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HK child has bird flu
AFP, Published on 02/06/2012
» Hong Kong health authorities on Saturday urged the public not to panic after the southern Chinese city reported its first human case of bird flu in 18 months in a two-year-old boy.
Cambodian girl, 10, dies from bird flu: WHO
AFP, Published on 28/05/2012
» A 10-year-old Cambodian girl has died from bird flu, the World Health Organization said Monday, the country's third fatality from the virulent disease this year.
EU lifts restrictions on Thai poultry
AFP, Published on 03/04/2012
» The European Union decided Tuesday to lift restrictions on the import of fresh poultry meat from Thailand that had been in place since 2004 due to an avian flu outbreak.
Vietnam battles lingering bird flu threat
AFP, Published on 31/03/2012
» Vietnam may have contained the fatal bird flu outbreak that raged in the late 2000s but it is still struggling with new cases of the disease that have puzzled experts in the communist country.
Bird flu claims 5th victim this year in Indonesia
AFP, Published on 07/03/2012
» A 24-year-old woman has died of bird flu on Indonesia's Sumatra island, the fifth human death from the virus this year, a health ministry official said.
Indonesia reports fourth bird flu death of the year
AFP, Published on 25/02/2012
» A 12-year-old boy on the Indonesian resort island of Bali has died from bird flu, the fourth human death from the virus this year, an official said Saturday.
Bird flu claims third victim this year in Indonesia
AFP, Published on 22/02/2012
» Tests on a 19-year-old woman who died last week showed she had contracted the bird flu virus, Indonesia's third human death from the deadly disease this year, the health ministry said on Tuesday.
Bird flu study publication gets go-ahead after security check
AFP, Published on 18/02/2012
» Bird flu experts meeting in Geneva ruled that controversial research on a mutant form of the virus potentially capable of being spread among humans should be made public.
24,000 ducks destroyed in Australia after bird flu
AFP, Published on 01/02/2012
» Some 24,000 Australian ducks were being destroyed Wednesday after testing positive for a low pathogenic strain of the bird flu virus, an outbreak which has prompted poultry export bans in parts of Asia.
Bird flu claims second victim in China
AFP, Published on 22/01/2012
» A man in southwest China who contracted the bird flu virus died on Sunday, health authorities said, the second human death from the virulent disease in the country in just under a month.