Horse flu causes chaos in Australia
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Australia's multi-billion dollar racing industry was plunged into turmoil on Saturday after an outbreak of equine influenza triggered a national lockdown.
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Questions must be raised as to why it has taken such a long time to determine that former employees at a poultry farm in Kyoto Prefecture struck early this year by a massive outbreak of bird flu were infected with the virus during the incident.
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Midway through the month when influenza typically peaks, health officials were monitoring four hospitalized Nebraska children, while three North Carolina schools remained closed over widespread symptoms of the illness. And in Oklahoma, 400 students were out sick with the flu, though no schools were closed, authorities said.
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A voracious Australian moth is threatening to infest one of the nationâs most important agricultural regions.
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Octoberâs unseasonably warm and wet weather ushered in Matagorda Countyâs first reported case of West Nile virus in an area horse.
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Bird flu may be the tip of the iceberg. Experts meeting in Mali say the deadly H5N1 virus is just one of a plethora of diseases threatening animals and people around the world as global warming, intensive farming, increased travel and trade help dangerous microbes breed and spread.
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Asia faces an outbreak of  unprecedented proportions as it grapples with avian influenza,  which the World Health Organization warns could develop into a  pandemic unless detection and prevention methods are improved.
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Faulty drains, construction work, heavy rain and vehicle movements at an animal health facility where workers handled live viruses probably led to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in southern England, according to an official report Friday.
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Flu and other illnesses have hit the region later than usual this year, emptying offices and schools and sending overflow crowds to emergency rooms.
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Health chiefs look at how a rare infection caught from farm animals came to affect 28 people in Cheltenham.
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Rowdy, a 4-year-old horse, got sick after splashing through the Santa Ana River on a training ride. He ran a high fever, moved feebly in his stall and just wanted to sleep &#151; all symptoms of West Nile virus.
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Thoroughbred racing was banned indefinitely on Monday in Australia's most populous state of New South Wales, as an outbreak of equine flu spread to 51 horses and another 450 horses were suspected of being infected.
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Heightened fears that potentially devastating livestock disease is spreading.
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Equine influenza appears to have spread to Australia's thoroughbreds after one tests positive for the virus.
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The specter of a global influenza pandemic has loomed a little larger in recent weeks with revelations that Chinese researchers found the deadly H5N1 virus strain last year in pigs, a crucial link in the mutation of the disease to a form that can infect
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ROME : The bird flu epidemic in Asia is a &quot;crisis of global importance&quot; and the virus is unlikely to be eradicated soon, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) warned.
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The threat of animal diseases spreading to humans is increasing and governments must improve coordination to prevent them from becoming pandemic, world health officials and vets said on Thursday.