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“Electricity Restored After Manhole Blows Cover”
April 4, 2008 - 5:51am
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A manhole cover exploded near 11th and I Street NW in the District.”
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“Fatal bird flu cases in Pakistan”
By Ashfaq Yusufzai, Peshawar
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The first case of human-to-human transmission of avian flu in Pakistan has been confirmed.
Tests carried out by the World Health Organisation (WHO) show that bird flu killed some members of a family in north-west Pakistan late last year.
The WHO says steps were taken to prevent future fatalities in the area.
Pakistan’s north-west and southern regions were hit by bird flu last year. Thousands of birds were culled to control the spread of the disease.
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The confirmation of people dying from bird flu came on Thursday, after samples collected from a family in the north-western city of Peshawar tested positive.
Dr Mukhtiar Zaman Afridi, head of the isolation ward for avian flu patients at Khyber Teaching Hospital in Peshawar, told the BBC that a poultry worker in Peshawar apparently passed the disease on to members of his family.”