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WHO in Thailand investigating possible spread of bird flu by humans

28 September 2004
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) is helping authorities in Thailand determine if two recent cases of bird flu are evidence of the first human-to-human transmission of the virus, raising fears of a possible influenza pandemic.

Bird flu crisis of 'global importance,' UN agency warns

27 September 2004
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today warned that the bird flu epidemic in Asia is a "crisis of global importance," and predicted that the virus, which continues to circulate in the region, will probably not be eradicated in the near future.

Bird flu: UN health agency to probe possible role of cats in the infection of humans

3 September 2004
The United Nations health agency is investigating reports that bird flu, which experts say could mutate into a potentially deadly human pandemic under certain conditions, has now jumped the species barrier to infect cats.