February 26, 2006
AFP
France is stepping up measures to reassure consumers and contain the spread of bird flu after the discovery of the deadly disease in commercial poultry hit its farming sector hard.
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2/21/2006
Daily Times
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to ban the import of poultry and live birds from India, Iran and France where cases of bird flu have been reported.
The decision was taken at a joint meeting of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture chaired by Health Minister Mohammad Nasir Khan on Saturday.
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AFP
Iran has said that 135 wild swans found dead at the Caspian Sea coast have tested positive for the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu, the first cases of the virus to be confirmed in the Islamic republic.
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