HK May Restrict Bird Slaughter to Combat Flu
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Hong Kong said on Monday it may ban shopkeepers slaughtering poultry after world health experts issued strong warnings that the deadly bird flu virus may trigger the next pandemic.
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South Korean quarantine officials began slaughtering hundreds of thousands of poultry after a fresh outbreak of bird flu in a province near the South Korean capital, the Agriculture Ministry said Saturday.
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Blood donated by four survivors of bird flu seems to harbor a potent protection against the deadly virus. Scientists have long suspected that culling immune-system molecules from survivors could provide a new therapy for the hard-to-treat H5N1 flu strain. Monday, an international team of researchers reported the first evidence, albeit from tests in mice, that it really may work.
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World Health Organization experts helping Vietnam to battle a recurrence of bird flu said governments should be cautious about prematurely announcing they had beaten the disease, which has killed 27 people this year.
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World Health Organization experts helping  Vietnam to battle a recurrence of bird flu said governments  should be cautious about prematurely announcing they had beaten  the disease, which has killed 27 people this year.
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Health officials Thursday investigated new bird deaths in eastern India to check whether bird flu was spreading to additional areas despite a poultry cull aimed at curbing the disease.
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South Korean quarantine officials on Sunday began slaughtering more than 200,000 poultry after an outbreak of the virulent H5N1 form of bird flu at a chicken farm, the agriculture ministry said.
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HONG KONG - China is gearing up to fight possible outbreaks of bird flu this winter and is training scientists and health workers across the country to diagnose the deadly disease in humans and animals, a top scientist said.
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The avian influenza virus known as H5N1 has killed millions of poultry in east Asia. Now researchers fear it may be tougher and more dangerous to humans than previously suspected.
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Kuala Lumpur - Southeast Asian countries have endorsed a plan to combat bird flu that aims to prevent the disease from spreading and reduce its risk for human pandemic after a two-day meeting in Singapore.
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Scientists in Hong Kong say they&#39;ve developed a test that&#39;s able to detect bird flu in people within one or two hours instead of the week or more required to get results from previous kinds of tests.
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China ordered strengthened poultry disinfection measures yesterday under a bird flu alert during the wildfowl migration season and as Thailand announced its first probable case of human-to-human transmission.
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Hard-hit Thailand plans a campaign to  change poultry farming methods as it seeks to stamp out the  deadly bird flu virus before migrating wildfowl return during  the northern winter, a senior minister said on Thursday.
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The Food Standards Agency says it is probing whether bird flu-infected meat could have got into the food chain.
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The Food Standards Agency says it is investigating whether bird flu-infected meat could have got into the food chain.
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Bird flu has been found in chickens near the Cambodian capital, officials said Sunday, raising fears about the spread of the deadly virus in a country with little to no health system.
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Business: 26 December 2004, Sunday. Macedonia is to decide whether to ban the imports of poultry from Bulgaria because of a bird flu case registered in the country, Skopje Vreme newspaper reported.