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Taiwan plans to produce anti-bird flu drug when imported stocks run out
AP Worldstream 11-26-2005 Dateline: TAIPEI, Taiwan Taiwan has said it plans to produce the anti-bird flu drug Tamiflu on its own when stocks supplied by Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche run out. Taiwan's Intellectual Property Office said in a statement late Friday that it will request a

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China says its anti-bird flu measures are enough, as Taiwan says it will begi...
AUDRA ANG, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 10-27-2005 Dateline: BEIJING China _ facing its third outbreak in one week _ promised Thursday that its massive poultry culling campaign, quarantines and vaccinations were enough to bring bird flu under control in the world's most populous country.

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Taiwan to launch anti-bird flu exercise
Taiwan to launch anti-bird flu exercise HONG KONG, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) - Taiwan's Council of Agriculture (COA) will hold a large-sized exercise on Oct. 19 in which health, customs and transportation officials will take part in a simulation of fighting an outbreak of avian flu, COA officials said on

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Bird flu continues to spread in Asia as Thailand, Taiwan report new cases
RUNGRAWEE C. PINYORAT, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 10-20-2005 Dateline: BANGKOK, Thailand Bird flu sent jitters across Asia on Thursday, with Thailand's prime minister confirming another fatality from the illness and Taiwan reporting the island's first incidence of the lethal virus. A

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Taiwan to protest Britain's allegation that it shipped birds infected with th...
AP Worldstream 10-26-2005 Dateline: TAIPEI, Taiwan Taiwan plans to lodge a protest with Britain over allegations that it exported fowl infected with the bird flu virus, a Taiwanese health official said Wednesday, after the farm that raised the birds was found to be free of the disease. Britain on

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Taiwan questions British report about bird flu found in Taiwanese birds
AP Worldstream 11-16-2005 Dateline: TAIPEI, Taiwan Taiwanese officials on Wednesday asked Britain for more evidence to back its claim that Taiwan was the origin of the bird flu virus found in birds at a British quarantine center. Tests at the center found the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus strain in

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Bird flu claims another human victim in Vietnam as Taiwan begins culling 35,0...
TINI TRAN, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 01-17-2004 Dateline: HANOI, Vietnam Vietnam on Saturday reported five more suspected human bird flu cases, as the World Health Organization confirmed that a fourth death was caused by the disease and Taiwan began culling 35,000 chickens at an

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Taiwan MAC to pitch in with bird flu response work in event of outbreak
Taiwan MAC to pitch in with bird flu response work in event of outbreak HONG KONG, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) - Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) will pitch in with avian flu-response work in the event of an outbreak in Taiwan, according to sources reaching here from Taipei. MAC Vice Chairman

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Thailand confirms bird flu death: Man is 13th from country to die from diseas...
BANGKOK, Thailand - A 48-year-old man died of bird flu in Thailand after eating his neighbor's sick chickens, and Taiwan confirmed today the island nation's first case of the disease in birds smuggled in from China. In Russia, emergency workers were killing domestic and wild fowl in and near a bird

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Taiwan demands Britain explain allegation Taiwan birds passed flu
Taipei, Oct 25 - Taiwan's representative in Britain demanded Tuesday that a British health official explain her supposition that Taiwan birds passed avian flu to a parrot that was in quarantine in Britain. "Debby Reynolds saying before test results were out that the Taiwan birds carried H5N1 has

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