"World Bank, ADB see huge economic risk from bird flu"

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"The World Bank highlighted on Thursday the potentially huge human and economic costs from any bird flu pandemic, while the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said such an outbreak could push the world economy into recession.

"The ADB said a year-long shock from bird flu in humans would cost Asian economies as much as US$283 billion and would reduce the region's gross domestic product by 6.5 percentage points, hitting Hong Kong and Singapore the most."