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 [World Ends at 9...Pictures at 11!] Bird Flu Flying to Europe in Autumn, 2005?: The first cases of bird flu have been reported in the Chelyabinsk region of Siberia, close to the Ural mountains that separate Europe from Asia, though scientists are not yet certain that the virus found there is the deadly H5N1 strain.

 [Ultima Thule] Russia kills birds to halt advance of flu virus: Looks like the bird flu is advancing into heavily populated areas. The danger involved with the bird flu would be if it could be communicated not only from birds to humans, but if the virus mutates and human to human transmission becomes a possibility the world faces a major pandemic of deadly flu similar to the 1918 outbreak.

 [Xiaodong People] Lack of Marburg Virus Survivors Creates Civil Unrest in Angola: "We no longer have people coming to the isolation ward, people are hiding their patients at home because they’re scared. That means the virus keeps on spreading in the community," Monica Castellarnau, emergency coordinator for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Uige, told Reuters by phone from Uige.

[Biopeer.com] Biopeer: The poultry outbreaks in Russia and Kazakhstan are caused by a virus that has repeatedly demonstrated its ability, in outbreaks in Southeast Asia since early 2004, to cross the species barrier to infect humans, with fatal outcomes. In such a scenario, WHO has suggested heightened surveillance for outbreaks in poultry and die-offs in migratory birds, and rapid introduction of containment measures, as recommended by FAO and OIE.

 [Guerrillanews.com] Bird Flu Flying to Europe in Autumn, 2005?: In a letter to Russian regional health officials, Mr Onishchenko wrote: “An analysis of bird migration routes has shown that in autumn 2005 the H5N1 virus may be spread from Western Siberia to the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea. Apart from Russia’s south, migrating birds may spread the virus to nearby countries (Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Georgia, Ukraine, and Mediterranean countries) because bird migration routes from Siberia also go through those regions in autumn.”

 [Xiaodongpeople.blogspot.com] Deadly bird flu virus is closing in on Europe (Xiaodong People): Scientists are concerned that the H5N1 strain of avian flu could mutate so that it is passed easily from one person to another. If that were to happen, it would have the potential to trigger a lethal pandemic on the scale of the 1918-19 Spanish flu in which 20 million to 40 million people died.

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