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- 'Deadly H5N1 bird flu virus continues to spread across the world: FAO (TurkishPress.com)
ROME - The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu continues to spread throughout Asia, Africa and Europe, threatening people, animals and economies, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned on Monday.
'Indonesia plays down likelihood of bird flu cluster (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Indonesian health authorities have played down the likelihood of a bird flu cluster case in an area in West Java where at least three people have been infected with the deadly virus.
'Woman's death brings bird flu toll to 46 (The Buffalo News)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A woman has died of bird flu in an Indonesian village where authorities were investigating a possible cluster of human cases of the H5N1 virus, a health official said Sunday.
'Vaccines Must Keep Pace With Bird Flu Virus Changes, WHO Says (Bloomberg.com)
Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Vaccines being prepared for a possible influenza pandemic need to keep pace with changes in the bird flu virus being detected in Asia that may spark the next human outbreak, the World Health Organization said.
'Celera takes aim at bird flu (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance)
The National Institutes of Health on Monday awarded a $900,000 grant to Celera Genomics to develop and commercialize a test for bird flu.
'Azerbaijan's veterinary body begins bird flu monitoring (Interfax)
BAKU. Aug 21. (Interfax) - The State Veterinary Service (SVS) of Azerbaijan started national monitoring in order to detect a possible bird flu virus.
'Deadly H5N1 bird flu virus continues to spread across the world: FAO (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu continues to spread throughout Asia, Africa and Europe, threatening people, animals and economies, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned.
'Bird flu update: 21 August 2006 (SciDev.net)
Below is a roundup of the key developments on the spread of the bird flu virus (H5N1) and the threat it poses to human health. Each title is a link to the full article.
'Russia slaps embargo on Dutch poultry over H7N7 bird flu infection (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Russia has imposed an embargo on poultry imports from the Netherlands following an outbreak earlier this month of a mild form of the H7N7 strain of bird flu, the agriculture ministry said.
'Human Bird Flu Cases Found This Year Equal 2005 Level (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)
Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Bird flu killed a 35-year-old woman in Indonesia, raising the number of cases worldwide this year to 95, the same number reported in the whole of 2005, as health authorities study whether the virus is spreading between humans.
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