BIRD FLU

	Epidemic Reports for China

■	Air-freighted Poultry 'Safe'
■	Hong Kong Shuts Door on Imports of Pet Birds
■	Migratory Birds May Spread Avian Flu
■	Vice-premier Highlights Efforts Against Bird Flu
■	New Scientist Came to Unscientific Conclusion
■	Gov't to Pay Farmers for Poultry Slaughter
■	Two WHO Experts Arrive to Assist Bird Flu Campaign
■	Hong Kong Poultry Workers Get Free Flu Shots
■	Claims That China Is the Source of Bird Flu Groundless
■	Shanghai Denies Bird Flu Patient Reports
■	Export Ban Has Huge Impact on Shenzhen Market
■	Shanghai Steps Up Measures to Stop Spread of Bird Flu
■	China Claims Effective Vaccine for Birds
■	China Asked to Increase Action Against Bird Flu
■	Farmers Get Compensation for Poultry Slaughter
■	Nation Takes Actions to Brace for Bird Flu
■	Efforts to Contain Bird Flu Stepped Up Across Nation
■	More Chinese Areas Report Suspected Bird Flu Cases
■	China on Bird Flu Alert, No Human Infection Found
■	Poultry Market Surveillance Intensified
■	China Reports Two New Suspected Bird Flu Cases
■	HK to Take Action Against Unruly Poultry Stall Operators
■	National Bird Flu Prevention Headquarters Founded
■	China in Nationwide Campaign Against Bird Flu
■	China Halts Poultry Exports from Three Newly Reported Regions with Suspected Bird Flu Cases
■	Chinese Mainland Steps up Quarantine over Poultry Exports to Hong Kong
■	Major Poultry Exporter Makes Painstaking Efforts to Prevent Bird Flu
■	HK Govt Considers Free Flu Vaccine to Public
■	National Bird Flu Prevention Headquarters Founded
■	No Human Cases of Bird Flu Reported on Chinese Mainland
■	Bird Flu Cases Confirmed in Two Central China Provinces
■	China Not Source of Bird Flu Outbreak
■	Owner of Duck Farm Under Medical Monitoring
■	Top Leaders Stress Prevention, Control of Bird Flu
■	Bird Flu to Affect Markets
■	China Enhances Cooperation with Int'l Organizations to Control Bird Flu
■	Chief Agricultural Expert Explains Bird Flu
■	China Confirms First Case of Bird Flu
■	Health Jitters Shortening China's Menus
■	China Bans Poultry Imports from Thailand, Cambodia
■	Poultry Tops Hong Kong Holiday Menu Despite Bird Flu Scare
■	Notice Issued to Prevent Bird Flu
■	Daily Reporting System to Monitor Bird Flu
■	Enthusiasm for Chicken Not Deterred
■	Beijing Guards Against Possible Outbreak of Bird Flu
■	Quarantine of People from Bird Flu-hit Countries Intensified
■	High Vigilance against Bird Flu Urged
■	Taiwan to Kill 20,000 Chickens Infected with Bird Flu
■	Measures Taken to Ward Off Bird Flu
■	Imports of Birds from ROK Banned to Prevent Flu

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Delegates attend a China-Asean special session on the prevention and treatment of bird flu opened in Beijing on March 2, 2004. Vice Premier Hui Liangyu, also director of China's anti-bird flu headquarters, was present at the meeting. The epidemic has been plaguing many east and southeast Asian countries and has led to the deaths of more than 20 people in Viet Nam and Thailand. [China Daily]

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