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avian flu

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avian flu, avian influenza


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Bird flu or avian flu is an influenza virus type that normally infects birds.
Avian flu is an infection caused by a certain kind of influenza virus.
Although human cases of H5N1 infection had fallen by half last year due to poultry-outbreak control, World Bank economists say a human pandemic is virtually inevitable, and is working with developing countries to improve hospital and labs to enable better surveillance and management of avian flu and to prepare for a possible outbreak.
 
 
 
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