Village ways fuel bird flu spread in rural Egypt
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EZBET SIDI OMAR, Egypt  - When Attia Abdel-Hamid Hassan notices the chickens or ducks that he keeps at home in Egypt's Nile Delta starting to wobble on their feet, he puts them in a sack and drowns them in an irrigation canal.
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Outfitting swans with super-light Teflon backpacks containing solar-powered GPS satellite transmitters is the latest way scientists and researchers are trying to fight the spread of avian influenza.
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KAMPUNG PASIR PEKAN, Malaysia  - Malaysia gassed  hundreds of screeching birds in a village near the Thai border  on Thursday, seeking a quick end to its first outbreak of bird  flu, a scourge that has killed 27 people in Southeast Asia this  year.
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Anti-viral drugs are offered to nearly 500 people following the avian flu outbreak at a Suffolk turkey farm.
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Hard-hit Thailand plans a campaign to  change poultry farming methods as it seeks to stamp out the  deadly bird flu virus before migrating wildfowl return during  the northern winter, a senior minister said on Thursday.
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BANGKOK, Thailand Sept. 30, 2004 - Millions of volunteers led by emergency teams fanned out across Thailand on Thursday in a new drive to fight bird flu after the prime minister gave officials 30 days to eradicate the epidemic.
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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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A 4-year-old Egyptian boy has contracted the potentially deadly strain of bird flu, bringing to two dozen the number of people to be diagnosed with the disease since it appeared in the country last year, the Health Ministry said Sunday.
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Malaysia has detected a new outbreak of bird flu in a village in northeast Kelantan state, the sixth to be hit by the deadly virus in a month, officials have announced.
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Poultry products from Hungary were the most likely cause of the outbreak of a potentially lethal H5N1 bird flu at a turkey farm in Suffolk, the government has said.
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Officials were investigating the cause of a deadly bird flu outbreak on a farm in Suffolk on Monday as workers culled thousands of turkeys to prevent the virus from spreading.
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The World Health Organisation believes domesticated ducks may be the main transmitters of the H5N1 bird flu virus that killed 32 people in Asia this year.
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Malaysia says it has found a new outbreak of bird flu outside a 10-kilometer quarantine zone imposed around the first village hit in the latest wave of the virus.
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Bird flu has been found in chickens near the Cambodian capital, officials said Sunday, raising fears about the spread of the deadly virus in a country with little to no health system.
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Bird flu, transmitted last season by migrating wild birds, is increasingly spread through the poultry trade, a U.N. expert said.
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Tens of thousands of turkeys are gassed at a Suffolk farm as efforts continue to prevent bird flu from spreading.
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HOLTON, England -- Britain scrambled to contain its first outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu in domestic poultry yesterday after the virus was found at a farm run by Europe's biggest turkey producer.