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- 'Dead Bird Tests Positive For West Nile (KGTV TheSanDiegoChannel.com via Yahoo! News)
For the first time this year in San Diego County, a dead bird has tested positive for the mosquito-borne West Nile virus.
'Worried EU to launch awareness campaign on bird flu (AFP via Yahoo! News)
European Union health ministers agreed to launch a public awareness campaign on bird flu to stem fears over the virus as it spreads across the continent.
'Bird flu could spread around the world: veterinary chief (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Bird flu could spread around the world, according to a warning from the head of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), the global watchdog for veterinary standards in farm trade.
'Bird flu virus can be contained but not eradicated: EU commissioner (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The bird flu virus cannot be eradicated in wild birds and is likely to be around for some time, EU health commissioner Markos Kyprianou warned.
'Poll: Bird flu worries 60 percent in U.S. (CNN.com)
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Nearly 60 percent of Americans are concerned about bird flu, but fewer than one-third think it will show up in the United States this year, according to a new poll.
'Bird Flu Reported at French Turkey Farm (AP via Yahoo! News)
France confirmed cases of bird flu on a turkey farm, but it was not immediately clear whether it was the deadly H5N1 strain, the agriculture minister said Friday.
'Europe braces for first bird flu in farmed poultry (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Europe was bracing for its first case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in farm poultry as tests were being carried out to establish if 400 turkeys on a farm in France had died of the strain.
'S.Korea says humans infected with bird flu 2003-04 (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Four South Koreans were infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in late 2003 and early 2004 but none of them developed any serious illnesses, a South Korean health official said on Friday.
'S. Koreans not ill, but had bird flu (International Herald Tribune)
Four poultry workers infected with the bird flu virus between late 2003 and early 2004, the first known cases of the strain spreading to humans in the country, did not become ill.
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