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Bird Flu (avian influenza) is a common viral infection widespread in wild birds the world over where it rarely manifests itself as a dangerous disease. Around 2005 widespread international panic ensued following irresponsible reporting by a few scientists - presumably sponsored by drug companies eager to reap valuable governmental contracts developing vaccines of dubious worth - that bird flu would cause millions of human deaths world wide. In reality about 100 people in parts of Asia who had died over a period of several years had been found to have been infected with a strain of avian influenza - an insignificantly small number compared with the millions who had died from diseases and who were not infected with bird flu in the same area over the same period. Some reports in 2006 even sought to draw parallels with the great flu epidemic of 1918 which coincided with 20 million deaths world wide mainly from pneumonia blamed on immune deficiency caused by the influenza infection.
 Research Bird Flu
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