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Urgent: Slovakia detects H5N1 bird flu
Urgent: Slovakia detects H5N1 bird flu PRAGUE, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) - Slovakia detected the H5N1 strain of bird flu in two wild birds found dead in southwestern Slovakia, Agriculture Minister Zsolt Simon announced Thursday. News reaching here from Slovakia said this was the first time that the country

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Slovakia orders farmers to keep poultry indoors against bird flu
Slovakia orders farmers to keep poultry indoors against bird flu PRAGUE, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) - Slovakia ordered farmers on Friday to keep their poultry indoors after bird flu cases were found in Turkey and Romania this week, said reports from Bratislava. Farmers must keep their poultry indoors and

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Slovakia hit by bird flu scare.(News)
Byline: By Geoff Meade Slovakia yesterday became the eighth EU member state to confirm outbreaks of bird flu. The H5 virus has been found in two wild birds, and samples were being sent to the EU's special laboratory in Weybridge, Surrey, to establish whether the cases involve the deadly H5N1

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British laboratory confirms bird flu virus in Slovakia
British laboratory confirms bird flu virus in Slovakia PRAGUE, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) - The laboratory in Weybridge, Britain, Friday confirmed the lethal H5N1 bird flu virus in two birds which were recently found dead in Slovakia, Slovak Agriculture Ministry spokeswoman Katarina Czajlikova said. Slovak

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Suspected bird flu cases in Slovakia
Suspected bird flu cases in Slovakia PRAGUE, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) - Slovak Agriculture Minister Zsolt Simon on Tuesday confirmed that the bird-flu virus H5 had been found in two samples from Slovakia, according to news reaching here. "Two samples contained the H5 virus," Simon told a news conference.

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Slovakia detects H5N1 strain of bird flu for first time
Slovakia detects H5N1 strain of bird flu for first time PRAGUE, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) - Slovakia has detected the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu for the first time in the country, the TASR news agency reported on Friday. The virus was discovered in two dead wild birds, a white grebe in the capital

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Slovakia to spend over 10 million dollars on anti-bird flu drugs
Slovakia to spend over 10 million dollars on anti-bird flu drugs PRAGUE, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) - The Slovak government approved on Wednesday the purchase of medicines and vaccines against bird flu worth 358 million Slovak crowns (about 11.4 million dollars), Health Minister Rudolf Zajac said after a

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Slovakia comfirms first cases of H5N1 bird-flu virus
Slovakia comfirms first cases of H5N1 bird-flu virus PRAGUE, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) - Fatal H5N1 bird flu virus has been confirmed for the first time in Slovakia in two wild birds, Slovak Agriculture Minister Zsolt Simon was quoted by reports reaching here as saying on Thursday. "Bird flu is in Slovakia

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Slovakia detects H5N1 strain of bird flu
Slovakia detects H5N1 strain of bird flu PRAGUE, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) - Slovakia detected the H5N1 strain of bird flu in two dead wild birds, Agriculture Minister Zsolt Simon said Thursday. News reaching here from Slovakia's capital of Bratislava said this was the first time that the country had found

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PM: Intelligence bird flu report doesn't link it to Hungary, Slovakia imports.
Byline: Alecs Iancu May 24-People stand behind a fence that delineates a quarantined area as a sanitary worker walks on in the outskirts of Bucharest. As parts of the media said an intelligence report blames Hungary, Slovakia imports for bird flu outbreak, the information was denied by Romanian

Publication: Bucharest Daily News (Bucharest, Romania)