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The Best Way To Avoid The Dangers Of Bird Flu (Avian)
Look After Your Health. The threat of a Bird Flu Pandemic. The threat to the world from Bird Flu is more serious now, than it was when I wrote my first article on the subject in May, 2005. entitled "Will Avian Flu Become Pandemic" since then it has spread to numerous other countries, but, thankfully at this stage it has not, as yet, mutated...

Bird Flu Is In The U.S.!
In that great Hitchcock thriller, the birds start attacking Tippi Hedron (Melanie Griffith's mom, for trivia fans) in Mendocino for no particular reason. Today, Ms. Hedron works actively in films, international relief efforts and for animal causes. She may get an ironic opportunity to combine her charity works with birds again, because scientists...

H5N1 - The Bird Flu Pandemic Threat
Bird Flu is nothing new. There are actually many different kinds of bird flu caused by any one of the 20 strains of influenza virus mostly affecting chickens, ducks, turkeys, and other birds. The type of avian influenza which has scientists worried and reported recently in the news is called "H5N1". Scientists have discovered that the H5N1 bird...



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Bird flu outbreak in Romania, near Ukraine - EU (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters (Adds detail) BRUSSELS, March 16 (Reuters) - Romania has identified an outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm close to Ukraine and enforced a 20 kilometre-wide surveillance zone around it, the ...

Romania reports bird flu outbreak - EU exec (The Star)
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Romania has identified an outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm and taken steps to control its spread, the European Union's executive said on Tuesday.

Bird flu hits northern province of Vietnam (People's Daily)
Bird flu is occurring in the northern province Bac Ninh of Vietnam, raising the total number of affected provinces in the country to six, according to the Department of Animal Health of Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Monday. The bird flu struck a local farm of Bac Ninh province, causing 200 fowls out of 400 die, said the department. Samples of death fowls were tested ...