Bird Flu Monitor > Expert Claim Bird Flu has Killed 300 in China

[Consanesco - Health blog] Masato Tashiro, head of virology at Tokyo’s National Institute of Infectious Disease - a WHO-collaborating centre for bird flu, says he was given the information in confidence by Chinese colleagues who have been threatened with arrest if they disclosed the extent of the problem.

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