WHO probes Pakistan's first bird flu death
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Pakistani authorities and World Health Organization experts were trying to determine on Tuesday whether bird flu had passed from human to human after the country reported its first human death from the virus.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Thursday a single case of human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 bird flu virus in a family in Pakistan but said there was no apparent risk of it spreading wider.
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Four Nigerians are suspected to have died from H5N1 bird flu, but tests on three of the victims were inconclusive and the virus was confirmed scientifically in only one case, a senior health official said on Wednesday.
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Laos on Thursday announced its first confirmed human death from the H5N1 bird flu strain, a 15-year-old girl, days after reporting that the virus was believed to have killed an adult woman.
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Doctors suspect bird flu may have killed a four-year-old child in northern Vietnam, state-run radio said on Wednesday.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia  - 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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The World Health Organization warned Monday that countries should be on alert for bird flu because it is again on the move, with Pakistan reporting South Asia's first human infections and Myanmar logging its first human case.
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A 14-month-old baby boy in Vietnam has died from suspected bird flu despite claims by the government that the deadly disease has been brought under control, officials said.
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A boy has died of bird flu virus in Thailand&#39;s central Prachinburi province, bringing the death toll from the epidemic in Asia to 28, the official Thai News Agency reported here on Thursday.
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A fatally ill Thai girl probably spread  deadly bird flu to her relatives last year in what would mark  the first documented case of human-to-human transmission of the  feared virus, medical investigators said on Monday.
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A Lagos woman is the first person in Nigeria to have died with the deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu, a minister says.
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Laboratory tests have confirmed that a 22- year-old woman in Africa's most populous nation, Nigeria, died from the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu last month, the World Health Organisation said.
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Health authorities in Sri Lanka have revealed that eight people recently died from a virus which showed symptoms similar to bird flu.
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Two more Indonesians were confirmed as suffering from bird flu on Tuesday and Pakistan reported its first case in a year after finding the deadly virus in a small flock of chickens near the capital Islamabad.
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Indonesia is investigating a possible   cluster of bird flu cases after a man died and his brother and   sister were hospitalized, one of them testing positive for bird   flu, a doctor said on Tuesday.
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A 20-year-old woman from West Java who tested positive for bird flu died on Sunday, a health official said.
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HONG KONG : A wild bird which died of avian flu in Hong Kong was being tested for the lethal strain that has killed 32 people in Southeast Asia this year, the government said.