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FEARS that the H5N1 avian influenza virus will mutate into a form of flu which will kill millions of people around the world could be misplaced, according to an increasing number of the world's top experts in the field.
The H5N1 virus first came to the world's attention in 1997, when it took what many feared was the first step towards becoming a pandemic pathogen.See the full content of this document
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Unstoppable Plague, but Human Risk Overestimated
Humans are usually unaffected by bird viruses, but in Hong Kong during that year, 18 people caught the disease and six of those died.
Although all were believed to have caught the virus from direct contact with infected poultry, it had become capable of killing humans and a pandemic loomed. Scientists fear...See the full content of this document
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