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[MAXINE] Image Credit: KYODO PHOTO Tick, Tick, Tick - H5N1 Virus Hits The Land Of The Rising Sun It looks as though that Chicken Teriyaki may be a little more difficult to come by in a couple of "Prefectures" (counties) in southwestern Japan. Japan has been fairly safe from large scale bird flu infections throughout the history of avian flu spreading in populations of farm raised birds.

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Dymaxionweb.com[Dymaxionweb.com] H5N1: January 2006 Archives: LONDON - The death of two teenagers in Turkey from bird flu, the first human cases of the disease outside China and southeast Asia, is a serious concern but not the start of a pandemic, health experts said on Thursday.Fatma Kocyigit, a 15-year-old girl from a remote area near the Armenian border, died early on Thursday less than a week after the death of her 14-year-old brother, Mehmet Ali.Turkish officials said tests at two laboratories showed the boy died of the H5N1 bird flu virus. Further tests are being done to confirm if it is the same strain of the virus that has killed 74 people in Asia since 2003.

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