ANALYSIS
Bird flu's arrival in Africa scaring world health experts
Continent isn't ready to fight disease, which has spread to Europe
As epidemics go, it was a relatively small outbreak: 40,000 chickens died in mid-January on a commercial poultry farm in Nigeria. No humans, apparently, were infected. But it was the outbreak many experts on avian flu had been dreading.
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NO HUMAN INFECTION
Bird-flu cases confirmed at more farms in Nigeria
ABUJA, Nigeria -- Deadly bird flu has been found in two more Nigerian states, the Agriculture Ministry said yesterday, a day after the country reported the first known outbreak of the virus in Africa.
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| Rare type of chlamydia a threat to gay men
WASHINGTON -- A particularly bad strain of chlamydia not usually seen in this country appears to be slowly spreading among gay and bisexual men, an infection that can increase their chances of getting or spreading the AIDS virus. Called LGV
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| A growing risk
• U.S. chlamydia rate 319.6 Cases of chlamydia, one of 350 per 100,000 the most common sexually transmitted diseases, rose 300 more than 29 percent in the 250 United States since 1999. 200 U.S. doctors say a more 150 serious strain, LGV chlamydia,
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| Iraqi health officials suspect boy died of bird flu
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Fears that bird flu may have spread to southern Iraq rose yesterday when authorities announced they were investigating whether a teenage pigeon seller had died of the virus -- Iraq's third suspected case. In Amarah, 180
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