China urged to provide more information on bird flu found in pigs ...
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BEIJING : UN health and agricultural officials urged China to provide more details after a top bird flu scientist revealed the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus had been found in the country&#39;s pigs.
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China denied claims Monday that a deadly strain of bird flu that killed 27 people in Asia was discovered in the country&#39;s pigs, as the World Health Organisation warned the disease will take several years to contain.
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China has suffered a new outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in poultry, a news report said Saturday, as experts tried to determine whether a Chinese man died of the disease in 2003, two years before the country reported any human cases.
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The World Health Organization says that Asia faces a Bird Flu (avian flu) pandemic if things do not change soon. The WHO said that detection and prevention methods need a complete overhaul.
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The discovery of a lethal strain of bird flu in Chinese pigs has taken the world closer to a human flu pandemic but there is no need to panic yet, the World Health Organisation said.
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The sharing of virus samples found in bird flu victims must be fostered by providing equal access to vaccines resulting from that information, the World Health Organization's top bird flu official said on Tuesday.
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The World Health Organization is warning countries experiencing outbreaks of bird flu (H5N1) in poultry to be aware that domestic ducks may be infecting humans, as well as other poultry with the bird flu virus.
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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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Research published earlier this year showing that avian influenza had been found in pigs in 2001 and 2003 went unnoticed outside China because the results appeared in Chinese language journals, according to a news item in the journal Nature.
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Britain's food safety watchdog is investigating if meat infected with the avian flu virus entered the food chain following an outbreak of the disease on a farm run by Europe's largest poultry producer.
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A strain of avian influenza among pigs was found at several farms, a discovery that could move the virus a step closer to becoming a deadly problem for people.
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Scientists in China have developed a  bird flu vaccine for poultry and mammals that can fend off the  deadly virus and help stop its spread, the China Daily  newspaper said on Monday.
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SHANGHAI, China Sept. 14, 2004 - More countries need to enact preventative measures and boost preparedness for a possible renewed outbreak of SARS or avian flu among humans, a top World Health Organization official said Tuesday.
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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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China has detected an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu in poultry in Tibet, a government Web site said on Tuesday.
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NI poultry farmers are told to be extra vigilant following a bird flu outbreak in the east of England.
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A heron found dead near Hong Kong's  border with mainland China was carrying a bird flu virus, but  further tests are needed to determine if it is the strain that  has killed people, health officials said on Wednesday.