Bird flu checks reach hospitals
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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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The World Health Organization is warning countries experiencing outbreaks of bird flu (H5N1) in poultry to be aware that domestic ducks may be infecting humans, as well as other poultry with the bird flu virus.
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With increasing signs that bird flu is becoming established in Asia and a shortage of flu vaccine in America, health officials from several nations and more than a dozen
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Hundreds of tons of poultry passed through the Bernard Matthews plant during the bird flu outbreak.
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Vietnam's first human bird flu case in a year and a half left hospital on Monday, doctors said, as the country tries to control numerous outbreaks of the virus in poultry.
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Scientists in Hong Kong and China said on Wednesday they have developed a test to detect bird flu infections in humans within hours, which could give health officials an important tool for controlling the killer virus.
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BEIJING - China has drastically stepped up vigilance against bird flu in regions along the border with Vietnam, where a series of outbreaks have recently been reported.
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Bird flu has infected five more people in  Vietnam, two of whom are under treatment in Ho Chi Minh City  where riot police are manning checkpoints for poultry vehicles  and authorities have issued warnings to travel agents.
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Four people have tested positive for a mild strain of bird flu, British authorities said Friday
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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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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia found new cases of bird flu today in an infected area that had been under quarantine for three weeks, setting off a new round of culling poultry and screening people to contain the potentially deadly disease.
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Britain's food safety watchdog is investigating if meat infected with the avian flu virus entered the food chain following an outbreak of the disease on a farm run by Europe's largest poultry producer.
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In an effort to combat a possible pandemic of Asian bird flu, researchers have developed a new test that can detect the virus in humans within hours.
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Vietnam has detected seven confirmed and  possible bird flu infections in humans so far, but is concerned  about more cases cropping up among its scattered small farms, a  health ministry official said on Monday.
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Four people test positive for a mild strain of bird flu which was first found at a north Wales smallholding.
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Samples from a dead Nigerian woman believed to be sub-Saharan Africa's first fatality from bird flu arrived on Thursday at a laboratory in Britain for testing, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.
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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.