Bird flu could kill up to 50 million people, claims WHO
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BIRD flu is far more lethal than the SARS virus that struck Asia last year and could unleash a pandemic that could kill up to 50 million people, the World Health Organisation said yesterday.
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The World Health Organisation says international drug companies and governments must speed up production of bird flu vaccines or risk a pandemic which could kill thousands of people.
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The World Health Organisation believes domesticated ducks may be the main transmitters of the H5N1 bird flu virus that killed 32 people in Asia this year.
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Pakistan has recorded its first human death from bird flu and five other people have been infected with the deadly H5N1 virus, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.
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HEALTH experts warned today that an outbreak of bird flu mixed with a human influenza virus could kill millions worldwide. The World Health Organisation said the outbreak had the potential to be worse than the Sars virus.
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Pakistani authorities and World Health Organisation (WHO) experts were trying to determine on Tuesday whether bird flu had passed from human to human after the country reported its first human death from the virus.
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An outbreak of avian influenza (&#39;bird flu&#39;) among villagers in Thailand is raising fresh fears that spread of the virus, which kills 75 per cent of people it infects, could, at least in principle, reach pandemic proportions.
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Scientists say the number of cases of humans being infected with bird flu may have been underestimated.
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BANGKOK, Thailand Officials of the World Health Organization say they fear the bird flu virus in Southeast Asia could become a worldwide pandemic capable of killing anywhere from two to seven (m) million people.
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The H5N1 strain of bird flu swept through 10 Asian countries early this year, resulting in the death or slaughter of over 100 million chickens and the deaths of more than 20 people.
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Hong Kong - Up to 100-million people could die in weeks if a bird flu pandemic broke out, a senior World Health Organisation (WHO) official has warned while urging countries to make urgent preparations to mitigate its spread.
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The strain of bird flu which killed 2,600 turkeys on a UK farm is identified as the H5N1 virus.
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The deadly H5N1 bird flu has killed a  young man in Thailand, raising the death toll from the virus in  Asia to 29 this year, Health Minister Sudarat Keyuraphan said  on Thursday.
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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 World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed five human bird flu cases in Vietnam, four of them fatal, the U.N. agency said in a statement.
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It may take Thailand five years to get rid of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus that has killed 10 Thais and 20 Vietnamese this year, Deputy Prime Minister Chaturon Chaisang said on Wednesday.
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The bird flu virus that has killed hundreds of people since 2003 has now stabilized but risks that it mutates into a new dangerous form cannot be ruled out, the head of the World Animal Health body OIE said on Thursday.