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Butchers claim chicken sales plummeting as flu fears mount
October 28: Sales of chicken are plummeting in urban areas as customers, fearful of avian flu reaching the food chain, turn to alternative meats.
Glaxo to start trials of bird flu vaccine
October 28: Untested treatment could prime immune system
/B> Group makes ?.75bn in third-quarter profits
UK
Tourists who visited Thai bird park test positive for avian flu
October 27: Foreign Office ‘monitoring developments‘
Beckett outlines measures to halt spread in the UK
26.10.05: Bird flu: new UK restrictions
26.10.05: Defra plans mass cull of poultry if avian flu hits UK
The issue explained
Q&A: Bird flu
James Sturcke and H閘鑞e Mulholland explain the background to the virus and how Britain is responding to the threat of a pandemic.
23.10.05: So what should I do?
23.10.05: How to read the papers
The global situation
Bird flu around the world: a guide
October 26: A round-up of the global situation.
Europe
EU set to ban wild bird imports
October 25: EU ministers were today poised to approve a blanket ban on the importing of wild birds into the European Union.
China
China will shut down borders if struck by bird flu
October 23: China will shut its borders if there is a single case of human-to-human transmission of bird flu in the country, its deputy health minister has said.
Comment and analysis
Profit and the price of life
October 23, Mary Riddell: Pharmaceutical companies can save millions of lives but who will pick up the bill for the poor?
22.10.05, Mark Lawson: A credulous generation
Vaccines
Roche makes a killing
October 23: As panic spreads over avian flu, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant is accused of putting profits before people. Nick Mathiason reports.
Thailand
Thailand confirms 13th bird flu death
October 20: Authorities in Thailand confirmed today that a 13th person, the first for over a year, had died from bird flu in the country.
Newsblog
Bird flu blogs
October 12: Growing fears of a flu pandemic sparked by the spread of the H5N1 strain of avian flu are providing a rich seam of online news, information and speculation for bloggers to mine, writes Jane Perrone.
Interactive guide
Bird flu
Interactive guide: Find out more about the virus.
History
Mystery of 1918 flu pandemic solved
February 6: Scientists identify key factor in switch from birds to humans.
Recent articles
28.10.05  Glaxo to start trials of bird flu vaccine
28.10.05  Butchers claim chicken sales plummeting as flu fears mount
27.10.05  Tourists who visited Thai bird park test positive for avian flu
27.10.05  Government reveals new bird flu restrictions
26.10.05  Q&A: Bird flu
26.10.05  Bird flu around the world: a guide
26.10.05  Defra plans mass cull of poultry if avian flu hits UK
26.10.05  Bird flu: new UK restrictions
25.10.05  EU to ban import of wild birds after UK plea on flu
25.10.05  EU to ban wild bird imports
24.10.05  EU may ban imports of wild birds as lethal flu strain found in Britain
24.10.05  EU considers live bird import ban
23.10.05  Roche accused over flu vaccine
23.10.05  Roche makes a killing
23.10.05  How to read the papers
Comment
22.10.05  A credulous generation
17.10.05  Not to be sneezed at
17.10.05  Inside zone zero - bird flu country
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