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Is avian influenza a big deal?
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Only a few hundred..: People have died from h5n1 bird flu but of those infected half died. To this point, the virus has not mutated to be able to transmit well from person to person to cause chains of infection. Spread from asia to central europe and parts of africa is not from humans but rather from migratory birds.
Answered 12/21/2012
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