Avian flu epidemic set to spread to Africa and the Middle East next!
Will our troops bring it home, just like 1918 all over again!
The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization says birds could carry avian flu into the Middle East and east Africa within weeks. An article in Nature warns that the health and economic consequences could be even worse than for South East Asia. Middle Eastern states are monitoring migrating birds, and some African countries have banned poultry imports from parts of Asia hit by bird flu. Every new outbreak also increases the chance that the H5N1 virus could mutate to spread easily between humans and trigger a pandemic. If this happens, experts predict there could be anything between two million and 50 million deaths worldwide.
The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization says birds could carry avian flu into the Middle East and east Africa within weeks. An article in Nature warns that the health and economic consequences could be even worse than for South East Asia. Middle Eastern states are monitoring migrating birds, and some African countries have banned poultry imports from parts of Asia hit by bird flu. Every new outbreak also increases the chance that the H5N1 virus could mutate to spread easily between humans and trigger a pandemic. If this happens, experts predict there could be anything between two million and 50 million deaths worldwide.
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