The New Smallpox? ; Death Rate From Bird Flu Raises Fear of a Pandemic
Daily Mail › February 21, 2005
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ASIAN bird flu has the potential to become one of the biggest killers in history, a leading scientist warned yesterday.
The death rate from the H5N1 strain is far higher than that seen in the pandemic of Spanish flu of 1918, which led to 50million deaths worldwide.See the full content of this document
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The New Smallpox? ; Death Rate From Bird Flu Raises Fear of a Pandemic
Of the 55 people who have already caught the latest virus, 42 or three-quarters have died, compared with a death rate of only one per cent in the 1918 outbreak...
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