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[ADVANCE for Nurses] Is it inevitable the next flu pandemic will be avian influenza? Alan Sipress tracks the virus as it crosses Southeast Asia and as it jumps from bird to man and man to man.

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[ADVANCE for Nurses] The Fatal Strain: On the Trail of Avian Flu and the Coming ...: The landscape of Alan Sipress' book The Fatal Strain: On the Trail of Avian Flu and the Coming Pandemic could be considered apocalyptic if epidemiologists aren't able to put a lid on H5N1, commonly known as avian influenza. With a 60 percent mortality rate and evidence the virus has jumped from human to human, as Sipress demonstrates in this book, a pandemic is not impossible.

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