Article: Those in close contact with birds are at risk of bird flu; As the first case of bird flu is confirmed in the UK, Alun Thorne looks at what could happen next.(Features)

Article: China's latest human case of bird flu infected by ...
Xinhua News Agency;  January 10, 2008 ;     308 words ... ... China's latest human case of bird flu infected by close contact to ill son BEIJING, Jan. 10 ... that the latest human case of bird flu in the eastern province of Jiangsu came from close contact with his ill son instead of ...

Article: Bird flu-hit county screens 3,600 people in ...
Xinhua News Agency;  November 8, 2005 ;     411 words ...Bird flu-hit county screens 3,600 people in close contact with sick poultry HEISHAN ... 57,000 people living in bird flu-hit Heishan County in ... focused on 3,624 people in close contact with the sick poultry ...

Article: Officials say bird flu movie overblown: Bird ...
Pueblo Chieftain (Pueblo, Colorado);  May 9, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... tonight's movie on the bird flu pandemic is fiction ... telecasting "Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America," and state ... unnecessarily will scare viewers. Bird flu has been the subject of ... infected lived in very close contact with the birds. "The ...

Article: From a few infected chickens, Turkey's bird flu ...
AP Worldstream;  January 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... children had died of bird flu, according to preliminary ... who had come into close contact with fowl rushed to ... infected. All contracted bird flu from close contact with infected poultry ... eyes rimmed in red. Bird flu cases in poultry and ...

Article: China confirms human-to-human bird flu transmission
AP Worldstream;  April 8, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... s only exposure to bird flu was at a poultry market ... only known exposure to bird flu was close contact with his ill son ... University of Reading. Bird flu remains difficult for ... cases are linked to close contact with infected birds ...

Article: Bird flu spreads westward in TurkeyNew human cases ...
International Herald Tribune;  January 9, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... almost always acquire bird flu through close contact with sick birds ... were no reports of bird flu in the area, the ... Ankara with possible bird flu, said a Health Ministry ... all of whom had close contact with birds and all ...

Article: Bird Flu
Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.;      700+ words ... ... deaths of people. Description Bird flu, which is also known as avian ... people. Those diagnosed with bird flu had close contact with poultry. Six people died ... other Asian countries. Human bird flu cases The World Health Organization ...