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...over 30,000 birds have been culled since December. Officials fear that caged birds being moved on crowded buses and trains during next month's Lunar New Year festivities could spread the virus throughout the country. Over the past four years, 42 people in Vietnam have died of avian...
...more than 30,000 birds have been culled since December. Officials fear that caged birds transported on crowded buses and trains during next month's Lunar New Year festivities could spread the virus throughout the country. Over the past four years, 42 people in Vietnam have died of avian...
...People are more cognizant and aware of getting the flu because there’s been more talking of avian flu and of flu vaccine shortages,” said University Health Services (UHS) Chief of Nursing Maria Francesconi...
...avian flu were to develop into a pandemic as deadly as the 1918 Spanish flu, it would cause about 62 million deaths worldwide, 96 percent of them in the developing world, according to a Dec. 21 report by the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Queensland in Australia...
...World events can also play a role; avian flu, if it begins to spread from human to human on a large scale, instead of from bird to human, could cause upwards of 1 million deaths according to some estimates - and that's getting the attention of life insurance companies, Graham says. "That's the biggest event we're watching, much more than terrorism...