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China health officials have detected the first human case of the H3N8 bird flu, according to the country's National Health and Wellness Commission. No other human cases of the flu have been detected.

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On June 23, a photographer posted pictures of a family of black-naped orioles in Pingshan County in the northern Hebei Province. In the photo, posted on China’s microblogging platform Weibo, two adult ...

SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese authorities slaughtered over 20,000 birds at a poultry market in Shanghai on Friday as the death toll from a new strain of bird flu mounted to six, spreading ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A woman in eastern China has died and a 2-year-old girl is critically ill in the north after becoming infected with bird flu, the Chinese Health Ministry said on Sunday. After not ...

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BEIJING – China has recorded the first human infection with the H3N8 strain of bird flu, the country’s health authority said on Tuesday, but said the risk of it spreading among people was low. A ...