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October 27, 2005
The lethal H5N1 strain of the avian brid flu has spread from China and Thailand to Romania,Turkey and the southern Urals region of Russia.
We've gone from alerting people to a frightening possibility---a pandemic that could kill from 7million to 150million people to reassurance that a severe pandemic remains just a possibility, not a probability in the next few years. We also have reassurances that health authorities are doing everything they reasonably can to guard against the risks posed by infectious disease.
Mike Thompson
Each additional human case makes it easier to develop human-to-human transmission of the disease.
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