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EDITORIAL: Grounding the Bird Flu Needed More money.(Editorial)

The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)

| February 25, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2007 The Philadelphia Inquirer. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Feb. 25--Bird flu has taken wing, and now three continents are rightly worried.

In February alone, avian flu has been detected in 13 new countries: Iraq, Nigeria, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Slovenia, Iran, Austria, Germany, Egypt, India and France. The lethal H5N1 virus also has reappeared in Malaysia, after more than a year without new cases in birds.

Some scientists fear that the H5N1 virus, which has killed millions of birds and 92 people in Asia, eventually could mutate into a version that passes easily from human to human. That, in turn, could trigger a flu pandemic endangering millions of people worldwide.

Europe is taking smart…

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