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UN Fears Flu Pandemic Can Catch World Unprepared
November 30, 2007 at 6:31 PM
Bird Flu News
"The most obvious one of these is Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation, with 1.4 billion poultry, where the virus is being continuously transmitted in at least half the districts in the country," he said.
Bird flu has led to the death of 157 people since 2003, out of a total of 261 human cases reported. Millions of poultry have also been destroyed.
The WHO fears that the virus could mutate into a form that makes it contagious for humans.
British medical journal The Lancet predicted in December that if the disease has the same ferocity as the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-20, fatalities could reach 51-81 million worldwide, with 96 percent of deaths occurring in the developing world.
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