Company in bird flu outbreak may cut jobs: union
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Around 500 workers at a poultry processing plant hit by an outbreak of the potentially lethal H5N1 bird flu virus are at risk of being laid off, a trade union said.
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A vet reportedly involved in clearing up at a British factory farm after the potentially deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was detected has tested negative for the disease, officials have said.
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Bernard Matthews, whose poultry firm of the same name was at the heart of a bird flu outbreak in Britain, said he was sorry for the scare but insisted it was not his company's fault.
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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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The bird flu epidemic spreads  to half of Bangladesh, in what officials say is a major blow to the poultry industry.
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An outbreak of bird flu on a farm run by  Europe's biggest turkey manufacturer Bernard Matthews is the  highly pathogenic H5N1 version of the virus which can kill  humans, the European Commission said on Saturday.
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Business & money: Union warns British Airways it could face another summer of industrial strife over strain on baggage-handling staff due to job cuts.
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KOLKATA, India  - Indian health workers urged villagers at the centre of a bird flu outbreak to stop dumping dead fowl in ponds on Friday, as ignorance about the virus hampers efforts to contain its spread.
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UK experts try to determine the source of an outbreak of bird flu as a mass cull of turkeys nears its end.
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Vietnam has just faced two new outbreaks of bird flu which either killed or led to the forced culling of more than 850 fowls in the southern province of Ca Mau, the local newspaper Labor reported Wednesday.
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The unexpected discovery of a deadly  bird flu strain in Malaysia after summer cases elsewhere in  Southeast Asia indicated a major winter outbreak was likely,  international health experts said on Friday.
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A group of workers are to sue the Birmingham factory where an outbreak of potentially fatal lung diseases was diagnosed, it emerged today.
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Chiron Corp. , which had to scrap its flu vaccine this season due to contamination, said on Friday it has received a warning from US regulators in connection with its shuttered vaccine manufacturing plant in England.
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An union representing ambulance workers says scrapping paid meal breaks could create problems in the service.
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The outbreak of avian flu in Asia could become a pandemic, health experts have warned. Francois Xavier-Meslin, the World Health Organisation&#39;s disease control, prevention and eradication co-ordinator, said a health crisis is getting closer.
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Five people in Japan may have been  infected with the bird flu virus after an outbreak among  chickens in February, but there is no risk they will develop  symptoms and no chance of more infections, the government said  on Saturday.
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Five people in Japan may have been infected with the bird flu virus after an outbreak among chickens in February, but there is no risk they will develop symptoms and no chance of more infections, the government said on Saturday.