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- 'Indonesia begins campaign to clear capital of fowl as bird flu cases spike (The Star Online)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP): Residents handed over hundreds of chickens and other fowl for slaughter Friday as authorities in Indonesia's capital scrambled to stop the spread of bird flu after a spike in human deaths.
'Bird flu mutation hints of resistance (Boston Globe)
Britain LONDON -- Mutations in the bird flu virus have been found in two infected people in Egypt, the World Health Organization said yesterday. The mutations in the H5N1 virus strain were not so drastic to make it infectious enough to spark a pandemic, officials said. Samples taken from two patients who died in December -- a 16-year-old girl and ...
'Indonesia Orders Mass Bird Slaughter to Address Flu Spike (Fox News)
Hundreds of Indonesians submit their backyard chickens to authorities for killing; Asian nation has experienced 61 human bird flu deaths since 2004, the most in the world.
'Jakarta expands backyard bird ban (CNN.com)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) -- Indonesia will expand a ban on backyard poultry in the capital to eight other provinces in an attempt to stem a new flare-up of bird flu, the health minister said on Thursday.
'Bird flu mutations found (AP via Yahoo! News)
Mutations in the bird flu virus have been found in two infected people in Egypt, in a form that might be resistant to the medication most commonly used to treat the deadly disease, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
'Sailor's death 'not due to bird flu' (The Nation)
The Vietnamese crew member feared to have died of bird flu while his boat was en route to Thailand was very unlikely to have had the virus, the Public Health Ministry said yesterday, citing a preliminary disease investigation.
'Moderately drug resistant form of bird flu detected in Egypt: WHO (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Two human cases of H5N1 bird flu reported in Egypt last month had a mutated form of the virus that reduces the effect of treatment with the frontline anti-flu drug Tamiflu, the World Health Organisation said.
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