Culls in Saudi bird flu outbreak (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The symptoms of human influenza were clearly described by Hippocrates roughly 2400 years ago. Since then, the virus has caused numerous pandemics. Historical data on influenza are difficult to interpret, because the symptoms can be similar to those of other diseases, such as diphtheria, pneumonic plague, typhoid fever, dengue, or typhus. The first convincing record of an influenza pandemic was of an outbreak in 1580, which began in Asia and spread to Europe via Africa. In Rome over 8,000 people were killed, and several Spanish cities were almost wiped out. Pandemics continued sporadically throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, with the pandemic of 1830–1833 being particularly widespread; it infected approximately a quarter of the people exposed.
Culls in Saudi bird flu outbreak (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Saudia Arabia's agriculture ministry confirmed Friday that the entire stock of three poultry farms outside the capital had been culled due to an outbreak of bird flu, the official SPA news agency said.
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Official: UAE ready to deal with bird flu emergency (People's Daily)
A senior official of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said that the country is ready to deal with any bird flu emergency situation after reports of an outbreak of the disease in neighboring Saudi Arabia, local newspaper Gulf News reported on ...
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Early flu outbreak at St. Thomas contained; efforts turn to prevention (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Now that the worst of the recent flu outbreak at the University of St. Thomas appears to be over, officials on the St. Paul campus are turning their efforts to keeping the campus community healthy. Students, faculty and staff are heeding messages from the schools health service, which encourages frequent washing of hands, not sharing water bottles, covering mouths when coughing or sneezing, and ...
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Culls in Saudi bird flu outbreak (Middle East Times)
Chicken sit in a farm in April 2007. Saudia Arabia's agriculture ministry confirmed Friday that the entire stock of three poultry farms outside the capital had been culled due to an outbreak of bird flu, the official SPA news agency said.
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Cull widens in bird flu outbreak (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Poultry on four more sites in Suffolk were being culled Wednesday in a bid to stop an outbreak of the potentially lethal H5N1 Asian strain of bird flu from spreading.
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British poultry cull widens following bird flu outbreak (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Poultry on four more sites in eastern England were being culled Wednesday in a bid to stop an outbreak of the potentially lethal H5N1 Asian strain of bird flu from spreading.
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Outbreak of lethal bird flu confirmed in Britain (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Veterinary authorities confirmed an outbreak of the potentially lethal Asian strain of bird flu in eastern England on Tuesday, in a new blow to the British farming industry.
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Cold raises bird-flu fears (The Nation)
With the arrival of winter, the Public Health Ministry is worried about the possible outbreak of bird flu.
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Central Fla. Worst In Nation For Flu (WKMG Local6.com via Yahoo! News)
A portion of Central Florida is the only area in the United States with a report of a flu outbreak, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
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Bird flu claims tens of thousands of Saudi chickens (The Daily Star Lebannon)
Around 90,000 chickens died at two farms in Saudi Arabia following a bird flu outbreak, Agriculture Minister Fahd Balghnaim was quoted as saying Friday. Balghnaim did not confirm that bird flu was the cause of death. But the deaths occurred one day after his ministry announced that 50,000 birds were culled at a poultry farm in Al-Kharj.
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Culls in Saudi bird flu outbreak (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Typically, influenza is transmitted from infected mammals through the air by coughs or sneezes, creating aerosols containing the virus, and from infected birds through their droppings. Influenza can also be transmitted by saliva, nasal secretions, feces and blood. Infections also occur through contact with these body fluids or with contaminated surfaces.
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