UK bird flu virus is Asian strain
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Experts confirm the H5N1 bird flu virus outbreak at a turkey farm in the UK is the Asian strain.
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LONDON, Feb. 3 -- The deadly H5N1 Asian strain of bird flu, which has killed 165  people since 2003, has been confirmed on a commercial turkey farm in eastern England, health authorities said Saturday.
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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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Pakistan and South Korea reported new bird flu cases in poultry on Saturday, underlining findings by the United Nations that this season's wave of the virus came mostly from reared rather than migratory birds.
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Nearly 160,000 turkeys were being culled in Britain on Sunday after the country's first confirmed outbreak of the potentially lethal Asian strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus in poultry.
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A deadly strain of bird flu has been found in nine species of wild birds in Thailand, an official said Tuesday. The discovery comes amid worries that the H5N1 virus could mutate to a form that could spread
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The unexpected discovery of a deadly bird flu strain in Malaysia after summer cases elsewhere in Southeast Asia indicated a major winter outbreak was likely, international health experts said on Friday.
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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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TOKYO, Dec. 22 -- Japan reported its first case of bird flu in a human on Wednesday -- a man who got the disease from birds. Bird flu has swept through farms across Asia this year, forcing officials to cull more than 100 million birds.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia  - Malaysian officials on Saturday were testing three people who fell ill in a village hit by the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain, after international health officials warned that the virus appeared to be entrenched in parts of ...
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The strain of bird flu which killed 2,600 turkeys in Suffolk has been identified as the H5N1 virus.
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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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MALAYSIA yesterday announced new bird flu cases and said a veterinary worker had been hospitalised with a fever and cough. Officials said eight birds had died from the H5 strain of avian flu in three villages
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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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LONDON, Feb. 3 -- The deadly H5N1 Asian strain of bird flu, which has killed 165 people since 2003, has been confirmed on a commercial turkey farm in eastern England, health authorities said Saturday.
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Malaysia went on a nationwide alert against bird flu Thursday after officials confirmed that a deadly strain of the disease, blamed for the deaths of 27 people in Asia, had been found in a tiny northern village.
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The European Commission on Saturday confirmed that an outbreak of bird flu on a farm in eastern England was the H5N1 strain.