Australia equine flu spreads, more racing banned
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Australian authorities cancelled  thoroughbred racing in a second state on Tuesday, including the  iconic outback Birdsville races, as the nation&#39;s first outbreak  of equine flu spread.
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An eight-year-old Thai girl and a dog were confirmed to have been infected with Asia&#39;s deadly bird flu on Sunday as the country battled a second major outbreak of the virus this year, authorities said.
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Security at the Asia Pacific leaders summit in Sydney next week was dealt a blow on Tuesday when the city's mounted police horses were diagnosed with equine flu, ruling out a major crowd control measure.
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Hong Kong's government has ordered schools to step up precautions against influenza as another child came down with a mysterious respiratory infection.
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Ailing Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic on Friday withdrew from next week's ATP tournament here because of flu, organisers said.
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Australia's multi-billion dollar racing industry was plunged into turmoil on Saturday after an outbreak of equine influenza triggered a national lockdown.
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Racetracks across Australia were all but shut down Saturday, the country's richest horse race is in doubt and losses could total more than a billion dollars after an outbreak of equine influenza.
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Five nations have banned imports of UK poultry following the outbreak of bird flu on a Suffolk turkey farm.
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Russia and Japan banned British poultry imports as Britain pressed ahead with a cull of 160,000 turkeys after the nation's first outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu in farmed poultry.
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One of the world&#39;s largest manufactures of flu vaccine was banned from producing the vaccine yesterday, amid safety fears. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory
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Ban on farm-to-farm movements in Norfolk and Suffolk after new case of bluetongue disease is found.
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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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The state banned all live poultry sales and shows for the rest of July after avian flu antibodies were discovered in a flock of 54,000 turkeys on a Shenandoah County farm.
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An outbreak of equine influenza  hits Australia's horse-racing industry, causing meetings to be cancelled.
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Thailand plans to ban families from raising fowl in open-air farms in an attempt to stop the spread of the avian influenza virus, the government said, without providing any details on how it will implement the ban.
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Rowdy, a 4-year-old horse, got sick after splashing through the Santa Ana River on a training ride. He ran a high fever, moved feebly in his stall and just wanted to sleep &#151; all symptoms of West Nile virus.
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The racing office at Laurel Park bars horses shipping in to run from Virginia on Thursday, taking precaution against the spread of equine herpes virus.