Bird flu will be 'stamped out'
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Environment Secretary David Miliband says the government is determined to eradicate the bird flu outbreak.
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SINGAPORE hopes to decide by the end of the month when the ban on poultry imports from Johor and Malacca will be lifted. This was revealed even as fresh cases of bird flu were found yesterday
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The World Health Organisation believes domesticated ducks may be the main transmitters of the H5N1 bird flu virus that killed 32 people in Asia this year.
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The bird flu epidemic spreads  to half of Bangladesh, in what officials say is a major blow to the poultry industry.
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The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu which has killed at least 148 people is showing signs of being able to mutate and develop resistance to the most effective anti-viral drugs and any possible vaccines yet to be produced, a WHO scientist said Thursday.
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Domesticated ducks may be the main transmitters of the H5N1 bird flu virus that killed 32 people in two major outbreaks in Asia earlier this year, a senior World Health Organisation official said on Monday.
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KUALA LUMPUR - Three children exposed to the carcasses of culled chickens were hospitalised with flu-like symptoms on Wednesday as Malaysia mulled whether to widen a quarantine to cover an entire state near the Thai border to contain a spreading bird flu
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The World Health Organization or WHO warns that bird flu might be transmitted from ducks to humans, even though they show no external signs of having the disease.
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A recent case of bird flu Malaysia appears to be an isolated event, the World Health Organization says. Health officials have confirmed the case, found in the poultry of
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Four people have tested positive for bird flu linked to a low-risk strain found in chickens which died on a farm in north Wales, as samples were being taken Saturday from another farm in the area.
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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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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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The bird flu strain found at a farm in Suffolk may be the same as the one in Hungary, the government says.
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Hong Kong said on Monday it may ban shopkeepers slaughtering poultry after world health experts issued strong warnings that the deadly bird flu virus may trigger the next pandemic.
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The world should expect more bird flu outbreaks in the coming months, the U.N. official coordinating the global fight against the virus warned Sunday after Britain recorded its first case of the H5N1 strain on a commercial farm.
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BANGKOK, Thailand Officials of the World Health Organization say they fear the bird flu virus in Southeast Asia could become a worldwide pandemic capable of killing anywhere from two to seven (m) million people.
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Around 130 Bernard Matthews workers face being temporarily laid off in the wake of the bird flu outbreak, a union says.