Russia confirms bird flu outbreak caused by H5N1
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Russian health officials confirmed on Monday that a bird flu outbreak near Moscow was caused by the dangerous H5N1 strain that can infect humans.
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Japan has confirmed its fourth outbreak of bird flu since the beginning of the year, the Agriculture Ministry said on Thursday.
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China's latest outbreak in poultry of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, in the far western region of Xinjiang, has been brought under control, state media reported.
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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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Tests on H5N1 bird flu viruses found in Britain and Hungary showed they were genetically almost identical and the most likely transmission route was from poultry to poultry, Britain said on Tuesday.
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Israeli officials said on Thursday the deadly bird flu strain H5N1 had been found in dead chickens from a kindergarten pet zoo.
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The World Health Organization is warning countries experiencing outbreaks of bird flu (H5N1) in poultry to be aware that domestic ducks may be infecting humans, as well as other poultry with the bird flu virus.
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A new outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu killed 985 chickens in China's northern region of Inner Mongolia, a state news agency reported Saturday.
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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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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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Japanese authorities on Saturday confirmed the country's fourth outbreak of the virulent H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus at a poultry farm in the country's south.
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A new outbreak of the strain of bird flu that is deadly to humans has struck Ukraine after being kept under control for two years, veterinarians said on Friday.
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An outbreak of deadly bird flu has been identified in a southern German poultry farm, a spokeswoman for Bavaria's environment ministry said on Saturday.
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China confirmed on Tuesday that the  country's first human case of the H5N1 bird flu virus was in  late 2003, two years earlier than originally reported,  prompting the U.N.'s health agency to call for greater  transparency.
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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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The EU confirms a new outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in Hungary.
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An outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm was caused by a strain that has killed humans, the authorities said.