Village ways fuel bird flu spread in rural Egypt
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EZBET SIDI OMAR, Egypt  - When Attia Abdel-Hamid Hassan notices the chickens or ducks that he keeps at home in Egypt's Nile Delta starting to wobble on their feet, he puts them in a sack and drowns them in an irrigation canal.
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When Attia Abdel-Hamid  Hassan notices the chickens or ducks that he keeps at home in  Egypt&#39;s Nile Delta starting to wobble on their feet, he puts  them in a sack and drowns them in an irrigation canal.
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BANGKOK, Thailand Sept. 30, 2004 - Millions of volunteers led by emergency teams fanned out across Thailand on Thursday in a new drive to fight bird flu after the prime minister gave officials 30 days to eradicate the epidemic.
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Outfitting swans with super-light   Teflon backpacks containing solar-powered GPS satellite   transmitters is the latest way scientists and researchers are   trying to fight the spread of avian influenza.
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HOLTON, England -- Britain scrambled to contain its first outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu in domestic poultry yesterday after the virus was found at a farm run by Europe's biggest turkey producer.
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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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An outbreak of avian influenza (&#39;bird flu&#39;) among villagers in Thailand is raising fresh fears that spread of the virus, which kills 75 per cent of people it infects, could, at least in principle, reach pandemic proportions.
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Poultry products from Hungary were the most likely cause of the outbreak of a potentially lethal H5N1 bird flu at a turkey farm in Suffolk, the government has said.
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KOLKATA, India  - India has put 26 people in isolation with bird flu symptoms and hundreds more people are being monitored, officials said on Friday as Pakistan and Thailand reported outbreaks of bird flu in poultry.
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BANGKOK, Thailand Sept. 28, 2004 - A woman who died earlier this month of bird flu probably got the disease from her daughter, a Thai official said Tuesday, increasing concern the case is the first known human-to-human transmission of the disease.
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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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A 37-year-old Egyptian woman tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus and European officials on Wednesday debated whether they needed to take more action after an outbreak of the virus in British turkeys.
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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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KOLKATA, India  - Indian health workers urged villagers at the centre of a bird flu outbreak to stop dumping dead fowl in ponds on Friday, as ignorance about the virus hampers efforts to contain its spread.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia  - A farm near the Cambodian capital was closed after about 2,300 chickens died of Avian flu - apparently the first cases of the disease in the country following an epidemic in Asia earlier this year.
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An Egyptian woman dies of bird flu, bringing the number of confirmed deaths from the virus in Egypt to 18.
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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.