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Bird flu

What is bird flu?

Can humans catch bird flu?

What is the H5N1 virus?

 

How can the virus pass from birds to humans?

What are the signs and symptoms of bird flu in humans?

How do you treat bird flu?

 

What is a pandemic?

How can we prevent a pandemic?

Why is bird flu such a worry now?

Bird flu in the news

 

 

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Information on bird flu from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention 

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