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Southern Japan prefecture starts culling chickens after bird flu confirmed
Southern Japan prefecture starts culling chickens after bird flu confirmed TOKYO, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) - The government of southern Japan's Miyazaki prefecture, where a second bird flu case happened within a month, started on Friday to cull about 50,000 chickens on the virus- hit farm in the city of

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Travelers entering Japan from bird flu-affected areas to be asked to disinfec...
AP Worldstream 11-21-2005 Dateline: TOKYO Japan starting Tuesday will ask travelers from bird flu-affected areas to have their shoes disinfected upon arrival at the country's four major airports, including Tokyo's international gateway at Narita, a government official said. The voluntary measure is

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Japan confirms H5N1 strain in another bird flu outbreak
Japan confirms H5N1 strain in another bird flu outbreak TOKYO, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) - Japan's agriculture ministry confirmed Wednesday that bird flu at a poultry farm in southern Japan was the deadly H5N1 strain, after several similar cases were reported within the month. Some 12,000 birds at the farm

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Japan to cull 180,000 chickens after detecting signs of bird flu
HIROKO TABUCHI, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 11-04-2005 Dateline: TOKYO Authorities have detected signs of bird flu at a farm in northern Japan and plan to kill 180,000 chickens, a local official said Friday. Antibody tests on 80 chickens showed that they had been exposed to a bird flu

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Japan to introduce vaccinations against future bird flu epidemic
Japan to introduce vaccinations against future bird flu epidemic TOKYO, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) - Japan planned to vaccinate people exposed to bird influenza viruses in any future bird flu epidemic in order to prevent people from being infected by any new deadly type of flu, the country's health ministry

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Bird flu in Japan unrelated to Southeast Asian outbreaks, official says
HIROKO TABUCHI, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 11-09-2005 Dateline: TOKYO Recent bird flu cases in northeastern Japan are probably unrelated to the deadly H5N1 virus strain that has ravaged Southeast Asian poultry stocks since 2003 and killed 63 people in the region, an official said

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Japan hopes to study bird flu control measures in China
Japan hopes to study bird flu control measures in China TOKYO, March 16 (Xinhua) - Japan hopes to send a team of agricultural experts to China to gather information on bird flu monitoring and handling methods in the country, which just announced that avian influenza has been brought under control

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China says bird flu is a "serious epidemic," Japan joins Canadian poultry ban
WILLIAM FOREMAN, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 11-22-2005 Dateline: HONG KONG China called bird flu a "serious epidemic" and pledged to step up measures to fight the deadly virus Tuesday, while Japan joined Hong Kong, Taiwan and the U.S. in slapping a ban on poultry from a western Canadian

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Roundup: Japan mulls special efforts to tackle bird flu outbreak
Roundup: Japan mulls special efforts to tackle bird flu outbreak TOKYO, March 2 (Xinhua) - The Japanese government decided Tuesday to set up a special task force of bureau chiefs from nine ministries and agencies to implement measures to prevent further spread of bird flu. The task force of 14

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China calls bird flu a "serious epidemic," Japan joins Canadian poultry ban
WILLIAM FOREMAN, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 11-22-2005 Dateline: HONG KONG China called bird flu a "serious epidemic" and reported three new outbreaks of the deadly virus in different parts of the country on Tuesday, while Japan joined Hong Kong, Taiwan and the U.S. in slapping a ban on

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