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WHO says fear of global bird flu pandemic easing

July 01, 2005

International scientists have downgraded the risk of an imminent bird flu pandemic, hailing as "very good news" indications that the virus has not mutated.

A team of experts from Britain, Hong Kong, Japan and the United States left Vietnam Tuesday after judging the threat posed to humans by the H5N1 strain to be lower than previously thought.

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