Bangladesh steps up vigilance as bird flu spreads (Reuters) 
Reuters - In less than a year, bird flu has spread to nearly half of Bangladesh's 64 districts, threatening the livelihoods of millions of people reliant on the poultry industry and driving up food prices.
Source: news.yahoo.comIndonesian woman dies of bird flu near capital (Reuters) 
Reuters - An Indonesian woman who lived near a poultry slaughterhouse on the outskirts of the capital has died of bird flu, the health ministry said on Friday, the latest victim in a surge of cases this year.
Source: news.yahoo.comIndia isolates 26 people as bird flu spreads in Asia (Reuters) 
Reuters - India has put 26 people in isolation with bird flu symptoms and hundreds more people are being monitored, officials said on Friday as Pakistan and Thailand reported outbreaks of bird flu in poultry.
Source: news.yahoo.comBangladesh hit by bird flu outbreak (AP) AP - Livestock officials slaughtered more than 27,000 chickens and ducks in northern Bangladesh after bird flu was confirmed at a poultry farm near the border with India, a report said Friday.
Source: news.yahoo.comBird flu continues march 4 years later (AP) 
AP - Fears of a global bird flu pandemic that once dominated headlines have largely vanished in the West, but four years after the virus began ravaging Asian poultry, it continues to quietly spread.
Source: news.yahoo.comHealth workers quarantined in Indian bird flu state (AFP) 
AFP - A health worker in an Indian state was put in isolation and hundreds of others who had slaughtered chickens to stem an outbreak of bird flu were being monitored, an official said Friday.
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