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PARTS of Asia have slapped new bans on Australian poultry imports in the wake of a bird flu outbreak on two Victorian farms.
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About 24,000 free range ducks on a farm north-west of Melbourne last week tested positive to a low pathogenic strain of the virus.
The creation of a more contagious H5N1 virus has sparked debate on the most responsible way to publish the results.
A Four of twelve dead swans found in Mill Pond in Westborough at the end of the December have tested positive for avian influenza, reported Assistant Press Secretary Reggie Zimmerman of the Massachusetts Department of Energy and Environmental Affairs .
Inovio Pharmaceuticals announced that its synthetic vaccines for influenza Type A H3N2 and Type B achieved protective antibody responses in immunized animals against multiple unmatched strains.
Australia has activated a national disease emergency plan after an outbreak of deadly bird flu was confirmed following the discovery of infected birds at two free-range duck farms near Melbourne in south eastern Australia.
The Victorian Farmers Federation is warning chicken farmers to be vigilant with their biosecurity, following an outbreak of bird flu on a Victorian duck farm.
The US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity recently recommended that journals Nature and Science remove certain methodological details from controversial studies on the avian influenza virus to minimize the risk of these findings being misused by would-be bioterrorists.
Bogor city health authorities have ascertained that no people in a ward where a number of chickens have been dying suddenly since Thursday have contracted Avian Influenza .
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Thanks to Emmy Fitri for tweeting me the link to this story in The Jakarta Globe : Bird Flu Fears in Indonesia: Flap Over Jakarta Pet Market Move .
The low pathogenic strain of bird flu was discovered on Friday afternoon and 10,000 ducks have already been destroyed.
The New York Times has published an editorial: The Missing Bird Flu Report . The NYT supports redaction of the reports before they're published.
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Culling operations have begun in avian flu affected gram panchayats of West Tripura district on Friday after confirmation from Bhopal based High Security Animal Disease Laboratory .
Further restrictions on publishing scientific data gathered in a recent study of the avian bird flu could retard the creation of countermeasures, such as a vaccine, which could fight against a disease pandemic, says , one of the study's co-authors. While the Dutch-American team which pioneered the research, finding that the H5N1 virus can be ... (more)
Via CIDRAP: NEWS SCAN: H5N1 invasion of CNS, low-path H5 in Australia, viral co-evolution, E coli O104 in Turkey .
It took a team comprising an ornithologist, veterinarians and lab technicians two hours to collect and study two wild bird species fecal to confirm they were H5N1 negative.
The decision to halt the research is temporary: A meeting of global health experts will be convened to decide how the work should proceed.
Indonesia is aiming to manufacture its first, locally produced vaccine to combat the H5N1 avian influenza virus by 2013, with state-owned pharmaceutical company PT Biofarma working to prepare its facilities for developing the vaccine for mass production, a minister says.
Scientists have engineered a new strain of H5N1 to be readily transmitted between humans.
A Japanese researcher partly-based in the United States has been forced to suspend his studies into an airborne version on the H5N1 bird flu virus over concerns that his findings could be used by bioterrorists.
After a fresh outbreak of Bird flu or avian influenza in ICAR complex, 45 kms from the state capital of agartala.
The Department of Primary Industries has quarantined two commercial duck farms operated by the same owner, after birds at both properties tested positive to low pathogenic avian influenza .
The Department of Primary Industries has quarantined a commercial duck farm in the two locations after birds there tested positive to Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza.
The Department of Primary Industries has quarantined two commercial duck farms operated by the same owner, after birds at both properties tested positive to low pathogenic avian influenza .
When Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Tokyo genetically engineered a strain of the H5N1 influenza virus that could potentially be transmitted between humans, his intentions were pure.
Viruses regularly evolve new ways of making people sick, but scientists usually do not become aware of these new strategies until years or centuries after they have evolved.
The creationA in the laboratory of strains of the H5N1 avian flu virus that are highly transmissible in mammals could eventually open the door for research towards improving pandemic preparedness.
Via IBN Live News, a report datelined Agartala: Bird flu reappears in Tripura . Tripura shares a long border with Bangladesh; India and Bangladesh enjoy blaming one another for bird flu outbreaks.
A nationwide campaign to stop the spread of H5N1 avian influenza in Egypt is to be launched by the government in a few weeks, say officials, but details are still sketchy.
The Hong Kong government said on Thursday a dead goose, found in the northwest part of the city, has been confirmed to be H5N1 positive after laboratory testing.
JAKARTA, 26 January 2012 - Two recent deaths from bird flu in Indonesia highlight the need for continued vigilance against a possible resurgence of the deadly virus, an official and health expert warned.
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Peter Palese and Taia Wang have written a compelling article that uses scientific facts to address the controversy over publication of research involving transmission of avian influenza H5N1 in ferrets.
A 30-year-old man from the governorate of Fayoum, some 100km south of Cairo, has been diagnosed as having contracted the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, the Health Ministry announced.
WHEN bird flu first burst onto the world stage in 2004, virologists were quick to warn of a deadly pandemic .
Flu researcher Yoshi Kawaoka is shown in a 2006 handout photo. Kawaoka, a scientist at the centre of a raging controversy over bird flu transmission studies, has broken his silence.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-University of Wisconsin-Madison-Jeff Miller TORONTO - A scientist at the centre of a raging controversy over bird flu transmission studies has ... (more)
Investigations will begin tomorrow in Phuentsholing to find out if the flu would affect the wild bird population in the country.
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Thanks to Sharon Sanders at FluTrackers for compiling this eye-opening list: Global Confirmed H5N1 Bird Flu Cases December 1, 2011 + . She also notes that WHO belatedly confirmed another Egyptian H5N1 case on January 19: a two-year-old in late October who recovered.
Earlier this week a group of researchers who altered the avian influenza virus, also known as H5N1 or "bird flu," to make it more contagious announced they would suspend their research for 60 days to give the research community time to discuss their work's implications.
The mainland authorities say a man has died of H5N1 bird flu in Guizhou province, and they have notified the Centre for Health Protection in Hong Kong.
China has suffered its second bird flu death in a month, the health ministry said.The ministry said a patient died in Guizhou province in the south-west after being taken to hospital on January 6. Hong Kong radio RTHK, citing local authorities, said the patient was a 39-year-old man who said he had no contact with poultry.
The scientists who altered a deadly flu virus to make it more contagious have agreed to suspend their research for 60 days to give other international experts time to discuss the work and determine how it can proceed without putting the world at risk of a potentially catastrophic pandemic.
A man in southwest China died of bird flu on Sunday after three days of intensive care treatment in hospital, the official Xinhua news agency quoted the Ministry of Health as saying.
Shillong, Jan 22 : Authorities in Meghalaya have completed disinfection operations in a bird flu-hit area of East Garo Hills district, an official said Sunday.
A few months ago, two independent research teams were able to produce a strain of the bird flu virus that was transmissible between human beings.
Dr Fouchier and colleagues created a strain of H5N1 bird-flu virus that can be spread by airborne transmission between laboratory ferrets, the standard animal "model" for human influenza.
Why would the government fear the publication of bird flu research papers? For a very good reason, the papers contain the data that bioterrorists could use to weaponize the virus.
Dr. Vincent Racaniello writes on his virology blog: Moratorium on influenza H5N1 transmission research .
Thanks to Mike Coston at Avian Flu Diary for picking up this report by Helen Branswell of The Canadian Press: Flu scientists halt research on lab-made viruses for 60 days to foster talks .
In the midst of a growing global controversy, flu researchers have announced a moratorium on a potentially deadlier, airborne influenza virus and have voluntarily suspended their studies for 60 days.
The moratorium, announced Jan. 20 in Nature and Science , is a response to public fear and alarm in the scientific community, which has split over whether the research could inadvertently lead to release of a nightmare disease.
Controversy surrounding research on highly transmissible bird flu has prompted scientists, including those who altered bird flu viruses so they could spread between mammals, to call for a 60-day hiatus on the work to allow for discussion.
The move to suspend the work for 60 days comes in response to critics who say their work is dangerous .
MICOM: Health Minister Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih suspect in Indonesia has occurred the possibility of resistance to the drug oseltamivir.
The two victims, an 18-year-old Vietnamese man and a 2-year-old Cambodian boy, caught the lethal virus, also known as H5N1, from poultry _ not from contact with infected people, according to the Associated Press.
Indonesian health officials say a 5-year-old girl has died of bird flu in Jakarta - just days after her uncle succumbed to the virus.
The H5N1 virus also claimed the lives of a man in Vietnam and of a toddler in Cambodia this week.
Shillong, Jan 18 : Authorities in Meghalaya Wednesday culled nearly 5,000 domesticated fowls in a bird flu-hit area of East Garo Hills district, an official said.
"The World Health Organization says it will take a role in helping sort through an international scientific controversy over two bird flu studies that the U.S. government deemed too dangerous to publish in full," the Canadian Press/Winnipeg Free Press reports.
Bhubaneswar: After completion of the process in Khurda district, culling of poultry birds started Wednesday in the tribal-dominated Mayurbhanj, the second district in Odisha where bird flu has been detected.
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Despite culling nearly 32,000 chickens in Khurda district, the bird flu scare continues in Odisha with the fear of its spread to the adjoining Mayurbhanj district now.
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Main Category: Swine Flu Also Included In: Flu / Cold / SARS ; Bird Flu / Avian Flu ; Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Article Date: 17 Jan 2012 - 9:00 PST US scientists propose that flu pandemics follow La Nina weather conditions in the equatorial Pacific.
Over the last few days since the outbreak was reported, officials culled over 190 chickens in the backyard poultry farms in the area and disinfected all the vehicles coming from the area every day.
The H5N1 virus may have claimed two lives in China and Indonesia but there is no cause for undue alarm, say leading infectious disease specialists.
We applied a variety of statistical phylogeographic techniques to a plethora of viral genome sequence data to determine the strength, pattern and determinants of gene flow in AIV sampled from wild birds in North America.
The Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Cambodia has announced a confirmed case of human infection with avian influenza A virus.
India recently declared itself free from bird flu, at a time when the state of Jharkhand has been in a state of panic with the sudden and inexplicable death of thousands of crows in the last four to five months.
America should not be allowed to dominate the debate over who controls sensitive scientific information that could be misused in biowarfare terrorism, say the scientists who created a highly dangerous form of bird-flu virus in a study that has been partially censored by the US government.
BHUBANESWAR: Betanoti in Mayurbhanj district is in grip of a scare after preliminary reports on Saturday indicated that a poultry bird sample from the town had confirmed the presence of bird flu, official sources said.
Dr. Keiji Fukuda of the World Health Organization speaks in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, March 29, 2010.
A little egret carcass found in Yuen Long has tested positive for the H5 avian influenza virus in a preliminary examination.
Shillong, Jan 15: Fresh deaths of domesticated fowls have been reported in Meghalaya, even as the culling of birds in a three-kilometre radius of the bird-flu epicentre of Williamnagar in Meghalaya's East Garo Hills entered its third day Sunday, an official said.
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Thirteen rapid response teams of the Meghalaya Government are continuing the culling of poultry in the affected zone of Williamnagar in East Garo Hills where the first bird flu outbreak has taken place and by Friday as many as 1,043 chicken have been culled within the three km radius, informed authorities.
A worker injects a chicken with bird flu vaccine at a farm in Changzhi, Shanxi province, January 20, 2009.
Changedaphu A bird flu outbreak in Thimphu was confirmed yesterday afternoon after the deaths of 38 chickens in the past week at the camp in Changedaphu .
Chinese authorities in the southern city of Shenzhen, just north of Hong Kong, are still trying to determine how a 39-year-old bus driver contracted the deadly H5N1 virus, otherwise know as bird flu, according to the Chinese-language Sing Tao Daily.
Bhubaneswar: Bird flu scare continued to grip Odisha as more crow deaths were reported even as the state government continued its culling operation at Keranga area in Khurda district for the second consecutive day.
Following the deaths of thousands of crows in Jharkhand, India in the last two months, the National Incident Command Centre for bird flu in Bhutan is alerting people to report the death of any wild bird in the country.
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I've been following the story about the scientists who have been working to figure out how H5N1 bird flu might become transmissible from human to human, the controversial research they used to study that question, and the federal recommendations that are now threatening to keep that research under wraps.
The Jakarta Health Agency has reminded the public that the bird flu virus is transmitted only from birds, not through humans, after it was confirmed on Thursday that North Jakarta resident Puguh Dwi Yanto had died of bird flu.
The flu season hasn't kicked in yet, but infectious disease experts are on the alert for new strains of the virus, including another swine flu that's popped up in parts of the United States and a drug-resistant flu circulating in the Southern Hemisphere.
Nature interviews Amy Patterson, director of the National Institutes of Health Office of Science Policy, which administers the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity , about the board's decision in December to advise against full publication of "two papers on avian flu [that] could pose a biosecurity risk if published in their ... (more)
In the wake of news last month that researchers had created a version of the deadly bird flu that was easily transmissible by air, a heated debate has arisen in the scientific community about whether or not the research should be published.
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There are many strains of influenza virus, and new ones are constantly mutating.
Shillong, Jan 12: A 13-member rapid response team Thursday began culling poultry birds at a farm in East Garo Hills district of Meghalaya after the birds tested positive for the deadly H5N1 virus, an official said.
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Bhubaneswar, Jan 12 : Veterinarians and state officials Thursday began culling poultry birds in parts of Odisha's Khordha district after bird flu was detected in the area.
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To arrest the spread of bird flu, Odisha government today ordered culling of about 30,000 fowls in three km radius of Keranga in Khurda district as advised by the Centre, official sources said.
Flu season is upon us, peaking in the coming weeks. During this time, media hype may meet legitimate concerns over strains of influenza type A including H1N1 and H5N1 .
The government is preparing a bill granting it the power to impose restrictions on outings, gatherings and other activities to curb outbreaks of avian flu and other highly virulent and contagious viruses.
The Meghalaya government Wednesday alerted all district authorities after samples of dead birds at a farm in East Garo Hills district in the state tested positive for bird flu, an official said.
HONG KONG: Hong Kong is downgrading the current bird flu warning from 'serious' to an 'alert' level from tomorrow.
That is the hope after food and health chief York Chow Yat-ngok said he will consult with bird flu experts today before announcing whether to lift the 21-day ban on the import and sale of live chickens, imposed on December 21.
BARIPADA: Odisha's Mayurbhanj district , bordering Jharkhand, has been put on high alert to avoid poultry birds carrying HSN1 virus sneaking in from the neighbouring state, said Mayurbhanj CDVO Nityananda Das on Tuesday.
Around 15 peacocks have been expired at the Safari Park during the last seven days due to bird flu virus, authorities said on Tuesday.
The debate continues about two papers that resulted in H5N1 influenza strains that are more easily transmissible between mammals and may have the potential to trigger a pandemic.
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The flu season hasn't kicked in yet, but infectious disease experts are on the alert for new strains of the virus, including another swine flu that's popped up in parts of the United States and a drug-resistant flu circulating in the Southern Hemisphere.
Via Republika Online: Stok Obat Flu Burung Cukup Sampai Akhir Tahun . [Bird flu medication stocks good through end of year] A Google translation, with all its flaws: I've checked the Indonesian Ministry of Health website , and it's effectively useless as a source of H5N1 information.
JAKARTA: A 24-year-old Indonesian man infected with bird flu died in the capital Jakarta, the health ministry said, in the country's third fatal case in three months."Test results from the man who died confirmed that he was infected with bird flu," health ministry head of communicable diseases Tjandra Yoga Aditama told AFP.The man likely ... (more)
BEIJING, Jan 10, 2012 -- A health expert Tuesday ruled out the possibility of a large-scale bird flu epidemic in China, which reported a death caused by H5N1 virus on the last day of 2011.
An Indonesian man aged 23 years old who was suspected of having infected by avian flu virus died at 22:50 p.m. local time on Jan.
The professor who oversees biosafety for the University of Wisconsin-Madison's controversial avian influenza research responded Monday to mounting criticism about the necessity and safety of the research, saying "ongoing research with H5N1 remains salient." The research is "society's best defense against a pathogen that has shown time and time ... (more)
Around 100 women today ransacked a licensed country liquor shop opposite Mancheswar police station.
The eastern state of Orissa yesterday sounded an alert after a case of bird flu was confirmed in the region, officials said.
South Korea's agriculture ministry said Wednesday it is carrying out close inspection for bird flu after 110 ducks fell dead at a large duck farm in the northern part of the country.
Shillong, Jan 9: Around 2,000 poultry birds have died in the past few weeks on a farm in Meghalaya's East Garo Hills district, fuelling fears of bird flu, even as a general alert was sounded in the area, officials said Monday.
The Jakarta Post hasn't mentioned the recent suspected H5N1 death in North Jakarta, but it warns of More disease outbreaks in rainy season .
Colby Pharmaceutical Company today announced publication of new results showing that a single dose of JVRS-100 adjuvanted H5N1 influenza vaccine enhanced-immune responses, -dose sparing, and -cross-clade influenza virus protection.
Chinese authorities in the southern city of Shenzhen, just north of Hong Kong, are still trying to determine how a 39-year-old bus driver contracted the deadly H5N1 virus, otherwise know as bird flu, according to the Chinese-language Sing Tao Daily.
The World Health Organization has weighed in on the controversy surrounding potentially lethal lab-made forms of the H5N1 avian flu virus.
Bhubaneswar, Jan 9 : Odisha has alerted all its district authorities in view of the detection of a bird flu case in the state, an official said Monday.
A worker injects a chicken with bird flu vaccine at a farm in Changzhi, Shanxi province, January 20, 2009.
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A deadly influenza virus has circulated widely in birds in recent years, decimating flocks but rarely spreading to humans.
Taiwan has reported its first H5N2 bird flu case this year after test results confirmed that chickens at a poultry farm in Changhua County were infected with the virus.
South Korea's farm ministry said Saturday that bird flu did not cause the spike in dead ducks at a local poultry farm earlier in the week.
About a month ago, two studies concerning the manipulation of the avian flu H5N1 sparked a debate about whether or not potentially dangerous results should be published .
The flu season hasn't kicked in yet, but Bay Area infectious disease experts are on the alert for new strains of the virus, including another swine flu that's popped up in parts of the United States and a drug-resistant flu circulating in the Southern Hemisphere.
As if Thailand hasn't had enough problems in the last few years , new worries are now emerging about the possibility of bird flu reappearing in the country, after an H5N1 outbreak has been confirmed in Vietnam.
In late December, Chinese authorities reported that a 39-year-old man from southern China died from H5N1, also known as the deadly avian influenza virus or bird flu.
The situation in Thailand is being closely monitored after a report confirmed an H5N1 outbreak in Vietnam and the subsequent culling of 2,500 chicken in a province near Mekong delta, the Public Health Ministry said yesterday.
Plenty of local fat, juicy, fresh chicken will be on Lunar New Year menus after a ban on the import and sale of live chickens is lifted this month.
Preliminary data indicates that no birds have tested positive for active Newcastle disease or avian influenza infections.
The Toxoplasma gondii is a brain parasite that needs a cat host in order to reproduce, however it is found in a variety of mammals including rats and humans.
Hong Kong authorities say two more dead birds have tested positive for a dangerous strain of bird flu, adding to health worries in the city.
Hong Kong authorities say two more dead birds have tested positive for a dangerous strain of bird flu, adding to health worries in the city.
India has declared itself free from bird flu . The declaration was made here on December 29, 2011, and notified to the OIE .
The move came days after a case of death from bird flu infection was reported last week in Shenzen, southern China.
The Ministry of Health and Population of Egypt has notified WHO of a case of human infection with avian influenza A virus.a a The case is a 42 year-old male from Menofia Governorate.
Tetragenetics Inc., a biotechnology company focused on the development of recombinant vaccines, today reported preclinical study results showing that an investigational nanoparticle-based influenza vaccine protects against a highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza strain.
Via Zee News: Bird flu panic in Tripura . This is in northeast India, and Agartala is very close to the Bangladesh border.
A man transports a cage containing live chickens on a street in Hanoi on Dec 30, 2011.
BARIPADA: Close on the heels of the outbreak of bird flu in Jharkhand, the bordering villages in the tribal-dominated district of Mayurbhanj have been put on alert.
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday advised travellers to China to take precautions after a man died there of complications from bird flu on Saturday.
PUTRAJAYA: There are no live birds import from China and chicken products sold at markets are free of the H5N1 virus, said Veterinary Services Department director-general He said Malaysia does not allow the import of live birds from China, where a man in Guangdong province died after contracting the bird flu last week.
Poultry imports from the part of southern China where a man died from the H5N1 virus remain banned in Hong Kong after genetic tests linked the man's strain of the disease the version found in wild birds in the city.
The World Health Organization has weighed in on the controversy surrounding potentially lethal lab-made forms of the H5N1 avian flu virus, saying it is "deeply concerned about the potential negative consequences" of the work.
U.S. World Health Organization Assistant Director Dr. Keiji Fukuda attends a conference on swine flu in Cancun, Mexico, on July 3, 2009.
South Korea's agriculture ministry said Wednesday it is carrying out close inspection for bird flu after 110 ducks fell dead at a large duck farm in the northern part of the country.
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The declaration was made here on December 29, 2011 and notified to France-based World Organisation of Animal Health .
"The World Health Organization issued a stern warning on Friday to scientists who have engineered a highly pathogenic form of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus , saying their work carries significant risks and must be tightly controlled," Reuters reports .
The southern province of Hau Giang recently detected the first outbreak of bird flu in a household raising 450 chickens in Long My district.
Two dead black-headed gulls found in Tuen Mun and on Lantau Island have tested positive for the H5 avian influenza virus in preliminary checks.The Agriculture, Fisheries & Conservation Department is conducting confirmatory tests.The first bird was collected at the EcoPark in Tuen Mun on December 30, while the second was found in a drain near Sh...
PARIS: The World Health Organization said it was "deeply concerned" about research into whether the H5N1 flu virus could be made more transmissible between humans after mutant strains were produced in labs.
Hong Kong is on high alert after a man on the mainland died from bird flu, officials said.
The editors-in-chief of Nature and Science have both acknowledged the NSABB's concerns, but say that they are reserving judgement about whether to censor the papers until the US government provides details of how it will allow genuine researchers to obtain redacted information.
A middle-aged bus driver from southern China died of avian flu last weekend. This is the first fatal case of H5N1 virus in China in 18 months.
Anthony S. Fauci, Gary J. Nabel and Francis S. Collins/THE WASHINGTON POST-BLOOMBERG NEWS SERVICE 03 January 2012 11:41:54 Oman Time A number of important scientific and public health questions regarding this virus remain unanswered, including the likelihood of such mutations arising and the mechanisms by which they may occur.
Two scientific teams working separately have manipulated a "bird flu" strain of the influenza virus in such a way that they may have created the next deadly human plague.
Recent reports that two teams of scientists had genetically altered a deadly flu virus to make it more contagious have provoked fear, even outrage, in some quarters.
Animal disease outbreaks can come from anywhere, including what you tuck in your suitcase after visiting a foreign country.
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Shenzhen over the weekend is not yet transmissible between humans, Chinese health authorities said.
The World Health Organization is warning that dangerous scientific information could fall into the wrong hands after U.S. government-funded researchers engineered a form of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus more easily transmissible between humans.
Monitors show the body heat of incoming passengers at the International Airport in Hong Kong April 27, 2009.
The lethal virus, which affects fowl and migratory bird species and could be passed on to humans, claimed the life of a bus driver from Shenzhen.
The death of a Shenzhen bus driver from bird flu has brought a ban on the import of poultry from a nearby supplier into Hong Kong for the next 21 days Imports of frozen chickens and all other poultry products from a Shenzhen supplier will be banned in Hong Kong for 21 days from yesterday, after the bird flu death of a man in Shenzhen.
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Health authorities in south Guangdong province have yet to find the cause of the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, commonly known as bird flu, that led to the death of a bus driver, a local disease control official said Sunday.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 1 -- The Health Ministry has allayed any fear of the spread of bird flu from China where a man has died of the disease.
Science and news cycles sometimes converge in unhandy ways. That was the case on on January 1, when word came out of Shenzen, a Chinese city bordering Hong Kong, that a 39-year-old bus driver, surnamed Chen, had died of the H5N1 virus Since 2003, there have been only 573 confirmed cases of H5N1, according to the World Health Organization , and ... (more)