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The bird flu epidemic was so bad that Japan ran out of land to bury chickens
The worst outbreak of bird flu has forced Japan to cull millions of chickens, creating a headache about where to bury them.
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Korea confirms new H5N8 bird flu outbreak
The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said on November 30 that South Korea had confirmed an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza strain H5N8 at a duck…
Medicine - Health
Mexico has a new flu outbreak
On October 29, the Mexican Ministry of Health officially announced a new outbreak of A / H1N1 flu that killed at least 14 people and more than 800 cases.
Medicine - Health
Strange flu outbreaks in Papua New Guinea
Two outbreaks at the same time are dysentery and flu-like symptoms in a remote area of Papua New Guinea that killed at least 47 people and infected more than 2,000 oth…
Medicine - Health
The risk of flu outbreaks
Associate Prof. Dr. Pham Ngoc Dinh - Deputy Director of the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, said that March to April is a time of easy outbreak of the common flu…
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Hong Kong prepares breakthrough vaccines against influenza H7N9
Researchers at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have successfully developed a vaccine that could be the first in the world to create a shield against many types of infl…
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Detection of the second bird flu outbreak in the Netherlands
The Netherlands Ministry of Health announced on November 20 that it found the second bird flu outbreak in the country.
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Outbreaks of dangerous flu in the US
Almost on the territory of the United States, there is a severe outbreak of influenza, recorded in 41 out of 50 states. In Massachusetts, the number of people who died f…
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Pandemic H5N1 has returned
After nearly 2 years, Vietnam has so far recorded only 2 cases of H5N1 and 100% mortality. Therefore, at the meeting of the Steering Committee for Disease Prevention and…
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Bird flu re-outbreaks, increasing the burden of disease
On the morning of November 2, Mr. Hoang Van Nam, Deputy Director of the Animal Health Department confirmed that the H5N1 avian influenza epidemic has re-emerged after a…
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China confirmed bird flu outbreak in Guangdong
The Ministry of Agriculture of China on September 17 confirmed that the H5N1 avian influenza virus is raging in ducks in a suburb of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong…
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Poland: detected the fifth bird flu outbreak
On December 12, the Polish government announced the discovery of the fifth bird flu outbreak in the country. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of poultry at a farm in Vostov…
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Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung: Resolutely not to cause bird flu outbreak
Facing the situation of bird flu in the direction of complicated developments, on 8/8, in Hanoi, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung chaired the meeting with the National Ste…
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China: The 9th bird flu outbreak
According to China's central television, the new outbreak occurred in Huainan City in Anhui Province with 800 dead birds. Test results confirmed that these birds were in…
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China: Add 2 new bird flu outbreaks
On November 10, China reported the discovery of two new outbreaks of bird flu in Liaoning province, bringing the total number of bird flu outbreaks in the country to 6 s…