On Saturday a seven-year-old girl became Beijing's first confirmed case of the H7N9 strain.
It is the first confirmed case of the virus in Hong Kong, local medical officials said.
The virus, also called H1N1, has spread as Australia reported its first confirmed case.
The first confirmed case in the UK was recorded at a nursery in Buckinghamshire back in March.
The first confirmed case in the UK was recorded at a nursery in Buckinghamshire in March 2012.
And on Friday, Kuwait announced the first confirmed case in the Middle East.
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More than 100 pupils and staff are being offered screening for tuberculosis (TB) after a confirmed case at a Bristol academy.
The argument over vaccination has rumbled on in the UK almost since the first confirmed case of the disease in February.
Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust said the confirmed case was a child who had attended the hospital's accident and emergency unit.
He said there was one confirmed case of H1N1 virus and 49 possible other cases among crew members over the past several days.
It was also investigating a case in Jiangsu province where an individual in contact with an earlier confirmed case of bird flu had developed "symptoms of illness".
The Health Protection Agency said there were 3, 877 lab-confirmed cases up to 30 December - but for each confirmed case there are another 288 infections which go unreported.
China suspended flights into and out of Mexico after a 25-year-old Mexican man who arrived in Shanghai from Mexico City on April 30 became China's first confirmed case of swine flu.
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China suspended all flights into and out of Mexico after a 25-year-old Mexican man who arrived Thursday in Shanghai from Mexico City became the Asian country's first confirmed case of the virus.
Stewart Moffat, farming at Wigton in the Lake District, lost all his cattle and sheep on 4 April, the 1, 000th confirmed case in what the NFU is now terming "the world's worst outbreak of foot-and-mouth".
So far, the major television news networks in New York - NBC, ABC and CBS - have all had one confirmed case of anthrax each, while the first report and only death was in the Florida offices of newspaper publishers American Media.
For each confirmed new case experts estimate a further 288 cases are likely to go unreported.
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The only other country with a confirmed H5N1 case this year was Egypt, where a 36-year-old woman died in late January.
"U.S. beef producers are the best in the world, and I have full confidence in their ability to produce a high quality and safe product, " Dean said in a speech in Ames, Iowa, home of the National Veterinary Services Lab, which confirmed the case.
After the case, a spokesman for Torbay Care Trust confirmed a serious case review had been convened, but said details of an individual's care could not be discussed.
South Korean officials on Saturday confirmed their first case -- a 51-year-old nun who recently traveled to Mexico for volunteer work.
Police in Delhi have confirmed that the case has not been closed.
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"It is not helpful to have a case confirmed near the border, " said Mr Jones, who admitted hopes of Wales escaping the outbreak were looking increasingly remote.
The Agriculture Department confirmed the first case of mad cow disease in America on December 23, 2003, in a cow born in Alberta, Canada, in April 1997, only four months before the United States and Canada began banning the use of brain and spinal cord tissue in cattle feed.
Guo Shuzhong, the face transplant doctor who handled Li's case, confirmed to CNN that he died in July of unknown causes.
The Chinese recipient, Li Guoxing, died in July of unknown causes, Guo Shuzhong, a doctor involved in the case, confirmed to CNN.
Now the council has confirmed that "a case for damages" is due to be heard in another division of the High Court.
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This ruling, albeit in an unrelated case, confirmed the interpretation of this law applied by judges in Milan to the judge-bribing trials.
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that individuals familiar with the case have confirmed that the expert network firm used in the scheme was Gerson Lerhman.
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