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VOA NEWS: GEORGIA, CROATIA, NIGER CONFIRM FIRST BIRD FLU CASES
The Voice of America issued the following story: Three more countries have reported their first cases of the H5N1 virus, as the deadly strain of bird flu continues to spread. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili declared a state of emergency in the western region where officials found the virus

Publication: US Fed News Service, Including US State News

East Europe & central Asia.(The unreported year 2006)(bird flu reported at Az...
SWEEPERS (Above left) Women clean a street at night in Grozny, a city where virtually no building is left undamaged following two Russian campaigns to crush Chechen separatist forces. Chechnya may not be headline news any more, but the issue remains a running sore that cannot be covered up or swept

Publication: New Internationalist

H5N1 bird flu found in Georgia
H5N1 bird flu found in Georgia MOSCOW, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) - The deadly H5N1 bird flu virus has been detected in wild swans in Georgia, Agriculture Minister Mikhail Svimonishvili said on Monday. The virus was found in the blood of swans found dead near the village of Adlia in the Khelvachauri

Publication: Xinhua News Agency

Tests detect H5N1 strain of bird flu in Georgia
AP Worldstream 02-27-2006 Dateline: TBILISI, Georgia Tests on a wild swan in Georgia came back positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, the head of the National Disease Control Center said Monday. The official, Paata Imnadze, said samples had been sent to a British laboratory for further

Publication: AP Worldstream

Georgia approves measures to prevent spread of bird flu from Turkey
AP Worldstream 10-14-2005 Dateline: TBILISI, Georgia Georgia's government on Friday approved measures to prevent bird flu from spreading into the ex-Soviet nation from neighboring Turkey, the health minister said. The government allocated some 800,000 lari (US$500,000 or euro413,000) to buy

Publication: AP Worldstream

First H5N1 bird flu case detected in Georgia
First H5N1 bird flu case detected in Georgia MOSCOW, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) - The H5N1 strain of bird flu virus has been found for the first time in Georgia, Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli said on Friday, the Itar-Tass news agency reported. The virus was found in a dead swan near the village of Adlia in

Publication: Xinhua News Agency

First case of H5N1 bird flu found in Georgia
First case of H5N1 bird flu found in Georgia MOSCOW, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) - The first case of H5N1 bird flu virus has been detected in the southern Caucasus republic of Georgia, Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli said on national television on Friday, according to reports reaching here. Dead swans were

Publication: Xinhua News Agency

Georgia gears up to combat bird flu
Georgia gears up to combat bird flu MOSCOW, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) - Georgian authorities banned sales of domestic birds and hunting of wild waterfowl on Friday after the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus was found for the first time in the country. Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli, quoted by the

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

Across Georgia, experts planning for the worst should bird flu hit.
Byline: S. Heather Duncan Jun. 18-Editor's note: Avian influenza occurs around the world just as human flu does, but a strain that has spread through Asia to Europe has infected some humans with deadly results. The Telegraph takes a look at bird flu, and possible midstate implications, in a

Publication: Macon Telegraph (Macon, GA)