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• Bali doctors investigate possible bird flu deaths

  Published: August 12, 2007, 9:19 pm

  Tags: Health, Diseases Disorders, Avian Influenza, Bali

  There are fears that the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu may have spread to the Indonesian resort island of Bali.

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• Indonesia confirms Bali's first bird flu deaths

  Published: August 13, 2007, 4:17 am

  Tags: Health, Diseases Disorders, Avian Influenza, Indonesia, Bali

  Officials from Indonesia's National Bird Flu Commission have confirmed the disease has been transmitted to humans in Bali for the first time.

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• Bird flu pandemic poses 'great risk' to Australia

  Published: September 5, 2007, 6:05 pm

  Tags: Health, Diseases Disorders, Avian Influenza, Australia

  The head of the communicable disease program at the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that Australia will be at great risk if a bird flu pandemic occurs.

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• Singapore develops hand-held bird flu detector

  Published: September 24, 2007, 7:05 am

  Tags: Health, Diseases Disorders, Science Technology, Research, Avian Influenza, Singapore

  Scientists in Singapore say they have created a hand-held device that can detect the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus within 30 minutes.

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• New research shows how H5N1 virus causes disease

  Published: September 28, 2007, 8:43 am

  Tags: Health, Avian Influenza, H5n1, H5n1 Influenza

  H5N1 influenza, also known as avian influenza, is considered a major global threat to human health, with high fatality rates.

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• New biosensor detects avian influenza virus in minutes instead of days

  Published: September 28, 2007, 3:25 pm

  Tags: Health, Avian Influenza, Avian Influenza Virus Infection, Biosensors, Flu Tests

  Quick identification of avian influenza infection in poultry is critical to controlling outbreaks, but current detection methods can require several days to produce results.

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• Indonesian woman dies of bird flu, death toll 87

  Published: October 7, 2007, 11:01 pm

  Tags: Health, Diseases Disorders, Avian Influenza, Indonesia

  A 44-year-old Indonesian woman has died of bird flu, taking the country's total death total from the disease to 87, a health ministry official said.

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• Children's books to help fight bird flu

  Published: November 6, 2007, 4:46 pm

  Tags: Children, Avian Influenza, Australia, Torres Strait Islands

  Australia's quarantine watchdog has turned to children's books to help stop the spread of bird flu into the country.

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• Fresh bird flu outbreak in Britain

  Published: November 12, 2007, 2:03 pm

  Tags: Diseases And Disorders, Avian Influenza, United Kingdom

  British vets ordered the slaughter of some 5,000 birds after a new outbreak of avian flu on a farm in eastern England, the first in six months, officials said.

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• UK confirms lethal bird flu outbreak

  Published: November 13, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Diseases And Disorders, Avian Influenza, United Kingdom, England

  The deadly strain of H5N1 bird flu was confirmed at a turkey farm in eastern England this morning, in a fresh blow for farmers still reeling from outbreaks of foot and mouth disease and bluetongue.

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• UK fights bird flu with additional poultry cull

  Published: November 14, 2007, 2:30 pm

  Tags: Avian Influenza, United Kingdom, England

  Britain's farm ministry, battling to fight the spread of deadly H5N1 bird flu, said it would cull poultry at four more sites as a precaution.

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• Bird flu detected at poulty farm in Saudi

  Published: November 14, 2007, 4:21 pm

  Tags: Health, Diseases And Disorders, Avian Influenza, Saudi Arabia

  The lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected at a poulty farm in Saudi Arabia and 50,000 birds have been culled, the agriculture ministry said.

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• UK fears bird flu may have spread

  Published: November 15, 2007, 3:21 pm

  Tags: Health, Diseases And Disorders, Avian Influenza, United Kingdom, England

  A deadly bird flu virus may have spread to another site in Britain, with suspicious deaths at a turkey farm in Suffolk, the farm ministry said.

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• China reports first bird flu death in months

  Published: December 3, 2007, 2:47 am

  Tags: Health, Diseases And Disorders, Avian Influenza, China

  Chinese officials say a man has died of bird flu in the country's south.

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• Bird-flu expert calls for changes in early-warning system

  Published: December 7, 2007, 1:53 pm

  Tags: Health, Avian Influenza, Avian Influenza Virus, Bird Flu, Pandemic

  The international science community is not doing enough to track the many avian influenza viruses that might cause the next pandemic, a UC Davis researcher says in today's issue of the journal Nature.

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