U.N. health chief delivers grim message on bird flu
15th Sep 2005, 19:08 GMT
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Avian flu will mutate and become transmissible by humans and the world has no time to lose to stop it becoming a pandemic, the head of the U.N. World Health Organization said on Thursday.
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