on Friday as Pakistan and Thailand reported outbreaks of bird flu in poultry.
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BANGKOKâThailand said yesterday it had found its first known probable case of a human being infecting another with bird flu, but insisted it was an isolated incident that posed little risk to the greater population.
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Bird flu has infected five more people in  Vietnam, two of whom are under treatment in Ho Chi Minh City  where riot police are manning checkpoints for poultry vehicles  and authorities have issued warnings to travel agents.
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While most health experts agree that the bird flu virus represents a grave danger and is highly likely to spread unless urgent steps are taken, some virologists caution that alarmist warnings could harm preparedness plans.
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Israeli investigators have found preliminary signs of bird flu in dead chickens from a kindergarten petting zoo, an Agriculture Ministry official said on Thursday.
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French airport authorities are planning to experiment with heat-detecting cameras to identify passengers with a fever as part of efforts to combat the spread of infectious diseases, like SARS and bird flu.
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Three swans found dead in a pond in eastern France have tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the Agriculture Ministry said Thursday.
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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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The outbreak of avian flu in Asia could become a pandemic, health experts have warned. Francois Xavier-Meslin, the World Health Organisation&#39;s disease control, prevention and eradication co-ordinator, said a health crisis is getting closer.
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An outbreak of avian influenza (&#39;bird flu&#39;) among villagers in Thailand is raising fresh fears that spread of the virus, which kills 75 per cent of people it infects, could, at least in principle, reach pandemic proportions.
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HONG KONGBird flu is back, returning with a vengeance to Vietnam, and raising alarm bells in neighbouring Asian countries.
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The European Commission says a strain of bird flu which killed 2,600 turkeys in Suffolk is the H5N1 virus.