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Pets.com.sg[Pets.com.sg] UN agency sees bird flu virus spreading to Europe, Africa, Middle East ROME (AP) - The bird flu virus that has hit several countries in Asia is likely to spread to Europe, the Middle East, south Asia and Africa, a U.N. food agency said Wednesday.

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Pets.com.sg[Pets.com.sg] U.N. Agency: Bird Flu Likely to Spread : The bird flu virus that has hit several countries in Asia is likely to spread to Europe, the Middle East, south Asia and Africa, a U.N. food agency warned Wednesday, urging nations at risk to increase surveillance and prepare national emergency plans.

http://thewesterner.blogspot.com [The Westerner] NEWS ROUNDUP Grazing cutbacks proposed for Crazie...: Experts see Alaska as U.S. front against bird flu Bird experts working in some of the most remote areas of Alaska have begun checking migrating birds for avian influenza to see if they are spreading the feared virus out of Asia. A team heads off later this week for the Alaskan Peninsula to test Steller's eiders, a type of duck, for the virus, U.S. Geological Survey experts said.

Msnbc.msn.comhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com [Msnbc.msn.com] Russia says deadly bird-flu virus spreading - Bird Flu - MSNBC.com: Russia said an outbreak of bird flu in Chelyabinsk was dangerous to humans, .'All of Asia is involved'

Motherjones.comhttp://www.motherjones.com [Motherjones.com] Has Time Run Out?: For nearly a decade, epidemiologists, public health officials, and veterinary researchers -- by now, in fact just about the whole global medical/scientific community -- have been warning that such a new pandemic is a frightening possibility, if not a near certainty. At the same time, some of them have been performing prodigious genetic detective work as a mutant flu virus, H5N1, has lodged in the systems of wild fowl in southern China, moved into massed domestic fowl populations nearby, and begun to spread to human beings;

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