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Sweden tests dead mink for bird flu
Sweden tests dead mink for bird flu STOCKHOLM, March 3 (Xinhua) - Swedish authorities said on Friday they were testing a dead mink for bird flu after it was brought in from an area where two wild ducks were found with the suspected H5N1 virus earlier this week. The dead mink and the birds were

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A STEP NEARER; UK call for bird ban as deadly flu confirmed in Sweden.(News)
Byline: By HIMAYA QUASEM BIRD flu took another step nearer the UK last night as Sweden confirmed the disease had been found in a wild duck. But Scandinavian vets say they do not yet know if it is the deadly strain that has swept through Asia. Gunilla Hallgren, of the National Veterinary Institute,

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Sweden boosts security measures against bird flu
Sweden boosts security measures against bird flu STOCKHOLM, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) - Sweden is ordering poultry and other birds in captivity in the southern third of the country to be kept indoors because of recent outbreaks of the H5N1 bird flu strain in Europe and the imminent migration season, Radio

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Bird Flu Hits Sweden; Afghans Suspect It
The Associated Press AP Online 03-15-2006 A Myanmar worker carries out chickens in a bamboo cage from the wholesale poultry market on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar Monday, March. 13, 2006. The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected for the first time in Myanmar, veterinary officials in

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Sweden concerned as bird flu nears
Sweden concerned as bird flu nears STOCKHOLM, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) - Swedish Minister of Agriculture Ann- Christin Nykvist has expressed concern over the deadly bird flu virus showing up among tame birds so early and so close to Sweden, Radio Sweden reported on Monday. The H5N1 strain of bird flu

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Sweden keeps poultry indoors for fear of bird flu
Sweden keeps poultry indoors for fear of bird flu STOCKHOLM, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) - Following the discovery of bird flu on a German island in the Baltic Sea, Sweden has ordered farmers to keep chickens and other poultry here indoors, Radio Sweden reported on Wednesday. "The Swedish Board of

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Scientists conduct tests to determine whether bird flu in Britain, Sweden, Cr...
JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 10-23-2005 Dateline: LONDON Scientists are conducting tests to determine whether bird flu cases discovered in Britain, Sweden and Croatia were the lethal strain that has killed more than 60 people, as countries around the world scrambled to halt

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Sweden retains precautionary measures after bird flu virus found
Sweden retains precautionary measures after bird flu virus found STOCKHOLM, March 3 (Xinhua) - Precautionary measures preventing bird flu from spreading kept working Friday near Oskarshamn in south- eastern Sweden after infected dead wild birds had been found earlier this week. A cordon to mark a

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Myanmar culls 5,000 birds to halt spread of bird flu; Sweden confirms H5N1 in...
MATTHEW ROSENBERG, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 03-15-2006 Dateline: NEW DELHI Myanmar announced Wednesday it culled 5,000 poultry to prevent the spread of bird flu, as authorities in western India prepared to slaughter tens of thousands of chickens, and Sweden confirmed two wild birds

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Roundup: Sweden detects bird flu case amid worldwide precautions
Roundup: Sweden detects bird flu case amid worldwide precautions BEIJING, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) - Sweden confirmed on Saturday that a duck which died in the country was carrying bird flu, as the world scrambled to take preventive measures against the lethal disease. The country's national veterinary

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