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Aviaria: confermati casi H5N1 in allevamento francese

PARIGI - E' stato confermato il primo caso di influenza aviaria in un allevamento di tacchini della Francia centro-orientale. La conferma ufficiale e' arrivata dal ministero francese dell'Agricoltura, dopo che gli esami di laboratorio hanno verificato la presenza del virus H5N1 negli animali morti. (Agr)

Influenza aviaria. Confermata la presenza del virus nell'allevamento francese

...Nell'allevamento contagiato, almeno 400 degli 11.000 tacchini erano morti giovedì in quanto infettati dal letale virus. Le autorità hanno ordinato l'eliminazione di tutti i tacchini e la disinfezione dell'allevamento...

Leggi: http://www.rainews24.rai.it/Notizia.asp?NewsID=60103

Germania, virus avanza

In Francia per i tacchini paglia sospettata...

Leggi: http://www.liberta.it/asp/default.asp?IDG=602252017&H=

Vigilance warning over avian flu threat

Leggi: http://www.wansteadandwoodfordguardi...flu_threat.php

Bird flu kills fowl in Franc

Leggi: http://www.twincities.com/mld/twinci...ncities_health

Vaccinazioni preventive ai polli in Francia e Olanda

Leggi: http://lanazione.quotidiano.net/art/2006/02/25/5404974

Bird flu strikes more nations, more businesses

Bird flu outbreaks in India and Malaysia prompted China and at least five other Asian countries to ban some chicken imports. Infections also widened in Europe as the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus was confirmed in Hungary...

Leggi: http://www.macon.com/mld/philly/livi...=philly_health

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French gendarmes supervise the disinfection of cars on a decomtamination area outside Versailleux, eastern France, Friday, Feb. 24, 2006. France has detected cases of bird flu on a turkey farm, but it was not immediately clear whether it was the deadly strain, the agriculture minister said Friday. (AP Photo/Patrick Gardin)


A driver rolls on a surface sprayed with sodium carbonate at one of the two security control checkpoints near Versailleux, eastern France. European Union health ministers agreed in Vienna to launch a public awareness campaign on bird flu to combat fears over the virus as it spreads across the continent.(AFP/Fred Dufour)

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Three trucks carry the turkeys that were found to have the H5 virus, to be incinerated, in Versailleux, eastern France, Friday, Feb. 24, 2006. France has detected cases of bird flu on a turkey farm, but it was not immediately clear whether it was the deadly strain, the agriculture minister said Friday. (AP Photo/Patrick Gardin)


French firemen decontaminate vehicles at a security checkpoint in Versailleux. France, Europe's biggest poultry producer, was on high alert for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu after confirming the broad H5 type had been found on a turkey farm in the east of the country.(AFP/Fred Dufour)

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SURAT, India (AFP) - Animal health officials have expanded the zone for slaughtering chickens in western India after the discovery of a second outbreak of bird flu, government officials said...

Leggi: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060225...u_060225081752

Bird flu confirmed in Utchal taluka of Surat

Leggi: http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/feb/25flu.htm

Final sample tests negative; no human bird flu case in India

Leggi: http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayA...bcontinent&col

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Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) -- An Indonesian woman who died Feb.20 became the country's 20th fatality from bird flu after tests by the World Heath Organization-affiliated laboratory in Atlanta confirmed she had contracted the H5N1 avian influenza virus, the country's health ministry said...

Leggi: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=aZAfFhEKmAPg

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...The large number of H5N1 sequences from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa should allow for tracing migratory routes of the various versions of the Qinghai strain, which will be important for determining where H5N1 is migrating and what new recombinations are likely...

Leggi: http://www.recombinomics.com/News/02..._Sequence.html

World bank plans $50 mln bird flu aid for Nigeria

Leggi: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp...c=Worldupdates

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The above data on antibodies on asymptomatic poultry workers is similar to earlier data on farm workers in Japan. H5N1 isolates from South Korea and Japan form a clade that includes a HA cleavage site that has lost an R. The cleavage site recombined with H5N1 in northern Vietnam to create and H5N1 in northern Vietnam in 2005 that was associated with milder cases...

Leggi: http://www.recombinomics.com/News/02...ntibodies.html

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The state health department, which already has a general pandemic flu plan in place, has upgraded one of its labs to test humans for avian flu. A bill that passed the Senate and awaits action in the House would require local health departments to develop preparedness and response plans for a pandemic flu outbreak. And Gov. Chris Gregoire is hosting a pandemic flu summit in Tacoma on April 14...

Leggi: http://www.tdn.com/articles/2006/02/...ews/news03.txt

Deadline Extended for Bird Flu Vaccine

Leggi: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...lines-business

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The above translation indicates suspected bird flu cases are being reported once again in Turkey. These three patients are from western Turkey, near reported H5N1 bird infections in Greece and Bulgaria. It is not clear if the infections are related to the large increase in H5N1 reports throughout Europe and the Middle East...

Leggi: http://www.recombinomics.com/News/02..._Manisa_3.html

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ÜBERLINGEN - L'anatra selvatica trovata morta ieri in Germania sul Lago di Costanza è vittima del ceppo altamente patogeno, e potenzialmente pericoloso per l'uomo, dell'influenza aviaria...

Leggi: http://www.tio.ch/common_includes/pa...0182&idtipo=11

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The Georgian government has ordered slaughter of all domestic poultry kept at homes in a 3-km radius of the site of outbreak of bird flu in Adjara Autonomous Republic. Although at the moment there is no evidence of the H5N1 virus in domestic poultry, the government ordered slaughter after a second case of bird flu was detected in a dead wild bird in Khelvachauri district of Adjara on February 25...

Leggi: http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=11924

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PECHINO - Una bambina e una donna sono state contagiate dal virus dell'influenza aviaria nella Cina orientale. Lo hanno riferito oggi i mezzi di informazione ufficiali, citando il ministero della Sanita'. (Agr)

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Hamburg: The bird flu found this month in the shadow of the Alps is the most virulent sort, German animal infection specialists said Saturday as signs mounted that the H5N1 influenza virus must have reached Europe some time last year...

Leggi: http://www.newkerala.com/news2.php?a...lnews&id=16369

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RABAT (Marocco) - Anche in Marocco si fa sentire la psicosi influenza aviaria. Il settore avicolo marocchino ha registrato una perdita di 556 milioni di dirhams (50 milioni di euro) dal mese di ottobre, proprio a causa del calo di consumo di pollame. Lo riferiscono fonti del settore. (Agr)

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PARIGI - Sono circa 50 i volatili, tra cigni e anatre selvatiche, che sono stati trovati morti negli ultimi quattro giorni in Francia nel dipartimento di Ain. Si tratta della stessa zona in cui si trova l'allevamento di tacchini nel quale sono stati riscontrati casi di animali affetti da influenza aviaria. Lo ha fatto sapere il prefetto locale aggiungendo che adesso la priorita' non e' piu' effettuare esami, ma prendere misure per evitare la contaminazione. (Agr)

Aviaria: confermati primi casi in Svizzera

GINEVRA - Arrivano i primi casi di influenza aviaria confermati in Svizzera. Lo ha annunciato oggi a Berna il portavoce del governo. Sono infatti risultati positivi i test effettuati sugli uccelli trovati nella regione di Ginevra e a Stein am Rhein nel canton Sciaffusa. (Agr)