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“Bird flu” is an informal name for the Asian strain of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza that is devastating to flocks of poultry. Humans who have gotten it have had close contact with infected birds, mostly in rural villages in Asia. Where there is no such contact, there’s no human disease. Some fear that Asian avian influenza could be the basis for a human disease if the virus changes to the point where it can spread easily from human to human. But that hasn’t happened, and some scientists doubt that it ever will.
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