Rockeby Biomed Ltd has received on humans from several South East Asian, European, and North African countries, worth $242,000, the company says. Rockeby chief executive Dr Sze-Wee Tan said the tests had been delivered or were about to the delivered over the next few weeks. "We are pleased to continue to be recognised by governments around the globe for supplying a cost-effective and reliable form of monitoring of bird flu," Dr Tan said. Rockeby received its first tender for the test from Jordan in April. The H5N1 strain of avian flu, one of the most deadly types on poultry and birds, originated in Asia in 2003 spreading to the Middle East, Africa, Russia, Turkey and Europe. There have been 243 human deaths - 110 in Indonesia - from H5N1 since 2003, according to the World Health Organisation's website. South Korea has been...
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