No signs Canada bird flu outbreak has spread
Found on 27 Jan 2009 02:12 GMT
There is no sign an outbreak of bird flu in Canada has spread beyond the turkey farm near Vancouver where the disease was discovered last week but testing continues, officials said.
Wild birds with H5 flu virus found in Canada
Wild birds with H5 flu virus found in Canada OTTAWA, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) - Several birds in Canada have been discovered to be carrying unidentified H5 flu viruses, but it is not known if they have H5N1 virus, the dangerous subtype of the avian flu, health officials confirmed Monday. The infected wild
Publication: Xinhua News Agency
Canada finds bird flu in wild ducks
TORONTO - Nearly three dozen wild ducks have tested positive for the H5 bird flu virus in Canada, officials reported Monday, but they said it was unlikely to be the strain blamed for more than 60 human deaths in Southeast Asia. Dr. Jim Clark of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said it would
Publication: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Scientists say bird flu could migrate to U.S. next year; Biologists have not ...
DENVER - As bird flu is spread continent-to-continent by wild birds, the seasonal migration that is normally one of nature's wonders is becoming something scary. Could bird flu reach North America through migrating birds? Biologists in Alaska and Canada are keeping an eye out and say it's
Publication: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
Bird-flu fears stir talk of breaking of drug patents; Health officials confer...
Byline: Nicholas Kralev, THE WASHINGTON TIMES OTTAWA - Officials taking part in a conference of health ministers from around the world on a possible bird-flu pandemic said yesterday that they are considering breaking the patent of an existing vaccine and a drug against a similar virus. Although the
Publication: The Washington Times
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, AustraliaAustralian 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
Publication: AP Worldstream
Canada prepared for bird flu: health minister
Canada prepared for bird flu: health minister OTTAWA, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) - Canada has stockpiled enough vaccine to contain an outbreak if the deadly bird flu becomes transmittable from human to human, Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh said. The minister said that "it would be next to impossible" to
Publication: Xinhua News Agency
Canada geese tested State collects samples in West Rockport to check for bird...
Canada geese: They're big, loud, often ornery creatures willing to stare down an approaching car, never mind a person, rather than budge an inch. Now imagine their mood while being restrained and flipped onto their backs so that someone can swab their bottoms.That would describe the frenzied scene
Publication: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
China calls bird flu a "serious epidemic," Canada announces new cases
WILLIAM FOREMAN, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 11-23-2005 Dateline: HONG KONGChina called bird flu a "serious epidemic" and reported three new outbreaks of the deadly virus in different parts of the country, while Canada announced multiple new cases but stressed they are not the virulent
Publication: AP Worldstream
Feature: Bird flu viruses turn up again in Canada
Feature: Bird flu viruses turn up again in Canada OTTAWA, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) - Ken Falk, President of Fraser Valley Duck and Goose Ltd., lost 140,000 birds in the outbreak of a bird flu in Canada's western province of British Columbia in 2004. Now he is bracing for another possible hit to his
Publication: Xinhua News Agency
CANADA: BIRD FLU DEFEATED - BUT THE HIGH COST IS CAUSE FOR DISPUTE
Stephen Leahy Inter Press Service English News Wire 08-30-2004 BROOKLIN, Canada, Aug. 27, 2004 (IPS/GIN) - While the WorldHealth Organisation (WHO) said Wednesday that more money andattention is needed to contain bird flu in Asia, Canada's recentoutbreak was successfully contained in less than
Publication: Inter Press Service English News Wire
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