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[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] New bird flu outbreak near Nigeria - official -... : New bird flu outbreak near Nigeria - official Reuters.uk, UK - 52 minutes ago NIAMEY (Reuters) - Scientists in Europe have confirmed a new outbreak of deadly H5N1 bird flu in southern Niger, near the border with Africa's most populous .

[Enflu] New Niger bird flu outbreak near Nigeria:... : Tests carried out in Europe confirmed the presence of H5N1 in samples taken from the village of Boko Mai Gao, around 10 km (6 miles) from the border with Nigeria's Kano state, said the official, who declined to be named.

 [ Declan Butler, reporter] Breaking the silence: “If this was a test to s... : The latter quote is from a front-page article I’ve published in Nature tonight on what the experience of the large human cluster of avian flu cases in Indonesia says about the realities of attempting to slow the spread, much less extinguishing at source, an emerging pandemic in the context of a developing country, with poor health infrastructure.

 [Guardian.co.uk] Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Nigeria scrambles to halt ...: The news of the Nigerian outbreak, at a large farm in Jaji, in the state of Kaduna, coincided with fears that bird flu is now spreading through Iraq. The avian virus, which has already claimed the life of a teenager in the largely autonomous region of Kurdistan, is now being investigated as the possible cause of death of a pigeon-seller in the southern city of Amara.

[Healthnewsblog.com] Health News Blog -- Bird Flu / Avian Flu H5N1: Another WHO expert, Dr Mike Ryan, director of epidemic and pandemic alert, said, "We truly feel that this present threat is likely to stretch our global systems to the point of collapse." H5N1 has continued to spread easily from country to country and scientists are sounding more alarmist with each new human case and with each discovery of the virus in a new country.

 [Luminusdadon.wordpress.com] Me, Myself & I » Blog Archive » Deadly bird flu found in Nigeria: A laboratory in Padova, Italy, identified “a highly pathogenic H5N1 and has further analyzed its genetic composition. Investigations are being carried out in order to define the degree of genetic homology with the currently known H5N1 strains,”

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