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Avian Influenza Situation in Azerbaijan Update 3
Found on 11 Apr 2006 09:59 GMT
Tests conducted at a WHO collaborating laboratory have retrospectively identified an additional human case of H5N1 infection. Retrospective confirmation of this case brings the total in Azerbaijan to 8. Five of these cases were fatal.

Avian Influenza Situation in Azerbaijan Update 2
Found on 21 Mar 2006 08:59 GMT
Samples from 11 patients under investigation in Azerbaijan for possible H5N1 infection have now been tested at a WHO collaborating laboratory. Positive H5N1 results were obtained for seven of these patients. Five cases were fatal.

Avian Influenza Situation in Azerbaijan Update
Found on 14 Mar 2006 10:12 GMT
The Ministry of Health in Azerbaijan has reported its first three cases of human infection with the H5 subtype of avian influenza virus. All three cases were fatal.

Avian Influenza Situation in Azerbaijan
Found on 10 Mar 2006 10:12 GMT
Since the beginning of March, the Ministry of Health in Azerbaijan has been investigating a cluster of 10 persons placed under observation for possible infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. All of these persons are from the Daikyand settlement in Salyan Rayon in the eastern part of the country.

Stray cats and dogs to be killed in Azerbaijan's capital over bird flu fears
AP Worldstream 03-17-2006 Dateline: BAKU, Azerbaijan Authorities in Azerbaijan's capital plan to kill stray cats and dogs over fears that they might spread bird flu, officials said Friday. Three people died recently from the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in the former Soviet republic, officials

Publication: AP Worldstream

Deputy PM: Azerbaijan will need US$16 million to prevent spread of bird flu
AP Worldstream 02-17-2006 Dateline: BAKU, Azerbaijan Azerbaijan will require US$16 million (euro13.5 million) for efforts to prevent the spread of bird flu, Deputy Prime Minister Abbas Abbasov said Friday. He told reporters that the money was necessary to purchase disinfectant systems, laboratory

Publication: AP Worldstream

Bird flu kills five in Azerbaijan.(News)
Byline: Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva The H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed five young people in Azerbaijan in recent weeks, possibly after several of the victims plucked dead swans, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday. The deaths take the known global human toll from bird flu to 103

Publication: The Independent (London, England)

Azerbaijan confirms first case of H5N1 bird flu
Azerbaijan confirms first case of H5N1 bird flu MOSCOW, March 3 (Xinhua) - Azerbaijan on Friday confirmed the first case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu on a poultry farm. "We are taking all measures to fight against bird flu in the affected area of Gilyazi as well as its environs where a complete

Publication: Xinhua News Agency

Azerbaijan says new cases of H5N1 bird flu found in southwest
AIDA SULTANOVA, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 02-17-2006 Dateline: BAKU, Azerbaijan Authorities on Friday reported new cases of bird flu in Azerbaijan, with water fowl in the southwest near the border with Iran testing positive for the deadly H5N1 strain. Samples taken from 12 kinds of

Publication: AP Worldstream

Health Ministry: H5N1 strain of avian flu confirmed in dead birds in Azerbaijan
AIDA SULTANOVA, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 02-10-2006 Dateline: BAKU, Azerbaijan The Health Ministry said Friday that a British laboratory has confirmed the presence of the H5N1 strain of avian flu in dead birds from Azerbaijan's Caspian Sea coast. Private television channels urged

Publication: AP Worldstream

Bird flu spreads to Azerbaijan
BEIJING - Health authorities in China and Indonesia on Friday each reported a woman killed by a deadly strain of bird flu. Azerbaijan became the latest country to report an outbreak among fowl, and Nigeria said the virus had spread there, too. The spread of bird flu has increased the chance that

Publication: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)

Dog found infected with bird flu in Azerbaijan
Dog found infected with bird flu in Azerbaijan MOSCOW, March 16 (Xinhua) - A dog has been found infected with the bird flu in Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani officials said on Thursday. "The virus has been found in a dog laboratory analysis is continuing," said a statement from an official committee

Publication: Xinhua News Agency

Azerbaijan confirms bird flu in wild birds on Caspian Sea coast
Azerbaijan confirms bird flu in wild birds on Caspian Sea coast MOSCOW, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) - Azerbaijan's Health Ministry said on Friday that the deadly H5N1 train of bird flu had been found in wild birds on the Caspian Sea coast, according to reports reaching here from Baku. The results from

Publication: Xinhua News Agency

Five bird flu deaths in Azerbaijan push humans' world H5N1 total over 100, WH...
ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 03-21-2006 Dateline: GENEVA The bird flu deaths of five people in Azerbaijan have pushed the world total human deaths from H5N1 past 100, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. WHO said seven of 11 patients from Azerbaijan had tested

Publication: AP Worldstream