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	CIDRAP >> Avian flu confirmed in Afghanistan, Myanmar
		The story said the FAO warned last month that avian flu would be "virtually unavoidable" in Afghanistan because of its location on bird migration routes.
		Pakistani officials are awaiting confirmatory test results from a European Union laboratory and have said the virus is highly likely to be H5N1, according to the AFP report.
		Initial tests pointed to avian flu in the deaths of hundreds of poultry in a kibbutz in southern Israel, AFP reported.
	www.cidrap.umn.edu /cidrap/content/influenza/avianflu/news/mar1606afghan.html (505 words)

	Import of red meat from India increases -DAWN - Top Stories; March 24, 2006
		Pakistan said on Tuesday that tests confirmed the dreaded H5N1 virus was present in samples from birds at two farms where avian flu had been detected on Feb 27.
		Pakistani traders import Indian red meat at 75 rupees a kg, and another 30 rupees is added to the cost by the time it reaches a middleman and a further 25 rupees when it lands up at the butcher’s shop.
		Pakistan’s daily chicken consumption, before the bird flu scare, was up to 3 million and egg consumption was 16.2 million.
	www.dawn.com /2006/03/24/top5.htm (543 words)

	U.S. prepares bird-flu plan for approval - Boston.com
		In the event of a bird flu outbreak, U.S. money could be produced overseas and Americans checked in drive-through medical exams for signs of infection, according to government plans being finalized.
		Pakistani workers feed chickens at a poultry farm adjacent to a shed where an outbreak of H5N1 strain of bird flu was found in Sihala near Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, April 16, 2006.
		Pakistan's second outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain was confirmed Sunday at a poultry farm near the capital, the agriculture ministry said.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2006/04/16/us_bird_flu_plan_prepared_for_approval (470 words)

	Bird flu update: 8 May 2006 - SciDev.Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Pakistani poultry farmers have sought a ten-year tax exemption to support their dwindling business after the detection of the H5N1 strain of bird flu triggered a fall in demand and prices (Source: India eNews.com).
		Only half the world's human bird flu cases are being reported to the WHO within two weeks of being detected, a response time that must be improved to avert a pandemic, a senior WHO official has said (Source: ABC News).
		A leading flu expert warned the scientific community on Wednesday against blaming the spread of the deadly H5N1 virus on wild migratory birds, saying more studies should be done on the role of poultry and its movement around the world (Source: Reuters).
	www.scidev.net /content/news/eng/bird-flu-update-8-may-2006.cfm (1254 words)

	Is it Cold or Flu
		The flu is caused by influenza viruses that spread during the winter months, and a mild case of the flu can seem a lot like a cold.
		The most distinguishing characteristic of the flu is the sudden onset of symptoms, including headache, fever, chills, muscle aches, cough and sore throat.
		Otherwise, the goal in dealing with a cold or the flu is to make your child as comfortable as possible during the illness.
	www.contactpakistan.com /Communitylibrary/general/health/general/article18.htm (451 words)

	Bird flu update: 24 April 2006 - SciDev.Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Bird flu infections pass 200 says UN The number of people worldwide who have been infected with the deadly H5N1 strain bird flu since 2003 has risen to 204, the UN health agency said (Source: CBS News).
		The spread of bird flu poses serious risks to biodiversity, say scientists who have detailed an outbreak of the virus in Owston's civets, a small endangered mammal that lives in the forests of Vietnam, Laos and southern China (Source: BBC Online).
		US authorities are proposing to ban the use of human antiviral drugs in farm animals, to reduce the likelihood that drug-resistant strains of the avian flu virus emerge (Source: The Christian Science Monitor).
	www.scidev.net /news/index.cfm?fuseaction=printarticle&itemid=2795&language=1 (706 words)

	Pakistani capital shaken, stirred over bird flu - Boston.com
		On Tuesday, Pakistani authorities confirmed that the number of poultry farms infected with the deadly H5N1 virus near the capital had risen to 11, and tests are pending on a handful of others.
		They were all in Tarlai and Sihala, two neighborhoods where there is a concentration of small farms supplying eggs and meat to Islamabad and adjacent Rawalpindi.
		Plummeting prices for chicken meat also showed Pakistanis were shunning one of their favorite foods.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2006/04/25/pakistani_capital_shaken_stirred_over_bird_flu (593 words)

	Twenty militants, Pakistani soldier killed in clashes
		Pakistani troops and helicopter gunships killed up to 20 militants near the Afghan border, officials said, hours after President Pervez Musharraf warned foreign rebels to leave the area or die.
		Military and security sources have said that so-called Pakistani Taliban are in control of parts of the tribal zones, where they have set up a virtual state within a state governed by a strict interpretation of Sharia law.
		Pakistani authorities last week also ordered thousands of Afghans living in these tribal areas to go back to their native country.
	www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=114685 (697 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - World
		Pakistani security officials arrested three members of an outlawed Islamic militant group in Karachi today for collecting donations and distributing leaflets urging people to wage a “jihad” (holy war).
		The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu surfaced last December and had spread rapidly to 10 Asian countries, killing at least eight people in Vietnam and Thailand and forcing the culling of millions of chickens, ducks and fowl.
		Bird flu has created panic in the poultry industry in Bangladesh and many small farms are in bad shape because of a fall in the price of chickens.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2004/20040202/world.htm (2599 words)

	Pakistan Quarantines 2 Chicken Farms - FluTrackers
		ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities placed two small farms under quarantine as a precaution against a suspected outbreak of bird flu after detecting a mild avian flu strain in flocks, the Livestock Commissioner said on Monday.
		People working on the farms had been tested and were not infected with bird flu, another agriculture ministry official.
		But it is believed that potentially deadly H5 and H7 strains of bird flu viruses start off in low-pathogenic forms when they are first introduced to poultry flocks and mutate to a highly pathogenic form within a few months if they are allowed to circulate.
	www.flutrackers.com /forum/showthread.php?t=1569 (784 words)

	Bird Flu Hits Pakistan
		Pakistani officials said a disease that has killed up to four million chickens in the country’s south since November was a strain of the bird flu.
		Thailand expanded its bird flu crisis zone to 10 of its 76 provinces from just two as it grappled with a virus the WHO fears might mate with human influenza and unleash a flu pandemic among people with no immunity to it.
		The spread of bird flu, which has also struck in Japan, South Korea and Cambodia, has emerged with a rapidity the WHO calls “historically unprecedented” and the Thai and Indonesian governments have been criticized for not revealing it sooner.
	www.arabnews.com /?page=4§ion=0&article=38692&d=27&m=1&y=2004 (577 words)

	Roundtable Interview of the President by Pakistani Journalists
		We captured the top lot of the al Qaeda and 300 Pakistani soldiers died, there is a lot of expectation in Pakistan -- you spoke about bilateral investment treaty and stuff, access to the market -- more on access to the market.
		But this is not an issue just for Pakistani students, this is an issue for students from other parts of the world, as well.
		Finally, we are also -- along these lines announced a very strong language initiative so that more people are capable of -- will be capable of conversing with people in parts of the world where, frankly, we haven't had that much conversation in their native language, all aimed at creating a hospitable world.
	www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2006/02/20060222-9.html (2822 words)

	H5N1: April 16, 2006 - April 22, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The outbreak of bird flu in the federal capital’s poultry farms is on the rise as two more patients were admitted to the hospitals of the twin cities on Friday to test the incidence of avian influenza taking the total number of such cases to nine.
		The negative impact of a possible flu pandemic on the economy and the financial system may be more severe than that of normal economic shocks, according to a tentative study of the likely consequences.
		A national flu pandemic plan will include such contingencies as allowing some nations to print dollars if American mints grind to a standstill, deciding who gets vaccinated first and enhancing the capacity of the internet to deal with a surge of people who would be working from home.
	crofsblogs.typepad.com /h5n1/2006/week16/index.html (10425 words)

	CNN.com - EU meets to set battle plan for bird flu - Oct 20, 2005
		No humans in Europe are known to have contracted bird flu during the current outbreak, but 61 people in Asia have died of the disease since 2003.
		With the bird flu virus encroaching on Europe, health ministers from 25 European Union nations met to talk about how to keep the virus from jumping to humans, and how to respond if it does.
		Samples from a dead bird were sent from Macedonia to London for testing after a large number of birds died in the city of Bitola near the border with Greece, a member of Macedonia's parliament said Tuesday.
	edition.cnn.com /2005/HEALTH/conditions/10/20/birdflu.main (1213 words)

	CBC News: Flu shots miss new strain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Strains of the flu virus are evolving so rapidly that the World Health Organization is playing catch-up at deciding what to include in vaccines.
		Flu shots may not contain the main strain circulating in the population.
		This flu season, a mutated version called A/California appears to be the main troublemaker.
	www.cbc.ca /story/science/national/2005/03/02/flu-strains050302.html (1159 words)

	Avian Bird Flu Information-Pakistani poultry industry demands 10-year tax holiday
		May 7 (DPA) Pakistani poultry farmers have sought a 10-year tax exemption to support their dwindling business after the detection of the H5N1 strain of bird...
		Only half the world's human bird flu cases are being reported to the World Health Organization within two weeks of being detected -- a response time that must be improved to avert a pandemic, a senior WHO official said Saturday.
		Doctors say we do have flu problem The Sunday Times, UK - 1 hour ago SENIOR public health doctors have written to the The Lancet disputing its claim that Ireland is well prepared to cope with an outbreak of pandemic bird flu.
	www.bird-flu-history.com /2006/05/06 (654 words)

	Avian Flu » Blog Archive » Bird flu: 25,000 chickens culled in Pak - NDTV.coM
		Bird flu: 25,000 chickens culled in Pak - NDTV.com - News on Bird flu: 25,000 chickens culled in Pak
		The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been confirmed at five more poultry farms near the Pakistani capital, prompting the culling of about 25,000 chickens.
		Khalif Bile, the World Health Organisation representative in Pakistan, welcomed the coordination between Pakistan’s health and agriculture ministries in tackling bird flu, saying the UN agency is working with Pakistani officials to fight the disease.
	avianflu.futurehs.com /?p=2341 (283 words)

	CBS News \| U.S. Airstrike Targeted al-Qaida Hideout
		There was no confirmation from either the Pakistani or U.S. government, but a senior Pakistani government official told The Associated Press that "there is 50-50 chance that some al-Qaida personality was at the home" that was hit early Friday in the border village of Damadola, about 125 miles northwest of the capital Islamabad.
		A senior Pakistani intelligence official told AP that the remains of some bodies were removed after the strike and DNA tests were being conducted, but would not say by whom.
		The senior Pakistani intelligence official said guests had arrived shortly before the attack at the home of a local tribesman whose home was destroyed in the strike.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/01/14/ap/world/mainD8F47Q58A.shtml (979 words)

	CTV.ca \| Deadly bird flu found at 5 Pakistani poultry farms
		The disease was reported at the farms in Tarlai, a village about 20 kilometres from Islamabad, said Mohammed Afzal, a spokesman for the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock.
		This is a continuation of the second outbreak (of the disease)," Afzal said of the virus in Tarlai.
		Prices of chicken have fallen in Pakistan since bird flu was reported, and many people have switched to eating beef and mutton.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060421/deadly_bird_060421/20060421?hub=Health&s_name= (299 words)

	Egypt confirms first human death of bird flu
		The 30-year-old woman from Nawa village in Qalyubiya, some 40 km north of here, died early Friday morning in a Cairo hospital where she had been treated for flu-like symptoms, the health ministry said in a statement.
		Medical experts had detected the H5N1 bird flu virus in her blood samples, said the ministry, adding that more samples of the woman had been sent to Britain for further tests.
		Egypt reported its first case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu Feb 17 and the government has since launched an aggressive campaign to bring the spread of the disease under control.
	www.rxpgnews.com /world/epidemics/avianinfluenza/article_3692.shtml (386 words)

	CIDRAP >> Avian flu outbreaks wax, wane
		Authorities were asking people in a 3-mile radius of the farm if they were experiencing any avian flu symptoms, the story said.
		The Pakistani Agriculture Ministry confirmed the poultry outbreak on Sunday.
		Fourteen towns in four regions continue to have avian flu outbreaks in Russia today, the agriculture ministry announced today, according to RIA Novosti.
	www.cidrap.umn.edu /cidrap/content/influenza/avianflu/news/apr1706avflu.html (435 words)

	Pakistan News Service - PakTribune
		The official in charge of efforts to fight bird flu in Afghanistan said he hoped U.S. forces could supply some protective suits so a cull could be launched as quickly as possible.
		Afghanistan was one of four Asian countries to confirm the presence of H5N1 bird flu on Thursday.
		Several dead chickens had tested positive for the H5 subtype of avian flu in two other Afghan provinces, Laghman to the east of Kabul and Wardak to the west.
	paktribune.com /news/index.php?id=137939 (567 words)

	ABC Plays Up Pakistan "Outrage" at U.S. Airstrike, Downplays Need to Target Al-Qaeda \| NewsBusters.org
		Pakistani officials are speaking vaguely of a foreign presence, which is their way of conceding al-Qaeda militants may have been sheltered there.
		The Pakistanis themselves have gone after foreign fighters in that village less than two years ago, and there are reports there was to have been a dinner, a religious feast, in the village this week, to which Zawahiri may have been invited.
		While the Pakistani government has lodged a formal complaint with the U.S. over the attack, tonight it is still unclear whether Zawahiri was even in the house or whether he was killed in the attack.
	newsbusters.org /node/3599 (3209 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Pakistani police break up march by earthquake survivors
		Further tests on a virus detected in chickens at a farm northeast of Tokyo found that the birds were infected with a bird flu strain that is less virulent than the strain that has ravaged Southeast Asia, the Agricultural Ministry said Friday More details...
		Pakistani police used canes and rifle butts to break up a march Friday by survivors of the Oct. 8 earthquake who were protesting their eviction from a makeshift camp.
		The son of a member of the Pakistani High Commission in Delhi who alleges he was abducted there made up the story, the Indian government says.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2005/11/11/67489.html (2251 words)

	Bird flu found at Pakistani poultry farms: 25,000 chickens culled - Pravda.Ru
		The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been confirmed at five more poultry farms near the Pakistani capital and some 25,000 chickens were culled there, an agriculture ministry official said Friday.
		The disease was reported at the farms in Tarlai, a village about 20 kilometers (13 miles) from Islamabad, said Mohammed Afzal, a spokesman for the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock.
		Pakistani authorities confirmed the first outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu at two chicken farms in the country's northwest last month.
	english.pravda.ru /news/world/21-04-2006/79429-Bird-flu-0 (483 words)

	JournalStar.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Pakistani Foreign Ministry said more than 80,000 people were injured in the Oct. 8 earthquake, and relief officials say many people who were seriously hurt by falling debris remain cut off in the isolated mountains of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, where most of the destruction happened.
		He had been visiting his aunt and her family, all of whom were killed, and it was unclear how he managed to survive so long on his own.
		The Pakistani military, civilian volunteers and international aid groups are rushing aid and doctors to the region, as fast as the logistical challenges allow.
	www.journalstar.com /articles/2005/10/17/nation/doc43541fdd59504525661253.txt (1013 words)

	DAWN - Opinion; November 7, 2005
		Thus, ideally, Mubarak Ali is not wrong in asking that the Pakistani historian broaden his concerns to include non-political developments.
		Like the 1918 flu, which killed 50 million worldwide, the virus will first kill off the vulnerable old and young, then gradually diminish in virulence as survivors develop resistance.
		The likeliest place for the human avian virus to emerge will be among those least aware of its danger, isolated, illiterate farmers in Asia unwilling to destroy their livelihoods because they have what may be only a head cold.
	www.dawn.com /2005/11/07/op.htm (3934 words)

	USATODAY.com - WHO says bird flu not going away soon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		NEW DELHI, India (AP) — Bird flu is not going away anytime soon, the World Health Organization said Monday, as South Asian health officials agreed to cooperate in preventing the disease from spreading.
		The officials adopted a resolution extending a temporary ban on all poultry and egg imports from countries affected by bird flu.
		According to Pakistani officials and poultry industry representatives, between 1.5 million and 3.5 million chickens around the southern city of Karachi were killed by the weaker H5N2 bird flu strain or slaughtered.
	www.usatoday.com /news/health/2004-02-16-who-bird-flu_x.htm (584 words)

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