WHO confirms Myanmar's first human case of bird flu
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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday confirmed Myanmar's first human case of bird flu in a seven year-old girl who survived the disease.
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Health officials reported Nigeria's first cases of bird flu in humans Wednesday, saying one woman had died and a family member had been infected but was responding to treatment.
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Pakistani authorities and World Health Organisation (WHO) 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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New York (VNA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned against a possible transmission of bird flu from human to human. The organisation is studying the case of a Thai woman allegedly contracting H5N1 virus from her sick daughter.
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The World Health Organisation confirmed that it was examining a &quot;probable&quot; first full case of human-to-human transmission of bird flu in Thailand, raising fears of a deadly global flu pandemic.
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Samples from a dead Nigerian woman believed to be sub-Saharan Africa's first fatality from bird flu arrived on Thursday at a laboratory in Britain for testing, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.
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GENEVA, Sept 19 (Retuers) - A three-year-old Iraqi boy in   Baghdad has been confirmed as having survived a mild case of   bird flu last March, the first confirmed human infection in the   capital, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed five human bird flu cases in Vietnam, four of them fatal, the U.N. agency said in a statement.
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A young woman who died in Bangkok 10 days ago appears to have had the first confirmed case of person-to-person transmission of the "bird flu" that emerged in Southeast Asia last winter.
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Malaysia says it has contained its first outbreak of a strain of bird flu virus that has claimed more than two dozen human lives in Southeast Asia this year.
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The eight individuals in Pakistan who are suspected to have bird flu probably have a combination of infections from poultry and limited person-to-person transmission from close contact, a top World Health Organization expert said on Tuesday. Keiji Fukuda, coordinator of WHO's global influenza program, said while unconfirmed, any human-to-human spread seemed similar to previous outbreaks in Thailand and Indonesia -- affecting close family members caring for sick loved ones.
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Health authorities in Indonesia have begun investigating whether a nine-year-old girl who died this week of the H5N1 strain of bird flu belonged to a cluster of human cases.
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A eight-year-old girl who died last year has been confirmed as Indonesia's latest bird flu case, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.
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A fatally ill Thai girl probably spread  deadly bird flu to her relatives last year in what would mark  the first documented case of human-to-human transmission of the  feared virus, medical investigators said on Monday.
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China confirmed on Tuesday that the  country's first human case of the H5N1 bird flu virus was in  late 2003, two years earlier than originally reported,  prompting the U.N.'s health agency to call for greater  transparency.
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Thailand announces its first cases of bird flu for the year, as Vietnam confirms another human death.
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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.