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UN health agency seeks details on potentially ominous bird flu infection in pigs

23 August 2004
The United Nations health agency is seeking further details from China about the first-ever reported natural infection of pigs with a highly infectious strain of bird flu, a development that could be of particular concern as it would increase opportunities for the emergence of a new human influenza virus with pandemic potential.
Avian Influenza

Bird flu: UN to send team to Viet Nam to assess risks from latest human deaths

19 August 2004
The United Nations health agency is sending a small staff team to Viet Nam to assess the risks posed by the latest deadly outbreak of bird flu in humans and its potential to mutate into a human pandemic.
Avian Influenza

UN warns of risk of bird flu evolving into human pandemic after three new deaths

13 August 2004
Bird flu has killed three more people in Viet Nam, the first officially reported cases of avian influenza in humans since February, raising concerns about the potential evolution of the virus into a human pandemic, according to the United Nations health agency.