Read the full article: "Bird flu surges in 2006: WHO chief" on Yahoo!/Agence France-Presse (1/22)World Health Organization Director-General "Margaret Chan has warned the world not to drop its guard against a possible flu pandemic, highlighting the fact that 2006 was a record year for human bird flu deaths.
There were 161 deaths from bird flu worldwide in 2006 out of 267 confirmed cases, according to World Health Organisation (WHO) data.
'More deaths occurred in 2006 than in the previous years combined,' the WHO director general said Monday.
The fatality rate reached 70 percent last year, 10 percent above the average since the first recorded deaths in China and Vietnam in 2003."
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