India sprays markets, roads to halt bird flu outbreak
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KOLKATA, India  - Workers sprayed roads and markets in Kolkata with disinfectants and culled thousands of birds as authorities in eastern India battled to stop an outbreak of bird flu in poultry reaching the crowded city.
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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 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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China is tightening quarantine controls to stop deadly bird flu entering from Vietnam, state media said today. Travellers from China&#39;s southern neighbour will have to report to border
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KOLKATA, India  - An outbreak of bird flu in India's most densely populated state could spiral out of control, officials said on Tuesday, as the disease spread to a seventh district.
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BANGKOK - Millions of volunteers led by emergency teams fanned out across Thailand yesterday in a new drive to fight bird flu after Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra gave officials 30 days to eradicate the epidemic.
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Bird flu spreads in the Indian state of West Bengal, as authorities battle to cull birds and control the outbreak.
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Health and veterinary workers in Bangladesh have culled nearly 25,000 fowls after bird flu was confirmed at three poultry farms in the country, officials said on Thursday.
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Kuwait's health ministry on Monday confirmed outbreaks of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, potentially fatal to humans, at a zoo and a farm in the south of the country, the first in two years.
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Kuala Lumpur (VNA) - Southeast Asian countries have endorsed a plan to combat bird flu that aims to prevent the disease from spreading and reduce its risk for human pandemic after a two-day meeting in Singapore .
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The European Commission on Saturday confirmed that an outbreak of bird flu on a farm in eastern England was the H5N1 strain.
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India and Bangladesh searched for new cases of bird flu Thursday as authorities pressed ahead with plans to slaughter hundreds of thousands of birds in a bid to keep the outbreak from spreading, officials said.
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Anti-viral drugs are offered to nearly 500 people following the avian flu outbreak at a Suffolk turkey farm.
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Pakistan is urging provincial authorities to obey health guidelines to stop any bird flu outbreaks after fears lapses in poultry culling methods led to eight people being infected with the H5N1 virus.
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South Korea plans to kill cats and dogs to try to prevent the spread of bird flu after an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 virus at a chicken farm last week, officials said Monday.
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The bird flu epidemic in the Indian state of West Bengal spreads  closer to the capital, Calcutta, officials say.
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An Indian state said it had brought the country's worst ever bird flu outbreak under control on Saturday, just as neighbouring Bangladesh reported the virus was spreading.