Three more Egyptians suspected of having bird flu
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A woman and her two children are suspected of contracting the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in Upper Egypt, a veterinary official reportedly said.
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A 4-year-old Egyptian boy has contracted the deadly bird flu virus, bringing to 24 the number of Egyptians who have tested positive for the disease, health ministry and World Health Organization officials said on Sunday.
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Preliminary tests have found that bird flu killed two more siblings in Indonesia, officials said Friday, as they searched for the origin of a separate outbreak that has killed at least six members of the same family.
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Malaysia has detected three new cases of bird flu in a northern state where two outbreaks have been reported since last month, the Veterinary Services Department said on Saturday.
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A dead gray heron found near Hong Kong&#39;s border with mainland China has tested positive for bird flu, in the third such case in the territory this year, the government said Monday.
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Three out of four children tested for possible bird flu infection after the potentially lethal H5N1 strain of the virus resurfaced in Turkey do not have the disease, the health ministry has said.
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Thailand said it detected bird flu in four more provinces, bringing to 34 the number of provinces where the disease has reappeared since July, the government said.
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A 59-year-old farmer becomes the third person in Thailand to die of bird flu this year, health officials say.
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Three swans found dead in a pond in eastern France have tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the Agriculture Ministry said Thursday.
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A second group of foreign doctors has found that Yasser Arafat, taken ill last week, was suffering from the flu, an Israeli Arab politician said on Sunday, adding the Palestinian president was on the mend.
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Kuala Lumpur (VNA) - Malaysia&#39;s Animal Health Service on Tuesday reported that the country has discovered three more bird flu outbreaks in Kelantan State in the northeastern region.
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BANGKOK, Thailand Oct. 3, 2004 - A 9-year-old girl in northern Thailand has tested positive for bird flu, the latest person infected by the virus since it resurfaced in Southeast Asia in July, a health ministry official said Sunday.
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Israeli investigators have found preliminary signs of bird flu in dead chickens from a kindergarten petting zoo, government officials said on Thursday.
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Health officials in Contra Costa County announced this week that two more dead birds afflicted with West Nile virus have been discovered, a reminder that the threat of human transmission still exits.
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Poultry farms around Moscow were under tight control on Saturday as a third outbreak of bird flu was found and health officials investigated whether the deadly H5N1 strain had caused the Russian capital's first exposure to the virus.
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Six Egyptians were being tested for bird  flu in a town south of Cairo on Saturday after displaying  flu-like symptoms, state news agency MENA reported.
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Six Tunisian doctors examined Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat yesterday, but aides dismissed reports his health had deteriorated and said he had flu.