Bird Flu Virus May Infect One Third of World's Population-Russian Expert

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Created: 07.03.2006 15:18 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 15:44 MSK
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One-third of the world's population might become infected with bird flu in a short period of time, Director of the Russian Academy of Science's Virology Research Institute Dmitry Lvov said, according to Interfax.

"Any pandemic (flu) virus appears as a result of crossing between a human virus and a bird virus. A highly pathogenic monster emerges and it can affect up to one-third of the world's population in a short period of time," he said.

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