Surveillance checks for bird flu
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New methods are employed around Britain to check for possible outbreaks of bird flu in at-risk areas.
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The World Health Organization will launch a large-scale investigation to confirm whether pigs have been infected with bird flu virus, which people have little immunity too.
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UK scientists have developed two tests for avian flu to safeguard against an outbreak.
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Poultry farmers around Europe were on guard Monday against the possible spread of bird flu across the North Sea from infected Britain, fearing the disease could be carried by wild birds. The Netherlands was the first country over the weekend to order restrictions on commercial poultry since the outbreak last week on a turkey farm in eastern England of the H5N1 strain of the virus, which can be deadly for humans.
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Vietnam has detected seven confirmed and possible bird flu infections in humans so far, but is concerned about more cases cropping up among its scattered small farms, a health ministry official said on Monday.
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ROME -- Most of the scattered bird flu outbreaks so far this year probably can be traced to illegal or improper trade in poultry, scientists say. That includes recent outbreaks in Nigeria and Egypt as well as the large outbreak on a turkey farm in England.
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A second person dealing with the bird flu outbreak in Suffolk is tested for the disease.
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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, as samples were being taken Saturday from another farm in the area.
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Britain's Food Standards Agency said on Friday it was investigating whether meat contaminated with bird flu had reached shops, but stressed there was no threat to consumers.
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Doctors have given the all-clear to a worker tested for the potentially deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu on a British farm hit by the virus, the second negative test there.
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Turkish authorities are testing four children for bird flu in a southeastern village where avian influenza has already infected the poultry, the agriculture ministry has said.
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Four people test positive for a mild strain of bird flu which was first found at a north Wales smallholding.
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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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The European Commission has confirmed that the bird flu virus detected at a turkey farm in eastern England was the virulent H5N1 strain.
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The World Health Organisation has said it is concerned about the world&#39;s first probable human to human transmission of the bird flu virus.
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The World Health Organisation confirmed that it was examining a &quot;probable&quot; first full case of human-to-human transmission of bird flu in Thailand, raising fears of a deadly global flu pandemic.
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China is to establish bird flu  monitoring centers in rural areas to strengthen the country's  efforts to deal with any outbreaks, the official Xinhua news  agency reported Tuesday.