Bird Flu Continues March 4 Years Later

February 1st, 2008 in Medicine & Health / Diseases
Bird Flu Continues March 4 Years Later (AP)

Ducks and chickens are sold in a market in Ha Tay Province,Vietnam, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008. Fears of a global bird flu pandemic that once dominated headlines have largely vanished in the West, but four years after the virus began ravaging Asian poultry, it continues to quietly spread. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)

(AP) -- Fears of a global bird flu pandemic that once dominated headlines have largely vanished in the West, but four years after the virus began ravaging Asian poultry, it continues to quietly spread.

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