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Health & Fitness > Cold & Flu Evolution of the avian flu - H5N1: 2 of 3

There is a recent article on Independent.co.uk that reports on some apparent changes in the H5N1 bird flu virus that are causing some concerns in the World Health Organizations. The virus is apparently becoming more dangerous by becoming less lethal. The H5N1 flu virus apparently originated in Southeast Asia. It has certainly caused the most deaths in countries in that region with a death rate of about 50% of the infected population. Fortunately, the disease has not developed the ability to be easily transmitted to humans or between humans, so the infection rate and the total number of dea...
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