Malaysia Confirms Deadly Bird Flu Strain; Culls Birds
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KAMPUNG PASIR PEKAN, Malaysia  - A strain of bird  flu blamed for 27 deaths in Asia this year has been found in  Malaysia, the government said on Thursday, as hundreds of birds  were gassed and their carcasses burned to contain the outbreak.
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BERLIN -- Tests have found that birds at a poultry farm in southern Germany died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, and some 160,000 birds were being slaughtered as a precaution, authorities said.
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Six people caught the deadly strain of bird flu in northern Pakistan last month and at least one person with the disease has died, the government said Saturday.
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The Chinese Government says tests have found that its pigs are clear of a highly virulent strain of bird flu. The statement comes several days after a Chinese scientist said cases of the H5N1 strain of the
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Malaysia has detected a new outbreak of bird flu in a village in northeast Kelantan state, the sixth to be hit by the deadly virus in a month, officials have announced.
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HANOI/KUALA LUMPUR  - Malaysia declared itself  free of bird flu on Thursday, but another death prompted  Vietnam to step up its fight against the virus that has killed  34 people across Asia and ravaged the region's poultry  industry.
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Malaysia announced on Monday its second outbreak of deadly bird flu in three weeks, near a northern village close to the border with Thailand where the disease was first detected.
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KAMPUNG PASIR PEKAN, Malaysia  - A strain of bird  flu blamed for 27 deaths in Asia this year has been found in  Malaysia for the first time, the government said on Thursday as  hundreds of birds were culled to contain the outbreak.
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Kuala Lumpur (VNA) - Malaysia&#39;s Animal Health Service on Tuesday reported that the country has discovered three more bird flu outbreaks in Kelantan State in the northeastern region.
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Officials confirmed Saturday that the H5N1 strain of bird flu had been found in turkeys on a commercial farm &#151; Britain's first mass outbreak of the disease that has ravaged Asia's poultry stocks and killed more than 160 people worldwide.
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A deadly strain of bird flu has been found in nine species of wild birds in Thailand, an official said Tuesday. The discovery comes amid worries that the H5N1 virus could mutate to a form that could spread
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Malaysia reported a second  outbreak of bird flu on Monday, setting back efforts to clear  the country of a virus that has killed dozens of people in Asia  and ravaged its poultry industry.
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Kuwait's health ministry on Monday confirmed outbreaks of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, potentially fatal to humans, at a zoo and a farm in the south of the country, the first in two years.
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MALAYSIA slaughtered hundreds of chickens and other birds today to contain the country&#39;s second outbreak of deadly bird flu in three weeks.
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KUALA LUMPUR - Two chickens that died in a village in Kelantan had the deadly strain of bird flu which killed 27 people in Asia earlier this year, Malaysian authorities confirmed yesterday.
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Malaysia says it has found a new outbreak of bird flu outside a 10-kilometer quarantine zone imposed around the first village hit in the latest wave of the virus.
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A wild bird which died of avian flu in Hong Kong is being tested for the lethal strain that has killed 32 people in Southeast Asia this year.