Egyptian health official denies new bird flu case
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An Egyptian Health Ministry official denied on Monday a report by the state news agency that a woman from the Nile Delta had tested positive for the deadly bird flu virus.
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PARIS - A hospital official in France on Thursday denied reports that Yasser Arafat had died as the result of an undisclosed illness.
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BANGKOKâThailand said yesterday it had found its first known probable case of a human being infecting another with bird flu, but insisted it was an isolated incident that posed little risk to the greater population.
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Thailand, rattled by fears a girl  passed bird flu to her mother, said Monday it has no evidence  there has been human-to-human transmission of the deadly H5N1  virus in the country.
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The World Health Organization or WHO warns that bird flu might be transmitted from ducks to humans, even though they show no external signs of having the disease.
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Limited human-to-human bird flu transmission may have occurred in Pakistan, but no new infections have been reported for two weeks and there appears to be no threat of further spread, a top World Health Organization official said.
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A 10-year-old girl from southern Egypt has been infected with the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, and is in "very critical" condition, a World Health Organization official said on Friday.
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Thailand, rattled by fears a girl passed bird flu to her mother, said Monday it has no evidence there has been human-to-human transmission of the deadly H5N1 virus in 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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Bernard Matthews denies any cover-up following the bird flu outbreak at one of his Suffolk farms.
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ANOTHER person, a veterinarian, has been put under quarantine for suspected bird flu as health officials say three others in a similar situation have yet to show any symptoms of the disease.
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The first probable case of one person  infecting another with bird flu, announced by Thailand on  Tuesday, may be a one-off event implying no new big threat to  human health, a World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman said.
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BANGKOK, Thailand Sept. 15, 2004 - Thailand, faced with a second outbreak of bird flu, said Wednesday its poultry would not be inoculated against the disease because vaccines offer no guarantee of safety.
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A woman and her two children are suspected of contracting the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in Upper Egypt, a veterinary official reportedly said.
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A 37-year-old Egyptian woman who tested  positive for the bird flu virus has died in a Cairo hospital,  bringing the number of deaths from the disease in Egypt to 13,  a government health official said on Friday.
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Six Egyptians were being tested for bird flu in a town south of Cairo on Saturday after displaying flu-like symptoms, state news agency MENA reported.
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RAMALLAH, West BankâA Tunisian medical team examined Yasser Arafat in the West Bank yesterday, but aides dismissed Israeli media reports that the Palestinian president&#39;s health had deteriorated and said he had flu.