Britain targets species, areas in bird flu testing
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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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Britain aimed to complete the cull of 160,000 turkeys on Monday as a government crisis team met to tackle the nation's first exposure to the latest deadly strain of the bird flu virus in farmed poultry.
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Four people have tested positive for a mild strain of bird flu, British authorities said Friday. The cases &#151; which are not the feared H5N1 strain, but the less dangerous H7N2 subtype &#151; were reported after poultry died at a small farm in north Wales.
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The government is determined to eradicate bird flu, Environment Secretary David Miliband says.
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The strain of bird flu which killed 2,600 turkeys on a UK farm is identified as the H5N1 virus.
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An international team of scientists isolates antibodies that could protect against bird flu in humans.
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New methods are being employed around Britain to check for possible outbreaks of bird flu in areas considered to be at risk.
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A grey heron found in Hong Kong earlier has been confirmed an H5 avian flu suspect, and further tests are underway for the nature of the virus, the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said Saturday.
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Restrictions are to be lifted at the Bernard Matthews plant in Suffolk which was at the centre of a bird flu outbreak.
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Malaysian officials on Saturday were testing three people who fell ill in a village hit by the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain, after international health officials warned that the virus appeared to be entrenched in parts of
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Scientists in Hong Kong say they&#39;ve developed a test that&#39;s able to detect bird flu in people within one or two hours instead of the week or more required to get results from previous kinds of tests.
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A report from Britain's Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) said on Friday the bird flu outbreak in Suffolk, UK, was "most likely" linked to the import of poultry products from Hungary.
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New genetic tests could help crack down on  illegal food or timber trade, fight malaria or even give clues  to how to stop bird strikes with planes, scientists said on  Friday.
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The H5 strain of the bird flu virus has been found in turkeys at a poultry farm in eastern England, the environment ministry said.
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WASHINGTON Nov 15, 2004 - Chiron Corp. has asked British regulators to inspect its facility producing an experimental bird flu vaccine to make sure it doesn&#39;t run into the same contamination problems that
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Britain is expected to complete the slaughter of nearly 160,000 turkeys to contain the country's first outbreak in poultry of the potentially lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu, as officials urged the public not to panic.
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Scientists in Hong Kong and China  said on Wednesday they have developed a test to detect bird flu  infections in humans within hours, which could give health  officials an important tool for controlling the killer virus.