French swans have deadly bird flu
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Three swans found dead in eastern France carried the H5N1 bird flu that can be fatal to humans, tests confirm.
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A fourth swan at a Dorset swannery tests positive for the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu.
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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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Bird flu has killed a 10-year-old girl in  southern Vietnam, doctors said Monday, and they hoped the death  of a Cambodian women suspected of having the virus would force  Phnom Penh to take preventative measures.
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An outbreak of bird flu on a farm run by Europe's biggest turkey manufacturer Bernard Matthews is the highly pathogenic H5N1 version of the virus which can kill humans, the European Commission said on Saturday.
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Israeli officials said on Thursday the deadly bird flu strain H5N1 had been found in dead chickens from a kindergarten petting zoo.
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An outbreak of deadly bird flu has been identified in a southern German poultry farm, a spokeswoman for Bavaria's environment ministry said on Saturday.
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THERE have been three new deaths from bird flu in Vietnam, the World Health Organisation says, raising fears of a fresh outbreak of the disease in South East Asia.
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Three mute swans in Dorset have been found dead after contracting the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu.
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A deadly bird flu virus, which has killed 29 Asians this year, has reappeared in Cambodia and the government is deeply worried because villagers ate birds which had died from it, officials said on Wednesday.
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Vietnam said two children who died of bird flu this month had tested positive for the H5N1 strain, bringing to three the number of fatalities from the latest outbreak of a virus that killed 24 people across Asia earlier this year.
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The European Commission says a strain of bird flu which killed 2,600 turkeys in Suffolk is the H5N1 virus.
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Vietnam's biggest city, home to 10  million people, began slaughtering its ducks on Wednesday in an  increasingly desperate fight to halt the spread of the deadly  bird flu virus that has killed 13 people in the last month.
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HANOI -- Vietnam yesterday confirmed the sixth human death from bird flu in three weeks, and Thailand recorded its first case among poultry this year as health specialists expressed concern about a possible repeat of last year's devastating outbreak.
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An outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm was caused by a strain that has killed humans, the authorities said.
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French authorities say they cannot rule out bird flu as they test samples from 4,000 chickens that died on a farm.
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The WHO reports three new deaths from bird flu in Vietnam, one of which was from the H5N1 virus strain.