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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has been making big efforts to prevent the spread of the bird flu virus.

Ten years ago, the World Health Assembly met under a cloud of anxiety. SARS, the first severe new disease of the 21st century, was spreading explosively along the routes of international air travel, placing any city with an international airport at risk of imported cases.

Officials of the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. disclosed yesterday that the public hospital has had three confirmed cases of adult respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS, of which one patient has died.

A new computer model could help scientists predict when a particular strain of avian influenza might become infectious from bird to human, according to a report to be published in the International Journal Data Mining and Bioinformatics .

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The H7N9 virus strain was detected in a poultry sample in southern China's Guangdong Province, China's agriculture authority said Monday.

Taiwan's Health Minister Chiu Wen-ta arrived in Geneva Saturday to attend this year's World Health Assembly , the decision-making arm of the World Health Organization .

The United Nations health agency said a written statement on Friday that the four deaths were from cases that had already been identified in laboratories.

The severe drought in 2011, resulting in the underproduction of crops and cattle starvation, led to soaring food prices.

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Main Category: Bird Flu / Avian Flu Also Included In: Flu / Cold / SARS ; Respiratory / Asthma Article Date: 17 May 2013 - 0:00 PDT A novel avian-origin reassortant influenza A virus emerged in China in February 2013, and is associated with severe lower respiratory tract diseases.

Four more people in China have died from a new strain of bird flu, bringing the death toll from the H7N9 virus to 36 from 131 confirmed cases, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.

Four more people in China have died from a new strain of bird flu, bringing the death toll from the H7N9 virus to 36 from 131 confirmed cases, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.

Since 8 May 2013, no new laboratory-confirmed cases of human infection with avian influenza A have been reported to WHO by the National Health and Family Planning Commission, China.

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The country had reported an outbreak in its southern part Tibet, where a child has died and 64 other children remain infected.

There are long-standing concerns that a small number of people develop a paralytic illness after getting a flu shot.

A 31-year-old woman waves as she leaves a hospital in Nanchang, Jiangxi province, after making a full recovery from the H7N9 bird flu virus.