France says H5N1 bird flu virus confirmed in swans
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Tests have confirmed that three swans found dead in eastern France were killed by the H5N1 bird flu virus, the French agriculture ministry said on Thursday, France's first cases of the disease in over a year.
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Ducks also spread bird flu, increasing the risk to humans from a virus that has killed 32 people in Thailand and Vietnam this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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Tests confirmed the H5N1 type of the bird flu virus in poultry at two farms in the eastern Czech Republic, the State Veterinary Authority (SVS) said on Thursday.
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Two Egyptians have tested positive for the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, a day after an Egyptian woman died of the disease, Egypt's health ministry said on Thursday.
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A grey heron found in Hong Kong earlier has been confirmed an H5 avian flu suspect, and further tests are underway for the nature of the virus, the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said Saturday.
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Scientists have discovered the possible presence of bird flu in wild mute swans in Michigan &#151; but it does not appear to be the most worrisome, highly pathogenic strain, the White House announced Monday.
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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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Nearly 20,000 chickens were culled after the H5N1 bird flu virus was detected at a government poultry farm in the Bangladesh capital, officials said on Tuesday.
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A fourth swan has tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in Dorset
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China has confirmed reports that the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found in its pig population. Agriculture ministry officials said two infected pigs had been discovered, one in 2002 and one in 2003.
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China's Ministry of Agriculture confirmed that a deadly strain of bird flu was found in pigs last year, the Xinhua news agency reported.
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Nigeria's first human fatality from bird flu is confirmed as the H5N1 strain by the World Health Organisation.
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A final round of tests on wild ducks in Montana confirmed the birds tested positive for the low-pathogenic H5 avian influenza virus, the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Interior said on Saturday.
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UN health and agriculture officials in China said they were not informed by the government of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus being found in pigs, the first such discovery in the world.
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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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Two more wild swans found dead on a nature reserve in south-west England have tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu, which can be deadly for humans, the environment ministry said Friday.
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Kuwait confirmed on Tuesday 12 cases of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in turkeys and chicken on Tuesday, but said the birds did not belong to poultry farms.