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- 'Bird tests positive for West Nile (Mississauga News)
A dead crow found in Brampton is the first bird in Peel to test positive for West Nile Virus (WNV) this year. The bird was found last Wednesday. Two lab tests confirmed the crow was infected with WNV.
''Bird' Fidrych was workhorse in '76 (USA Today)
In 1976, a zany 21-year-old who looked like Big Bird and pitched like Cy Young became a national celebrity when he dazzled the baseball world by winning 19 games for the Detroit Tigers. It was the year of the Bicentennial and the summer of the Bird. Mark Fidrych talked to the baseball, patted the mound and threw strikes.
'Volunteers to monitor bird flu in Bangkok (MCOT)
BANGKOK, Aug 11 (TNA) - Thailand's Public Health Minister Sudarat Keyuraphan on Friday targeted a goal to mobilize some 7,500 volunteers this month to search for sick chickens and humans across Bangkok after the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu virus recently re-emerged to infect the country's poultry and killed a teenaged boy in the lower North.
'Medical Experts Split Over How to Divide Up Bird Flu Vaccine in Pandemic (RedNova)
If a deadly bird flu pandemic ever materializes
'Bird flu kills 44th victim in Indonesia (Sun-Sentinel)
Indonesia, which has the highest human death toll from bird flu, reported its 44th fatality after tests confirmed the virus killed a 17-year-old girl.
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