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- Isolation of influenza A(H5N1) virus in poultry in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China (SAR) - Update, World Health Organization, 18 May 2001 -- There has been an increase in the number of deaths of poultry from influenza A(H5N1) virus in additional retail live-bird poultry markets (see previous report) in Hong Kong SAR.
- Isolation of influenza A(H5N1) virus in poultry in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, World Health Organization, 17 May 2001 -- Influenza A(H5N1) virus was recently detected in three retail live-bird markets in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, with increased mortality in the bird population noted in the last few days.
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- Avian Influenza In Honduras, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 15, 13 April 2001
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- Influenza surveillance - USA: 15 Jan 2001 , ProMED-mail, 17 January 2001 -- Increased flu activity is being reported in a dozen communities across the nation for the week of 15 Jan 2001
- Influenza virus: new diagnostic reagents , ProMED-mail, 09 January 2001 -- New testing kits for [avian influenza viruses] are being adopted worldwide [as a result of the] discovery by Hong Kong virologists that the lethal [H5N1 avian influenza virus] of 1997 was the product of gene-swapping [genome sub-unit reassortment] between 3 avian influenza viruses found in quail and geese.
- Influenza H1N1 - China (Hong Kong), encephalitis case? , ProMED-mail, 04 January 2001 -- A 6-year-old girl has died in hospital after [an infection with an influenza virus strain] which had never previously killed anyone in the Special Administrative Region (SAR) [Hong Kong]
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