Bird flu outbreak plan 'in place'
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Plans are in place to deal with an outbreak of bird flu in Wales, says Environment Minister Carwyn Jones.
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The spread of bird flu among poultry has become "alarming" in Bangladesh as three more districts reported outbreaks at the weekend, leaving almost half the nation affected, an official said.
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The World Health Organization is warning countries experiencing outbreaks of bird flu (H5N1) in poultry to be aware that domestic ducks may be infecting humans, as well as other poultry with the bird flu virus.
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Health authorities are drawing up plans to ban public gatherings and close international airports and schools as part of a global strategy in the event of an influenza pandemic.
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Pakistan is urging provincial authorities to obey health guidelines to stop any bird flu outbreaks after fears lapses in poultry culling methods led to eight people being infected with the H5N1 virus.
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Restrictions are to be lifted at the Bernard Matthews plant in Suffolk which was at the centre of a bird flu outbreak.
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Kuala Lumpur (VNA) - Southeast Asian countries have endorsed a plan to combat bird flu that aims to prevent the disease from spreading and reduce its risk for human pandemic after a two-day meeting in Singapore .
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LONDON (Agence de Presse Medicale) - Britain's Health  Protection Agency said on Wednesday it had developed two  diagnostic tests to detect bird flu in case the outbreaks seen  in poultry spread to humans.
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The Agriculture Department cannot ensure its response plan for a bird flu outbreak will work, largely because many aspects of the plan have not been tested, an inspector general's report said Friday.
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Public health officials probing a bird flu outbreak on a farm said Sunday that 36 people could have been in contact with the disease.
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Experts stress that the UK outbreak of bird flu on a farm in Suffolk poses no immediate risk to human health.
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The bird flu virus endemic in Asia appears to be evolving in ways that increasingly favor the start of a deadly human influenza outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday.
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Every country in the world must come up urgently with a plan to deal with an inevitable influenza pandemic likely to be triggered by the bird flu virus that hit Asia this year, a top global health expert said on Friday.
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A series of measures are being taken to prevent animal epidemics since a bird flu outbreak in the country in the spring. Local governments have reinforced the monitoring of bird flu.
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Britain moved to complete a cull of  160,000 turkeys on Monday after it became the latest country  hit by a major outbreak of the deadly bird flu virus.
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Authorities are investigating a suspected bird disease outbreak at a farm in north Wales, the Welsh assembly said on Thursday.
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An outbreak of bird flu on a big English turkey farm should pose no risk to the public or to the poultry industry, a government minister said Monday as investigators continued trying to identify the source of the infection.