Thousands of birds culled in India after 24 cases of bird flu reported

www.chinaview.cn 2009-02-26 17:27:36
NEW DELHI, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) — The Indian government has culled more than 8,000 birds in the east India’s Darjeeling area after 24cases of bird flu have been reported recently, government officials said on Thursday. The bird flu outbreak took place in Punding Forest of Darjeeling area, the Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying [...]

Students in detention: bird flu suspects

goggle translated
Students in detention »fevers» Beni Suef on suspicion of being b «avian flu»
  Omar Sheikh wrote 2-19-2009
Detained fevers Beni Suef hospital, the day before yesterday, Muhammad Azim «18 years» Albranqp students from the village, of the Center for Bba, on suspicion of being infected with bird flu, after the emergence of symptoms similar to [...]

Vietnam has new human bird flu case

Reporting by Nguyen Nhat Lam and Sugita Katyal
HANOI (Reuters) – A 23-year-old man has tested positive for the deadly H5N1 virus in northern Vietnam, a state-run newspaper reported on Saturday.
The online Lao Dong newspaper (www.laodong.com.vn) quoted health officials as saying the man from Dam Ha district in the northern province of Quang Ninh, about 150 [...]

Cilendek, Indonesia

two related deaths and there is a team taking samples of blood from symptomatic people in the radius of 1 km of these deaths in Cilendek: After the Death of casualties Suspect Bird Flu in Cilendek Department of Health took the Sample of Residents’ Blood 31-01-2009 15:08 WIB
Bogor – After the death two related Nurul [...]

Nepal: Smuggling of chicken on rise

Sarlahi, Jan 31 – Though the government has banned the import of fowls and fowl products from India after the detection of bird flu, a large number of chickens and eggs are being imported to Sarlahi from India daily.
They are being imported via Sangrampur and Parsa entry point of the district, it is said. The [...]

Sickened Vietnamese man suspected to have bird flu

Sickened Vietnamese man suspected to have bird flu
31 Jan 2009 03:54:38 GMT
Source: Reuters
HANOI, Jan 31 (Reuters) – A 32-year-old Vietnamese man has been hospitalised in the country’s southern Mekong Delta with pneumonia and doctors suspect he may have caught bird flu, a state-run newspaper said on Saturday.
Samples from the man in Vinh Long province suffering [...]

China moves quickly on bird flu outbreak

Facts of H5N1’s spread flowing freely this time
Jan 29, 2009 04:30 AM
Bill Schiller
ASIA BUREAU
BEIJING–For 19-year-old Huang Yanqing, it was like the onset of any flu, masked by the deceptive symptoms of the common cold.
It seemed harmless at the time, a consequence of nothing more than Beijing’s wintry weather.
But for Huang it would be deadly.
Just five [...]

Dead housemaid tests positive for bird flu

Indra Harsaputra ,  THE JAKARTA POST ,  SURABAYA   |  Thu, 01/29/2009 1:46 PM  |  The Archipelago
A housemaid who died from a lung infection at Dr. Soetomo General Hospital in Surabaya over the weekend was infected with Avian flu, the hospital revealed Wednesday.
Chairman of the Press Forum at state-run hospital Urip Murtedjo said Sunday that [...]

Belize Health Workers prepare for possible flu Pandemic

In Belize, like the rest of the world, health workers, including doctors, nurses, pharmacist and other health care providers are being educated on the pandemic influenza. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Belize Health Department are conducting a series of countrywide training workshops to strengthen the capacity of the health care system in order [...]

Nepal to establish lab to examine diseases

KATHMANDU, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) — Chief of Nepali Department of Livestock Services Pravakar Pathak has said the government was preparing to establish a sophisticated laboratory to examine diseases like bird flu in Nepal within the next two years, (Snip) “We have already signed an ‘Avian Influenza Control Project’ with the World Bank and the department [...]