W Bengal bird flu 'is spreading'
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Bird flu spreads in the Indian state of West Bengal, as authorities battle to cull birds and control the outbreak.
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Health officials Thursday investigated new bird deaths in eastern India to check whether bird flu was spreading to additional areas despite a poultry cull aimed at curbing the disease.
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Vietnam&#39;s top veterinary official warned yesterday of the dangers of bird flu spreading on a large scale over the holiday season running up through Tet, or Lunar New Year.
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A fatally ill Thai girl probably spread deadly bird flu to her relatives last year in what would mark the first documented case of human-to-human transmission of the feared virus, medical investigators said on Monday.
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KOLKATA, India  - Veterinary staff in eastern India are capturing chickens in night-time raids on the backyards of homes to surprise villagers unwilling to part with their poultry as an outbreak of bird flu spread.
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A young woman who died in Bangkok 10 days ago appears to have had the first confirmed case of person-to-person transmission of the "bird flu" that emerged in Southeast Asia last winter.
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KUALA LUMPUR : Malaysia has detected three new outbreaks of bird flu in northeast Kelantan state, one of which is outside a quarantine zone around the first village hit by the deadly virus, officials said Tuesday.
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A fatally ill Thai girl probably spread  deadly bird flu to her relatives last year in what would mark  the first documented case of human-to-human transmission of the  feared virus, medical investigators said on Monday.
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BEIJING/KUALA LUMPUR  - The discovery of a deadly  bird flu strain in Malaysia after cases elsewhere in Southeast  Asia signaled a major winter outbreak was likely, international  health experts said on Friday.
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Pakistan and South Korea reported new  bird flu cases in poultry on Saturday, underlining findings by  the United Nations that this season's wave of the virus came  mostly from reared rather than migratory birds.
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Officials are concerned about the possible spread of serious ailments such as cholera, typhoid and malaria and also issued warnings about the bird flu virus.
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The Indian government confirmed on Tuesday that the latest outbreak of bird flu in poultry in the country's east was of the virulent H5N1 strain.
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Health and veterinary workers in Bangladesh have culled nearly 25,000 fowls after bird flu was confirmed at three poultry farms in the country, officials said on Thursday.
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Pakistan and South Korea reported new bird flu cases in poultry on Saturday, underlining findings by the United Nations that this season's wave of the virus came mostly from reared rather than migratory birds.
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Ducks also spread bird flu, increasing  the risk to humans from a virus that has killed 32 people in  Thailand and Vietnam this year, the World Health Organization  (WHO) said on Friday.
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International health experts have been dispatched to Pakistan to help investigate the cause of South Asia's first outbreak of bird flu in people and determine if the virus could have been transmitted through human contact, officials said Sunday.
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Authorities in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal begin investigating the death of thousands of poultry birds.