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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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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Twenty-three tigers have died at a zoo in Thailand after they ate raw chicken infected with bird flu.
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Three swans found dead on a nature reserve in south-west England have tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu, media reports said Thursday.
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LONDON, Feb. 3 -- The deadly H5N1 Asian strain of bird flu, which has killed 165  people since 2003, has been confirmed on a commercial turkey farm in eastern England, health authorities said Saturday.
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The bird flu epidemic, which has killed 31 people in southeast Asia this year, has killed 23 tigers at a zoo in eastern Thailand, a senior government official says.
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China has confirmed that it found a deadly strain of bird flu in pigs as early as two years ago. China&#39;s Agriculture Ministry said two cases had been discovered, but it did not say exactly where the samples had been taken.
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Some 23 tigers in a private zoo inThailand have suspectedly died of avian influenza virus, officialssaid here on Tuesday. The authorities are conducting test over samples of
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A Cambodian woman who died in Vietnam was  killed by bird flu, a doctor said on Tuesday, the latest victim  of fresh outbreaks of the deadly virus taking a steady toll of  human lives and possibly spreading abroad.
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Scientists find a potential reason to explain why bird flu is so deadly for people.
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Benin, the home of ritual Voodoo sacrifice, became the latest in a string of West African states to report cases of H5N1 bird flu after laboratory tests confirmed the deadly virus on two poultry farms.
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One man died of suspected bird flu in Vietnam over the weekend and three people were hospitalized as news reports showed the virus has spread across the entire country.
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The bird flu virus has killed a nine-year-old girl in Thailand, raising the country&#39;s death toll from the disease to 11. Health officials say the girl had touched dead chickens at her home.
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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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Domesticated ducks may be the main transmitters of the H5N1 bird flu virus that killed 32 people in two major outbreaks in Asia earlier this year, a senior World Health Organisation official said on Monday.
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A 19-year-old woman hospitalised in Vietnam has tested positive for the lethal strain of bird flu that has killed 27 people across Asia this year, including 19 in the communist nation, officials said.
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Ducks also spread bird flu, increasing  the risk to humans from a virus that has killed 32 people in  Thailand and Vietnam this year, the World Health Organization  (WHO) said on Friday.