First bird flu death in Nigeria
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A Lagos woman is the first person to die from the deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu in Nigeria, a minister says.
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Laos officials confirm the nation's first definite human bird flu fatality, after a 15-year-old girl dies from H5N1.
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Benin, the home of ritual Voodoo sacrifice, became the latest in a string of West African states to report cases of H5N1 bird flu after laboratory tests confirmed the deadly virus on two poultry farms.
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An Indonesian woman who lived near a poultry slaughterhouse on the outskirts of the capital has died of bird flu, the health ministry said on Friday, the latest victim in a surge of cases this year.
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The strain of bird flu which killed 2,600 turkeys in the UK is identified as the H5N1 virus.
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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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Bird flu hit two countries Saturday as it was confirmed that a man who died culling infected birds in Pakistan became the country's first human fatality, while a seven-year-old girl became Myanmar's first human case.
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International tests have confirmed that a 7-year-old girl died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu earlier this month, bringing Indonesia&#039;s death toll from the virus to at least 38, a health official said Thursday.
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Scientists say they&#039;ve found surprising evidence from Nigeria, the first African nation to report a dangerous form of bird flu, that the virus entered the country at least three times.
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The deadly H5N1 bird flu has killed a young man in Thailand, raising the death toll from the virus in Asia to 29 this year, Health Minister Sudarat Keyuraphan said on Thursday.
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A 25-year-old Egyptian woman has died of bird flu, Egypt's Ministry of Health said on Wednesday.
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Three people died of bird flu this week, pushing the total number of deaths in Indonesia to 101, nearly half of all the bird flu deaths in the world.
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Vietnam Wednesday confirmed that three of its citizens had died of bird flu early this month, Xinhua reports.
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Four peacocks and a goose have died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the only zoo in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, an Agriculture Ministry official said on Tuesday.
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A 20-year-old Indonesian man who health   officials thought had been part of a family cluster of bird flu   cases died of the disease on Thursday, a hospital official   said.
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HANOI, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Vietnam has confirmed that three local people, who died of bird flu early this month, were infected with the virus strain of H5N1.
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Four Nigerians are suspected to have died  from H5N1 bird flu, but tests on three of the victims were  inconclusive and the virus was confirmed scientifically in only  one case, a senior health official said on Wednesday.