New bird flu strain &#39;will be worse than Sars&#39;
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International health officials warned yesterday that the world was closer to its next pandemic - a potent mix of avian influenza and a human flu virus - and that Asia was likely to be its epicentre.
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BEIJING/KUALA LUMPUR  - 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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The World Health Organization says that Asia faces a Bird Flu (avian flu) pandemic if things do not change soon. The WHO said that detection and prevention methods need a complete overhaul.
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The World Health Organization is warning countries experiencing outbreaks of bird flu (H5N1) in poultry to be aware that domestic ducks may be infecting humans, as well as other poultry with the bird flu virus.
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Two outbreaks of bird flu in small flocks in Afghanistan have been identified as the dangerous H5N1 strain, world animal health officials said on Friday.
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A mutant form of bird flu virus could kill as many as 7 million people worldwide and infect nearly one-third of the world&#39;s population, according to the World Health Organization&#39;s projections.
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The World Health Organisation has warned that a global Bird Flu pandemic is now inevitable. Officials say they fear the virus will spread globally within weeks, affect up to 30 per cent of the world&#39;s population and kill between two and 7 million people.
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Health experts have warned that the world is closer to its next pandemic -- a potent mix of bird and human influenza. &quot;We are getting closer, but when it&#39;s going to happen, I don&#39;t know,&quot; said Francois Xavier-Meslin of the World Health Organization.
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The bird flu virus endemic in Asia appears to be evolving in ways that increasingly favor the start of a deadly human influenza outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday.
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A global crisis of bird flu will threaten animal and human life in the near future, UN agencies warn.
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Indonesia will declare bird flu a national disaster following a fresh flare-up in the country, which has the world's highest human death toll from the virus, the planning minister said on Wednesday.
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GENEVA - The World Health Organization has warned again that a global bird flu pandemic is almost inevitable and could create a health situation worse than the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.
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MARK COLVIN: The World Health Organisation has issued a dire prediction that the bird flu virus could kill up to 100 million people around the world.
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The World Health Organisation warns mix of avian and human flu might kill up to seven million people around the world. Guangdong authorities launch a SARS alarm.
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Researchers have developed a new test that can detect bird flu infections in humans within hours. The new rapid test is a significant step forward in what could prove to be the catalyst for an overdue pandemic.
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The discovery of a lethal strain of bird flu in Chinese pigs has taken the world closer to a human flu pandemic but there is no need to panic yet, the World Health Organisation said.
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The potential transmission of bird flu between humans is the World Health Organization&#39;s worst fear, said Francois Xavier Meslin, the group&#39;s chief of animal diseases.