Senators slam voluntary bird flu testing
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Senators on Friday criticized the Agriculture Department's planning for deadly bird flu, saying the voluntary nature of its testing program threatens the U.S. poultry industry.
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Dec 10, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - Southeast Asian nations are mounting a two-tiered attack on the avian influenza virus that has devastated poultry flocks and raised the specter of a potential human flu pandemic.
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A second person dealing with the bird flu outbreak in Suffolk is tested for the disease.
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Federal laboratories will do more   tests to determine the avian influenza strain found in some   wild ducks in Montana but it does not appear to be the   contagious strain feared worldwide, U.S. officials said on   Thursday.
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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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Mallard ducks in Maryland have   tested positive for bird flu, apparently a common, less   pathogenic strain that poses no risk to humans, the U.S.   Agriculture and Interior departments said on Friday.
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Nearly 20,000 chickens were culled after the H5N1 bird flu virus was detected at a government poultry farm in the Bangladesh capital, officials said on Tuesday.
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A vet reportedly involved in clearing up at a British factory farm after the potentially deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was detected has tested negative for the disease, officials have said.
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The Agriculture Department cannot ensure it will respond effectively to a bird flu outbreak because it has not tested many of the policies put in place as part of a national preparedness plan, an inspector general's report said Friday.
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A vet said to have been involved in clearing up at a Suffolk factory farm after detection of the potentially deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has tested negative for the disease, public health officials said.
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A fourth swan has tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in Dorset
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Four people have tested positive for bird flu linked to a low-risk strain found in chickens which died on a farm in north Wales, as samples were being taken Saturday from another farm in the area.
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Oct 19, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - A government official in Thailand said 23 tigers at a private zoo died of avian influenza after eating the carcasses of chickens believed to have had the disease, the Associated Press  reported today.
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An outbreak of bird flu on a big English turkey farm should pose no risk to the public or to the poultry industry, a government minister said Monday as investigators continued trying to identify the source of the infection.
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NEW YORK Senator Hillary Clinton says when it comes to the flu vaccine, the Bush administration has its priorities wrong. Clinton says about five-point-six (b) billion dollars is being spent to create an Anthrax
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Five nations have banned imports of UK poultry following the outbreak of bird flu on a Suffolk turkey farm.
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Government vets work through the night at a poultry farm in Suffolk to contain an outbreak of bird flu.