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Ashy Storm-petrel

Should we be worried that the bird influenza could turn into a pandemic? Worldwide only 160 people have been septic and about 80 have died. The people who became infected had close contact with infected birds. Currently it is not spread by human-to-human transmission. But scientists fear that it will turn into a form that can be well spread person to person or mix with normal influenza viruses to provide that human transmission. When that happens, the chances of a world bird flu pandemic will have greatly increased.

We have seen bird influenza virus spread among Read the rest of this entry »