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Bird flu back on the rise, UN warns
LOS ANGELES — Bird flu was in decline, but health officials warned this week that it appears to be on the rise again. The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) “urged heightened readiness and surveillance against a possible major resurgence” of the virus, which has crossed over from birds to infect 565 people and kill 331 of them since its appearance in 2003.