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Timor-Leste
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Porous border increases avian flu risks in Timor Leste
Source: IRIN
DILI, 26 June 2008 -- With little capacity to prevent avian flu from crossing the border from the neighbouring Indonesian region of West Timor, health officials are concerned about possible outbreaks.
To date, none has been reported in Timor-Leste, but health specialists say it is only a matter of time. "If it comes today, there is no chance we could do anything at all," Chana Opaskornkul, emergency coordinator of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Timor-Leste, told IRIN.
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ABC; 5 Jan 2009 - Bird flu has again emerged as a threat in Asia, after China reported a death from the disease and Vietnam registered a new human infection.
LAT; 4 Jan 2009 - Just when you thought you could scratch bird flu off your list of things to worry about in 2009, the deadly H5N1 virus has resurfaced in poultry in Hong Kong for the first time in six years, reinforcing warnings that the threat of a human pandemic isn't over.
UPI; 4 Jan 2009 - Two years after a big decline in the number of confirmed human deaths from H5N1 bird flu, cases are still turning up in poultry, U.N. health officials say.
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