Monday December 31st 2007, 8:07 pm
Two Egyptian women died of bird flu on Monday, bringing to four the number of fatalities from the virus in the most populous Arab country in less than a week.
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Two more Egyptian women die of bird flu (MSNBC)
Two Egyptian women die of bird flu virus (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Monday December 31st 2007, 7:11 pm
Two Egyptian women died of bird flu on Monday, bringing to four the number of fatalities from the virus in the most populous Arab country in less than a week as Egypt emerged from a warm-weather lull in avian flu cases.
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Two Egyptian women die of bird flu (AAP via Yahoo!7 News)
Monday December 31st 2007, 2:59 pm
Two Egyptian women have died of bird flu, bringing to four the number of fatalities from the virus in the country in less than a week.
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Two Egyptian women die of bird flu (AAP via Yahoo!Xtra News)
Monday December 31st 2007, 2:59 pm
Two Egyptian women have died of bird flu, bringing to four the number of fatalities from the virus in the country in less than a week.
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Egypt reports 2 more bird flu deaths (Disaster News Network)
Monday December 31st 2007, 1:44 pm
Two young women have died from bird flu in Egypt, the second and third fatalities from the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus in less than one week, according to the country's Health Ministry.
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Egyptian woman dies of bird flu; third dead in week (The Globe and Mail)
Monday December 31st 2007, 8:23 am
The death was the 18th bird flu fatality and the 43rd human case in Egypt since the deadly H5N1 virus arrived in early 2006
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Egyptian woman dies of bird flu, third in a week (AlertNet)
Monday December 31st 2007, 7:55 am
Source: Reuters (Adds details of case, background) CAIRO, Dec 31 (Reuters) - An Egyptian woman who had been in contact with sick birds died of the avian influenza virus on Monday, the third death in the most ...
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WHO finds no evidence of sustained bird flu cases (Dawn)
Sunday December 30th 2007, 11:01 pm
RAWALPINDI, Dec 30: A team of the World Health Organisation (WHO), which travelled to Pakistan to participate with the national authorities in the ongoing investigations of several suspected cases of human H5N1 avian influenza infections and carried out preliminary risk assessment, has found no evidence of sustained cases of human H5N1 infections.
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Bird flu still a threat 10 years after leap to humans (USA Today)
Sunday December 30th 2007, 9:29 pm
In Hong Kong, when a mysterious avian flu virus jumped from poultry to people for the first time, killing six of the 18 people infected, world health experts sounded the alarm. They warned that the stage was set for a global flu pandemic. That was 10 years ago, and the virus, known as H5N1, has not yet changed in a way that would allow it to spread easily from person to person. But health ...
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Egypt announces new bird flu death (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Sunday December 30th 2007, 3:17 pm
Egypt's health ministry on Sunday announced the death of a 25-year-old woman from the H5N1 strain of bird flu -- the second case in a week.
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Egyptian woman dies of bird flu, 2nd in week (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Sunday December 30th 2007, 1:47 pm
A 25-year-old Egyptian woman died of bird flu on Sunday, the second fatality among humans in Egypt in less than one week, the Health Ministry said.
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WHO: No human-to-human transmission of bird flu virus (Sun Star)
Sunday December 30th 2007, 1:07 pm
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -- The World Health Organization (WHO) has clarified recent reports that there was confirmed human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 avian influenza or bird flu in Pakistan.
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