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Averting a global plague.(finance to control bird flu)
UN agencies have appealed for funds to halt the rapid spread of a lethal strain of bird flu, which they fear could soon evolve into a deadly human disease. Is a global pandemic far worse than the SARS outbreak on the way?
THE great influenza pandemic at the end of the first world war is estimated to have killed up to 50m people worldwide--a far higher toll than even that of the war itself. Besides being highly contagious, flu viruses mutate rapidly, which means that new versions can quickly emerge, against which the body's immune system may be powerless. Especially deadly are flu strains in birds and animals that have jumped the species barrier to become virulent human diseases, transmissible from person to person.
Now, three United Nations agencies fear that a strain of bird flu, known as H5N1, which has been spreading like wildfire across Asia and is…
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