New bird flu strain &#39;will be worse than Sars&#39;
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International health officials warned yesterday that the world was closer to its next pandemic - a potent mix of avian influenza and a human flu virus - and that Asia was likely to be its epicentre.
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Indonesia will declare bird flu a national disaster following a fresh flare-up in the country, which has the world's highest human death toll from the virus, the planning minister said on Wednesday.
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The World Health Organization is warning Asian nations that its current struggle with bird flu could lead to the next deadly human flu pandemic across the globe.
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There are chilling warnings in Asia that an inevitable global influenza pandemic could kill millions. This warning comes after the fight against SARS and bird flu left many countries weary.
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Not the really scary one, though Bird flu has been confirmed at a farm in Wales, but it is not the virulent and potentially-fatal-for-humans strain H5N1, but another, called H7N2. There is now a 1km exclusion zone around the farm.â¦
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Researchers have developed a new test that can detect bird flu in humans within hours, compared to up to a week or more for older tests.
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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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The potential transmission of bird flu between humans is the World Health Organization&#39;s worst fear, said Francois Xavier Meslin, the group&#39;s chief of animal diseases.
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Pakistan and South Korea reported new bird flu cases in poultry on Saturday, underlining findings by the United Nations that this season's wave of the virus came mostly from reared rather than migratory birds.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has been hit by a new outbreak of bird flu suspected to be the same strain which has killed 27 people across Asia and devastated poultry industries.
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BIRD flu is far more lethal than the SARS virus that struck Asia last year and could unleash a pandemic that could kill up to 50 million people, the World Health Organisation said yesterday.
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The discovery of a deadly bird flu strain in Malaysia after cases elsewhere in Southeast Asia signaled a major winter outbreak was likely, international health experts said Friday.
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When a new strain of bird flu jumped species to infect humans, scientists dreaded a global epidemic. Now they have warned governments to prepare for the worst.
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BEIJING : The World Health Organization has said it is more worried about bird flu than SARS, warning a pandemic is likely to occur unless effective measures are taken, Chinese state media said.
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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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THERE have been three new deaths from bird flu in Vietnam, the World Health Organisation says, raising fears of a fresh outbreak of the disease in South East Asia.
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Vietnam confirmed a new bird flu death to bring Asia&#39;s human toll to 30 yesterday, while Thailand rued its flawed efforts to control the epidemic after reporting its first likely case of the virus jumping from one person to another.