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Bird flu: Conference warns of gap in knowledge, preparedness
AFP
June 29, 2006

A major conference on avian flu, convened amidst a rising death toll among humans and a widening geographical spread among birds, warned of weak defences and worrying gaps in knowledge about the lethal virus.

Experts at the start of the two-day Paris meeting said that, compared with previous health scares, the world was being much smarter in preparing for the risk that the H5N1 virus could leap from poultry to humans and unleash a murderous pandemic.

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