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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The avian influenza virus known as H5N1 has killed millions of poultry in east Asia. Now researchers fear it may be tougher and more dangerous to humans than previously suspected.
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TORONTO (CP) - The alarm now sounds with increasing frequency and urgency: the world could be on the brink of an influenza pandemic sparked by the highly virulent avian flu strain ravaging poultry stocks in Southeast Asia, experts fear.
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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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SINGAPORE - Bird flu, which risks being deadlier than the SARS outbreak, is endemic to Southeast Asia and poses the biggest risk to public health in the region, Singapore officials and international health experts said on Monday.
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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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A bird flu virus killed 26 people in Asia and prompted widespread slaughter of poultry several months ago. Now a new study says it can also infect cats.
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Bird flu has resurfaced in parts of Asia, with human deaths reported in Indonesia and China and fresh outbreaks plaguing other countries during the winter months when the virus typically flares.
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Pakistan and South Korea reported new  bird flu cases in poultry on Saturday, underlining findings by  the United Nations that this season's wave of the virus came  mostly from reared rather than migratory birds.
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The outbreak of avian flu in Asia could become a pandemic, health experts have warned. Francois Xavier-Meslin, the World Health Organisation&#39;s disease control, prevention and eradication co-ordinator, said a health crisis is getting closer.
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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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Two UN agencies have warned that bird flu is set to remain a serious threat to animal and human life worldwide in the near future.
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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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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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While most health experts agree that the bird flu virus represents a grave danger and is highly likely to spread unless urgent steps are taken, some virologists caution that alarmist warnings could harm preparedness plans.
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BANGKOK - The regional director of the World Health Organization&#39;s Western Pacific Regional Office says the bird flu virus is proving far more lethal than the SARS virus that struck Asia and other parts of the world last year.
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BEIJING : The World Health Organization has said it is more worried about bird flu than SARS, warning a pandemic is likely to occur unless effective measures are taken, Chinese state media said.