Mayor of Jakarta claims bird flu victory
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Indonesia claimed a major victory in the fight against bird flu Thursday, saying the heart of the capital had been cleared of backyard fowl and that residents elsewhere were handing in chickens for slaughter. But poultry could still be seen roaming freely in suburban neighborhoods and some people hid pet birds in their homes, raising doubts the campaign would prevent further human deaths in the country hardest-hit by the virus.
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Indonesia recorded its 42nd human bird flu death on Thursday, bringing the sprawling nation even with neighboring Vietnam as the two worst-hit countries by the virus, a senior health ministry official said Thursday.
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An Indonesian man who had been   suffering from bird flu for days died early on Thursday, a   hospital official said, taking Indonesia's death toll from the   disease to 52.
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A mathematical analysis has confirmed that H5N1 avian influenza spread from person to person in Indonesia in April, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
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Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has helped New York City secure 200,000 additional flu shots from overseas, a move that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said would &quot;allow virtually every high-risk New York City
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TOKYO, Dec. 22 -- Japan reported its first case of bird flu in a human on Wednesday -- a man who got the disease from birds.
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Indonesia's agriculture ministry said Wednesday tests showed a bird flu strain that had killed millions of chickens in the country could not be transmitted to humans.
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A 6-year-old Indonesian boy died of bird flu at the weekend, bringing the country's death toll from the disease to 81, officials said on Monday.
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Australia&#39;s Prime Minister, John Howard, has personally congratulated Indonesia&#39;s President-elect, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, on his recent victory.
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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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Indonesia signs an agreement with a US firm over a human bird flu vaccine in a move that stirs controversy.
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Dec 21, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - Overcoming the threat of avian influenza is the single most pressing agricultural and public health issue facing Southeast Asia, Singapore&#39;s minister of state for national development, Cedric Foo, said yesterday in opening a
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A 16-year-old Indonesian girl has died of bird flu, taking the country's confirmed human death toll from the virus to 96, a health ministry official said on Tuesday.
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Indonesia rejected on Monday a study by U.S. researchers that concluded that the H5N1 bird flu virus had spread from person to person during an outbreak last year, saying it was misleading.
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BANGKOK - The regional director of the World Health Organization&#39;s Western Pacific Regional Office says the bird flu virus is proving far more lethal than the SARS virus that struck Asia and other parts of the world last year.
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Indonesia is willing to resume sharing of bird flu virus samples only if nations agree on a fair and equitable framework, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Wednesday.
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Indonesia will declare bird flu a national disaster following a fresh flare-up in the country, which has the world's highest human death toll from the virus, the planning minister said on Wednesday.