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Bird flu saved horse industry: experts (The West Australian)
Found on 01 Aug 2008 22:01 GMT
The global threat of bird flu saved the Australian horse industry, experts say. In 2004, the CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory developed a molecular diagnostic test for bird flu, at a time when equine influenza (EI) was not even on the radar.

ASIA: Human bird flu can't be kept out of Australia - expert
AAP General News (Australia) 02-02-2004 ASIA: Human bird flu can't be kept out of Australia - expert A Melbourne virologist says it would be almost impossible to keep a human version of the Asian bird flu out of Australia. Human bird flu cases have so far been caused by exposure to infected birds

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Fed: Warning deadly bird flu could come to Australia
AAP General News (Australia) 01-21-2004 Fed: Warning deadly bird flu could come to Australia An animal health experts says it's possible a bird flu which killed five people in Vietnam could spread to Australia. Queensland Acting Chief Veterinary Health Officer JOHN ROBERTS says it's possible avian

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Australia bans imports of birds from Canada after pigeons found with bird flu...
MIKE CORDER, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 10-21-2005 Dateline: SYDNEY, Australia Australian authorities said Friday they are banning the import of birds from Canada after three racing pigeons tested positive for bird flu antibodies. The birds were in a consignment of 102 pigeons that

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Fed: Australia ready to combat bird flu
AAP General News (Australia) 02-25-2005 Fed: Australia ready to combat bird flu CANBERRA, Feb 25 AAP - Australia was well prepared to deal with a threatened global pandemic of Asian bird flu, the nation's chief medical officer said today. United Nations officials warned on Wednesday that avian

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Fed: Bird Flu could devastate Australia's economy
AAP General News (Australia) 02-23-2006 Fed: Bird Flu could devastate Australia's economy By Nikki Todd BRISBANE, Feb 23 AAP - The possibility of a bird flu pandemic could be the single most important threat to Australia's economy, a leading economist says. Dr John Edwards, chief economist at HSBC

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Fed: Australia may close borders in bird flu outbreak: Downer
AAP General News (Australia) 10-31-2005 Fed: Australia may close borders in bird flu outbreak: Downer EDS: Embargoed to 2100 (AEDT) on Monday, October 31. By Roberta Mancuso BRISBANE, Oct 31 AAP - The federal government continued to warn of a bird flu pandemic today, as Australia's peak medical

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Fed: Australia needs education campaign on bird flu, Greens
AAP General News (Australia) 09-23-2005 Fed: Australia needs education campaign on bird flu, Greens SYDNEY, Sept 23 AAP - The federal government needs to run a public education campaign to inform Australians about bird flu, the Greens say. Greens Senator Bob Brown said the public had the right to

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SA: Australia to spearhead health campaign against bird flu
AAP General News (Australia) 08-28-2005 SA: Australia to spearhead health campaign against bird flu By Brad Watts ADELAIDE, Aug 28 AAP - Australia will push for more action against bird flu at the APEC forum later this year, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says. Mr Downer said the federal

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Australia holds anti-bird flu exercise
Australia holds anti-bird flu exercise CANBERRA, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) - Australia's government officials, emergency teams and poultry industries responded to a hypothetical spread of bird flu as a three-day national desktop anti-bird flu exercise started on Tuesday. About 1,000 attendants are involved

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Fed: No trace of bird flu in Australia - chief vet
AAP General News (Australia) 02-23-2006 Fed: No trace of bird flu in Australia - chief vet CANBERRA, Feb 23 AAP - Widespread surveillance has found no (no) trace of the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza in Australia, the nation's chief veterinary officer says. And an expanded surveillance

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