The World Health Organization confirmed Thursday that a teenager who died on Jan. 17 in northern Iraq tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus, making the war-torn country the seventh to report a human case of the deadly disease.

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A British laboratory has found that two victims of Turkey's bird flu outbreak died from a slightly mutated strain of the H5N1 virus, raising fears the virus could start spreading more easily.

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Turkish health authorities confirmed the 15th human case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu and have said a third child in the same family died from the virus, though the World Health Organization has confirmed only two deaths and…

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Turkey announced Friday the third death from bird flu, the deadly virus that experts say is still an animal disease but has proved fatal in over 70 human cases.

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Turkey announced Wednesday its first two human cases, one of them fatal, of the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu, marking the virus' first occurrence in people outside Southeast Asia and China.

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Despite requests from the World Health Organization and other international health bodies, China is still not sharing virus samples from animals infected with the H5N1 strain of the bird flu.

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China's Ministry of Health confirmed on Wednesday its first human cases of bird flu, heightening fears of a global flu pandemic that could kill millions. Two of the three cases in China have already killed those infected.

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International health experts met for three days ending Wednesday in Geneva to hammer out a global strategy against bird flu.

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