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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Officials confirmed Saturday that the H5N1 strain of bird flu had been found in turkeys on a commercial farm &#151; Britain's first mass outbreak of the disease that has ravaged Asia's poultry stocks and killed more than 160 people worldwide.
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Dec 10, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - Southeast Asian nations are mounting a two-tiered attack on the avian influenza virus that has devastated poultry flocks and raised the specter of a potential human flu pandemic.
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SEOUL, Nov. 25 -- South Korea said Saturday that an outbreak of lethal bird flu at a poultry farm was caused by the highly virulent H5N1 strain of the virus, the country's first case in three years.
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China has confirmed an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus among ducks in an outlying district of the southern city of Guangzhou.
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China has confirmed that it found a deadly strain of bird flu in pigs as early as two years ago. China&#39;s Agriculture Ministry said two cases had been discovered, but it did not say exactly where the samples had been taken.
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A rare case of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu being passed between humans is reported by Chinese officials.
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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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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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A laboratory in China says it has discovered a deadly strain of the bird flu in pigs, raising concern among scientists that the virus may be closer to changing into a form that is more easily transmittable to humans.
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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, a senior health official said Friday.
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Israeli officials said on Thursday the deadly bird flu strain H5N1 had been found in dead chickens from a kindergarten pet zoo.
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Shanghai. (Interfax-China) -The World Health Organization (WHO) warned the of potential dangers of an outbreak of influenza H5N1 infections in pigs in China.
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Oct 19, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - A government official in Thailand said 23 tigers at a private zoo died of avian influenza after eating the carcasses of chickens believed to have had the disease, the Associated Press  reported today.
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Aug 20, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - A step in the progression of avian influenza considered almost inevitable by experts in view of the widespread and continuing Asian outbreaks this yearâits occurrence in pigsâhas been taken, if a Chinese scientist&#39;s
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China found a deadly strain of bird flu in pigs as early as 2002, before a regional outbreak in poultry that killed 27 people, Agence France-Presse reported.