Thai PM Summons Emergency Bird Flu Meeting
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Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra  called an emergency meeting on bird flu on Wednesday after  experts said they had probably documented Thailand's first case  of human-to-human transmission of the disease.
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Thailand has confirmed its first outbreaks this year of the H5N1 strain of bird flu that can be deadly to humans, prompting authorities to declare a high alert throughout the country.
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The Thai government plans to buy about five million duck eggs from farmers and destroy them in a bid to thwart the spread of bird flu, which has devastated poultry stocks and killed 11 people in Thailand this year.
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Southeast Asian nations agreed on Friday to set up a task force to coordinate the fight against a deadly bird flu which has killed 31 people and ravaged poultry flocks across the region.
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TORONTO - In the wake of yet another avian influenza death in Thailand, the World Health Organization urged countries with flu vaccine production capacity and their manufacturers to speed up work on trial vaccines against the highly deadly H5N1 virus.
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Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra called an emergency meeting on bird flu on Wednesday after experts said they had probably documented Thailand's first case of human-to-human transmission of the disease.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra declares a state of emergency in Bangkok amid rumours of a coup.
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KAMPUNG PASIR PEKAN, Malaysia  - Malaysia gassed  hundreds of screeching birds in a village near the Thai border  on Thursday, seeking a quick end to its first outbreak of bird  flu, a scourge that has killed 27 people in Southeast Asia this  year.
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Thai and international health officials  were due to meet on Monday to review a case in which there is a  "very remote possibility" birdflu was passed from human to  human, a senior WHO official said.
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SINGAPORE: Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan has outlined three areas of global cooperation in dealing with international public health emergencies such as the current bird flu outbreak.
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BANGKOK -- Thai and international health officials held an emergency meeting on Monday to review a case in which there is a &quot;very remote possibility&quot; bird flu was passed from human to human, a senior WHO official said.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Saturday called a meeting of the government&#39;s civil contingencies cell COBRA to discuss the latest confirmed cases of foot and mouth disease.
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It may take Thailand five years to get rid of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus that has killed 10 Thais and 20 Vietnamese this year, Deputy Prime Minister Chaturon Chaisang said on Wednesday.
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ASIA&#39;S bird flu epidemic remained &quot;a crisis of global importance&quot;, the United Nations warned yesterday as Thailand went on national alert amid fears that the first human-to-human transmission had taken place.
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YANGON, Myanmar  - Southeast Asian nations agreed  on Friday to set up a task force to coordinate the fight  against a deadly bird flu which has killed 31 people and  ravaged poultry flocks across the region.
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BANGKOK  - Thailand plans to produce 100 million doses of bird flu vaccine to use on chickens if an outbreak that has left at least 11 people dead in the kingdom runs out of control, officials said Monday.
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Three children have been admitted to hospital in eastern Thailand with suspected bird flu, with one boy testing positive to the virus in an initial screening, officials said.