India swoops on homes in night raids to halt bird flu
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KOLKATA, India  - Veterinary staff in eastern India are capturing chickens in night-time raids on the backyards of homes to surprise villagers unwilling to part with their poultry as an outbreak of bird flu spread.
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The Indian government confirmed on Tuesday that the latest outbreak of bird flu in poultry in the country's east was of the virulent H5N1 strain.
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Authorities in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal begin investigating the death of thousands of poultry birds.
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KOLKATA, India  - Bird flu spread to two new districts in an eastern Indian state, officials confirmed on Saturday, as veterinary staff struggled to cull thousands of birds in the face of resistance from farmers.
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Malaysia is sending more troops to its border with Thailand to check smuggling of chickens into northern Kelantan state, under quarantine for a bird flu virus that can kill humans, defense officials said on Thursday.
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Government vets work through the night at a poultry farm in Suffolk to contain an outbreak of bird flu.
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Britain's farm ministry on Monday   unveiled a new bird flu strategy of testing more intensively in   areas and species where an outbreak is most likely to occur.
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A massive army of volunteers wearing protective plastic bags over their flip flops is taking the Thai Prime Minister&#39;s battle against bird flu to its source: Thailand&#39;s chicken coops and live markets.
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Thailand declared a national war on bird flu Wednesday as Asia&#39;s death toll in the epidemic rose to 30 with Vietnam confirming another fatality, amid concern that the virus had passed from human to human.
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The Indian state of West Bengal, battling the country's worst outbreak of deadly bird flu, appealed to the federal government to send "all possible help to defeat" the virus.
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Asian nations have vowed to work together to combat bird flu after warnings it could lead to a human influenza pandemic that could kill millions and make nearly a third of the world ill.
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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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Vietnam culled 450 ducks in its largest  city on Thursday, its latest attempt to stop the spread of the  bird flu virus that has killed 34 people across Asia and  ravaged the region's poultry industry.
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The influenza B type disease which was spreading in the Southern part of the country is now under control, the Health authorities claimed yesterday.
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BANGKOK : Bird flu fears in Thailand prevented passers-by from helping four people injured in an accident between a drunk-driver and a pick-up truck full of chickens, rescue officials said on Sunday.
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KOLKATA, India  - Villagers at the centre of a bird flu outbreak in India's east refused to hand over their chickens and ducks for culling on Thursday, hampering efforts to stamp out the disease in poultry.
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Vietnam has reported outbreaks of the bird flu virus in six provinces, prompting authorities to cull thousands birds in an effort to stop the spread of the disease.