Bird flu could kill millions
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Hong Kong - Up to 100 million people could die within weeks if a bird flu pandemic broke out, a senior World Health Organisation official warned on Monday as he urged nations to make urgent preparations to mitigate its spread.
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A deadly strain of bird flu has been found in nine species of wild birds in Thailand, an official said Tuesday. The discovery comes amid worries that the H5N1 virus could mutate to a form that could spread
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Building a stockpile of bird flu vaccine would help ensure that poor countries do not lose out if a flu virus starts killing people worldwide, the World Health Organization's top flu official said yesterday.
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HONG KONG A global pandemic of avian influenza is &quot;very, very likely&quot; and could kill tens of millions of people around the world, a top World Health Organization official said Monday.
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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.
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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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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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Every country in the world must come up with a plan to deal with an inevitable influenza pandemic likely to be triggered by the bird flu virus that hit Asia this year, a top global health expert said on Friday.
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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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The strain of bird flu which killed 2,600 turkeys in Suffolk has been identified as the H5N1 virus.
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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 World Health Organization is warning Asian nations that its current struggle with bird flu could lead to the next deadly human flu pandemic across the globe.
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Experts urged governments on Thursday to do more to prepare for a possible influenza pandemic and beef up surveillance on the spread of bird flu in all animals and humans.
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The bird flu virus that can kill humans has the potential to be spread by cats, scientists have found.
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BANGKOK: An influenza pandemic is likely to affect every country in the world leaving millions dead with no vaccines available until at least next March, the World Health Organisation has warned.
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MIAMI - The world is at great risk of a new pandemic of deadly bird flu, but is ill-prepared to handle it, a top World Health Organization official said at an international conference in Miami on Monday.
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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.