African virus threatens European birds
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A mosquito-borne virus from Africa has been decimating Austria's blackbirds for the last three years and is threatening to spread to bird populations in central Europe, Austrian scientists have warned.
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A lack of information and public  funding is helping fuel the spread of HIV/AIDS in several  recent European Union entrants and threatens to become pandemic  across the bloc, a panel of experts said on Friday.
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The European Commission (EC) Sunday issued in Brussels a warning statement to airline passengers on bird flu check after two eagles carried last week to Belgium by a Thai man had been proven avian flu-infected.
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The future of nearly half of all European bird species is under threat because of man&#39;s impact on the environment, a report warns today.
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Poultry farmers around Europe were on guard Monday against the possible spread of bird flu across the North Sea from infected Britain, fearing the disease could be carried by wild birds. The Netherlands was the first country over the weekend to order restrictions on commercial poultry since the outbreak last week on a turkey farm in eastern England of the H5N1 strain of the virus, which can be deadly for humans.
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A global crisis of bird flu will threaten animal and human life in the near future, UN agencies warn.
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The outbreak of deadly bird flu in  Asia spurred the EU on Monday to check Europe's preparedness  for the spread of a disease that scientists warn may become  pandemic.
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A deadly sheep virus which affects mainland Europe could hit the UK, experts are warning.
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A deadly strain of bird flu has been found in nine species of wild birds in Thailand, an official said Tuesday. The discovery comes amid worries that the H5N1 virus could mutate to a form that could spread
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Meat from African wild animals being sold illegally in the UK is spreading a virus similar to HIV, a leading scientist has warned.
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Largely confined to a sprinkling of islands off South Africaâs tip, the African penguin, the continentâs only native penguin, are endangered.
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A lack of information and public funding is helping fuel the spread of HIV/AIDS in several recent European Union entrants and threatens to become pandemic across the bloc, a panel of experts said on Friday.
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Several common species of North American birds have suffered drastic population declines since the arrival of the West Nile virus eight years ago, leaving rural and suburban areas quieter than they used to be and imposing ecological stresses on a variety of other animals and plants, a new study has...
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A 37-year-old Egyptian woman tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus and European officials on Wednesday debated whether they needed to take more action after an outbreak of the virus in British turkeys.
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Cats can get the avian influenza virus decimating bird flocks across Asia, which means pets are at risk of getting and spreading the disease -- and may serve as a mixing pot for dangerous new mutations, Dutch researchers reported on Thursday.
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The European Commission has confirmed that the bird flu virus detected at a turkey farm in eastern England was the virulent H5N1 strain.
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An Aids-like virus has been found in African hunters who have eaten ape meat which is being sold illegally in the UK. A leading scientist has told the File On 4 programme that the virus was probably passed