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Bird flu death toll rises to 78 as emergency plans are stepped up
[January 11, 2006]

Bird flu death toll rises to 78 as emergency plans are stepped up


(Evening Standard Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)THE death toll from bird flu has risen to 78, according to the World Health Organisation.

The group has stepped up contingency plans in case the illness turns into a pandemic. News of the latest two deaths in China - a 10-year-old girl in the south of the country and a 35-year-old man in the east - followed confirmation by the WHO of bird flu fatalities in Turkey, the first outside eastern Asia. China's agriculture ministry, meanwhile, has announced that 16,000 quails died during the first six days of the year in an outbreak in the south-western city of Guiyang. Officials culled an additional 42,000 birds in the city and surrounding areas in Guizhou province.



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