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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
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Russia reports
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MOSCOW: Russia has registered its first cases of the
deadly H5N1 bird flu since an outbreak hit dozens of towns and
villages last year.
“A laboratory analysis
uncovered the H5N1 bird-flu virus,” in poultry at three locations
in the southern Krasnodar region, said Aleksei Alekseyenko, an
official at the country’s agricultural inspection agency Rosselkhoznadzor,
the RIA Novosti news agency reported.
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Bird flu returns
to European Union as case confirmed in Hungary
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BRUSSELS: The European Commission
on Monday confirmed the first outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird-flu
virus in the European Union since mid-2006, after tests on Hungarian
geese proved positive.
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Race relations in
Malaysia deteriorating
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KUALA LUMPUR: This year should be
a time for celebration in Malaysia as 2007 marks the country’s
50th anniversary of independence from colonial ruler Britain and the
birth of the multicultural nation.
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Researchers—‘Hobbit’
new human species
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WASHINGTON: Scientific evidence
released Monday supports the theory that a 18,000-year-old
“Hobbit” skeleton unearthed in Indonesia was a new species
closely related to Homo sapiens.
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inBRIEF
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TAIPEI: A Taiwanese
research team said it had produced a bird-flu vaccine that had
passed initial animal tests. The vaccine, using cell culture
technology, needs validation by the health ministry before human
tests...
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