How worried should we be about avian flu?
The Briefing Room
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What's the Impact of the Baby and Flu?
Virus has been spread by wild birds as we've heard, and then it's found its way into cat birds. Once the disease is in those populations, most countries will try and control it to limit the spread. Is it usually fatal for any bird or mammal that contracts it? Or is it usually not? We do see quite severe disease associated with it,. Both in birds and in the mammals that we are starting to see with the infection.
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