Japan Says Person Had Bird Flu Virus, No Contagion
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Japan's Health Ministry said on Wednesday  that at least one person had been infected with the bird flu  virus after an outbreak among chickens in February but that  there was no chance that this person would infect others.
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Laboratory tests confirmed a strain of low-risk bird flu at a turkey farm in Virginia but there is no evidence of it spreading, the U.S. Agriculture Department's chief veterinarian said on Tuesday.
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A farmer in China's southeastern province of Fujian has been infected with the H5N1 form of bird flu, state media said on Thursday, the first human case in the country in about seven weeks.
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Dead swallows discovered on an island in the disputed Spratly chain tested negative for bird flu Saturday, Malaysian authorities said, easing fears that the disease was spreading beyond a quarantined northern state.
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A worker who attended the Suffolk bird flu outbreak is in hospital with a mild respiratory illness, officials say.
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An outbreak of bird flu on a big English turkey farm should pose no risk to the public or to the poultry industry, a government minister said Monday as investigators continued trying to identify the source of the infection.
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KAMPUNG PASIR PEKAN, Malaysia  - A teenager from  the village at the center of a bird flu outbreak has been  hospitalized with cold symptoms, Malaysia's health minister  said on Friday, as poultry farmers counted their losses.
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Tests performed in Japan have identified that country's first human case of avian influenza and four other cases that are almost certainly the same ailment.
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BANGKOK, Thailand Oct. 3, 2004 - A 9-year-old girl in northern Thailand has tested positive for bird flu, the latest person infected by the virus since it resurfaced in Southeast Asia in July, a health ministry official said Sunday.
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Thailand yesterday announced the first probable case of human-to-human bird flu transmission but insisted it had occurred in unique circumstances and there was no need for the public to panic.
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JAPAN&#39;s Health Ministry said today that at least one person had been infected with the bird flu virus after an outbreak among chickens in February but there was no chance that this person would infect others.
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BANGKOK - A 26-year-old woman who died of avian flu eight days ago almost certainly contracted the disease from her daughter in what could be the first documented case of human to human transmission of the virus, health officials say.
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Thailand said on Tuesday it had found  its first known probable case of a human being infecting  another with bird flu, but insisted it was an isolated incident  that posed little risk to the greater population.
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Questions must be raised as to why it has taken such a long time to determine that former employees at a poultry farm in Kyoto Prefecture struck early this year by a massive outbreak of bird flu were infected with the virus during the incident.
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Experts confirm the H5N1 bird flu virus outbreak at a Suffolk turkey farm is the Asian strain.
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A fatally ill Thai girl probably spread deadly bird flu to her relatives last year in what would mark the first documented case of human-to-human transmission of the feared virus, medical investigators said on Monday.
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A Chinese man who died of bird flu last month likely passed the disease on to his father, but there is no evidence the virus mutated into a form which can be easily passed between humans, an official said on Thursday.