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Wednesday, November 2, 2005 - 02:00
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Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
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228 [3]
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Africa may soon become a new front in the struggle against a dangerous strain of avian influenza, National Geographic News reports. In recent weeks the viral strain, called H5N1, has spread to Europe and Turkey from Southeast Asia, where it festered for several years. Now flocks of birds that could carry the microbe are migrating from their breeding grounds in Europe and Asia to winter havens in Africa.
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Africa may soon become a new front in the struggle against a dangerous strain of avian influenza, National Geographic News reports. In recent weeks the viral strain, called H5N1, has spread to Europe and Turkey from Southeast Asia, where it festered for several years. Now flocks of birds that could carry the microbe are migrating from their breeding grounds in Europe and Asia to winter havens in Africa.
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DRC: An epidemic waiting to happen
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Governance [6]
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