BANGKOK: Two strains of bird flu in Asia may combine to create a highly lethal and easily transmissible virus, a UN health official warned yesterday, amid widespread fears that the disease could cause the next human pandemic.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation on Tuesday confirmed that birds in North Korea were infected with the H7 bird flu strain that sickened nearly 90 people and killed one in the Netherlands two years ago.
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