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Eastday-Call for calm after bird flu death
THE strain of H5N1 bird flu that killed a 39-year-old bus driver in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen is not transmissible between humans, a health agency said yesterday as it appealed for calm following the country's first reported case of the disease in humans in 18 months.