Final tests confirm bird flu strain in Montana:USDA
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A final round of tests on wild ducks in Montana confirmed the birds tested positive for the low-pathogenic H5 avian influenza virus, the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Interior said on Saturday.
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Four people have tested positive for bird flu linked to a low-risk strain found in chickens which died on a farm in north Wales, a senior health official said Friday.
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Nov 18, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said today it is running confirmatory tests on a possible new case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease.
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The Indian government confirmed on Tuesday that the latest outbreak of bird flu in poultry in the country's east was of the virulent H5N1 strain.
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Wild ducks in Pennsylvania have tested positive for bird flu, but not the deadly Asian strain that has ravaged poultry and killed at least 141 people worldwide, the Agriculture Department said Saturday.
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Scientists believe they have found some of the steps needed for bird flu to turn into a pandemic strain.
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Government experts confirm the H5N1 bird flu virus outbreak at a Suffolk turkey farm is the Asian strain.
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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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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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Tests are expected back on a couple at a smallholding where a mild form of bird flu has been confirmed.
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PENANG, Malaysia  - A Malaysian veterinarian and  her three children have received a clean bill of health after  tests for bird flu, leaving no suspected human cases of the  deadly virus after an outbreak among poultry, the government  said on Monday.
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China has confirmed an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus among ducks in an outlying district of the southern metropolis of Guangzhou in Guangdong province, the Agriculture Ministry said.
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Four people have tested positive for a mild strain of bird flu, British authorities said Friday. The cases &#151; which are not the feared H5N1 strain, but the less dangerous H7N2 subtype &#151; were reported after poultry died at a small farm in north Wales.
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The strain of bird flu which killed 2,600 turkeys on a UK farm is identified as the H5N1 virus.
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The cull of 159,000 birds at a farm in Suffolk where bird flu was found is now complete, the government says.
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The strain of bird flu which killed 2,600 turkeys in Suffolk has been identified as the H5N1 virus.
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Turkeys at a farm in Virginia had antibodies to a low-risk strain of bird flu but direct evidence of infection has not been found, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday.