Lethal Strain of Avian Flu Is Reported Found in Pigs in China
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A strain of avian influenza among pigs was found at several farms, a discovery that could move the virus a step closer to becoming a deadly problem for people.
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A heron found dead near Hong Kong's  border with mainland China was carrying a bird flu virus, but  further tests are needed to determine if it is the strain that  has killed people, health officials said on Wednesday.
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BEIJING/KUALA LUMPUR  - The discovery of a deadly bird flu strain in Malaysia after cases elsewhere in Southeast Asia signaled a major winter outbreak was likely, international health experts said on Friday.
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A strain of bird flu blamed for 27 deaths in Asia this year has been found in Malaysia, the government said on Thursday, as hundreds of birds were gassed and their carcasses burned to contain the outbreak.
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Wild ducks in Pennsylvania have tested positive for bird flu, but not the deadly Asian strain that has ravaged poultry and killed at least 141 people worldwide, the Agriculture Department said Saturday.
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BERLIN -- Tests have found that birds at a poultry farm in southern Germany died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, and some 160,000 birds were being slaughtered as a precaution, authorities said.
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Malaysian agricultural officials have confirmed that a deadly strain of bird flu virus has infected poultry in the country.
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China denied claims Monday that a deadly strain of bird flu that killed 27 people in Asia was discovered in the country&#39;s pigs, as the World Health Organisation warned the disease will take several years to contain.
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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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China's southern Guangdong Province is the source of the dangerous H5N1 avian flu virus, according to a genetic analysis of the virus published on Monday.
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Kuwait confirmed on Tuesday 12 cases of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in turkeys and chicken on Tuesday, but said the birds did not belong to poultry farms.
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BEIJING/KUALA LUMPUR  - The discovery of a deadly  bird flu strain in Malaysia after cases elsewhere in Southeast  Asia signaled a major winter outbreak was likely, international  health experts said Friday.
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Scientists in China say they have discovered a highly virulent strain of bird flu virus in pigs. An official at the China National Avian Flu Reference Laboratory said the H5N1 virus strain had been found in pigs at several farms in the country.
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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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Four people have tested positive for bird flu linked to a low-risk strain found in chickens which died on a farm in north Wales, as samples were being taken Saturday from another farm in the area.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia  - A farm near the Cambodian capital was closed after about 2,300 chickens died of Avian flu - apparently the first cases of the disease in the country following an epidemic in Asia earlier this year.
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The avian influenza virus known as H5N1 has killed millions of poultry in east Asia. Now researchers fear it may be tougher and more dangerous to humans than previously suspected.