Environment Secretary defends Hungarian imports amid bird flu alert
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The government has defended a decision to allow imported turkey meat from Hungary, despite speculation linking a recent outbreak of H5N1 bird flu with the east European country.
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The European Commission (EC) Sunday issued in Brussels a warning statement to airline passengers on bird flu check after two eagles carried last week to Belgium by a Thai man had been proven avian flu-infected.
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Britain is to step up its efforts to combat the spread of bird flu by introducing strategic testing for the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus, the environment agency has announced.
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The World Health Organization warned Monday that countries should be on alert for bird flu because it is again on the move
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The head of the Food and Drug Administration on Monday strongly defended his agency&#39;s oversight of a flu vaccine factory that was abruptly closed down last week because of safety concerns.
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Thailand and its chicken industry continue to deal with the effects from the spread of bird influenza. Last week, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra replaced his agriculture minister.
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The bird flu virus that has killed hundreds of people since 2003 has now stabilized but risks that it mutates into a new dangerous form cannot be ruled out, the head of the World Animal Health body OIE said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON Oct. 14, 2004 - Don&#39;t expect imports of flu shots from Canada or other countries to ease the crippling shortage, the nation&#39;s health secretary cautioned Thursday.
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Two United Nations agencies have warned that bird flu is &quot;a crisis of global importance&quot;. A joint statement from the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Organisation for Animal Health says the
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Asian nations have vowed to work together to combat bird flu after warnings it could lead to a human influenza pandemic that could kill millions and make nearly a third of the world ill.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday voiced concern about the spread of bird flu in Vietnam, but said it was not considering warning against travel there as the risk of human infection was low.
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Drug companies will not be able to make enough vaccine to prevent the next global flu pandemic, which health officials fear may be triggered by a viral strain originating in birds, a senior World Health Organisation official said today.
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Poultry products from Hungary were the most likely cause of the outbreak of a potentially lethal H5N1 bird flu at a Suffolk turkey farm, the government has said.
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Hungary says there is no evidence a UK bird flue outbreak of was caused by poultry from the country.
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Bernard Matthews, the owner of the farm where the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was found last week, is under investigation for apparently transporting turkeys from a restricted zone in Hungary to its British farm, it was reported.
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The bird flu strain found at a farm in Suffolk may be the same as the one in Hungary, the government says.
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The EU confirms a new outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in Hungary.