Japan holds bird flu drill for human cases
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Japan held a drill on Monday to test its readiness for dealing with human cases of bird flu, with a limping mock patient -- wearing a white mask and labeled "Mr. A" -- being whisked to hospital in an ambulance and tested.
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Japanese authorities on Saturday confirmed the country's fourth outbreak of the virulent H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus at a poultry farm in the country's south.
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China is gearing up to fight possible outbreaks of bird flu this winter and is training scientists and health workers across the country to diagnose the deadly disease in humans and animals, a top scientist says.
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Patients and staff in two hospitals are offered anti-viral treatment by officials fighting a bird flu outbreak.
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BANGKOKâThai and international health officials held an emergency meeting early today to review a case in which there is a &quot;very remote possibility&quot; that bird flu was passed from human to human, a senior WHO official said.
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Dozens of chickens at a western Japan poultry farm died of the H5N1 bird flu strain, agriculture officials said Wednesday, fueling concerns about a series of recent cases in the country's poultry industry.
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China ordered strengthened poultry disinfection measures yesterday under a bird flu alert during the wildfowl migration season and as Thailand announced its first probable case of human-to-human transmission.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia  - 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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Hong Kong scientists have been researching a vaccine for the avian flu epidemic, commonly known as bird flu. Doctor John Nichols, a pathologist at Hong Kong University, says
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The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry confirmed Wednesday that one of five people suspected of having been infected with bird flu at a chicken farm in Kyoto Prefecture was the first person discovered to have carried the virus in the country.
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Japan has suspended imports of British poultry following the country's first major outbreak of the virulent H5N1 bird flu strain, a farm ministry official in Tokyo said Monday.
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Another outbreak of bird flu was suspected in southern Japan on Tuesday after 23 chickens were found dead at a farm, fueling concern about a string of cases in the country's poultry industry.
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Indonesia will resume sharing bird flu  samples with the World Health Organization (WHO), but under a  new mechanism aimed at ensuring developing nations get access  to vaccines, the health minister and the WHO said on Friday.
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China has shared human bird flu samples for the first time in more than a year, giving a boost to international efforts to track the deadly H5N1 virus and develop vaccines, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.
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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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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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The World Health Organisation confirmed that it was examining a &quot;probable&quot; first full case of human-to-human transmission of bird flu in Thailand, raising fears of a deadly global flu pandemic.