First bird flu death in Nigeria
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A Lagos woman is the first person to die from the deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu in Nigeria, a minister says.
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Nigeria's first human fatality from bird flu is confirmed as the H5N1 virus by the World Health Organisation.
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Chicken traders and buyers alike in Nigeria seemed unfazed following reports of the country's first person to die from the bird flu virus.
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The World Health Organization has confirmed two more cases of bird flu in Indonesia, one of them fatal, bringing the country's death toll from the virus to 48.
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A THAI woman was yesterday diagnosed with bird flu after her sister and niece died with symptoms of the virus, raising the possibility that the illness had passed from human-to-human for the first time.
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A 20-year-old woman from West Java who tested positive for bird flu died on Sunday, a health official said.
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Two Egyptians have tested positive for the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, a day after an Egyptian woman died of the disease, Egypt's health ministry said on Thursday.
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Thailand on Tuesday morning confirmed infection of bird flu virus was the cause of a woman&#39;s death, the 10th death of the epidemic in the kingdom.
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An 18-year-old girl has died of bird flu  in southern Vietnam and the first confirmed human infection in  the country's north has raised concerns about possible  human-to-human transmission of the virus.
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Nigeria's first human fatality from bird flu is confirmed as the H5N1 strain by the World Health Organisation.
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The death of a young Nigerian woman from bird flu has focused attention on the risk of such human infections in West Africa, where social habits and weak health and veterinary services make the region vulnerable, experts say.
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Kuwait's health ministry on Monday confirmed outbreaks of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, potentially fatal to humans, at a zoo and a farm in the south of the country, the first in two years.
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Six people caught the deadly strain of bird flu in northern Pakistan last month and at least one person with the disease has died, the government said Saturday.
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HANOI, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Vietnam has confirmed that three local people, who died of bird flu early this month, were infected with the virus strain of H5N1.
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Pakistani authorities and World Health Organisation experts were trying to determine on Tuesday whether bird flu had passed from human to human after the country reported its first human death from the virus.
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LAGOS, Nigeria -- Bird flu has claimed its first human victim in Africa's most-populous nation, killing a young Nigerian woman due to graduate from a university and be married this year, officials and the victim's fiance said yesterday.
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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.