Thai fears mount over bird flu
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A Thai woman who recently died of bird flu probably caught the disease from her daughter, the government has said. If true, she would be the first person in the latest outbreak to catch bird flu from another human.
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Thailand, rattled by fears a girl  passed bird flu to her mother, said Monday it has no evidence  there has been human-to-human transmission of the deadly H5N1  virus in the country.
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Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra  summoned an emergency meeting on bird flue Wednesday after  experts said they had probably documented Thailand's first case  of human-to-human transmission of the disease.
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BANGKOK : Thailand launched its month-long war on bird flu with more than 900,000 volunteers carrying out house-to-house checks for signs of the disease, a senior health official said.
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Thailand has launched a month-long campaign to fight bird flu, with hundreds of thousands of volunteers checking for the disease nationwide.
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Thailand's prime minister ordered a  campaign to wipe out the bird flu virus by the end of October  on Wednesday, a day after the country announced its first  probable case of human transmission.
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Bird flu spread further in Thailand on Friday, with the government confirming four new outbreaks of the deadly disease, including one near the border with Malaysia.
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Hotels and travel agents in Thailand have asked the government to clarify the status of bird flu to reassure tourists. The Thai travel industry wants worldwide distribution
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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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Thai officials yesterday confirmed that another woman had caught bird flu, but played down fears of the first case of human-to-human transmission of the deadly virus following the deaths of two of her relatives.
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Thailand has confirmed that a woman who died earlier this month was a victim of bird flu and said she may have contracted the disease from her daughter, raising the possibility of human-to-human transmission.
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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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BANGKOK - Thailand acknowledged on Wednesday that it had major flaws in its measures to control the bird flu epidemic, a day after reporting its first probable case of one human infecting another with the disease.
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BANGKOK -- Thailand said yesterday it had found its first known probable case of a human infecting another with bird flu, but insisted it was an isolated incident that posed little risk to the greater population.
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HANOI -- Vietnam yesterday confirmed the sixth human death from bird flu in three weeks, and Thailand recorded its first case among poultry this year as health specialists expressed concern about a possible repeat of last year's devastating outbreak.
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KUALA LUMPUR - Three children exposed to the carcasses of culled chickens were hospitalised with flu-like symptoms on Wednesday as Malaysia mulled whether to widen a quarantine to cover an entire state near the Thai border to contain a spreading bird flu
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Malaysia will send a team of senior agriculture officials to Thailand next week for urgent talks on tightening border controls against the spread of bird flu, which has forced a quarantine of Malaysia's northern Kelantan state.