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- 'Boy dies of bird flu in Cambodia (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A 12-year-old boy has died of bird flu in Cambodia, becoming the country's second bird flu victim this year and the sixth since 2003, a health official said.
'Chicken slaughter looms after new Indian cases of bird flu (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Fears that bird flu had spread beyond isolated pockets in western India were confirmed Wednesday after samples from 13 new towns and villages tested positive, a senior official said.
'Health experts worried about bird flu impact on Gaza diet (AFP via Yahoo! News)
An outbreak of the highly contagious H5N1 strain of bird flu in the Gaza Strip is "partially under control", health experts said, while voicing concern for its impact on the local diet.
'Gaza to step up bird culling to combat H5N1 spread (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
United Nations health officials said on Wednesday that another 250,000 birds in Gaza would be killed in the coming days in a bid to halt the spread of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus.
'Bird flu: 1st German domestic case (CNN.com)
BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- German authorities have confirmed the country's first case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain in domestic fowl in an outbreak on a poultry farm east of Leipzig, the Saxony state Social Affairs Ministry said Wednesday.
'Bird flu kills Cambodian boy (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The death of a boy of 12 in Cambodia and the case of a sick baby girl in Egypt underlined on Wednesday the threat posed to children by the bird flu virus.
'Bird flu kills 12-year-old in Cambodia (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Bird flu has killed a 12-year-old boy in Cambodia, the impoverished Southeast Asian nation's sixth victim, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.
'First H5N1 bird flu outbreak on German poultry farm (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The H5N1 bird flu virus has for the first time been detected on a poultry farm in Germany, the ministry for social affairs in the eastern state of Saxony said.
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