Bird flu has deadly friends: health experts
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Bird flu may be the tip of the iceberg. Experts meeting in Mali say the deadly H5N1 virus is just one of a plethora of diseases threatening animals and people around the world as global warming, intensive farming, increased travel and trade help dangerous microbes breed and spread.
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The death of a young Nigerian woman from bird flu has focused attention on the risk of such human infections in West Africa, where social habits and weak health and veterinary services make the region vulnerable, experts say.
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BANGKOK The bird flu virus that rampaged across much of Asia this year is likely to be the cause of the next human flu pandemic, which could hit up to 30 percent of the world&#39;s people, a top international expert said on Thursday.
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Authorities warn that millions of people could be killed. Humans, rather than animals, would be the carriers of the new flu. The high density of poultry and humans in several Asian countries has been blamed
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Domesticated ducks may be the main transmitters of the H5N1 bird flu virus that killed 32 people in two major outbreaks in Asia earlier this year, a senior World Health Organisation official said on Monday.
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World Health Organization experts helping  Vietnam to battle a recurrence of bird flu said governments  should be cautious about prematurely announcing they had beaten  the disease, which has killed 27 people this year.
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The discovery of a deadly bird flu strain in Malaysia after cases elsewhere in Southeast Asia signaled a major winter outbreak was likely, international health experts said Friday.
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Cats can get the avian influenza virus decimating bird flocks across Asia, which means pets are at risk of getting and spreading the disease -- and may serve as a mixing pot for dangerous new mutations, Dutch researchers reported on Thursday.
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Most health experts agree that Asian bird flu poses a grave danger and will likely spread unless urgent steps are taken. But some virologists caution that alarmist warnings could harm preparedness plans.
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Ducks also spread bird flu, increasing the risk to humans from a virus that has killed 32 people in Thailand and Vietnam this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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The World Health Organization previously had warned that bird flu mixed with a human flu virus could spread rapidly and cause as many as 7 million deaths.
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A laboratory in China says it has discovered a deadly strain of the bird flu in pigs, raising concern among scientists that the virus may be closer to changing into a form that is more easily transmittable to humans.
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Cats can get the avian influenza  virus decimating bird flocks across Asia, which means pets are  at risk of getting and spreading the disease -- and may serve  as a mixing pot for dangerous new mutations, Dutch researchers  reported on Thursday.
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Health officials are concerned about a Bird Flu outbreak they say could kill millions of people. The World Health Organization says as many as seven million people could die and billions of others could get
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BIRD flu has come to roost at our doorstep. This after six fatalities in Vietnam between July 30 and Aug 3, where death occurred so rapidly that laboratory samples could be collected only from one case.
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The discovery of a deadly bird flu strain in Malaysia after cases elsewhere in Southeast Asia signaled a major winter outbreak was likely, international health experts said on Friday.
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Bird flu could be more deadly than the SARS virus, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The WHO is warning that the H5N1 flu strain could infect up to 30 per cent of the world&#39;s population, possibly killing millions of people within weeks.