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- 'Poultry farmer dies, chickens culled as bird flu hits India (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A poultry farmer has died suspected bird flu while health workers begin to carry out a mass culling of birds after India was hit by the deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu, officials say.
'Mass slaughter of fowl in India after bird flu outbreak reported (International Herald Tribune)
Wearing protective gloves and masks, health officials and farm workers slaughtered thousands of chickens in western India Sunday, a day after the country reported its first outbreak of bird flu.
'Bird Flu Reaches India; Deaths Top 90 Worldwide (Washington Post)
BOMBAY, Feb. 18 -- India reported its first case of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu Saturday after chickens were found to have died from the virus. A man in Indonesia also died from the disease, that country's 19th death, officials said.
'Bird flu spreads westwards, nations mobilise (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Lethal bird flu has continued its invasion of the European Union but there was better news from India where tests showed that a farm worker's death was not due to the H5N1 virus that causes the most dangerous form of the disease.
'India Begins Mass Bird Slaughter (Fox News)
Health officials in India began the slaugher of thousands of chickens following the country's first report of the deadly bird flu; meanwhile in Italy, at least seven birds have tested positive for the virus.
'India, France Confirm 1st Bird Flu Cases (AP via Yahoo! News)
India and France both confirmed their first outbreak of the deadly strain of bird flu among fowl, and on Sunday health officials and farm workers in western India began slaughtering a half-million birds to check the spread of the disease.
'Lethal bird flu strain spreads (CNN.com)
France and India say birds in thier countries have caught the lethal strain of H5N1 bird flu that is spreading around the world..
'Lethal bird flu strain spreads (CNN.com)
France says a dead duck has the lethal strain of H5N1 bird flu that is spreading around the world, as India says it is testing eight people for the illness and culling poultry.
'French poultry exports plunge on bird flu fears (AFP via Yahoo! News)
France, the world's fourth largest poultry exporter, has lost about a third of its trade over fears about the unrelenting spread of bird flu across the globe, industry officials say.
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