Avian flu jumps to pig herds in China
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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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Shanghai. (Interfax-China) -The World Health Organization (WHO) warned the of potential dangers of an outbreak of influenza H5N1 infections in pigs in China.
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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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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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The specter of a global influenza pandemic has loomed a little larger in recent weeks with revelations that Chinese researchers found the deadly H5N1 virus strain last year in pigs, a crucial link in the mutation of the disease to a form that can infect
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Dec 10, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - Southeast Asian nations are mounting a two-tiered attack on the avian influenza virus that has devastated poultry flocks and raised the specter of a potential human flu pandemic.
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Aug 20, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - A step in the progression of avian influenza considered almost inevitable by experts in view of the widespread and continuing Asian outbreaks this yearâits occurrence in pigsâhas been taken, if a Chinese scientist&#39;s
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The avian influenza virus that swept across East Asia early this year has reemerged in at least four countries in the region despite optimism among health and agriculture officials that the disease had been eradicated through the mass slaughter of chickens.
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China has confirmed that it found a deadly strain of bird flu in pigs as early as two years ago. China&#39;s Agriculture Ministry said two cases had been discovered, but it did not say exactly where the samples had been taken.
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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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Bird flu has spread to ducks and chickens near Vietnam's border with China, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday.
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A farmer in southeast China has contracted the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, state media reported Thursday.
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BEIJING - China has drastically stepped up vigilance against bird flu in regions along the border with Vietnam, where a series of outbreaks have recently been reported.
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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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China has suffered a new outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in poultry, a news report said Saturday, as experts tried to determine whether a Chinese man died of the disease in 2003, two years before the country reported any human cases.
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The H5N1 strain of bird flu swept through 10 Asian countries early this year, resulting in the death or slaughter of over 100 million chickens and the deaths of more than 20 people.
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The World Health Organization is warning countries experiencing outbreaks of bird flu (H5N1) in poultry to be aware that domestic ducks may be infecting humans, as well as other poultry with the bird flu virus.