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Thursday, October 13, 2005

EU makes it official

H5N1 reaches Europe. In Asia, it has killed about half the people infected.

The bird flu virus discovered in Turkish poultry is the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain that scientists worry could mutate into a human virus and spark a global flu pandemic likely to kill millions, EU authorities confirmed today.


Flu Wiki. Knight Ridder overview.

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