WHO confirms five human bird flu cases in Vietnam
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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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Nigeria's first human fatality from bird flu is confirmed as the H5N1 strain by the World Health Organisation.
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HANOI/KUALA LUMPUR  - Malaysia declared itself  free of bird flu on Thursday, but another death prompted  Vietnam to step up its fight against the virus that has killed  34 people across Asia and ravaged the region's poultry  industry.
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Two Vietnamese women have tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus, but one has recovered while the other is in intensive care, a state-run newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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China ordered strengthened poultry disinfection measures yesterday under a bird flu alert during the wildfowl migration season and as Thailand announced its first probable case of human-to-human transmission.
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China has confirmed an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus among ducks in an outlying district of the southern metropolis of Guangzhou in Guangdong province, the Agriculture Ministry said.
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Vietnam has officially confirmed that two young boys have died from bird flu as state media says two other people are suspected of contracting the virus.
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The World Health Organization has confirmed Myanmar's first human case of bird flu and praised the secretive country for its quick and open handling of the infection.
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Vietnam may face fresh outbreaks of the  deadly H5N1 bird flu virus next month as poultry is transported  around the country ahead of the Lunar New Year celebrations in  February, the World Health Organization said.
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Ducks also spread bird flu, increasing  the risk to humans from a virus that has killed 32 people in  Thailand and Vietnam this year, the World Health Organization  (WHO) said on Friday.
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World Health Organization experts helping Vietnam to battle a recurrence of bird flu said governments should be cautious about prematurely announcing they had beaten the disease, which has killed 27 people this year.
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Dec 30, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - A 16-year-old girl in southern Vietnam is seriously ill with H5N1 avian influenza, according to reports from the World Health Organization (WHO) and news services today.
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Vietnam Wednesday confirmed that three of its citizens had died of bird flu early this month, Xinhua reports.
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A 26-year-old Thai woman who died of acute pneumonia on 20 September was a âprobableâ case of human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the Thai Ministry of Public Health confirmed on Tuesday.
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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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Bird flu has spread to ducks and chickens near Vietnam's border with China, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday.
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China is tightening quarantine controls to stop deadly bird flu entering from Vietnam, state media said today. Travellers from China&#39;s southern neighbour will have to report to border