Malaysia testing 3 people for bird flu; says outbreak isolated
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia  - Malaysian officials on Saturday were testing three people who fell ill in a village hit by the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain, after international health officials warned that the virus appeared to be entrenched in parts of ...
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KAMPUNG PASIR PEKAN, Malaysia  - A teenager from the village at the center of a bird flu outbreak has been hospitalized with cold symptoms, Malaysia&#39;s health minister said on Friday, as poultry farmers counted their losses.
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Malaysia may place an entire state  under quarantine if an outbreak of bird flu blamed for the  deaths of 29 people in the region worsens, officials said on  Wednesday.
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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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Three Malaysians who became ill after an outbreak of deadly (H5N1) bird flu hit their northern village do not have the disease. The three were hospitalized as a precautionary measure after they came down with flu symptoms.
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The eight individuals in Pakistan who are suspected to have bird flu probably have a combination of infections from poultry and limited person-to-person transmission from close contact, a top World Health Organization expert said on Tuesday. Keiji Fukuda, coordinator of WHO's global influenza program, said while unconfirmed, any human-to-human spread seemed similar to previous outbreaks in Thailand and Indonesia -- affecting close family members caring for sick loved ones.
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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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Dead swallows discovered on an island in the disputed Spratly chain tested negative for bird flu Saturday, Malaysian authorities said, easing fears that the disease was spreading beyond a quarantined northern state.
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Three children of a Malaysian vet  have joined her in hospital for checks to see if they have bird  flu, state media reported on Sunday.
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KAMPUNG PASIR PEKAN, Malaysia  - Malaysia gassed  hundreds of screeching birds in a village near the Thai border  on Thursday, seeking a quick end to its first outbreak of bird  flu, a scourge that has killed 27 people in Southeast Asia this  year.
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Malaysia may take the  unprecedented step of placing an entire state under quarantine  if an outbreak of bird flu that has killed at least 28 people  in the region worsens, officials said on Wednesday.
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BANGKOK -- Thailand said yesterday it had found its first known probable case of a human infecting another with bird flu, but insisted it was an isolated incident that posed little risk to the greater population.
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Three out of four children tested for possible bird flu infection after the potentially lethal H5N1 strain of the virus resurfaced in Turkey do not have the disease, the health ministry has said.
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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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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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KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia discovered new cases of bird flu on Sunday within a quarantine area in northern Malaysia where workers have struggled for a month to eradicate the virus.
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Three children have been admitted to hospital in eastern Thailand with suspected bird flu, with one boy testing positive to the virus in an initial screening, officials said.