Australia knew of horse flu risk
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Racing officials warned the government three years ago that changes to quarantine procedures could lead to an outbreak of equine influenza like that now devastating Australia, Prime Minister John Howard said Monday.
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BANGKOK -- Thailand said yesterday it had found its first known probable case of a human infecting another with bird flu, but insisted it was an isolated incident that posed little risk to the greater population.
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A horse has been put under quarantine after testing positive for a rare sexually transmitted infection. The horse is in isolation in the Newmarket area, the home of UK horse racing, after being found to have Equine Viral Arteritis (EVA).
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DOZENS of Victorians may have been exposed to a deadly brain illness related to mad cow disease and still not know it. The Royal Melbourne Hospital yesterday could not guarantee that every patient who had
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HONG KONG A senior Chinese health official disclosed on Friday that her country had found a lethal strain of avian influenza among pigs at several farms, a discovery that could move the virus one step closer toward becoming a global problem for humans.
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Virus expert says government must order vaccination of livestock.
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LONDON, Feb. 3 -- The deadly H5N1 Asian strain of bird flu, which has killed 165  people since 2003, has been confirmed on a commercial turkey farm in eastern England, health authorities said Saturday.
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A POTENTIALLY devastating equine disease has been detected in the heart of Newmarket&#39;s multi-million pound bloodstock industry.
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BANGKOK - Thai officials on Monday confirmed that a woman had caught bird flu but played down fears of the first case of human-to-human transmission of the deadly virus following the deaths of two relatives.
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Australian officials were Wednesday hoping to hold &#39;phantom&#39; horse races, in which spectators and punters would be banned from the track, in a bid to offset losses from the equine influenza outbreak.
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Recent studies have shown that waterfowl are a crucial link in the spread of East Asia's avian influenza epidemic.
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Health chiefs look at how a rare infection caught from farm animals came to affect 28 people in Cheltenham.
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MARK COLVIN: The World Health Organisation has issued a dire prediction that the bird flu virus could kill up to 100 million people around the world.
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LONDON, Feb. 3 -- The deadly H5N1 Asian strain of bird flu, which has killed 165 people since 2003, has been confirmed on a commercial turkey farm in eastern England, health authorities said Saturday.
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Eight racehorses test positive for equine influenza, forcing the suspension of Sydney's spring carnival racing.
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Vietnam said two children who died of  bird flu this month had tested positive for the H5N1 strain,  bringing to three the number of fatalities from the latest  outbreak of a virus that killed 24 people across Asia earlier  this year.
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The government has insisted that cooked meat exported from a bird flu-hit plant in the east of the country was safe for humans to eat, as vets awaited results of tests on the products.