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- 'China Confirms 19th Human Bird Flu Case (Medical News Today)
Chinese authorities have confirmed that a 31-year-old truck driver from Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, near Hong Kong, is infected with the bird flu H5N1 virus strain. The Ministry of Health says this is the country's 19th confirmed human case of bird flu infection. The patient showed bird flu like symptoms on June 9. [click link for full article]
'Deadly bird flu virus confirmed in large Hungarian poultry farm (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The deadly H5N1 bird flu strain has been confirmed for the first time in a large poultry rearing region of Hungary by a European Union laboratory, veterinary officials said here Friday.
'Bird flu may have become more virulent: Hong Kong's health chief (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Bird flu may have become more virulent, increasing the risk to humans, Hong Kong's health chief has warned following the latest infection in a neighbouring Chinese city.
'Officials: Nesting bird to keep off-road vehicles off major beach (Boston Globe)
Officials trying to protect a threatened bird plan to ban off-road vehicles from a major stretch of a Cape beach for a month.
'Canada Probes Bird Flu-Infected Gosling for Lethal H5N1 Virus (Bloomberg.com)
June 17 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian officials are investigating a gosling infected with bird flu on a farm on Prince Edward Island to determine whether it might represent the country's first outbreak of the lethal H5N1 strain.
'An early bird in China shows evolution (International Herald Tribune)
Filling a gap in the evolution of birds, scientists have dug up fossils of a bird that lived 110 million years ago and looked remarkably like a small modern-day waterfowl.
'H5 bird flu virus detected in Canadian goose (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A case of H5 bird flu virus has been detected in a Canadian poultry flock, and further testing will be done to determine whether it is the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain, officials said.
'Officials: Nesting bird to keep off-road vehicles off major beach (WFSB 3)
ORLEANS, Mass. -- Officials trying to protect a threatened bird plan to ban off-road vehicles from a major Cape beach for a month.
'Hungary poultry bird flu confirmed as H5N1 (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
A bird flu virus found in poultry in Hungary last week was the highly infectious H5N1 strain which is also dangerous for humans, chief veterinarian Miklos Suth said on Friday.
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