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Bird flu remains a threat to humans, U.N. says (The Charlotte Observer)
(By TIM JOHNSON, McClatchy Newspapers) A handful of new human fatalities from bird flu underscore that the H5N1 virus has become entrenched in some countries, such as China, and that it still could mutate and flare into a global pandemic, U.N. officials said Wednesday. China has reported five deaths from eight cases of bird flu so far this year. U.N. advisers said that the victims had come into ...