JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia confirmed its fourth human death from bird flu on Friday amid growing global alarm that the virus would mutate and become a pandemic.
Speaking in New York on Thursday, World Health Organisation chief Lee Jong-wook said the virus was moving toward becoming transmissible by humans and that the international community had no time to waste to prevent a pandemic.
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