BEIJING -- Chinese officials have begun inspections of slaughterhouses and poultry farms in the Beijing area after a teenage girl living in the capital died of bird flu, state media reported ...

The first fatal case of H5N1 bird flu on the north American continent has been reported in Alberta, ... who had recently returned from a trip to Beijing and had been otherwise completely healthy, ...

Beijing has reported only one human case of H5N1, in 2009,and no poultry outbreaks, says Marius Gilbert of the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, who has mapped H5N1 in China.

Analysis is required to detect changes in the H5N1 strain Beijing has yet to share virus and clinical samples from bird flu patients with the UN health agency, WHO officials said yesterday.

A 19-year-old woman has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Beijing, the Beijing Municipal Bureau and Hong Kong's government said on Tuesday. "The woman fell ill on Dec. 24, was hospitalised on Dec ...

A man died of H5N1 flu in Beijing in November 2003 – two full years before China admitted any human cases of H5N1. The death of the 24-year-old from bird flu came months before China even ...

Canadian health officials said Wednesday a fatal case of H5N1 bird flu has been reported in Canada, the first such case in North America. The victim was travelling from China ...

China's health ministry has confirmed that a 19-year-old woman died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Beijing, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday. China recorded three bird flu cases ...

SHANGHAI -- Chinese agriculture officials ordered the slaughter of 377,000 chickens after they found poultry infected with a lethal form of avian influenza -- the first such outbreak publicly ...

China said that local officials have withheld information on suspected cases of avian flu, raising concerns that the disease may be far more widespread in the country than Beijing has conceded.

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