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Oct 11, 2008 11:03 pm US/Eastern When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense ...  

German authorities were culling poultry at a farm in Germany after the discovery of a case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, the European Commission announced Friday.  

German authorities have reported a first case of the deadly H5N1 virus in a farm in Saxony. It's the first time this year that the pathogenic form of bird flu has been officially discovered on European soil.  

Yet deep inside an 86-page supplement to United States export regulations is a single sentence that bars U.S. exports of vaccines for avian bird flu and dozens of other viruses to five countries designated ...  

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) _ When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it "the ...  

Following reports of a bird flu outbreak, South Korea said Friday it has halted the import of chicks from Germany.  

German authorities were culling poultry at a farm in Germany after the discovery of a case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, the European Commission announced on Friday.  

Following reports of a bird flu outbreak, South Korea said Friday it has halted the import of chicks from Germany.  

SOUTH KOREA - Following reports of a bird flu outbreak, authorities have halted the import of chicks from Germany.  

HAMBURG: German authorities said yesterday that the lethal strain of bird flu has been confirmed on a farm in the east of the country. Germany’s eastern state government of Saxony said the H5N1 bird flu strain had been confirmed in a duck at a ...  

GERMANY - Authorities say a duck at a farm in eastern Germany has tested positive for the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus.  

BERLIN, OCT 9 (BNA)-- BIRD FLU REAPPEARED IN GERMANY AS A DUCK WAS FOUND H5N1 POSITIVE IN A FARM IN THE SOUTH OF THE COUNTRY.  

Bird flu has returned to Germany, with the H5N1 influenza virus breaking out among farm ducks in the eastern state of Saxony, officials said Thursday.  

Cases of H5N1 bird flu have been discovered in Germany, there is no risk for Bulgaria, chairman of the National Veterinary Medical Service Associate ...  

Protection against bird flu could be provided within a week if an immunisation strategy using a priming jab were introduced, a study suggests.