Horse flu outbreak spreading in Australia
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The equine influenza outbreak that has brought Australia's racing industry to a standstill is starting to spread, with hundreds of horses now displaying symptoms of the disease.
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Russia confirmed another outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu, potentially dangerous to humans, on a farm in a southern region on Wednesday and suspects two more outbreaks on farms near Moscow.
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Australia and Hong Kong have joined North America and parts of Europe in reporting seasonal influenza viruses with increased resistance to the antiviral drug Tamiflu, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
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A POTENTIALLY devastating equine disease has been detected in the heart of Newmarket&#39;s multi-million pound bloodstock industry.
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Health chiefs look at how a rare infection caught from farm animals came to affect 28 people in Cheltenham.
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New scientific findings show that avian influenza H5N1, or âbird fluâ, can be spread to other species such as cats. It was first reported in February that cats in Thailand were infected and three died.
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An outbreak of avian influenza in a family in Thailand has raised fears that the virus might have been transferred directly between humans.
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The bird flu virus endemic in Asia  appears to be evolving in ways that increasingly favor the  start of a deadly human influenza outbreak, the World Health  Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday.
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Government experts confirm the H5N1 bird flu virus outbreak at a Suffolk turkey farm is the Asian strain.
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Australia's multi-billion dollar racing industry was plunged into turmoil on Saturday after an outbreak of equine influenza triggered a national lockdown.
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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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Japanese authorities on Saturday confirmed the country's fourth outbreak of the virulent H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus at a poultry farm in the country's south.
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A five-year-old stallion in is quarantine in Newmarket after testing positive for equine viral arteritis, a highly contagious sexually transmitted disease.
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Bird flu has spread to another province in northern Vietnam and now nine cities and provinces have been struck by the deadly virus in less than a month, the Agriculture Ministry said.
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British government sources confirmed a suspected outbreak of foot and mouth disease on a cattle farm in southern England on Wednesday, according to reports on BBC and Sky television.
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Australian authorities cancelled thoroughbred racing in a second state on Tuesday, including the iconic outback Birdsville races, as the nation's first outbreak of equine flu spread.
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Australian authorities are considering extending the nationwide ban on horse movement after the country's first outbreak of equine influenza outbreak began to spread out of control.