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- 'S. Korea finds new bird flu case (CNN.com)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korean quarantine officials began slaughtering hundreds of thousands of poultry after a fresh outbreak of bird flu in a province near the South Korean capital, the agriculture ministry said Saturday.
'Poultry trade spreads bird flu: U.N. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Bird flu, transmitted last season by migrating wild birds, is increasingly spread through the poultry trade, a U.N. expert said.
'Turkish children test negative for bird flu (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Three out of four children have tested for possible bird flu infection after the potentially lethal H5N1 strain of the virus resurfaced in Turkey do not have the disease, the health ministry has said.
'Bird flu spreads to sixth South Korean farm (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Bird flu has spread to a sixth farm in South Korea, despite government efforts to contain the deadly virus by culling more than two million birds, officials have said.
'Hungary denies UK bird flu link (BBC News)
Hungary says there is no evidence a UK bird flu outbreak was caused by poultry from the country.
'Hawaii's bird habitats most threatened (AP via Yahoo! News)
Hawaiian forests are the nation's most threatened bird habitats, according to a report released Thursday by American Bird Conservancy. "Saving these species is important but meaningless if the habitats they come from are also not protected," said Alan Lieberman, director of the Hawaiian Endangered Bird Conservation Program for the San Diego Zoo.
'Bird flu reported in Pakistan capital (AP via Yahoo! News)
The deadly H5N1 stain of bird flu has been confirmed at a home in the Pakistani capital, the third such case in about a week. But the virus has not affected any one in the country, an official said Saturday.
'Latest bird flu blamed on bird trading (AP via Yahoo! News)
Experts suspect the current spread of bird flu in Asia, Africa and Europe is mainly a result of trade in infected live birds rather than transmission through wild birds, the U.N. official coordinating the global fight against avian influenza said Friday.
'S.Korea, Pakistan report new bird flu cases (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Pakistan and South Korea reported new bird flu cases in poultry on Saturday, underlining findings by the United Nations that this season's wave of the virus came mostly from reared rather than migratory birds.
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