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Kuwait says it contains bird flu outbreak
Kuwait says it contains bird flu outbreak KUWAIT CITY, March 11 (Xinhua) - Kuwait said Sunday that it has contained bird flu outbreak, official KUNA news agency reported. No new cases of bird flu have been reported in the emirate for the third day in a row and the epidemic situation seemed quite

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Kuwait detects five bird flu cases on Friday
Kuwait detects five bird flu cases on Friday KUWAIT CITY, March 2 (Xinhua) - Kuwait on Friday announced to detect five new cases of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, raising the total number of the cases to 46, local KUNA news agency reported. The five cases, among 531 samples taken from different

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Kuwait detects new bird flu case at ostrich farm
Kuwait detects new bird flu case at ostrich farm KUWAIT CITY, April 22 (Xinhua) - Kuwait announced on Sunday it detected an ostrich infected with deadly H5N1 bird flu virus at a farm in Wafra, a district in southern Kuwait near the Saudi border, Kuwait's official KUNA news agency reported. To

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Kuwait reports H5N1 bird flu case
Kuwait reports H5N1 bird flu case KUWAIT CITY, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) - Kuwaiti official sources said on Friday that laboratory tests showed that a bird infected with the avian flu had the virulent H5N1 strain. On Thursday, Kuwait said it had found two birds infected with the bird flu disease. After

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Seven new bird flu cases found in Kuwait
Seven new bird flu cases found in Kuwait KUWAIT CITY, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) - Kuwait reported seven new cases of bird flu-related deaths on Tuesday, raising the total number of bird flu cases to 39, Kuwait's official KUNA news agency reported. KUNA said that the newly detected seven cases included two

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Deadly strain of bird flu makes debut in Kuwait
DIANA ELIAS, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 11-12-2005 Deadly strain of bird flu makes debut in Kuwait - First case in Arab world; Thai boy contracts illness By DIANA ELIAS, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Date: 11-12-2005, Saturday Section: NEWS Edtion: All Editions KUWAIT CITY - A

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Kuwait detects three new bird flu cases
Kuwait detects three new bird flu cases KUWAIT CITY, March 21 (Xinhua) - Kuwait on Wednesday detected three new cases of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in birds, raising the total number of the cases to 57, the official KUNA news agency reported. The three cases, including two turkeys and a chicken,

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Kuwait Has Mideast's First Bird-Flu Case
DIANA ELIAS, Associated Press Writer AP Online 11-10-2005 Dateline: KUWAIT CITY A Kuwaiti man walks past pigeons at Mubarikiya roundabout, in Kuwait City on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005. Kuwait has detected two cases of bird flu in birds, a senior official said Thursday, but it was not clear if the

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One of the two birds infected with bird flu in Kuwait had the H5N1 strain
DIANA ELIAS, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 11-11-2005 Dateline: KUWAIT CITY One of two birds found infected with bird flu in Kuwait had the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus that has devastated poultry stocks and killed more than 60 people in Asia, an agricultural official said Friday. It

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Kuwait free from bird flu: official
Kuwait free from bird flu: official KUWAIT CITY, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) - Kuwait is free from the bird flu pandemic and the two bird flu cases discovered earlier on Thursday were "isolated incidents", the state-owned Kuwait News Agency reported. Ahmad al-Shatti, member of the national commission on

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