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Austria's health minister to outline new measures aimed at easing threat of b...
AP Worldstream 10-24-2005 Dateline: VIENNA, Austria Austria's health minister planned to announce new measures Monday aimed at containing the threat of bird flu. Health Minister Maria Rauch-Kallat scheduled a midmorning news conference to outline the measures, two days after she issued a nationwide

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Tests indicate birds likely killed by H5N1 bird flu strain in Austria
AP Worldstream 02-14-2006 Dateline: VIENNA, Austria Two birds found dead in Austria appear to have been infected with the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain, an official said Tuesday, as the Health Ministry announced strict measures meant to control the disease outbreak. Hans Seitinger, a health official

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EU GEN Austria Bird Flu
VERONIKA OLEKSYN, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 02-23-2006 Dateline: VIENNA, Austria Austria's health minister warned Thursday that some European Union countries are less prepared than others for a possible bird flu pandemic and that measures would be taken to help bring them up to

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Health minister says ample bird flu tablets ready in case of outbreak in Austria
AP Worldstream 10-17-2005 Dateline: VIENNA, Austria Austria has ample supplies of medicine to treat bird flu should there be an outbreak that infects people, the country's health minister said Monday. Health Minister Maria Rauch-Kallat said 2 million packages of Tamiflu tablets, which are

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Second tests confirm H5N1 bird flu strain in Austria
Second tests confirm H5N1 bird flu strain in Austria VIENNA, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) - A second series of tests on Wednesday on two dead swans confirmed the existence of the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain, said a health official for Styria province, Austria. Results from preliminary tests on Tuesday at a

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Austria's health minister plays down threat of bird flu
AP Worldstream 10-24-2005 Dateline: VIENNA, Austria Bird flu poses "no danger" to Austria, the health minister said Monday, seeking to temper fears of an outbreak by encouraging people to keep eating properly cooked chicken and eggs. Austria has had no confirmed cases of bird flu, but the

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Bird Flu Found in Three Cats in Austria
MELISSA EDDY, Associated Press Writer AP Online 03-06-2006 Dateline: VIENNA, Austria A cat looks through the fence on Friday, Feb. 17, 2006 in the Noah's Ark animal shelter in Graz in the state of Styria in Austria where several birds died last month of H5N1. Three cats from an animal shelter that

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EU confirms deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in Hungary, Austria
PABLO GORONDI, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 02-21-2006 Dateline: BUDAPEST, Hungary Tests confirmed H5N1 in three birds found dead in Hungary, making the country the seventh EU nation with an outbreak of the deadly strain of bird flu, officials said Tuesday. Austria, Germany, Greece,

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New bird flu cases confirmed in Germany, suspected in France, Austria
New bird flu cases confirmed in Germany, suspected in France, Austria BRUSSELS, July 4 (Xinhua) - Germany has confirmed bird flu cased in wild birds in Thuringia while French and Austrian authorities have reported new suspected cases in wild birds in their territories, said the European Commission

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Austria takes anti-bird flu measures after detecting H5N1 in dead swans
Austria takes anti-bird flu measures after detecting H5N1 in dead swans VIENNA, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) - Austria has taken anti-bird flu measures after detecting the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in two dead swans in preliminary tests, Austria's Health Ministry said Tuesday. "There is the strong suspicion

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