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Avian influenza Situation in Pakistan
Found on 15 Dec 2007 08:59 GMT
The Ministry of Health in Pakistan has informed WHO of 8 suspected human cases of H5N1 avian influenza infection in the Peshawar area of the country. These cases were detected following a series of culling operations in response to outbreaks of H5N1 in poultry. One of the cases has now recovered and a further two suspected cases have since died. Samples taken from the suspected cases have teste...

Pakistan reports second outbreak of H5N1 strain of bird flu
SADAQAT JAN, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 04-17-2006 Dateline: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Pakistan's second outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain was confirmed at a poultry farm near the capital, with the agriculture ministry suspecting wild birds had spread the disease. Laboratory tests

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Bird flu contained in Pakistan: FAO official
Bird flu contained in Pakistan: FAO official ISLAMABAD, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) - A UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) official said here Thursday that an outbreak of bird flu reported to have killed millions of chickens has been contained in Pakistan, English-language newspaper The News reported

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Bird flu experts combing Pakistan for signs of human-to-human bird flu infection
AP Photo XGB105 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan _ World Health Organization bird flu experts were continuing investigations Wednesday to ascertain whether human-to-human transmission may have occurred in Pakistan's first cases involving people. Four brothers and two cousins fell ill last month in

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Pakistan bans poultry imports from India, Iran, France to protect against bir...
AP Worldstream 02-20-2006 Dateline: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Pakistan banned poultry imports from India, Iran and France on Monday, while prohibiting wild bird hunting to protect against bird flu, an official said. Pakistan doesn't import much poultry from those three countries, which recently reported

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WHO bird flu experts to investigate human-to-human concerns in Pakistan outbreak
International health experts have been dispatched to Pakistan to help investigate the cause of South Asia's first human bird flu cases and determine if the virus was transmitted from person to person, an official and local media said Sunday. Pakistan's Health Ministry said Saturday six people last

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Reports about admission of bird flu patient in Pakistan clarified
Reports about admission of bird flu patient in Pakistan clarified ISLAMABAD, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) - A hospital in northwestern Pakistan clarified on Sunday that it was still too early to confirm that a patient in hospital had been infected with bird fluvirus, the official Associated Press of Pakistan

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Third bird flu case confirmed in Pakistan
Third bird flu case confirmed in Pakistan ISLAMABAD, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) - Pakistan confirmed Saturday the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus has been found in samples obtained from a home in the capital Islamabad. This was the country's third bird flu case since early February, when the virus was found in

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Pakistan issues bird flu high alert
Pakistan issues bird flu high alert ISLAMABAD, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) - Pakistan on Monday issued bird flu high alert in view of its reported spread in some neighboring countries but said that no case had yet been reported in any part of the country, a private TV channel reported. The alert was issued

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Bird flu detected in Pakistan
SHEIKH SABIR, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 01-26-2004 Dateline: KARACHI, Pakistan Pakistani officials said Monday they have detected bird flu in chicken flocks in a southern province, but the World Health Organization has yet to confirm an outbreak. The federal commissioner for livestock

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Pakistan poultry industry safe from bird flu: official
Pakistan poultry industry safe from bird flu: official ISLAMABAD, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) - Pakistan's Federal Secretary of Food and Agriculture Ismail Qurashi has said that Pakistan's poultry industry is fully safe from the bird flu virus. According to a report on Saturday by Pakistan's APP news agency,

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