Bird flu spreads to new districts in India's east
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KOLKATA, India  - Bird flu spread to two new districts in an eastern Indian state, officials confirmed on Saturday, as veterinary staff struggled to cull thousands of birds in the face of resistance from farmers.
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Malaysia went on a nationwide alert against bird flu Thursday after officials confirmed that a deadly strain of the disease, blamed for the deaths of 27 people in Asia, had been found in a tiny northern village.
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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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KUALA LUMPUR : Malaysia has been hit by a new outbreak of bird flu, officials announced Monday. The H5 strain of avian flu had killed 30 birds on a farm in the north eastern state of Kelantan near Thailand, the veterinary department said.
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New methods are employed around Britain to check for possible outbreaks of bird flu in at-risk areas.
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Malaysia has detected three new cases of bird flu in a northern state where two outbreaks have been reported since last month, the Veterinary Services Department said on Saturday.
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Malaysia says it has found a new outbreak of bird flu outside a 10-kilometer quarantine zone imposed around the first village hit in the latest wave of the virus.
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Three children have been admitted to hospital in eastern Thailand with suspected bird flu, with one boy testing positive to the virus in an initial screening, officials said.
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The bird flu virus endemic in Asia appears to be evolving in ways that increasingly favor the start of a deadly human influenza outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday.
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Experts confirm the H5N1 bird flu virus outbreak at a turkey farm in the UK is the Asian strain.
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Vietnam may face fresh outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus next month as poultry is transported around the country ahead of the Lunar New Year celebrations in February, the World Health Organization said.
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Three more suspected bird flu cases were found on Saturday in Thailand&#39;s central Prachinburi province, where a boy died of the avian influenza several days ago.
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Authorities in eastern India battling the country's worst ever outbreak of bird flu said Monday they needed to step up the slaughter of chickens and ducks to beat a spread in the virus.
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Tests confirmed the H5N1 type of the bird flu virus in poultry at two farms in the eastern Czech Republic, the State Veterinary Authority (SVS) said on Thursday.
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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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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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Cambodia has detected its first new cases of bird flu since March, in a province near the capital. A senior Agriculture Ministry official says more than 2,300 chickens have died or been culled in the latest