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5,022 cases. 28 people have died:
A woman in forties, a health care worker, from Hokkaido; a 69 year old man from Kizugawa, Kyoto Prefecture; a woman from Makurazaki, Kagoshima; a 57 year old man in Okinawa; a 77 year old man in Kobe; a 81 year old woman in Nagoya; a woman in her seventies in Nagoya; a man in his thirties in Nagoya; a 24 year old woman in Okinawa; a woman from Tatsuno; a 5 year old boy in Tokyo; a 12 year old boy from Yokohama.
April - May 2008; Hokkaido prefecture and Akita; Swans
Xinhua | CIDRAP2
Jan-March 2004; Yamaguchi Oita and Kyoto prefectures; chickens
OIE
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Isoda et al. (2006) Pathogenicity of a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, A/chicken/Yamaguchi/7/04 (H5N1) in different species of birds and mammals. Arch Virol. 151:1267-1279.
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Mase et al. (2005) Avian influenza viruses isolated in Japan. [in Japanese]. Uirusu. 55:231-237.
Mase et al. (2005) Experimental assessment of the pathogenicity of H5N1 influenza A viruses isolated in Japan. 49: 582-584.
Nakatani et al. (2005) Epidemiology, pathology, and immunohistochemistry of layer hens naturally affected with H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza in Japan. 49:436-41
Mase et al. (2005) Genetic Comparison of H5N1 Influenza A Viruses Isolated from Chickens in Japan and Korea. 49:871-874.
Mase et al. (2005) Characterization of H5N1 influenza A viruses isolated during the 2003–2004 influenza outbreaks in Japan. 332:167-176.
Mase et al. (2005) Isolation of a genotypically unique H5N1 influenza virus from duck meat imported into Japan from China. 339:101-109.
Fifth death from H1N1 in Nagano.
The Japan Times Online, August 28, 2009.
Measures against flu needed / Govt urged to set up framework to fight new influenza outbreak
Daily Yomiuri, April 24, 2008
Japan confirms H5N1 bird flu outbreak
The Register, January 16, 2007