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Bird Flu News:
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Deadly bird flu found in Czech swans
Date: 04/27/2006
Czech Republic authorities say 12 cases of bird flu found in dead wild swans have
been confirmed to be the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus. Thirteen EU countries
have now had confirmed outbreaks of bird flu, which has killed more than 100 people in Asia since 2003.
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Bird flu killed five young people in Azerbaijan
Date: 03/21/2006
on Tuesday the World Health Organization said that bird flu has killed five young people in Azerbaijan and that it
was investigating whether some of the victims could have been infected collecting feathers from dead swans.
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Pakistan confirms bird flu
Date: 03/21/2006
Pakistan on Tuesday became the latest country to confirm bird flu in two poultry flocks late last month was the H5N1 strain.
Fears are growing the H5N1 flu virus will mutate and pass easily from one person
to another but for the moment it remains hard for people to catch it from infected birds.
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Egyptian treat a women believed to be infected with the virus
Date: 03/21/2006
Egyptian treat a women believed to be infected with the virus. This would be
the country's third case in less than a week. Egypt's three suspected cases come from Qaloubiyah governorate.
The woman in the latest case had handled infected birds and had slaughtered some of them earlier this month.
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