Sunday, May 14, 2006

Good News for a Change About Bird Flu

Read the full story by DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. in the New York Times (May 14, 2006).

There are few cases this year of H5N1 flu in birds in Thailand and Vietnam, and very few in humans (as compared with last year). Some evidence apparently suggests that the disease is also being beaten back in China. Birds making the spring migration north from Africa do not appear to have carried the virus into Europe.

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