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New human case of bird flu found in Fujian |
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The Ministry of Health on Wednesday announced one more human case of bird flu.
The infected is a 26-year-old farmer surnamed Lin from Zhangpu |
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New bird flu outbreak confirmed in Shanxi |
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The Ministry of Agriculture confirmed Tuesday new bird flu outbreak in poultry in north China's province of Shanxi.
The ministry said 15,000 fowls at a fowl- |
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Dead bird checked for avian flu |
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Preliminary testing of a little egret found dead in Tuen Mun has indicated a suspected avian influenza case, Hong Kong's Agriculture, Fisheries & Conservation |
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HK strengthens bird flu preventive measures |
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Hong Kong has stepped up efforts to tighten surveillance and strengthen communications with the Chinese mainland after a handful of birds have been found with |
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Common Magpie tested positive for H5N1 virus in HK |
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The Hong Kong Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said on Monday that the Common Magpie found in Sham Tseng was confirmed to be H5N1 positive |
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No need to upgrade anti-bird flu measures in Macao: official |
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Lau Si Io, president of Macao's Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (CMAB), has said that there was"no need" to upgrade anti-bird flu measures, local media reported Friday. |
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Hong Kong testing wild bird for H5 strain of bird flu |
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Hong Kong has completed preliminary tests on a wild bird suspected of having the H5 strain of bird flu, officials said Friday.
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Eighth Chinese bird flu patient show signs of improvement |
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The condition of China's eighth bird flu patient improved Thursday, two days after doctors said he suffered critical symptoms.
The six-year-old boy, surnamed |
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Two more people announced killed by bird flu in China |
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Two more people were reported to have died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in China, bringing the death toll to five out of the eight human cases reported so |
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Two more people die from bird flu |
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Two more people were reported to have died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in China, bringing the death toll to five out of the eight human cases |
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China: Human bird flu cases "likely to increase" |
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Human cases of bird flu may continue to increase in China if there are more bird flu outbreaks, Ministry of Health spokesman Mao Qun'an said at a press |
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Volunteers of bird flu vaccine in good condition |
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Another six volunteers who were vaccinated with bird flu bacteria have been in good condition over the past five days, according to a doctor in charge of the clinic test. |
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8th human bird flu case comfirmed in Hunan |
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The Ministry of Health on Jan. 9 announced the country's eighth human case of H5N1 bird flu.
The infected was a 6-year-old boy surnamed Ouyang in Guiyang |
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China announces 8th human case of bird flu |
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China's Ministry of Health on Jan. 9 announced the country's eighth human case of H5N1 bird flu.
The infected was a 6-year-old boy surnamed Ouyang in Guiyang |
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China produces 1st live bird flu vaccine |
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China plans to produce 1 billion doses of a new bird flu vaccine for animals that is designed to make an effort to inoculate the country's billions of farm birds |
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China hands over bird flu virus strains to WHO |
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The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) on Tuesday handed over H5N1 human case isolates to the World Health Organization(WHO).
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China confirms 5th human bird flu case |
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A 31-year old female patient suffering from an unknown pneumonia in northeast China's Liaoning Province has been confirmed to be infected of bird flu virus, |
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Asian countries to jointly combat bird flu |
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Asian countries vowed on Wednesday to exchange information, develop new vaccines and enhance investment in their joint efforts to control the spreading epidemic |
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Study shows vaccine can block bird flu spread in poultry |
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Vaccines can protect poultry from bird flu and block viral spread between birds, showed a Dutchstudy published in the Monday issue of Proceedings of the National |
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Bird flu virus in humans mutating |
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The H5N1 strain of bird flu seen in human cases in China has mutated as compared with strains found in human cases in Vietnam.
Chinese labs have found that |
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2 more bird flu outbreaks confirmed in Xinjiang, Hunan |
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The Ministry of Agriculture has confirmed two more bird flu outbreaks in poultry in the country's northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and central |
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Shanghai to screen intl passengers for bird flu prevention |
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Shanghai will begin on Monday screening international passengers for bird flu prevention.
All passengers leaving or entering China will be asked to fill in |
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Taiwan to produce anti-bird flu drug when imported stocks run out |
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Taiwan has said it plans to produce the anti-bird flu drug Tamiflu on its own when stocks supplied by Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche run out.
Taiwan's |
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Nation refutes rumor on death toll from bird flu |
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China's Ministry of Health(MOH) on Friday refuted a rumor on the Internet spread by a Japanese virologist saying China has had several hundred human deaths from |
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New bird flu outbreak reported in Inner Mongolia |
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China's Ministry of Agriculture on Friday confirmed one bird flu outbreak in the Zalantun city of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,
It said in |
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China asks for WHO help in human bird flu probe |
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The World Health Organization (WHO) will send experts to join a mission to probe into the two confirmed human deaths from bird flu virus in east China's Anhui |
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Medical teams deployed to flu-hit village |
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Medical workers visit the Wangjia Village office to publicize prevention knowledge of bird flu epidemic in the town of Duanjia in Heishan County, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Nov. 16. |
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China confirms second human death from bird flu |
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China on Wednesday reported its second confirmed human fatality from bird flu.
The 35-year-old woman, a farmer identified only by the surname Xu, died |
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Shanghai to ban sales of pet birds |
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China's largest city, Shanghai, will ban sales of canaries, parakeets and other pet birds as part of increasingly drastic measures aimed at preventing a wide-scale |
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Fight against bird flu needs enhancing: Agriculture Ministry |
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China's Ministry of Agriculture held a conference to call on all efforts to combat bird flu on Tuesday.
A proposal advised at the conference stated that the focus of |
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Shanghai to prohibit sale of pet birds |
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Shanghai will ban the sale of pet birds next month as part of its avian-flu prevention efforts, putting an untold number of dealers out of business, authorities said yesterday. |
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China approves clinical test of self-developed human bird flu vaccine |
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China's drug watchdog Tuesday approved its home-made human bird flu vaccine for clinical test, a major progress in China's prevention efforts of possible pandemic |
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3 new bird flu outbreaks reported |
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China's Ministry of Agriculture on Tuesday confirmed bird flu outbreaks in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and northwest China's Ningxia Hui |
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China tightens bird-flu measures further |
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China ordered already strict anti-bird flu measures tightened on Monday following two new outbreaks in poultry, while Romania said it would destroy 2,000 farm birds after |
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Bird flu cases under control, but situation remains grim |
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Chinese agricultural officials said here Monday that all the confirmed bird flu cases on the Chinese mainland have been effectively put under control, but the whole |
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2 new bird flu outbreaks reported in Inner Mongolia, Hubei |
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The Chinses Ministry of Agriculture Sunday confirmed bird flu outbreaks in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and central China's Hubei Province.
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WHO: China containment measures "almost textbook" |
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China reported two new bird flu outbreaks Thursday as WHO's China head Henk Bekedam praised the Chinese government's containment measures as "almost textbook".
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Premier Wen: We will surely conquer bird flu |
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BEIJING, Nov. 17(Xinhuanet)--"We have conquered the SARS epidemic in 2003, and we will surely conquer the bird flu virus," said Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao here Thursday when inspecting |
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Hubei, Xinjiang report highly pathogenic bird flu |
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Highly pathogenic bird flu outbreaks have been found in villages near Xiaogan of central China's Hubei Province and Hetian of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur |
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Human bird flu cases confirmed |
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China's Ministry of Health on Wednesday confirmed two human cases and one suspected case of H5N1 bird flu.
The two confirmed cases involve a nine- |
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China confirms 1st human bird flu cases |
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China's Ministry of Health on Wednesday confirmed two human cases and one suspected case of H5N1 bird flu.
The two confirmed cases involve a |
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Xinjiang reports bird flu cases |
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China has strengthened supervision and monitoring on the bird flu as new cases of the epidemic outbreak were reported in two counties of northwestern Xinjiang |
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Bird flu human vaccine ready for clinical tests |
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Chinese scientists have developed human vaccines for bird flu pandemic and will carry out clinical tests in a matter of days.
Liu Yanhua, vice minister of |
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WHO to probe suspicious pneumonia cases in Hunan |
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World Health Organization(WHO) experts will come to central-south China's Hunan province to work with their Chinese peers to probe three possible human cases of |
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Liaoning reports two more bird flu cases |
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Two more bird flu cases have been confirmed in Liaoning Province, northeast China, where the first outbreak was confirmed last week, the local government said |
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Hunan monitors birds' migrating routes |
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Central China's Hunan Province has been closely monitoring the habitats and routes of migratory birds to guard against bird flu, according to the Hunan |
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Premier Wen: Situation in bird flu control"serious" |
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Premier Wen Jiabao has called on the nation to intensify efforts to fight bird flu when the country is facing a "very serious situation" in controlling the epidemic. |
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Shandong sets aside $3.7 mln for bird flu prevention |
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The government of east China's farming province of Shandong, home to the 2.5 billion poultry, decided to allocate 30 million yuan(3.7 million US dollars) to keep out |
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Fight against bird flu serious: agriculture minister |
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The fight against bird flu is serious, said Chinese Agriculture Minister Du Qinglin Tuesday. He also demanded the agricultural departments take all measures to |
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HK launches 1st drill on response to possible bird flu pandemic |
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Hong Kong Hospital Authority launched on Tuesday its first ever drill on the special administrative region's preparedness for a possible avian influenza |
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Beijing suspends live poultry trade against bird flu |
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All live poultry trade and downtown poultry feeding was temporarily suspended here as of Monday, an effort by the municipal authority to prevent an outbreak of bird |
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China develops bird flu vaccines |
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China has developed a series of vaccines, including inactivated vaccine against H5N2 AI, in a bid to control the fatal bird flu, Jia Youling, chief veterinary |
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No human infection of bird flu reported: ministry |
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The Ministry of Health (MOH) said Thursday that it hasn't received any report on human infection of bird flu.
In an interview with Xinhua, a MOH |
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