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Article: Bird flu continues slow march across Asia.(Infectious diseases)(Brief article)
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- Medical Laboratory Observer
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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In late January, the Associated Press reported fears of a global bird-flu pandemic that once dominated headlines have largely vanished in the West; but four years after the virus began ravaging Asian poultry, it continues to spread. Most global health officials continue to warn that the virus could morph into a disease as threatening to people as it is to chickens. Recent developments have raised new concerns in several countries. India is battling its worst-ever poultry outbreak. No human cases have been reported, but experts are scrambling to keep the disease from reaching crowded Calcutta and its 14 million …
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