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U.N. animal health experts say more efforts needed to stamp out bird flu at early stage.

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| November 08, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. 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

(From AP Worldstream)

Byline: UTA HARNISCHFEGER

Stamping out bird flu at an early stage is necessary to prevent the virus from mutating into a form that can easily spread between humans and is essential to delay a human pandemic, animal health experts said Tuesday.

"We must wage a war on this scourge," said Bernard Vallat, head of the Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health.

Experts agree an eventual global flu outbreak capable of killing millions of people is a certainty. What is also certain, say scientists, is that the virus will come from bird flu.

What is unknown is whether the H5N1 bird strain that has ravaged…

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