Deadly Bird Flu Could Spread Beyond Asia

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Apr. 7, 2005 - The bird flu outbreak that has recently killed 50 people in Asia and cost the region billions of dollars could spread to other parts of the world, the global animal health body OIE said on Thursday.

"The potential for the disease to spread to other continents is real and the international scientific community cannot remain insensitive to the challenge of preventing this happening," OIE Director-General Bernard Vallat told a conference in Paris.

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The European Union has extended its ban on poultry meat and live bird imports from eight Asian nations until September. "Increasingly, corporate analysts rank avian influenza as one of the major risks, along with a banking crisis, civil unrest and armed conflict, which could derail the Asian region's current economic expansion," said Samuel Jutzi, Director of the Animal Production and Health Division of the FAO.

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The US doesn't have a plan, but trust your government to come up with something.

[Warpy]

1. There is already a reservoir of disease in wild waterfowl

We might be able to slow it down, but there is no way to stop it.