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Bird flu reported outbreak in Laos

An outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed more than 2,000 chicken on a poultry farm close to the Mekong River in Laos, Thai media Saturday quoted Lao government and UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) officials as saying.

Veterinarians had slaughtered 6,000 more birds on the farm about 25 kilometers south of Vientiane, disinfected the cages and declared a five-kilometer surveillance zone, officials said. The outbreak is just across the river from Thailand.

"The H5N1 strain has been confirmed for this particular farm," Lao foreign ministry spokesman Yong Chanthalangsy was quoted by the Bangkok Post as saying.

http://english.people.com.cn/200607/29/eng20060729_287990.html

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BANGKOK, Thailand (UPI) -- Five new patients in the bird flu red zones of Phitsanulok and Phichit Thailand are suspected of having caught the HSN1 virus.

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/health/article_1184963.php/More_possible_bird_flu_cases_in_Thailand

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112 admitted for bird flu tests in North

PHICHIT - Thai public health authorities have admitted that over one hundred patients from 14 provinces suspected of having contracted avian influenza and are being monitored and tested for bird flu, but no new cases have been reported following a flurry of new reports during the past week.

No new cases of avian influenza have been confirmed, a senior Public Health Ministry official said Saturday.

Permanent Secretary for Public Health Dr. Prat Boonyawongvirot said a total of 112 patients from 14 provinces, including two from Bangkok, had been admitted for further laboratory tests after earlier tests showed that most suffered from human influenza, but not avian influenza.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=111878
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Japanese researchers to use monkeys for bird flu tests

AFP
Saturday, July 29, 2006 18:31 IST
TOKYO: A team of Japanese researchers reportedly plans to use monkeys for testing the effectiveness of a vaccine against the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus.

Researchers from Hokkaido University and the Shiga University of Medical Science will carry out the tests on long-tailed macaques, also known as crab-eating monkeys. The results are expected within about six months.

http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1044383

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India says it is bird flu free
http://www.whatistheword.com/story/Lifestyle_919.html

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Dengue impact on bird flu not yet known: Thai official

Thai health officials Thursday said that test results were not yet conclusive regarding a possible role that dengue fever might have also played in the death of a teenage boy who was confirmed to have succumbed to the H5N1 avian influenza virus.

Complex medical reports have some members of the public worrying that bird flu virus has mutated with dengue fever after the teenager died from bird flu earlier this week in Thai northern province of Phichit.
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The suspicion caused concern among some who fear the two viruses could mutate if they meet, but there is no medical evidence that such has occurred.

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