GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Bank said on Monday a flu pandemic could cost the global economy as much as $800 billion a year as China called in international health officials to discover whether bird flu had killed a 12-year-old girl.
The World Bank set out the likely financial cost at a meeting in Geneva at which hundreds of experts are drawing up a strategy to prevent bird flu from developing into a pandemic in which millions could die.
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