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Indonesia confirms bird flu death

A 19-year-old woman has died of bird flu in Indonesia, raising the total death toll to five, officials say. The woman's nephew, who lived with her in Jakarta, has also been confirmed as suffering from the virus.

Indonesia now has nine confirmed cases, and health officials fear that a nurse involved in the care of the latest casualty may have caught it too. The announcement comes as the World Bank plans to provide up to $500m to help poor countries fighting bird flu.

Source: BBC News
Date: 05-11-05
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U.S. plan paints frightening bird flu picture

WASHINGTON, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Nearly two million dead. Schools and public transit closed for days or even weeks. Hospitals overwhelmed. This frightening picture of an influenza pandemic is envisaged in the official U.S. plan released this week.

H5N1 avian influenza has killed 62 people and infected at least 122 since 2003 -- hardly an alarming number. But the virus is sweeping through poultry flocks and has moved into birds in Europe.

Source: Reuters
Date: 03-11-05
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Woman in Thailand has bird flu

Thailand has confirmed another human case of bird flu, as regional experts met in Australia to discuss the virus. Health officials said a 50-year-old woman near Bangkok had tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain, the third human case in Thailand this month.

"She became infected while cleaning the area where her backyard chickens live," a government health official said. Representatives from 21 nations congregated in Brisbane to discuss how to control the spread of the disease.

Source: BBC News
Date: 31-10-05
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Sri Lanka halts poultry imports

Sri Lanka has extended a ban to cover all poultry imports following the outbreak of bird flu in eastern Europe and parts of Asia. The country has never recorded a case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus.

But Sri Lanka has increased checks on poultry farms and bird populations following the bird flu outbreak. The government says necessary measures have been taken to prevent the virus entering the country through migratory birds, which have started to arrive.

Source: BBC News
Date: 28-10-05
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Bird flu: Country preparations

The spread of bird flu has forced countries around the world to look at how they would tackle an outbreak. Many have also developed plans to protect against the possibility that the virus will start to spread between humans.

The World Health Organization recommends countries should stockpile enough anti-viral drugs to cope with a pandemic, which it estimates would affect 25% of the population, but warns that developing countries in particular are likely to fall well short.

Source: BBC News
Date: 27-10-05
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Firms' threat to limit bird flu vaccine

The makers of flu vaccine yesterday threatened not to produce enough bird flu vaccine to deal with an outbreak unless ministers agreed to buy more of their products.

Richard Stubbins, of the UK Vaccine Industry Group, told a House of Lords select committee that it was "unreasonable" for the Government to expect the industry to build new plants to produce enough vaccine for a pandemic then mothball them.

Source: The Telegraph
Date: 26-10-05
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EU bans imports of exotic birds

The European Union has banned imports of captive live birds - but not poultry - from other countries in an effort to curb the spread of bird flu. The decision was backed by a committee of EU veterinarians, officials said.

Fears of infection arriving via pet birds rose after a parrot died of the H5N1 strain - potentially deadly to humans - while in quarantine in the UK.

Source: BBC News
Date: 25-10-05
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Sweden finds first bird flu case

Sweden has become the latest European country to report a case of bird flu. The country's National Veterinary Institute said the virus was found on a duck in Eskilstuna, west of the capital, Stockholm.

Additional tests were being carried out to determine what strain was involved, the NVI said in a statement.

Source: BBC News
Date: 22-10-05
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Taiwan to ignore flu drug patent

Taiwan has responded to bird flu fears by starting work on its own version of the anti-viral drug, Tamiflu, without waiting for the manufacturer's consent.

Taiwan officials said they had applied for the right to copy the drug - but the priority was to protect the public. Tamiflu, made by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche, cannot cure bird-flu but is widely seen as the best anti-viral drug to fight it, correspondents say.

Source: BBC News
Date: 21-10-05
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Avian flu found in parrot in UK

A parrot that died in quarantine in the UK has tested positive for avian flu, the government has said. A highly pathogenic H5 strain of the disease has been found, but it is not known if it is the H5N1 variant which has killed at least 60 people in Asia.

Because the bird - imported from south America - was in quarantine, the UK's disease-free status is not affected. Meanwhile, poultry imports from Croatia are being banned by the EU after the virus was found in six swans there.

Source: BBC News
Date: 21-10-05
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EU plans fight against flu threat

European countries must work together to plan how they would deal with a flu pandemic, EU health ministers said.

At a meeting in the UK, it was confirmed all member states would be responsible for drawing up their own plans and antiviral drug stockpiles.

Source: BBC News
Date: 20-10-05
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Bird flu fear grips Europe, Asia

Several nations in Europe and Asia are reporting new cases of the lethal H5N1 bird flu strain among poultry, sparking new fears that humans could be at risk.

Fresh outbreaks have been reported in Romania and Russia. China says it has lost thousands of fowl to the virus.

Source: BBC News
Date: 19-10-05
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Second Romanian bird flu outbreak

The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected in a second location in Romania, officials have revealed.

Samples from the village of Maliuc tested positive for the virus. It follows an outbreak in Ceamurlia de Jos, also in Romania's Danube delta.

Meanwhile initial tests detected the same deadly strain in Tula in Russia, where hundreds of birds have died.

Source: BBC News
Date: 19-10-05
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EU urges global bird flu response

A bird flu pandemic is a global threat needing a co-ordinated international response, EU foreign ministers say. They issued a statement following a meeting that came hours after Greece became the first member of the bloc to confirm a case of bird flu.

But EU health chief Markos Kyprianou stressed the presence of bird flu in Europe did not mean there would be a human influenza pandemic.

Source: BBC News
Date: 18-10-05
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Bird flu is confirmed in Greece

Greece has become the latest country to report a case of bird flu as the virus appears to spread across Europe. The country's agriculture ministry said a form of the virus had been found in a turkey on a farm on the Aegean Sea island of Oinouses.

Twelve swans have also tested positive for bird flu in a second cluster in Romania. And the European Commission has ordered urgent tests on dead birds found in Croatia.

Source: BBC News
Date: 17-10-05
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Case of bird flu drug resistance

A Vietnamese patient has become partially resistant to the antiviral drug experts plan to use to tackle a human bird flu outbreak.

The UK government has ordered 14.6m doses of Tamiflu, but the Nature report suggests this may not be effective enough if an outbreak does happen.

Source: BBC News
Date: 14-10-05
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Business prepares for avian flu pandemic

It is only a matter of time before bird flu hits the world of commerce.

Not necessarily as a result of a pandemic, a scenario that might never happen, but rather because business is a confidence game that relies entirely on the emotional responses of investors and consumers.

Source: BBC News
Date: 14-10-05
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Public urged to be calm over flu

People should not panic after the discovery of a deadly form of avian flu among birds in Turkey, the UK government has said.

The Department of Health stressed its advice on who should be vaccinated against flu was unchanged.

Source: BBC News
Date: 14-10-05
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Turkey bird flu is deadly strain

EU states have been urged to stockpile anti-viral drugs after confirmation that the bird flu virus found in Turkey is the H5N1 strain dangerous to humans.

The European Union should be ready for a potential flu pandemic, said Health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou.

Source: BBC News
Date: 13-10-05
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Scientists bring back deadliest virus in history

The deadliest virus on record has been resurrected from a strain of influenza that was preserved in the frozen body of a victim of the 1918 pandemic and triggered a row about whether the benefits of its recreation outweigh the risks.

The replica 1918 "Spanish flu" virus revealed today in the journal Science shows how the pandemic was caused by a strain of bird flu against which humans had no immunity. The virus penetrated deep into the lungs and killed 50 million people worldwide.

Bush in Bird Flu Vaccine Meeting

US President George W Bush is meeting vaccine manufacturers in the White House amid increasing fears of a worldwide outbreak of avian flu.

The meeting comes as an international conference in Washington tries to find a global approach to any pandemic.

Bird flu 'could kill 150m people'

A flu pandemic could happen at any time and kill between 5-150 million people, a UN health official has warned.

David Nabarro, who is charged with co-ordinating responses to bird flu, said a mutation of the virus affecting Asia could trigger new outbreaks.

Bird flu - the human toll

Countries around the world are beginning to brace themselves to deal with the spread of avian flu, which is threatening to break away from its original "hotspot" of south-east Asia.

Outbreaks of the latest H5N1 strain among birds were first spotted in Vietnam and Thailand in 2003, and have since spread to several other countries in the region, claiming 60 human lives, although the disease generally still does not transmit easily to humans.

World slow to face bird flu threat

Plans for a global response to a mass outbreak of bird flu in humans are taking shape, but are far from complete.

Public health experts and epidemiologists are issuing shrill warnings about the dangers a pandemic would pose to human health around the world.

BBC News - Q&A: Avian flu

The growing number of cases of avian influenza, or bird flu, in Asian countries is causing increasing concern.

But what is the disease and what are the possible risks to humans?

Source: Telegraph
Date: 10-10-05
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