Bird Flu Believed Endemic in Asia, Spreads to Pigs
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BEIJING/KUALA LUMPUR  - The discovery of a deadly bird flu strain in Malaysia after cases elsewhere in Southeast Asia signaled a major winter outbreak was likely, international health experts said on Friday.
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The avian influenza virus that has spread among poultry in Southeast Asia and infected some people there has also crossed another species barrier to infect cats.
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Bird flu has spread to ducks and chickens near Vietnam's border with China, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday.
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China says its pigs are clear of bird flu, following claims by a Chinese scientist to the contrary.
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HONG KONG A senior Chinese health official disclosed on Friday that her country had found a lethal strain of avian influenza among pigs at several farms, a discovery that could move the virus one step closer toward becoming a global problem for humans.
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The bird flu virus endemic in Asia  appears to be evolving in ways that increasingly favor the  start of a deadly human influenza outbreak, the World Health  Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday.
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China confirms reports that the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found in its pig population.
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KOLKATA, India  - India has put 26 people in isolation with bird flu symptoms and hundreds more people are being monitored, officials said on Friday as Pakistan and Thailand reported outbreaks of bird flu in poultry.
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24/08/2004 - Authorities in China are trying to calm fears over the spread of the deadly avian influenza strain H5N1 to pigs by stating that recent tests carried out on pig farms in the country have shown that the animals are now clear of the disease.
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Bird flu has resurfaced in parts of Asia, with human deaths reported in Indonesia and China and fresh outbreaks plaguing other countries during the winter months when the virus typically flares.
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BEIJING - Chinese researchers have made the first-ever discovery of a lethal strain of bird flu in pigs, sparking concerns that the virus may mutate into an even deadlier strain and cause a new epidemic in Asia.
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PHNOM PENH Cambodia has detected its first outbreak of bird flu in chickens in recent months to become the sixth Asian nation to report a resurgence of the potentially fatal virus, officials said Wednesday.
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Asia&#39;s deadly bird flu has been found in a dog for the first time in Thailand, authorities said yesterday, as the country battles a second major outbreak of the virus this year.
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BEIJING - International health experts are downplaying reports that a strain of bird flu has been found in pigs, saying outbreaks among poultry in Thailand and Malaysia are more worrisome.
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BEIJING/KUALA LUMPUR  - The discovery of a deadly  bird flu strain in Malaysia after cases elsewhere in Southeast  Asia signaled a major winter outbreak was likely, international  health experts said Friday.
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A Chinese laboratory said Friday that a deadly strain of bird flu has been found in pigs, expanding the number of species that can be infected with the disease.
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Shanghai. (Interfax-China) -The World Health Organization (WHO) warned the of potential dangers of an outbreak of influenza H5N1 infections in pigs in China.