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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PENANG (MALAYSIA), AUG 23: The deadly H5N1 strain of Bird Flu will take several years to contain, the WHO warned on Monday, adding that claims in China that the virus was found in pigs is a worrying new development.
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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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China has confirmed an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus among ducks in an outlying district of the southern city of Guangzhou.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) Friday called for measures to prevent a flu pandemic in humans after China said a deadly strain of bird flu was found in pigs, adding to signs that an outbreak among people was likely.
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SINGAPORE - Bird flu, which risks being deadlier than the SARS outbreak, is endemic to Southeast Asia and poses the biggest risk to public health in the region, Singapore officials and international health experts said on Monday.
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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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Two more Indonesians were confirmed as suffering from bird flu on Tuesday and Pakistan reported its first case in a year after finding the deadly virus in a small flock of chickens near the capital Islamabad.
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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 has identified a lethal strain of bird flu among pigs at several farms, but has not revealed the locations, the New York Times reported Saturday.
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Global health experts have warned Southeast Asia it must unite to combat the spread of bird flu. The World health Organisation says the virus has the potential to become the next human influenza pandemic.
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A deadly strain of bird flu blamed  for 27 deaths in Asia this year has been found in two dead  chickens in Malaysia, a government official said on Thursday.
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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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Recent studies have shown that waterfowl are a crucial link in the spread of East Asia's avian influenza epidemic.
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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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The unexpected discovery of a deadly  bird flu strain in Malaysia after summer cases elsewhere in  Southeast Asia indicated a major winter outbreak was likely,  international health experts said on Friday.
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The H5N1 strain of bird flu swept through 10 Asian countries early this year, resulting in the death or slaughter of over 100 million chickens and the deaths of more than 20 people.