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Tue Jan 1, 6:46 AM ET DHAKA (Reuters) - Nearly 20,000 chickens were culled after the H5N1 bird flu virus was detected at a government poultry farm in the Bangladesh capital, officials said on Tuesday. (BANGLADESH) (BIRD FLU PANDEMIC) |
Tue Jan 1, 7:23 AM ET A rooster for sale at a Cairo market in June 2007. Egypt's health ministry said another woman has died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the fourth such death in a week, local media has reported. (AFP/File/Cris Bouroncle) (EGYPT) (BIRD FLU PANDEMIC) |
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Tue Jan 1, 2008 08:45 AM ET EUGENE, Ore. - It sounds like a bad B movie, a toxic fungus in the woods of the Pacific Northwest drifting into peoples' lungs, causing illness and death. Bartlett said it may have arrived on an imported plant or bird. Others say it may have been here for a long time, unnoticed until changes in climate or land-use patterns allowed it to grow in high enough concentrations to become airborne. (OR)
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Thu Jan 10, 10:29 AM ET A farm worker carries culled chickens after a 2006 outbreak of the bird flu virus in Hockering, Norfolk. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has said that three swans found dead on a nature reserve in Dorset have tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu. (AFP/ File/Ben Stansall) (UK) |
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An Egyptian poultry vendor weighs chicken for a customer at his shop in Damietta, 195 km north of Cairo in December 2007. In the Nile Delta town, where Egypt's latest fatal bird flu victim Hanem Atwa Ibrahim lived, inhabitants fear the authorities more than the virus. (AFP/File/Khaled Desouki ) (EGYPT) |
Friday, January 11 01:41 pm A worker at the reserve where three wild swans have tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu said there was "no reason to worry" as staff began a course of drugs as a precaution. (UK) (BIRD FLU PANDEMIC) |
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Bernard Vallat, head of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), addresses the audience during the Paris Anti-Avian Influenza 2007 international conference, May 31, 2007. Disease experts and preparedness advocates reacted negatively today to comments by the head of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), Bernard Vallat, suggesting that the risk of an influenza pandemic posed by the H5N1 avian flu virus is minimal.. (OIE) |
Monday January 14 4:00 AM Anadis Limited, today announced major progress in its anti-flu virus antibody program. (VACCINES) |
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Sunday, January 13 01:50 pm Iran bans hunting of birds to prevent bird flu outbreak. With thousands of migratory geese, ducks and other wildfowl heading for the province for the winter, local authorities are on high alert, the statement said, adding violators will be punished. (BIRD FLU) (BIRD FLU PANDEMIC) |
Mon Jan 14, 4:55 AM ET Slaughtered chickens are displayed in a local market in Surabaya, east Java province, March 29, 2007. A Indonesian woman from an area just west of the capital Jakarta has died of bird flu, taking the country's confirmed human death toll from the virus to 95, a health ministry official said on Monday. (INDONESIA) |
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Mon Jan 14, 9:30 AM ET A boy stands near a cage of chickens at a market in Jammu January 14, 2008. India began culling thousands of chickens on Monday and checking people for fever in a remote village in West Bengal after preliminary tests on dead poultry showed they were infected with bird flu. REUTERS/Amit Gupta (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR) (INDIA) |
Wed Jan 16, 1:43 AM ET A villager holds a dead chicken in Margram village, about 240 km north of Kolkata, January 15, 2008. Veterinary workers began killing thousands of chickens as fears mounted that bird flu could have spread to a third district in West Bengal. REUTERS/Parth Sanyal (INDIA) |
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Mon Jan 14, 2:53 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. policy in preparing for a potential bird flu pandemic is veering dangerously toward a heavy-handed lawenforcement approach, the American Civil Liberties Union said on Monday. (BIRD FLU PANDEMIC) (ACLU) |
Wednesday January 16, 04:35 PM The H5N1 bird flu virus was reported in backyard poultry in the southern coastal district Barishal, a livestock department official said.(BANGLADESH) (BIRD FLU PANDEMIC) |
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Wed Jan 16, 10:35 AM ET Health workers walk as villagers watch at Margram village, about 240 km (149 miles) north of the eastern Indian city of Kolkata January 16, 2008. Veterinary workers began killing thousands of chickens in eastern India on Wednesday following what the World Health Organisation (WHO) said was the worst outbreak of bird flu in the country. Officials said it could take up to a week to cull about 350,000 birds in three districts of West Bengal. REUTERS/Parth Sanyal (INDIA) |
Wed Jan 16, 12:45 PM ET Indian villagers showing a dead chicken to a health worker (right) in Margram village, about 149 miles north of Kolkata. Health officials in eastern India began the slaughter of tens of thousands of chickens Wednesday, a day after New Delhi confirmed an outbreak of the deadly avian flu in the region. (AFP) (INDIA) |
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(CIDRAP News) - Dr. Bernard Vallat, head of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), believes the H5N1 avian influenza virus still has the potential to cause a human flu pandemic, the OIE said today in an effort to clarify news reports of comments Vallat made last week. |
Wed Jan 16, 5:45 PM ET Olive ridleys, the smallest of all sea turtles, are endangered. They come ashore during September to March to lay eggs along Bangladesh's coast, Hannan said. Olive ridley image - "Ketut Sarjana Putra releases a three year old Olive Ridley turtle after tagging. (Photo credit: Brian Hutchinson/CI.). As a staff member of World Wild Fund for Nature Indonesia (WWF), Mr. Putra realized that the root of the rapidly declining turtle population was anchored firmly in his home island of Bali and the only effective way of preventing Indonesian sea turtles from complete obliteration was to turn around and stop the demand from his own people and others. He lobbied for a law to protect turtles throughout Indonesia, and a national law was created in 1999 to ban the harvest of turtles, with an exception made to the island of Bali to allow the capture of 5,000 turtles a year for consumption in Balinese religious ceremonies. (BANGLADESH) |
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Thu Jan 17, 5:45 AM ET Health and veterinary workers in Bangladesh have culled nearly 25,000 fowls after bird flu was confirmed at three poultry farms in the country, officials said on Thursday. In neighboring India, veterinary workers began killing thousands of chickens in West Bengal state on Wednesday following what the WHO said was the worst outbreak of bird flu in the country. (BANGLADESH) (INDIA) |
Thu Jan 17, 8:19 AM ET KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - Villagers at the centre of a bird flu outbreak in India's east refused to hand over their chickens and ducks for culling on Thursday, hampering efforts to stamp out the disease in poultry. (BANGLADESH) (INDIA) |
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Thu Jan 17, 8:44 AM ET Indian health officials hold a chick at a village near the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, 16 January 2008. The World Health Organisation Thursday warned that an outbreak of bird flu in eastern India was far more serious than two previous outbreaks, as officials reported more poultry deaths. (AFP/Deshakalyan Chowdhury) Health officials are engaged in culling 400,000 birds in several districts of India's heavily populated West Bengal state bordering Bangladesh, which is also struggling with the virus. (BANGLADESH) (INDIA) |
Thu Jan 17, 8:21 AM ET Roosters are seen at a roadside shop in the northern Indian city of Allahabad January 16, 2008. The H5N1 bird flu virus may sometimes stick to surfaces or get kicked up in fertilizer dust to infect people, according to a World Health Organization report published on Wednesday. REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash (BIRD FLU) (WHO) |
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Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:10 AM PST A U.S. study suggested use of the Internet could speed official identification of re-emerging diseases such as pandemic flu and tuberculosis.PANDEMIC FLU |
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 1:13 PM PST Workers at the swannery have been given flu jabs as a precaution. A public meeting is being held in a Dorset village near to where four dead swans tested positive for the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu. (UK) |
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Fri Jan 18, 2:10 AM ET Roosters are displayed at a wholesale market in Kolkata, January 17, 2008. Health workers urged villagers at the centre of a bird flu outbreak in West Bengal to stop dumping dead fowl in ponds on Friday, as ignorance about the virus hampers efforts to contain its spread. (BIRD FLU PANDEMIC) (INDIA) |
Fri Jan 18, 1:29 PM ET A Ukrainian Emergency Ministry worker rounds up chickens suspected of being infected with the bird flu virus for culling in the village of Rovnoye, in the Crimean peninsula some 800 km (497 miles) south of Kiev, January 18, 2008. 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. A total of 153 birds died suddenly at a private firm where more than 25,000 poultry were kept. REUTERS/ Stringer (UKRAINE) |
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Fri Jan 18, 7:23 AM ET Iranian veterinary officials put a domestic bird in a tank during culling, 2006. Iranian veterinary authorities have detected a new outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus among migratory and indigenous birds in the north of the country. (AFP/File/Atta Kenare) (IRAN) |
Sat, 26 Jan 2008 4:41 AM PST Officials in the Indian state of West Bengal have appealed to other states to help cull up to two million chickens suspected of having bird flu. (INDIA) (BIRD FLU PANDEMIC) |
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Many villagers initially consumed the dead birds. (INDIA) (BIRD FLU PANDEMIC) |
India has controlled previous outbreaks of bird flu. (INDIA) (BIRD FLU PANDEMIC) |
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Sun Jan 27, 7:48 AM ET A Bangladeshi walks past chickens in Dhaka in March 2007. The spread of bird flu among poultry has become "alarming" in Bangladesh as three more districts reported outbreaks at the weekend, leaving almost half the nation affected. "It is an alarming situation. Hundreds of crows are dying every day across the country due to the bird flu. The government should make it an emergency health issue," the adviser said. (BANGLADESH) |
Mon Jan 28, 4:02 AM ET A Bangladeshi livestock vendor waiting for customers in Dhaka, 22 January 2008. Bangladeshi authorities are to start house-to-house surveillance in their latest effort to stem a worsening outbreak of bird flu, an official said Monday. (AFP/File/Farjana Khan Godhuly) (BANGLADESH) |
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Mon Jan 28, 1:02 PM ET Indian health workers carry out a mass culling of birds in the village of Ganganagar, north of Kolkata, on January 24. India's West Bengal state said on Monday that it was slaughtering chickens on a "war footing" as bird flu spread to new areas of the highly-populated province of 80 million people. (AFP/File/Deshakalyan Chowdhury) (INDIA) |
Tue Jan 29, 2:07 AM ET An Indian street vendor makes an omelette from a chicken egg at her tea stall in Kolkata, 28 January 2008. India's West Bengal state has said that it was slaughtering chickens on a "war footing" as bird flu spread to new areas of the highly-populated province of 80 million people. (AFP/Deshakalyan Chowdhury) (INDIA) |
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Tue Jan 29, 6:44 AM ET China has detected an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu in poultry in Tibet, a government Web site said on Tuesday. (CHINA) |
Tue Jan 29, 11:29 AM ET Saudi agriculture ministry workers oversee the cull of chickens following the discovery of a new outbreak of avian flu in the Al-Kharj region, south of Riyadh, November 2007. The Saudi agriculture ministry has ordered another cull of 158,000 chickens following the confirmation of a new outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu that is dangerous to humans. (SAUDI ARABIA) |
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Tue Jan 29, 4:45 PM ET An officer from National Commision for Bird Flu gives information to the public during a bird flu handling simulation in Tangerang, outside Jakarta, December 12. Confirmation of the 100th human bird flu death in Indonesia shows the virus is out of control in the country most ravaged by outbreaks of the disease, experts said Tuesday. (INDONESIA) |
Wed Jan 30, 8:37 AM ET A taxi rolls over a disinfective bed, a preventive measure against bird flu, in Kolkata, 30 January 2008. India's bird-flu hit state of West Bengal appealed to New Delhi to allow the United States and China to come to its aid in battling the disease, an official said on Wednesday. (AFP/Deshakalyan Chowdhury) (INDIA) (BIRD FLU PANDEMIC) |
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 07:07 PST "The more you see it in poultry, the more chance there is that we will see human cases," said Gregory Hartl, World Health Organization spokesman in Geneva. (WHO) (BIRD FLU PANDEMIC)
Bird Flu Sweeps Indonesia, India, Tibet
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