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Canada quarantines chicken farm infected with bird flu
Canadian health officials have quarantined another poultry farm found to be infected with bird flu, authorities said.
Apr 19, 2015
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Bird flu outbreak could head eastward with fall migration
Eastern U.S. poultry producers are bracing for the potential arrival of a deadly bird flu virus outbreak that farmers in the Midwest have struggled to stop.
Apr 15, 2015
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Bird flu confirmed at four more Minnesota turkey farms
A deadly bird flu strain was confirmed Friday at four more turkey farms in Minnesota, raising the number of farms affected in the country's top turkey-producing state to 13 and the toll at farms across the Midwest to over ...
Apr 10, 2015
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Canada expands turkey farm quarantine to stem bird flu
Canadian health officials broadened a quarantine around two turkey farms to nine Wednesday, after H5 bird flu was detected in one of them.
Apr 8, 2015
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Circulation of highly pathogenic avian flu in North American birds
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5 viruses of Eurasian origin continue to circulate and evolve in North American wild birds.
Apr 2, 2015
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Experts sound warning over flu dangers in China, India
Scientists sounded warnings Wednesday over H7N9 bird flu in China and the H1N1 strain of swine flu in India that have jointly claimed more than 1,700 lives.
Mar 11, 2015
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Study shows two new flu strains do not yet easily infect humans
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have analyzed a key protein from two influenza strains that recently began causing sporadic infections among people in China and Taiwan.
Mar 11, 2015
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Bird flu confirmed at second turkey farm in Missouri
A bird flu deadly to poultry has been confirmed at a second turkey farm in Missouri, and state agriculture leaders are making efforts to stop the spread of the virus.
Mar 10, 2015
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New compound protects 100 percent of ferrets, mice, from H5N1
Since 2003, the H5N1 influenza virus, more commonly known as the bird flu, has been responsible for the deaths of millions of chickens and ducks and has infected more than 650 people, leading to a 60 percent mortality rate ...
Mar 3, 2015
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H5N1 bird flu spreads to 11 states in Nigeria: govt
Nigeria on Thursday confirmed that the H5N1 strain of bird flu has spread from seven to 11 states within a week, resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of poultry but no human cases.
Jan 29, 2015
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