Village ways fuel bird flu spread in rural Egypt
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When Attia Abdel-Hamid  Hassan notices the chickens or ducks that he keeps at home in  Egypt&#39;s Nile Delta starting to wobble on their feet, he puts  them in a sack and drowns them in an irrigation canal.
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Domesticated ducks may be the main transmitters of the H5N1 bird flu virus that killed 32 people in two major outbreaks in Asia earlier this year, a senior World Health Organisation official said on Monday.
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Public health officials probing a bird flu outbreak on a farm said Sunday that 36 people could have been in contact with the disease.
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Officials confirmed Saturday that the H5N1 strain of bird flu had been found in turkeys on a commercial farm &#151; Britain's first mass outbreak of the disease that has ravaged Asia's poultry stocks and killed more than 160 people worldwide.
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Two Egyptian women die of bird flu, bringing the number of confirmed deaths from the virus in Egypt to 19.
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An Egyptian woman died of bird flu in a Cairo hospital and a boy, 5, became the 22nd Egyptian to test positive for the deadly disease, health officials said on Friday.
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A 25-year-old Egyptian woman has died of bird flu, Egypt's Ministry of Health said on Wednesday.
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Malaysian officials on Saturday were testing three people who fell ill in a village hit by the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain, after international health officials warned that the virus appeared to be entrenched in parts of
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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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Outfitting swans with super-light   Teflon backpacks containing solar-powered GPS satellite   transmitters is the latest way scientists and researchers are   trying to fight the spread of avian influenza.
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Turkish authorities are testing four children for bird flu in a southeastern village where avian influenza has already infected the poultry, the agriculture ministry has said.
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Malaysian agricultural officials have confirmed that a deadly strain of bird flu virus has infected poultry in the country.
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A low risk strain of bird flu is discovered at a smallholding in St Helens, Merseyside.
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A case of bird flu is confirmed at a farm in north Wales after the death of 15 chickens.
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Poultry products from Hungary were the most likely cause of the outbreak of a potentially lethal H5N1 bird flu at a turkey farm in Suffolk, the government has said.
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Bird flu, transmitted last season by migrating wild birds, is increasingly spread through the poultry trade, a U.N. expert said.
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A teenager from the village at the center of a bird flu outbreak has been hospitalized with cold symptoms, Malaysia's health minister said on Friday, as poultry farmers counted their losses.