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The UK’s House of Lords has warned that a bird flu pandemic could kill 75,000 Britons and as many as 50 million people worldwide.
A new and potentially deadly infectious disease emerges somewhere in the world every year, threatening “devastating consequences” across the globe, warns the Lords intergovernmental organisations committee. […]
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Indonesia has been the hardest hit country in the battle against bird flu. They recently suffered their 100th fatality from the deadly H5N1 virus. Containment is the best method we have to keep bird flu from mutating into a form that spreads easily from human-to-human. The BBC reports that […]
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Former Fat Guy dot Com wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptDespite serious efforts to control the deadly H5N1 virus outbreaks continue. Humans also continue to catch and die from the virus although the much feared pandemic has not occured. Reuters collected these facts containg information from the OIE, WHO and Centers […]
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Former Fat Guy dot Com wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptReuters reports that matematical analysis has confirmed that the deadly bird flu virus was spread from human to human in Indonesia in 2006.
A mathematical analysis has confirmed that H5N1 avian influenza spread from person to person in Indonesia in April, U.S. […]
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