'Hungary link' to bird flu case
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The bird flu strain found at a farm in Suffolk may be the same as the one in Hungary, the government says.
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Hungary says there is no evidence a UK bird flue outbreak of was caused by poultry from the country.
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The government has defended a decision to allow imported turkey meat from Hungary, despite speculation linking a recent outbreak of H5N1 bird flu with the east European country.
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The eight individuals in Pakistan who are suspected to have bird flu probably have a combination of infections from poultry and limited person-to-person transmission from close contact, a top World Health Organization expert said on Tuesday. Keiji Fukuda, coordinator of WHO's global influenza program, said while unconfirmed, any human-to-human spread seemed similar to previous outbreaks in Thailand and Indonesia -- affecting close family members caring for sick loved ones.
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A young woman who died in Bangkok 10 days ago appears to have had the first confirmed case of person-to-person transmission of the "bird flu" that emerged in Southeast Asia last winter.
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Hungary says there is no evidence a UK bird flu outbreak was caused by poultry from the country.
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Experts in Turkey are checking whether a bird flu outbreak in the south east of the country is the H5N1 virus strain.
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The European Commission said on Tuesday it was satisfied with investigations carried out by Hungary into the origin of the lethal strain of H5N1 bird flu found in that country and a possible link to a case in Britain.
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The World Health Organization has detailed the first evidence that a person likely caught the bird flu virus from a human, then passed a slightly mutated version to another person. But experts said Friday the genetic change does not increase the threat of a pandemic.
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Thai and international health officials  were due to meet on Monday to review a case in which there is a  "very remote possibility" birdflu was passed from human to  human, a senior WHO official said.
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A rare case of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu being passed between humans is reported by Chinese officials.
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Authorities in Thailand have confirmed the country&#39;s second known human case of bird flu since July. The woman, identified as Pranom, was found to have the H5N1 virus of avian influenza.
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THAILAND has confirmed its first likely case of human-to-human infection of bird flu, hours after UN agencies labelled the disease a &quot;crisis of global importance&quot;.
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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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The discovery of a deadly bird flu strain in Malaysia after cases elsewhere in Southeast Asia signaled a major winter outbreak was likely, international health experts said on Friday.
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An outbreak of avian influenza in a family in Thailand has raised fears that the virus might have been transferred directly between humans.
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The outcome of tests into whether the lethal strain of H5N1 bird flu found in Britain this month was directly linked to a similar case in Hungary will be known by Tuesday, an EU official said.