Scientists Fear Bird Flu May Threaten Humans.: ; Asian Outbreaks Spur Concerns That World Could Soon Face Flu Pandemic

Sunday Gazette-Mail (January 25, 2004)

Author: Daniel Q. Haney, The Associated Press
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Summary:

With luck, the world will escape the latest outbreak of bird flu with no more than the six human deaths already blamed on it and the loss of millions of chickens. But public health experts worry of a much greater disaster.

Their foreboding: a catastrophe they say is among the worst imaginable, a global outbreak of an entirely new form of human flu.

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Scientists Fear Bird Flu May Threaten Humans.: ; Asian Outbreaks Spur Concerns That World Could Soon Face Flu Pandemic

There is no clear sign that will happen. Nevertheless, avian influenza's sudden sweep through Asia, along with its tendency for wholesale mutation, leaves many wondering about the bug's potential for rampant spread among humans. It is a possibil...



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