Bird Flu Avian Influenza H5N1 Afghanistan News 

Afghanistan pleads for outside help in fight against bird flu
AMIR SHAH, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 03-14-2006 Dateline: KABUL, Afghanistan War-torn Afghanistan pleaded Tuesday for protective clothing for its staff after the first possible cases of bird flu were detected, as Azerbaijan reported three people killed by the deadly disease. The H5N1

Publication: AP Worldstream

Lab tests show outbreak of deadly strain of bird flu in Afghanistan
DANIEL COONEY, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 03-16-2006 Dateline: KABUL, Afghanistan Lab tests have confirmed the first outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in war-ravaged Afghanistan, the United Nations and the government said Thursday. Sweden also announced an outbreak of the

Publication: AP Worldstream

New bird flu outbreak in India; Afghanistan pleads for help to fight disease
NEELESH MISRA, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 03-14-2006 Dateline: NEW DELHI Four chickens tested positive for the H5 bird flu virus in western India _ the second outbreak there in a month _ but further tests were being conducted to see if it was the deadly H5N1 strain, health officials

Publication: AP Worldstream

Lab tests show outbreak of deadly strain of bird flu in Afghanistan, Malaysia
DANIEL COONEY, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 03-16-2006 Dateline: KABUL, Afghanistan Lab tests confirmed the first outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in war-ravaged Afghanistan, while the Swiss maker of Tamiflu on Thursday said government orders for its anti-bird flu drug were

Publication: AP Worldstream

Afghanistan free of bird flu: official
Afghanistan free of bird flu: official KABUL, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) - Afghanistan's Public Health Ministry Monday described this war-ravaged nation as a land free of bird flu. "Since no case of bird flu has been detected over the past six months, we can say this country is free of the epidemic,"

Publication: Xinhua News Agency

First case of bird flu detected in Afghanistan, high risk of deadly H5N1, U.N...
RAHIM FAIEZ, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 03-13-2006 Dateline: KABUL, Afghanistan The first case of bird flu has been detected in Afghanistan and there's a high risk that tests could prove it to be the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus, a U.N. agency said Monday. The U.N. Food and

Publication: AP Worldstream

Bird flu detected in Afghanistan
Bird flu detected in Afghanistan KABUL, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) - The Afghan government on Thursday confirmed the reemergence of the deadly bird influenza in the war- ravaged country. So far two cases of bird flu have been found in Nangar and Kunar provinces in east Afghanistan, spokesman of the Health

Publication: Xinhua News Agency

University of Georgia Veterinarian Helps Diagnose Bird Flu in Afghanistan.
Byline: University of Georgia ATHENS, Ga., March 31 (AScribe Newswire) - Just back from Afghanistan, where she helped diagnose that country's first case of bird flu, University of Georgia veterinarian Corrie Brown has a new perspective on the disease that threatens to become the world's next

Publication: AScribe Medicine News Service

Afghanistan is free of bird flu now: says official
Afghanistan is free of bird flu now: says official KABUL, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) - The post-war Afghanistan is free of the bird flu epidemic so far as no case of the disease has been detected, an official of the country's Public Health Ministry said Sunday. "The government has taken all precautionary

Publication: Xinhua News Agency

Bird flu outbreak is virtually inevitable in Afghanistan, U.N. official says
MATTHEW PENNINGTON, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 02-22-2006 Dateline: KABUL, Afghanistan An outbreak of bird flu is virtually unavoidable in Afghanistan, and the local government and donor nations have been slow in acting to prevent the deadly disease from spreading to the country, a U.N.

Publication: AP Worldstream