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CHRONOLOGY-Bird flu developments
submited by pub4world at Aug, 15, 2007 19:35 PM from Reuters

Aug 15 (Reuters) - An Indonesian woman died of bird flu in Bali, the World Health Organisation has confirmed on its Web site.

At least 193 people have died of H5N1 since 2003.

Here is a chronology of major recent bird flu developments:

Feb. 8, 2006 - The first African cases of the deadly H5N1 strain are detected in poultry in the northern Nigerian states of Kano, Kaduna and Plateau.

Feb. 17 - Egypt finds its first cases of H5N1 in chickens.

Feb. 18 - India announces its first cases of H5N1, finding the virus in poultry in a western state.

Feb. 25 - France confirms H5N1 at a farm in the east where thousands of turkeys have died. It is the first case of the virus in domestic farm birds in the EU.

Sept. 28 - China shares long-sought-after samples of H5N1 in what many scientists view as a breakthrough in cooperation.

Dec. 8 - Foreign donors pledge an additional $476 million for the global fight against the virus at a meeting in Mali.

Jan. 16, 2007 - Japan confirms its first outbreak of H5N1 in poultry in three years.

Feb. 3 - The World Health Organisation (WHO) confirms bird flu has killed a 22-year-old Nigerian woman, making her the first known human fatality of the virus in sub-Saharan Africa.

-- H5N1 is found to have killed 2,500 turkeys on a farm in southeast England, the first outbreak in British poultry.

Feb. 27 - Laos confirms its first human case of bird flu. The patient dies on March 7.

April 17 - The first bird flu vaccine for people wins U.S. approval as an interim measure in case an influenza pandemic strikes before a better immunization comes along. The vaccine made by French company Sanofi-Aventis will not be sold commercially.

May 22 - The WHO agrees to demands from Indonesia and other developing countries to revamp its system for sharing influenza virus samples, including H5N1, which are used to develop commercial vaccines.

-- WHO will also work to ensure "fair and equitable distribution" of pandemic influenza vaccines at affordable prices, according to the agreed resolution.

June 16 - Vietnam reports that bird flu has killed a 20-year-old man, the first death in the country from H5N1 since late 2005. This death and three other later deaths remain unconfirmed by WHO.

June 22 - Tests confirm an outbreak of H5N1 in birds at a poultry farm in the West African country of Togo. Togo became the seventh West African country hit by H5N1 after Ghana, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Niger, Cameroon and Nigeria. June 24 - Germany says that three dead birds found in Bavaria had H5N1 in Germany"e;s first confirmed cases this year.

July 26 - India confirms the latest outbreak of bird flu in poultry in Manipur state in the remote northeast, is the H5N1 strain. It is the first case reported in India in a year. Aug. 14 - The WHO says that a 29-year-old Indonesia woman has died. His death brings the number of confirmed deaths in Indonesia to 82.
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