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- 'Bird flu hits sixth province in Vietnam's Mekong delta (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Bird flu has spread to a sixth province in southern Vietnam, officials have said, after the virus killed over 800 ducks on a farm in the Mekong Delta.
'Bird Flu Claims Lives, Ways of Life in Asia (Washington Post)
HONG KONG, Jan. 13 -- Something was strange about the little brown bird found dead from bird flu in one of Hong Kong's busiest shopping districts.
'Hong Kong Has Second H5 Bird Flu Case in Two Weeks (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)
Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) -- A dead Hong Kong bird was found to have the H5 avian influenza virus, the city's second case in two weeks. The bird was found in the city's Shek Kip Mei area, a spokesman for Hong Kong's Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said in a statement yesterday.
'Ritual raises bird flu fears (The Santa Rosa Press Democrat)
HONG KONG - Something was strange about the little brown bird found dead from bird flu in one of Hong Kong's busiest shopping districts. The scaly breasted munia usually lives in rural areas of the territory.
'Bird Flu Infects Indonesian Teenager, Creating New H5N1 Cluster (Bloomberg.com)
Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Bird flu infected an 18-year-old man in Indonesia whose mother died of the disease three days ago, creating a new cluster of infections that doctors are monitoring for signs the virus is becoming more adept at infecting humans.
'Bird flu hits seventh province in southern Vietnam (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Bird flu has killed poultry in a seventh province in southern Vietnam, state media said, describing the spread of the disease across the Mekong Delta as alarming.
'Bird flu spreads to sixth Vietnamese province (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters HANOI, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Bird flu has been confirmed in poultry in a sixth Vietnamese province despite efforts by the government to stop it spreading. The Animal Health Department said in a report ...
'Hong Kong confirms bird flu case (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A dead bird found in Hong Kong has tested positive for a milder strain of the bird flu virus, the city's health authorities said.
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